Hælen
Old English, the root of heal, meaning to make whole. Not to return to what you were before. To become large enough to carry what has happened without being diminished by it.
Steve Hoblyn provides space individually or in groups to explore and make meaning of our lives through a variety of lenses, and to find greater capacity for being in the world with others. Using therapeutic counselling and coaching approaches to aid our journey together.
Expertise & Specialized Support
Steve provides therapeutic counselling and coaching support for those navigating the complexities of the life condition, whether that is loss and sadness, fear and anxiety, crisis, trauma or other experiences that make being in the world with others more difficult than it needs to be. His approach is rooted in a deep understanding of the human experience and many different therapeutic and coaching methodologies, ensuring you receive the compassionate guidance needed to build capacity and make meaning so that we can move forward with hope and acceptance.
About the work
About Steve
Steve Hoblyn is a UK-based therapeutic counsellor and coach dedicated to helping you navigate the complexities of the life condition. With a compassionate, curious and varied approach, we walk alongside each other to explore and find clarity and meaning.
Steve has spent over thirty years working at the intersection of human experience and organisational systems. As a senior global HR leader, as a practitioner, and as someone who has done his own deep work and knows what it costs and what it gives. He is an Advanced Transactional Analysis practitioner, works with somatic approaches, constellations, Lego Serious Play, Global Social Witnessing facilitator, and Trauma Informed Leadership practitioner, trauma-informed approaches always, an Mental Health First Aid Instructor and works globally with organisations around mentally healthy cultures. Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and other organisations and communities working for the betterment of our societies and the planet.
He is the co-author of Unlocked curated by Sadie Restorick, and author of the soon to be published Haelen: On Wholing, Work, and Choosing to Live.
He works with individuals on the full range of what it means to be a person carrying a life: relationship, identity, loss, transition, purpose, and the specific pressures of leadership and organisational life. He does not work from a position of having everything resolved. He works from a position of knowing the territory, having walked it, and finding it, still, on most days, genuinely interesting.
Steve is a member of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA), and whilst he no longer holds faith in the current models and principles of the UK governing bodies in their existing forms, he believes in their founding principles and aspirations, has the appropriate insurances, is in regular ongoing training, clinical supervision and personal therapy, and works with and adheres to a strict Ethical Framework derived from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has the principles of: Respect, Responsibility, Appropriate Protection, Commitment In Relationship, and Empowerment.
What to expect
Everything begins with a free initial 30–45 minute conversation. This is a simple space where nothing is assessed or decided; it is purely an opportunity for us to make contact and see if we feel we can work together.
If we do choose to work together, sessions usually last one hour. I work with people across the world from diverse cultures and backgrounds, holding sessions online or in person for those local to me. I do not hold strict needs for certain times or regularity, deciding best to be guided by where we are in the process at any given time, and the natural vagaries of modern diaries.
My standard fee is typically £75 per hour, though I offer a sliding scale in both directions based on affordability, available without question or proof needed, to ensure the work remains accessible. Growth that lasts is rarely quick, so I generally suggest an initial commitment of six sessions.
Key success factors we know are that we get on with each other, both want to be there and hold a shared hope for the outcome. The tools, philosophies, and approaches to get there can be varied. We can work in an orthodox way or step outside the lines and explore approaches to issues from different cultural or philosophical lenses.