You've built everyone else's life
You've raised children, supported partners, managed careers and households. Everyone around you is thriving.
Now, apply that strength to yourself.
Coaching psychology: understanding how your brain creates patterns and how to reshape them. Using cognitive neuroscience and positive psychology to strengthen how you think, decide, and act.
You'll clarify what matters. Build on overlooked strengths. Create momentum.
You'll build capacity through practice, not just gaining insights.
Is it too late?
Have you wasted your best years?
Are you too old?
Is it too late? Have you wasted your best years? Are you too old?
No!
You need someone who understands what it actually takes to shift how you think, decide, and show up.
Coaching psychology: building capacity, not treating pathology
This work focuses on optimising mental health by strengthening psychological capacity, flexibility and resilience. The emphasis is on building what serves you, rather than treating disorder or dysfunction.
It's not therapy, and it doesn't rely on therapeutic techniques or treatment models. It's evidence-based work designed to help you develop a steadier mindset, clearer self-trust, and the confidence to act differently over time.
My approach:
Cognitive neuroscience: understanding how your brain creates and reinforces patterns, and how to deliberately reshape them
Positive psychology: what actually supports flourishing, and lasting behaviour change
You'll work with evidence-based tools: values surveys, strengths assessments, relational exercises. Between sessions, you practice in daily life.
The work happens through what you repeatedly do, not just what you understand.
I’m Shanie Gardner
Chartered Psychologist
MSc Health Psychology
20+ years working with women at critical transitions
I've designed leadership programs for the United Nations, headed up departments, published research, and taught psychology for years. I listen to what you say, where you pause, where you stop yourself. Those moments tell me where the work is.
Ready to Begin?
Sessions are weekly or fortnightly, online or in person, often in nature.
This works when you commit to showing up, engaging with the work, and questioning your own narratives.