Feeling stretched, constantly "on" and pushing through the day has become your normal, but deep down, you know it's not meant to be this hard.
I’m Amanda, an award-winning Health & Mental Fitness Coach, and I know this feeling because I’ve lived it. After navigating burnout myself, I now work with professionals, leaders, and teams to transform how they respond to stress, so they can cope well and thrive.
The way you're feeling isn't just stress. And it's not a lack of capability.
In my work, I see professionals, leaders and teams who are capable, committed, and achieving a great deal - yet they’re carrying the weight of sustained pressure and the growing risk of burnout.
From the outside, they’re still delivering and leading. But internally, they feel like they’re drowning.
Their mind rarely switches off. The mental to-do list is always there, ticking over in the background. Even in moments meant for rest, it’s hard to fully switch off, and everything starts to feel like it takes more effort than it should.
Most people assume they just need to be more organised, more disciplined, better at managing their time… but this isn’t a capability or a “lack-of-a-new-diary” issue.
It’s what happens when constant demand becomes normal, and the capacity to meet it starts to wear down.
Over time, that shows up everywhere, from decision-making, communication, leadership, and even when you walk through the front door at home.
And this is where many high performers get stuck: they blame themselves, so they push harder and try to optimise their way out of it.
But being burned out isn’t about a lack of effort. It’s what happens when pressure stays high, you're not recovering and you don't have the mental fitness to navigate it.
Nearly half of Australians surveyed said they experienced burnout in the past year*
If pressure has become your normal, you’re not imagining it and you’re not alone.
*Beyond Blue - surveyed a sample of 1,000 people nationally representative for age, gender and state/territory in June, 2025.
A more effective way to respond to pressure.
The work we do together isn’t about adding more to your plate or about eliminating stress from your life.
Pressure, deadlines and competing demands aren’t going anywhere. What can change, though, is how you respond to them.
I help individuals, leaders and teams build mental fitness, with a strong focus on mental flexibility, so you can think clearly, regulate your responses and stay effective under pressure.
Because when your response to stress changes, everything else begins to click into place.
You’ll make clearer decisions, communicate more effectively, feel calmer and less reactive, and, instead of constantly living in survival mode, have the capacity to recover, reset, and respond well in the moments that matter.
I partner with individuals navigating this pressure personally, and with organisations recognising the impact of prolonged stress and burnout across their teams.
Because when people are stretched, overwhelmed, and operating in a constant state of “always on”, the effects extend well beyond the individual. It influences how teams communicate, how leaders make decisions, how challenges are handled, and ultimately, how an organisation performs.
At that point, it is no longer simply a wellbeing conversation.
It becomes a leadership, performance and capability conversation.
Whether you're navigating this personally, supporting a team or looking to bring this work to an audience, here's how I can support you.
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HI, I'M AMANDA
This work matters to me because I’ve been on the other side of it, knowing something isn’t right, but ignoring it and dismissing the gut feeling that I had to make a change, until I was forced to.
Before becoming a Health & Mental Fitness Coach, I spent 17 years as a Financial Adviser in a high-pressure environment where, from the outside, everything looked successful. But behind the scenes, I was running on empty, and eventually, burnout forced me to stop and rethink everything.
I retrained and I’m a PREKURE Certified Health & Mental Fitness Coach, a professional member of HCANZA, and the HCANZA Health Coach of the Year 2025.
Today, I work with professionals, leaders, business owners, and teams, including clients across healthcare, financial services, and elite sporting environments, helping them feel calmer, clearer, less reactive and more in control, even under pressure.
