At 40 I finally felt education was for me, I gained a 2:1 on a very intense programme of study and am confident in my skills to now be exploring a PhD course of study. I felt like Bernadette had supportive arms around me and was a protective buffer between me and the extreme challenges of my degree.

[Emma Myers, Occupational & Horticultural Therapist]

Bernadette is a partner, a sound boarding and an interpreter. With gentle patience, Bernadette guided me through my thoughts and academic and creative writing with such ease that our session felt like a workshop. I would leave our time together with a clear writing structure, thoroughly proofread essay or script and clarity.

[Fatima Serghini, Playwright]

Bernadette is intuitive, empathetic, a great listener and has the ability to understand what each individual she works with needs help with. Having worked with Bernadette for three years she has truly come to understand how I write and think… She is also great at teaching you your common ‘mistakes’ and patterns, helping you grow and learn how to edit your own work… Working with Bernadette has taken away a lot of the anxiety and writer’s block that can come with writing academically with dyslexia. I highly recommend her.

[L. Muller, Researcher and Writer]

As an adult with dyspraxia, I reached a point in my life where I really needed some professional support to help me cope with the everyday challenges and stresses I was experiencing, that went beyond the usual “study skills” and “reading and writing” support that I’d had in the past. Bernadette has been amazing – for the first time in my life I am starting to really understand the true nature of dyspraxia and the holistic impact it has on my life.

[Joe, Social Researcher]

I wanted to inform you that after your coaching sessions I followed everything you said and I am pleased to let you know I passed my exam! I got 78%, well above the mean for this cohort. I would like to sincerely that you from the bottom of my heart for all the help and coaching you gave me. It clearly worked.

[Dr Omarkhan Pathan MBBS, MSc, MRCGP]

I have worked with many coaches in my time, and Bernadette is world class and I cherish our relationship very much. [Fatima Serghini, Playwright]

I had battled with professional exams for over a decade. Bernadette helped me understand how my dyslexic mind processes information and devised a strategy to get me through the exams. It was an incredibly positive experience.

[Christopher, Chartered Tax Advisor]

I was fortunate enough to be ‘paired’ with Bernadette at a time when I was struggling professionally – specifically with professional post-graduate examinations that were critical to my career progression. As a child, adolescent and young adult I had achieved academic success with little effort. However things changed for me when I started to study medicine - suddenly I could no longer pass examinations no matter how hard I tried.

By the time I met Bernadette I had experienced 10 years of repeated examination failures that I couldn’t understand. My confidence was at an all-time low, my self-worth had been eroded and I was at the point of giving up on a career that means the world to me.

Bernadette showed me kindness, compassion and tolerance. She helped me work through solutions to my problems. We had sessions where I did nothing but cry whilst articulating some of the problems that I had realised were related to my unrecognised dyslexia. Fortunately my tears didn’t phase Bernadette. She helped put me on the path to rebuilding my confidence and ultimately she helped me get through the examination that I so desperately needed. I highly recommend her expertise.

[Dr JB - Anaesthetist]