Good Thing Coaching

Hi, I'm Hannah,

founder and lead coach at Good Thing Coaching. I'm based on the east coast of NSW, just near the ocean.

I spent more than 25 years working across the arts, entertainment, and film industries as a performer, producer, and hands-on creative. It was a life I loved and one that also asked a lot of me. Coaching came later, out of my own experience of overcoming adversity, healing, transformation and the realisation that this was the work I actually wanted to be doing.

My practice draws on formal coaching training, neuroscience, and adult development theory. It's shaped just as much by lived experience: by what I've witnessed in high-pressure creative environments, and by my own ongoing work of learning to trust myself.

I work with warmth and a sense of humour because developmental growth is serious business, but it doesn't have to be solemn.

I'm really glad you're here.

Slow work. Deep attention.

Real change.

  • My training sits at the intersection of coaching, creative practice, and embodied movement. It draws on structured coaching development focused on sustainable leadership, wellbeing, and resilience, alongside formal study in fine arts that deepened my understanding of creative process, expression, and meaning-making.

    Alongside this, extensive training in Pilates and Barre brings a practical, body-based lens to awareness, regulation, and presence in the work I do with clients.

    I bring decades of experience across music and sound composition, filmmaking, dance performance, design, and sculpture, alongside the ongoing process of evolving identity through changing seasons of life.

    I understand growth not as a concept, but as something lived in the body, tested in real time, and shaped through creativity, challenge, and iteration.

    I’ve moved from cynical to cyclical, from raging to lounging against the machine. I’ve lived inside the intensity of social lubricating (or self-medicating) and the high-pressure freelance hustle that eventually tipped into deep, complex trauma and autoimmune recovery.

    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 requires in practice, not just in theory.

    There have been shattering disruptions, crises of identity, an empty nest, and the slow reconstruction that follows when life asks for pause, redirection, and rebuilding. Sometimes gradual, sometimes sudden enough to change the trajectory entirely. Now, at mid-century age, it’s time to exhale.

  • 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, while 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.

    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, guided entirely by you.

  • Frameworks & ApproachFrameworks & Approach

    Good Thing Coaching draws on evidence-based approaches to support growth, clarity, and change that lasts.

    Adult Development Supporting clients to grow beyond identities, habits, or ways of operating that made sense once and may no longer fit.

    Intentional Change Creating meaningful change through vision, self-awareness, and grounded action.

    Polarity Thinking Some tensions aren't problems to solve. They're polarities to work with. Pairs like Aliveness and Safety, Freedom and Standards, or Expansion and Consolidation each hold something necessary. This approach helps clients stop oscillating between poles and start drawing on both.

    Somatic and Neuroscience-Informed Awareness Working with both brain and body: noticing nervous system patterns, stress responses, and physical cues as real and useful information. This supports steadier decisions and more sustainable ways of leading and living.

    Creative Intelligence Drawing on curiosity, imagination, and fresh thinking, particularly when familiar approaches have stopped working.

    Parts-Based Reflection Exploring the competing inner voices that shape our choices, including the parts that push, protect, doubt, and know, to create more clarity and self-trust.

    Strengths-Based Coaching Building from what is already working and expanding natural capability from there.

    What This Supports

    Clients often come to coaching for:

    • Reinvention or next chapter transitions

    • Greater confidence and self-trust

    • Sustainable ambition without burnout

    • Clearer decisions

    • More meaningful success

    • Leadership growth

    • Creative direction and momentum

    • A lifestyle or business that fits who they are now.

    The frameworks, tools, and approaches used within Good Thing Coaching are intended for coaching purposes only and are designed to support reflection, personal development, and forward-focused change. They are not a substitute for medical, psychological, psychiatric, or other licensed therapeutic care.

    • Coaching does not diagnose, treat, or provide clinical intervention for mental health conditions, trauma-related disorders, or medical concerns. Where issues arise that fall outside the scope of coaching, including indicators of significant psychological distress or clinical need, appropriate referral pathways will be recommended to qualified health or mental health professionals.

      Clients remain responsible for their own wellbeing, medical care, and therapeutic support. Participation in coaching is voluntary, and clients are encouraged to seek independent professional advice where needed.

What People Are Saying

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What People Are Saying *

“Hannah's sensitive approach, coupled with very intelligent and thought provoking questions drew some very deep insights that I had, upto that point, found difficult to articulate. Hannah is very perceptive and was very attuned to what I was not saying, which she courageously probed into. The impact has certainly been lasting.”

-Bharati

“Hannah’s coaching has helped me to overcome some challenging mind traps. With considered and evocative questioning, Hannah provided a safe space for me to articulate what was holding me back and prompted me to push myself forward, away from self-limiting beliefs. Hannah’s coaching offers leaders an opportunity to explore and grow.”

-Tanya

“Hannah has always been inquisitive and warm in our sessions. She allowed me the space to explore my options at a pivotal time in my career and gently inquired as to my intrinsic motivations. She's real and honest and made me feel at ease over the 12 weeks that we worked together. I strongly recommend working with Hannah if you are at a crossroads and all options feel overwhelming.”

-Chels