Coaching & Mentoring Support
Bespoke support for professionals wishing to build ethical and sustainable practices and businesses.
Michelle blends almost three decades worth of experience, qualifications and trainings to offer a unique combination of business expertise, leadership experience, and a deep embodied knowledge of mental health, nervous system regulation and trauma resolution.
Having graduated in 2001 with a 2:1 honours degree in business, Michelle pursued a lengthy career in leadership roles within the financial services industry before beginning her career transition to mental health with a Counselling Skills course in 2005.
Since then Michelle has trained in wide variety of holistic practices such as Meditation, Mindfulness, NLP Coaching, Bodywork, Yoga, and more recently in 2023 graduated with an advanced diploma in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy.
Michelle created The Sunshine Project in 2012 and has grown her wellbeing business organically, whilst also birthing her son, Suni in 2015, becoming a single mother, and self-publishing her first book, An Invitation to Notice: A Guide to Nurturing Your Nervous System for Regulation, Resilience, and Rest in 2025.
Coaching & Mentoring Packages
There are three ways to work with Michelle on this offering:
- 90 min Session (one-off or regular)
- Half Day Immersive (3 hours)
- Full Day Immersive (6 hours)
These can be online or in-person. Michelle is located on the North Coast of Northern Ireland.
For those booking the half day or full day immersive, there is the option of Michelle travelling to you.
Common Themes:
Nervous System Regulation
- Understanding your stress responses
- Tools for being more responsive and regulated
- What’s holding you back
- Fears
- Old patterns
- Feeling stuck
- Overwhelm
- Shut down
- Burnout
The Social Nervous System
- Creating Safety
- Polyvagal Theory
- The Fawn Response
- Being seen, visibility and taking up space
- Boundaries with clients
- Writing contracts & client agreements
Business Models
- Marketing & visibility
- Pricing
- Building structures
- Creating systems
- Relationship Development
- Networking
- Social media
- Writing Bio’s
- CV
- Platforms
- Podcasting
- Booking publishing
Michelle delivered the ‘Be Happy Now’ course to clients within our service, AMH New Horizons, a wide range of people of all ages, both males & females participated. It was an excellent course which included: Affirmations, forgiveness, gratitude, peak positive state & laughter therapy myself & clients really enjoyed all the sessions. The course offered lots of different positive ideas & tips for good personal well being, stress reduction, & relaxation techniques. The feedback & evaluations were excellent with clients involved very enthusiastic & said they could use information gained in the future.
Absolutely brilliant. Learning to be free to be able to laugh, without self-consciousness is freeing
Michelle has facilitated Laughter Yoga sessions for some of East Belfast Community Development Agency’s health events and the response from participants has been great. We find that people of all ages really engage with the session and thoroughly enjoy it. On one occasion we closed a day-long event with a session of Laughter Yoga and found it a really nice way to round off a busy programme. Michelle is very good at getting people to open their mind and get involved and it’s a great way to break the ice and build camaraderie among a group.
The BE HAPPY NOW course really gave me a lift and awakened interests. I found it really helpful. The course tutor was fantastic, enthusiastic and inspirational.
“I attended and completed laughter yoga leader training yesterday ,it was a wonderful experience and I would recommend Michelle to anyone or any organisations as she is in one of the most authentic, congruent and fun trainers out there, just wish it had been longer, if you are thinking about it just do it as you won’t be disappointed.
Good therapy as well as team building
This is a completely new concept to me and I am very glad to have attended, as it has made me aware of the state of my mental health/emotions and has given a me a way to improve
Laughing – something I need to do more of, as I work in a very serious environment. Thoroughly enjoyed this totally unique experience. So interesting. So contagious. Thank you
I had the pleasure of participating in Laughter Yoga with Michelle recently. Michelle brought a smile, a giggle, a hearty laugh not only to my face but to my soul. I have no doubt this has changed my outlook in everyday life. I now use the simple exercises every day and use Laughter yoga as my free vacation from the busy busy world
I would love to see a lot more of these classes. I work in mental health & feel these therapies are invaluable
I completed Laughter Yoga Leader training with Michelle. She is a skillful facilitator who brings knowledge and insight to the sessions. Her calmness and obvious joy in what she does is contagious and allows participants to fully immerse themselves in the experience without any sense of being self conscious. I can’t recommend her highly enough
The BE HAPPY NOW course was a lovely programme with excellent relaxation techniques
I completed Michelle’s two-day laughter yoga training last week in beautiful Co.Donegal.
Michelle was amazing, she made us all feel so comfortable so that we got the best out of the training. Her knowledge in this topic was delivering in a professional but fun way. She showed up for us, helped us connect to a part of ourselves that, let face it we don’t connect to enough! I experienced exactly what it’s said on the tin, laughter, laughter and more laughter ! The content, exercises and business side of the training with delivered with love . I felt so uplifted, energised and connected to myself when I completed this course. I would highly recommend doing this training and bringing it out to your communities.
Definitely feel my mood has changed to move positive & feel much less stressed mentally – I’ve laughed it all out!
Feel more energised, calmer & relaxed…had been having chest problems & feel this has helped
