Are you still showing up
but running on empty
Working with Health Sector professionals to navigate workplace uncertainty and
create a clear plan for what’s next!
Next Step Coaching
You already have the answers
Let’s find them.
Down-to-earth coaching rooted in 26 years of NHS clinical experience. If you are functioning, delivering, and quietly not ok, together we'll deepen your self-awareness, process what's been holding you back, and build a clear, practical path forward.
Warm, honest, and deeply human coaching that helps you understand yourself, reconnect with your purpose, and build the practical steps to take back control of your life.
This isn't therapy, and it isn't generic coaching. It's evidence-based support for people who want to perform well and remain well.
Reflect, Reset, Renew, are your Next Steps.
• 26 years mental health nursing
• NHS Senior Professional
• DBT Trained Therapist
• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Mentor
• Certified Life Coach
• 26 years mental health nursing • NHS Senior Professional • DBT Trained Therapist • Trauma-Informed Practice • Mentor • Certified Life Coach
Who I am
I'm Nicola Sorsby, an NHS Leader, Coach and Mentor with 26 years of experience in Mental Health Services. I've worked within multiple NHS Trusts clinically, in leadership, management and leading service and pathway development. I know what it means to navigate and lead under pressure within challenging systems. I know what it costs. I understand identity shifts, the moments of doubt, the question of what comes next. I didn’t step away from that arena to become a coach; I brought it with me. Learn more about me.
I founded Next Steps Coaching because I kept seeing the same thing: capable, committed health professionals reaching a point where they couldn’t keep going the same way, with no real space to think it through, to clearly explore options. No one who genuinely understood the system they were navigating. No honest conversation about what they wanted or how to build personal strategies that actually hold.
Work with me if you’re:
A career professional feeling stuck, without clear Next Steps, BUT ready to make them.
Highly capable, committed and still functioning, but exhausted, questioning how long you can keep working like this.
You haven’t said it out loud yet, but feel stuck, under sustained pressure, overloaded or quietly close to burnout.
You’re still doing the job, but not sure you want to anymore and aware that resilience messaging isn’t going to answer that question.
You don’t need fixing - you need space, structure and psychologically informed support to think clearly again. Work with me.
What we work on
Coaching that goes
beyond the surface
Self-Awareness & Actualisation
Deep, reflective work to help you understand who you are, what you want, and where your patterns come from. So you can start making truly authentic choices.
Professional
Support
Specialist support for professionals, particularly those in healthcare, caring or professional roles who are running on empty and need more than a holiday to reset.
Next Steps
Into Practice
It's not enough to understand things; you also need a plan of Next Steps. Together, we turn reflection and insight into action, creating clear, manageable steps you can actually follow through on.
Life
Transitions
Navigating a career change, relationship shift, health challenge, or simply feeling at a crossroads? I help you find your footing and face what's next.
Reclaiming
Control
When life feels overwhelming or out of control, coaching helps you identify what you can influence and rebuild your confidence and agency from the ground up.
The Why, When
and How
My signature approach: Reflect, Reset, Renew, facilitating the deep reflection that helps you work out not just what to do, but how, when, and why... on your own terms.
The Process
Ways to Work Together
A thoughtfully designed range of coaching tools to support you wherever you are. Whether you’re seeking an initial conversation, support through transition, or a deeper space to reflect, reset, and move forward with intention.
01
Focused Single Coaching Hour
A focused one-to-one session for when you need to think something through, with someone who understands the world you're working in. A space to pause, think clearly, uncover what sits beneath the surface, and find a more grounded way forward.
60 minutes | £150
02
Career Transition
Support
If you are facing redundancy or considering a change in direction, this offers steady support for times of uncertainty. Together, we create space to move from ambiguity to insight and intention. Reconnect with what matters, understand what your next steps look like, and move forward with greater confidence and intention.
3 × 60-minute sessions
Start your Next Steps
03
Reflect, Reset,
Renew
An informed coaching programme for those carrying responsibility and pressure, who know that one session won't be enough. Knowing something needs to fundamentally shift, and they're ready to work through that. Created to support remaining effective without compromising mental health or losing your identity in the process. While reconnecting to values, priorities, and a sense of purpose.
6 or 12 week Reset plans
Start Your Reconnection
Ready to take your next step?
This isn’t therapy and it isn’t generic coaching. I offer a hybrid, bespoke service that is developed by my professional and lived experiences using ethical, evidence-based support.