You don’t have to trade your health for your career.
I’m Dr Lisa Ahmad. I work with bright, brilliant women, and lead a small team of specialist psychologists, to make sense of what is actually happening when life feels too much. Evidence-based treatment, not another breathwork routine.
- HCPC registered
- EMDR UK and Europe accredited
- 25+ years’ experience
- Trusted by leaders and organisations
Tell us what brings you here, and we’ll point you the right way
Everything below is led by clinical psychology. Choose the closest fit; you can always change your mind after a conversation.
I’m struggling and want therapy
Therapy for the patterns, pressures and experiences that are quietly wearing you down, including EMDR.
Start hereI think I might have ADHD
A careful, NICE-guided adult assessment, and coaching that fits how your brain actually works.
Start hereI want to feel steady and lead well
Steady, Reset and Edge: programmes for high-achieving women who are coping, but at a cost.
Start hereI’m bringing this to my organisation
Masterclasses, training packages, executive consultancy and speaking for leaders and teams.
Start hereI’m a clinician
EMDR supervision that strengthens your practice, builds confidence and keeps the model at the centre.
Start hereI’m from the military community
Invisible Wounds offers free, confidential EMDR trauma treatment to veterans, serving personnel and families.
Start hereNot quick fixes. Not faddy coping strategies.
We work with clinically robust, evidence-based treatment, built for capable women who want real answers to what is going on, and change that lasts.
- Not mindset work, and not about motivation
- Not “wellness hacks”, glow-up nonsense or discipline culture
- Evidence-based psychological work that gets your body, brain and emotional system back into alignment
- So you can feel well, think clearly and lead with grounded authority
You don’t need better “balance” to feel better. The key to living and feeling well is learning to trust yourself, and the information you already have within you.
On paper everything looks fine. Your system is telling a different story.
- Your mind is buzzing before your feet hit the floor
- Your jaw is tight before lunch, and your chest feels tense
- You wake at 3am negotiating with tomorrow’s calendar
- You over-deliver to feel safe, and carry the emotional load at work and at home
- You get irritated over things you’d usually let go
- You calm yourself with scrolling, snacking or a glass of wine
A clear path from overwhelmed to steady to leading well
Start where you are. Each programme builds on the last, and none of them asks you to shrink your ambition.
Steady
The mini course to get you back in control.
Your mind is busy, your body is sounding the alarm, and you need tools now. Steady teaches the basics of my brain, body and emotions framework, with EMDR-informed resets to settle big feelings, stop spirals and get your focus back.
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Reset
90 days to stop holding it together with willpower.
Racing mind, tight jaw, broken sleep, overdelivering to feel safe. Reset is your step back to Clarity Pace: evidence-based tools for brain, body and emotions, so you can step out of anxiety-driven striving and into steady, calm confidence.
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Edge
Presence and authority without overdrive.
You’re steadier, now you want leadership that matches. Edge turns psychology into behaviours you can use under pressure: breath, posture and voice for presence, language that lands, de-escalation, and a rhythm that protects performance and recovery.
Explore EdgeSpecialist support, from a team who understand high-functioning lives
ADHD
Adults with ADHD are often the most capable people in the room. They’re also the most exhausted, because they’ve spent years making it look effortless when it wasn’t.
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Invisible Wounds
A not-for-profit service offering free EMDR trauma treatment to those who need it most: veterans, serving personnel and their families.
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Psychological therapy
For when you’ve been coping for so long you’ve forgotten what it feels like not to. Therapy for the patterns, pressures and experiences that are quietly wearing you down.
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Workshops for the moments that cost you the most
Sixty minutes of expert-led psychology, with three months of access to the recording. Real psychology for real life.
Holding it together at work, falling apart at home
Managing emotional bandwidth and the invisible workload.
See the workshopWhen achievement never feels like enough
When self-worth meets achievement, and striving becomes the default.
See the workshopWhy your brain won’t switch off
The psychology of the busy mind, and the 3am spiral.
See the workshopDecision paralysis and second-guessing
Clear decision-making under pressure, without the panic.
See the workshopThe real reason you can’t say no
Over-functioning, people-pleasing and boundaries at work.
See the workshopWhy your brain won’t switch off, even when your body’s screaming for rest
For women who hold it together all day and fall apart at night. No fluff, no hacks, just psychology that finally makes sense.
Start with a free 15-minute conversation
We offer every new client a free initial telephone consultation, to talk through what you need and check we’re the right fit. Sessions can be self-funded or paid through your health insurance; we’re recognised by most major providers.