Mental Health for Researchers
Thrive in Academia Without Sacrificing Your Well-being
Every day, you navigate the world of high-impact journals and grueling lab cycles while relentlessly chasing Impact factors, citations, funding cycles, and constant deadlines.
I am here to help you manage the pressure, self-doubt, and burnout that come with it.
Evidence-based resilience coaching for researchers, by an industry insider.
A 5-Step Psychological Framework for Academic Resilience
The Mental Turmoil of Research — The Part No One Talks About
Does this feel familiar?
Reviewer 2 Anxiety
You hesitate before opening the journal portal. The status has changed. Your heart rate spikes. You’re already preparing yourself for “major revisions” before reading a single comment.
Imposter Syndrome (Despite the CV)
You have publications. Degrees. Maybe even funding. Still, you feel like you’re one critical review away from being exposed as someone who doesn’t really belong in academia.
Publish-or-Perish Burnout
There’s always something pending—another analysis to run, another draft to clean up, another deadline to move closer. Even when you stop working, the to-do list keeps running in your head.
Academic Isolation
You don’t say this out loud. Your PI is stretched. Your peers are collaborators and competitors. Everyone else seems to be coping, publishing, progressing—so you keep your doubts to yourself.
Why work with me?
The Insider Advantage
Most therapists understand stress.
They don’t always understand academic pressure.
The h-index. Lab politics. The weight of the tenure track.
These aren’t abstract ideas—they shape your daily life.
After more than a decade working inside the academic world with organisations like Elsevier, Pearson and Cactus Communications, I understand how this system works and why it takes such a toll.
I combine that insider knowledge with evidence-based counselling psychology, so you don’t have to explain academia before we talk about you.
The goal isn’t to push harder.
It’s to help you regain focus, balance, and a life that isn’t ruled by metrics.
how i can help you?
Research is intellectually demanding—and emotionally taxing in ways that are rarely acknowledged.
My work focuses on supporting researchers through the psychological challenges that come with sustained pressure, uncertainty, and constant evaluation.
Together, we create space to slow down, make sense of what you’re experiencing, and develop ways of coping that are grounded in evidence—not productivity hacks or empty reassurance.
