Over time we have supported the following students on their journey with coaching. Take a look at where they are now, what they do and how they have integrated their passions with their studies to create unique, exciting careers in the wellbeing world. We are proud of all our students but especially proud of Iwona King, who in 2025 won the CMA Student of the Year which was a category in their Global Excellence Summit. Well done Iwona!
Debbie Sharp: Gained Confidence, and A Sense of Belonging and Connection
I am a strong, vivacious, slightly quirky woman who is also a registered midwife, midwifery lecturer with thirty years experience, as well as being a wife, mother, daughter, and friend. Over the last 6 years, I have been on an intense personal journey of investment in...
Chris Russell-Jones: A Life-Changing Journey
Before joining Wellness Professionals at Work, I had recently started facilitating a men’s group, a group that I had been attending for several years, and which is a heart-sharing men's group in which men meet twice a month to share, feel heard, listen to each other,...
Iwona King: Creating Change Within the NHS Trust and CMA Student of the Year 2025!
My passion for staff wellbeing has been a driving force throughout my career, especially after witnessing the lack of space for rest, reflection, or prayer following intense surgical procedures. It became clear to me that our department needed a dedicated environment...
Amy Thwaites: From Corporate to Coaching
After spending years in high-pressure corporate environments, I began to feel that my career no longer aligned with who I truly was. I longed for a change—something that resonated more deeply with my values and aspirations. Coaching had been a small but enjoyable part...
Frebeleen Gamier: From Supervision to Coaching
My journey into the world of coaching did not begin with a specific challenge but rather with a profound experience during clinical supervision with a nurse and psychotherapist. This moment of self-reflection set me on a path of exploration, leading me to research the...

Emma Quansah
Hello! My name is Emma Quansah and I achieved the Integrated Coaching Diploma in Wellness and Resilience with Wellness Professionals at Work.  I come from a corporate background, working within the social housing sector and buildings maintenance.  My coaching focus is on resilience through boundary setting, with an additional personal interest in supporting women with pregnancy sickness.Â

Angelina Nizzardi
Hi I’m Angelina Nizzardi.  I completed the Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills in 2017 and specialise in mental health, working with my own coaching model. This combines cognitive coaching with Buddhist psychology, managing environment, accessing our physical pharmacy and soul growth. I am also founder of Green Goddess wellness, producing our own plant based health products.  Â

Melissa Clerc
Hi, I’m Mel Clerc! I started my training with the Certification in Holistic Life Coaching and now work as a Holistic Life Coach, NLP Master, Hypnotherapist and Tarot Reader. As a trauma survivor, my personal life experience and empathy is a strong asset in accompanying my clients to overcome adversity, heal from traumatic experiences, reclaim their innate power and build resilience to manifest the life of their dreams.Â

Michael Laffey
I’m Michael Laffey.   I gained my Diploma in Life Coaching Skills in 2012. My background encapsulates a twenty-year career in the record industry, volunteer mentor for the Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme, and academic spin-out company business manager.  My areas of interest lie in: quality of lifestyle, physical and mental wellbeing, nutrition, nature and an open connection with one-self.Â

Breanne Cook
I’m Breanne Cook. I completed the Integrated Diploma in Resilience and Wellness with WP@W. My background is in Social Work and mental health education. My business, The Pied Wagtail, a shop in Norfolk, combines gifts, coaching and photography to increase wellness, resilience and connectedness. My coaching focuses on resilience, strengths and values to make positive change and achieve goals.Â

Maria Goldsmith
I’m Maria Goldsmith, a Wellness Coaching Skills Diploma graduate, now specialising in self-compassion for professional women. My background is a Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist and I continue NHS work in primary care. I enjoy utilising mindfulness, nature and creative approaches within my coaching experience. Â


The tutors were supportive and engaging, their feedback boosted my confidence and offered plenty of valuable suggestions.
Highly recommend this diploma! Thank you for everything 🙂

The course materials are substantial, highly relevant and aligned with current societal/world challenges. The community of learners and instructors is very active, and you will benefit from support in your training journey.




Thorough course, teaching all the fundamentals of ethical wellness coaching, coaching models and other considerations. It was great to have the option of choice of additional modules to supplement the 3 main ones, adding to my knowledge and skill set.
Jo was always very helpful, friendly, supportive and responsive which also added to my positive experience. Highly recommend!

There was a great emphasis on developing and practising real coaching skills with real people, rather than theory alone like some courses out there.
There's great supervision and many CPD options after completion, so I know that I can continue to develop my skills and knowledge as my business grows.
I now have CMA membership and public liability insurance, and my coaching business is up and running.
I'd recommend Wellness Professionals At Work to anyone looking to train in wellness coaching.

My word, I am still buzzing. It is incredible how much you can learn in a relatively short amount of time.
It was intense, it was eye-opening, it was fun, it was tough, it was emotional but most of all, it was one of the best CPD courses I have ever done (and I have done loads...).
We learned the difference between coaching and counselling, we learned techniques to use in order to ask relevant questions, we learned a lot about what can hold us back from what we actually want to do, we learned about mindsets, we learned about change, we learned about Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, we learned about working with GOALS, we learned about building rapport and sooooo much more. We also coached each other whilst being observed and received honest feedback afterwards (that bit was rather nerve wracking).
You may wonder why I went onto this course. Many of my clients don't just come for the holistic therapy they booked in but also to find a safe and non-judgemental space to be able to talk. I feel a lot better equipped now and am more aware of how to react to certain situations.
It is highly likely I will carry on with more coaching training as right now I would certainly not call myself a life-coach (but I know that it seems a bit trendy to do so despite lack of training...).
I hope you can tell that I am very excited about the newly acquired skills to use for my clients but also for myself and my family.
Can you see why I am toying with the idea of doing more coaching training?





