ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT Me
FOR ME, HEALING HAPPENS WHEN SCIENCE AND SOUL MEET — AND THE BODY UNDERSTANDSÂ
THE GOAL: to help you move out of survival mode and build a life that actually feels worth being present for.
I work with people who are tired of surviving - and frustrated that insight alone hasn’t been enough.
Together, we identify the emotional and nervous-system patterns that keep repeating, even when you understand where they came from. We look at what those responses are protecting you from, how they were formed, and what keeps them active today.
Change happens when your system feels safe enough to respond differently. That’s where the work is focused - not on fixing you, but on creating the conditions where real change can take hold.
You don’t need to do this alone.
My Story
It didn’t start the way you might expect....
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I didn’t arrive here because I followed a calling, burned my life down, or chased healing as a trend.
I arrived here because I needed it for myself.
I’ve lived through trauma, complex relational dynamics, grief, and long periods of functioning while disconnected from who I really was. I know what it’s like to understand why you feel the way you do - and still feel unable to change it.
My path has always existed in two worlds.
Years spent in high-level corporate environments where logic, structure, and performance mattered.
And years immersed in deep therapeutic work - understanding the nervous system, subconscious patterns, emotional regulation, and the body’s response to stress and survival.
What I learned - personally and professionally - is this:
Insight doesn’t create change.
Safety does.
That understanding reshaped everything.
Today, my work sits at the intersection of psychology, nervous-system regulation, lived experience, and practical application. It’s grounded, evidence-informed, and deeply human.
I don’t work from a place of fixing people.
I work from understanding systems - emotional, neurological, and relational - and helping them soften enough to respond differently.
Some people call this a paradox.
Corporate meets calm.
Structure meets intuition.
Strategy meets soul.
That’s where The Corporate Hippie was born - not as an identity, but as an integration.
If you’re here, chances are you’re not looking for more insight.
You’re looking for something that actually shifts.
That’s the work I do.
The Story Behind The Corporate HippieHow I became the Corporate Hippie
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For most of my life, I assumed the way I experienced the world was normal.
The vivid dreams. The intuitive nudges. The deep sense of connection to something beyond logic. I didn’t label it as spirituality - I simply thought everyone lived this way.
I followed a conventional path into the corporate world because I genuinely loved it. I thrived in logic, strategy, analysis, and high-pressure decision-making. Negotiating contracts, solving complex problems, working at pace genuinely it lit me up.
And yet, no matter how successful I became, there was always a quiet knowing that I was trying to fit my whole self into a space designed for only part of me. Round peg, square hole...Â
Entrepreneurship wasn’t about escaping structure - it was about expanding possibility. Taking an idea, a whisper of insight, and turning it into something tangible that could change someone’s life felt electric. That’s where alignment began.
The wisdom I carry didn’t come solely from textbooks or certifications.
It came from lived experience.
I’ve walked through abusive childhood trauma, complex relational dynamics, narcissistic abuse, and the quiet, identity-altering grief that comes with losing people, dreams, and former versions of yourself. Grief didn’t harden me - it softened me. It expanded my capacity for empathy in ways no qualification ever could.
I’m not just a therapist you see on a website.
I’m a mum who sneaks bites of cookie dough while baking with her son.
I’m someone who dances barefoot while cleaning to 80s music, loves great tequila on a Friday night, gets giddy over hidden laneways and local markets, devours books that explode my thinking, and soaks up life in all its beautiful chaos.
I chose holistic therapy because I’ve lived the path my clients walk. Depression, anxiety, trauma, disconnection from self and purpose - I know that terrain intimately.
And when I say holistic, I don’t mean trends or surface-level spirituality.
I mean integrating evidence-based psychology, hypnotherapy, NLP, and CBT with nervous-system awareness, intuition, and lived wisdom. It’s grounded. It’s practical. And it works.
Healing is never one-size-fits-all.
Life isn’t happening to us - it’s happening for us. There are no coincidences, only lessons disguised as detours.
If you’re here wondering whether real change is possible - know this:
It is. And you don’t have to walk that path alone.
Welcome to the Corporate Hippie way:
where science meets soul, logic meets intuition, and healing isn’t just possible… it’s inevitable.
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I’m On a Mission
My end game is simple.
To help create a world where children don’t grow up needing to recover from their childhoods.
I may not reach every child - but I can help heal their role models. Because when adults heal, the ripple effect is generational.
Love is our natural state. Hate is taught.
A child raised in safety, love, and emotional attunement grows into an adult who leads with empathy, not fear. Multiply that by generations, and you don’t just change lives - you change the world.
That’s why I do this work.
Because healing one heart today can transform countless lives tomorrow.
And that’s a legacy worth building.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or emotionally stuck
If you’re functional, but something still feels off
If you’re ready to actively create what’s next
If you’re not sure where to start
 "The journey to healing starts with a single step - one moment of courage, one act of self-care."
- LINA NICHOLLS
