When You’re Searching for Clearer, Calmer Conversations

  • Have you ever left a conversation thinking,
    “That wasn’t what I meant — why couldn’t they hear me?”

  • Do you notice yourself shrinking, overexplaining, or losing your steadiness — especially in the moments when you most need to feel clear, calm, and understood?

  • Do you ever wish for conversations where people can meet your depth without misunderstanding you, dismissing you, or treating you as “too much”?

If any of this feels familiar, you’re not alone.
These are human experiences and they’re exactly the kinds of patterns we explore here

My Approach

Conversation Coaching

Clearer. Calmer. More Connected.

Conversation Coaching is for people who want their communication to create genuine understanding — of themselves, of others, and of the systems they’re navigating.
At the centre is your whole voice: the mix of emotion, thought, values, identity, and lived experience shaping how you speak and how you’re heard.

Many people communicate through habits formed by pressure, misunderstanding, or past hurt. This work helps you shift those patterns into something steady, grounded, and authentically yours.

The Four Stages

1. Understanding Yourself
Find your real voice — and the blocks that keep it hidden.
You’ll learn to turn emotion into clarity, recognise your protective patterns, and rebuild confidence so you can express yourself without overwhelm or self-doubt.

2. Understanding Others
See the layers shaping someone else’s voice.
You’ll learn to recognise their needs, pressures, emotional logic, and communication style, helping you stay honest and connected even when perspectives differ.

3. Emotional & Intellectual Closeness
Bring truth and care together so difficult conversations feel collaborative rather than confrontational.
You’ll practise staying present without collapsing, masking, or escalating.

4. Intellectual Integrity
Hold your values with both steadiness and openness.
You’ll learn to communicate in a way that invites understanding rather than rigidity or conflict — clear, grounded, and calm.

What You Gain

You learn to:

  • find and express your voice without overwhelm

  • communicate needs without unnecessary conflict

  • stay steady under pressure or difference

  • build conversations that feel clearer, calmer, and more honest

The outcome is a whole voice that feels recognisably yours — grounded, confident, and able to create real understanding and trust.

Want to explore this together?

Email me: [email protected]
Book a conversation: https://calendly.com/markblake222/online-tea-with-mark

If you want a fuller look at how I approach this work, I’ve written a short piece that explains it in more detail. Tap the button to read it.

come home to your voice

Benefits of Coaching

From Intensity to Clarity

If you feel emotions or ideas deeply, this coaching helps you turn that depth into clarity instead of overwhelm. You learn to express yourself without flooding, share complex thoughts clearly, and stay steady in fast or pressured conversations.

From Safety to Psychological Empowerment

This coaching helps you move past masking and over-explaining so you can communicate with clarity and confidence. You learn to express your whole voice, navigate systems calmly, and honour your values in real conversations.

From Self-Understanding to Connection

This coaching helps you understand what shapes your voice and others’, so you can listen beneath the surface and express yourself without triggering defensiveness.

Who my coaching is for

I work with people who want their conversations to create deeper understanding — of themselves, of others, and of the systems they move through. My clients think deeply, feel strongly, and care about honest, steady communication. Whether you’re leading, creating, advocating, or navigating change, this work helps you use your whole voice in a way that builds trust and turns difficult moments into insight. If deeper understanding is what you’re seeking, you’re in the right place.

Thoughtful Professionals & Creatives

You think deeply and feel strongly. This coaching helps you express that depth clearly, stay steady under pressure, and communicate in ways others can genuinely understand.

Leaders, Founders & Change-Makers

This coaching helps you communicate with calm conviction, build trust, and create buy-in without pressure leadership grounded in clarity and integrity.

Neuroinclusive & Neurodivergent Communicators

This coaching helps you move beyond masking and over-editing so you can express yourself clearly, navigate systems with more ease, and build relationships where authenticity feels sustainable.

Teams & Organisations

This coaching helps teams move beyond cautious, surface-level dialogue into calm, curious conversation where feedback lands and people feel understood.

People in Transition

This coaching helps you find a clear, authentic voice as you enter a new chapter speaking with steadiness, setting boundaries, and staying grounded without pretending to be confident.

Advocates, Mediators & Bridge-Builders

This coaching helps you stay steady between perspectives, manage emotional intensity, and translate complex ideas into language others can hear — bringing people together through understanding, not force.

Pricing

1 to 3 Sessions £60 to £180

A focused reset that helps you understand your whole voice and find immediate clarity, calm, and confidence in the conversations that matter most.

3 to 6 sessions
£180 to £360

A deeper exploration that strengthens your ability to express yourself authentically, understand others with more accuracy, and stay steady across difference.

12 sessions £720

A full transformation that reshapes your self-story, strengthens emotional and intellectual closeness, and helps you develop a grounded, lasting voice that creates deeper understanding in every part of your life.