Hælen
Old English, the root of heal, meaning to make whole. Very different to returning to what you were before. It is where we 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, coaching and mentoring 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. This could be private world, working world, and more commonly the intersection and overlay of both. 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 being in distress can cost. He is trained in advanced Transactional Analysis, works with somatic approaches, constellations, Lego Serious Play, Global Social Witnessing facilitation, Trauma Informed Leadership, and trauma-informed approaches. He is a 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 works from a position of curiosity and hope, 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), 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.
Listen to Steve chat with Emma Canter about workplaces and mental health in this podcast: https://mindvaluesleadership.co.uk/leadership-mental-health/
What to expect
We'll probably begin 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 but this can be flexible. Working with people across the world from diverse cultures and backgrounds, holding sessions online or in person for those local.
Unusually for people doing this work, we 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.
There is no penalty for missing a session because of life events or personal needs. We will discuss all of this in our sessions. This is work for you, and in service of you as an autonomous human adult, there is no benefit in parenting you or making you feel bad for prioritising other needs.
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. Changes that last are rarely quick, so generally we look at an initial commitment of six sessions although this too can be discussed.
Key success factors in counselling and coaching work are that:
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We can establish a healthy connection with other,
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We both want to be there, and
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We 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 through different cultural or philosophical lenses.
