How did the chaos to Calm Workshop come about?

You Can’t Stop the Storm  But You Can Learn to Sail

Chaos to Calm wasn’t built in a classroom.
It grew out of the eye of the storm.

After more than thirty years as a clinical psychologist, I’ve sat with people in some of life’s roughest waters, families caught in high-conflict co-parenting, partners navigating the emotional wreckage of separation, parents trying to protect their children while barely staying afloat themselves.

Over time, I realised that traditional therapy models weren’t enough. People didn’t just need insight , they needed tools.
They needed a way to move from reacting to responding.
From being thrown around by the storm to learning how to steer through it.

That’s where Chaos to Calm began.

It draws from everything I’ve studied and practised narrative therapy, which helps people re-author their stories; mediation, which teaches presence and perspective even in conflict; and affective neuroscience, which helps us understand how emotions shape the brain and behaviour.

But most of all, it comes from people, from sitting in real rooms with real families, and finding practical, human-centred ways to help them regain control when life feels out of control.

Chaos to Calm isn’t a theory.
It’s a skill.
It’s the practice of noticing the weather inside you, and learning how to sail, no matter what the forecast says.