Sarah brings her experience as a GP to offer a neurodiversity-inclusive, trauma-informed approach to health and wellbeing. Her programme is accredited by the Personalised Care Institute and holds a European Quality Award (EQA) from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
‘Mindful Emotion Coaching (MEC) helps individuals recognise, understand and regulate emotions by encouraging awareness and empathy, promoting resilience and healthier emotional responses’ Hoda Elidrissi January 2025
This approach combines Anda and Felitti’s pioneering research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with the latest understanding of how high levels of childhood stress can affect physical and emotional development—and here’s the key: responsive relationships act as a vital buffer, helping to protect children from those effects. Sarah helps learners explore this science and develop the skills needed to have meaningful, coaching-style conversations. These chats aren’t just about feeling good; they’re about building essential life skills like emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, and executive function. The knock-on effect? Healthier lifestyle choices for individuals and families alike. For parents or carers, this also means fostering more effective, nurturing, and responsive parenting that can make a real difference in children’s lives.
The coaching process empowers individuals to tap into and grow their internal resources, with tools and resources to better understand emotions and how they influence behaviour. Sarah's programme equips learners to support others while also deepening their own understanding of emotional wellbeing.
Dr Sarah Temple's book 'all emotions are ok' is free to download here
Daniel J. Siegel is an internationally reknown researcher, psychiatrist and psycho therapist. He has created a series of easy to understand metaphors which we have adapted over the years.
Click here for Amy's interpretation of Dan Siegel's Hand Model
John Gottman is an American psychologist who has studied human relationships for decades. He describes 4 relationship styles : Emotion Coaching Style (serve and return or responsive), Emotion Dismissing Style (often motivated by a desire to fix eg don’t worry, you’ll be fine), Emotion Disapproving Style (ofen motivated by a desire to control or regain power) and Laissez Faire or Permissive Style.
Emotion Coaching is about building and enriching relationships, focusing on connecting and delaying problem solving until you’ve talked about your feelings.
Seeing the brain as a social organ dependent upon relationships with other people and understanding how our brains develop early on in our lives helps us all understand our emotions.
All Emotions are OK but not all behaviours are OK
Click next (bottom right of this page) to stream a sample of video clips that have been the most popular over the years.
- Dan Siegel talking about emotional connection using The Hand Model metaphor
- John and Julie Gottman talking about healthy connections and relationships
- Brene Brown - Empathy vs Sympathy
- learning about serve and return interactions- from The Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
- The Shark Musice provided by Circle of Security
- a selection of videos created by The Human Improvement Project. They are also available on The Happy Child App - we are very grateful that we have been given permission to share them with you here
- Vickie shares her story of accessing Talking Therapies
- A 10 minute clip from The Goldie Hawn Foundation featuring Dan Siegel alongside adolescents talking about their lived experience
- Just Breathe provided by Julie and Josh Salzman - with a group of children talking about their emotions and feelings and sharing mindful activities. This last video provides an opportunity for discussion when watched as a family or a group in a club or school.
