How I work

Hi, I’m Hannah, founder and lead coach at Good Thing Coaching. I live, work, and create on the east coast of NSW, Australia.

My work is shaped as much by lived experience as by formal training. I’ve lived inside the intensity of the high-pressure freelance hustle, years of social lubricating, and complex trauma and autoimmune recovery.

I’ve moved from cynical to cyclical, from raging to lounging against the machine. Through perimenopause, a fashionably late neurodivergence education and a significant shift in how I understand my own wiring, I’ve learned what being trauma-informed truly requires in practice, not just in theory.

There have been seasons of disruption, crises of identity, an empty nest, and the slow reconstruction that follows when life asks you to pause, change direction, and rebuild yourself. Sometimes gradually, sometimes with the push that opens the door to an entirely new trajectory.

Slow work. Deep attention. Real change.

This lived experience allows me to work slowly and precisely, with deep respect for nervous systems, identity shifts, and the complexity of real life. I am not interested in quick fixes or growth that asks you to override yourself. I am interested in human-centred work that expands your capacity, that is grounded, and resourced.

I am drawn to the sublime and anchored in an embodied spirituality. I seek out daily awe, sometimes in the vast, often in the ordinary. This shapes how I listen, how I hold space, and how carefully I attend to what is already here.

After more than 25 years performing and producing in the creative arts and entertainment industries, returning to postgraduate study marked a deliberate change in orientation. Coaching became the place where development and care belonged together, and where progress was no longer measured by productivity or self-erasure.

This is evidence-based work that I do with steadiness, discernment, and respect for the pace of meaningful change.

I meet you as an equal, partnering to strengthen clarity, agency, and self-directed action. In our sessions, we listen beneath the surface of what is being said, focusing on what matters to you, what feels alive, and where effort, tension, or habit may be shaping your experience. I ask considered questions that bring patterns into view and open space for new ways of relating to yourself and your life. You set the direction, and I walk alongside you to notice, reflect, and draw out the resourcefulness you already have.

Together, we create a grounded, human-centred space where insight can surface in its own time, and where growth unfolds gradually, at a steady, sustainable pace entirely guided by you.