About me

Dr. Lauretta Greer
DProf, Psych MBPS COACHING PSYCHOLOGIST 

Why Work With Me

I am a Chartered Coaching Psychologist with a unique combination of rigorous academic training and profound personal experience navigating the very challenges I now help others through. My journey from surviving childhood trauma to thriving taught me what truly creates transformation—and what causes harm, even with the best intentions.

This dual perspective—as both a trained psychologist and someone who has sat in the client's chair through relationship wounds, grief, identity crises, and healing—shapes everything I do. I don't just understand coaching psychology intellectually; I know viscerally what it means to navigate life's complexities, what truly helps, and what re-traumatises.

My credentials establish my expertise:

A Professional Doctorate in Coaching Psychology, a Master's in Occupational Psychology, BSc in Counselling & Psychology, Chartered status with the British Psychological Society, and specialized training in trauma-informed practice. But my lived experience ensures I meet you with compassion rather than pathology, empower your agency rather than reinforce shame, and build your capacity rather than create dependency.

My doctoral research explored what happens when life's deeper challenges show up in coaching—relationship struggles, grief, trauma responses, identity crises—the territory where coaching and therapy intersect. I call this "the grey space," and my book, Coaching in the Grey Space , provides the practical, research-grounded framework that guides my work. It's not just theory; it emerged from my own navigation of these questions as both client and practitioner.

What this means for you:

Whether you're an individual seeking to move from coping to thriving, or navigating a major life transition, a leader managing the psychological weight of responsibility, I bring both professional rigor and human understanding. I know the difference between insight and action, between holding space and colluding with stuckness, between challenging growth and causing harm.

I work with the whole of you—because your personal life affects your professional life, your relationships inform your self-concept, your past influences your present. This isn't just what I do; it's who I am, forged in my own transformation and refined through years of rigorous training, research, and practice.

Learning, skill development, awareness, prevention, and optimisation are at the forefront of my coaching, working with people and organisations.  

Coaching psychology is focused on enhancing life experiences–personal and professional–through the systematic application of models grounded in psychological approaches. 

The aspiration of my practice is to facilitate my clients to move ‘beyond zero point’, moving up the positive scale to flourish. 

My goal is to equip my clients with knowledge, tools, and strategies, transferring what we do in coaching into all areas of life; leaving them with their own unique tool kit, to thrive. 

  • My approach is holistic combining evidence-based approaches and principles. I draw knowledge from a background of counselling, coaching and organisational psychology.

    “Coaching Psychology is for enhancing well-being and performance in personal life and work domains underpinned by models of coaching grounded in established adult learning or psychological approaches”.

  • Finally, in my practice I adopt a pluralistic view. A pluralistic approach to coaching is viewed not as a “set of techniques but a commitment in practice to deeply value the coachee’s needs, which can be achieved by encouraging him or her to actively participate in the management of the coaching process”

  • I am a Chartered Psychologist and hold a First-Class BSc Honours Degree in Counselling and Psychology, an MSc in Organisational Psychology, a Doctorate of Professional Studies: Coaching, and multiple coaching qualifications, having trained in several modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, ACT, Positive Psychological Coaching, Solution Focused approach, Neuropsychological coaching, to name a few. In addition to being a bereavement counsellor and trauma-informed coach. 

  • I am a coaching psychologist, but before I was a researcher or practitioner, I was a seeker—someone determined to move from surviving to thriving despite significant childhood trauma. That journey took me through many forms of therapy, coaching, and alternative healing practices. Some were profoundly helpful. Others caused harm, despite the credentials of the practitioners. This lived experience, combined with rigorous academic training, shapes everything I do. I understand both intellectually and viscerally what it means to navigate the grey space—as a client seeking support for relationship wounds, life transitions, and trauma recovery, and now as a coach helping others through similar terrain. I know the difference between meeting someone with compassion versus pathologising them, between empowering agency versus reinforcing shame