Hippo Coaching
HC
Life Coaches
Hippo Coaching
Unit 118 The Sidings, Leicester LE4 3BR
# Hippo Coaching
Hippo Coaching, based in Leicester, offers therapeutic coaching for leaders and creatives struggling with internal pressure despite outward success. Founded by Nicola Drew, a certified Human Givens therapist and trauma specialist, the practice addresses the gap between professional capability and inner peace.
The business recognises a specific client challenge: high-performing individuals who achieve consistently yet experience constant self-criticism, difficulty resting in success, and emotional strain beneath competence. Rather than offering another productivity hack, Hippo Coaching targets the root cause—conditioned nervous system patterns and limiting identity beliefs.
The work is distinctive in its integrated approach, combining nervous system regulation, trauma clearing, identity restructuring, and inner critic quieting. Sessions are deliberately brief and solution-focused, requiring fewer appointments than traditional therapy. This efficiency appeals to busy leaders and creatives who value tangible results without extended commitments.
Nicola's background spans organisational consultancy (including Accenture), manufacturing, education, and non-profit sectors, lending credibility when working with complex leadership systems. She's also an author of six books, further establishing expertise.
Hippo Coaching offers flexibility in delivery—Zoom sessions for accessibility, plus occasional walk-and-talk appointments in Quorn, Leicestershire and Dartmouth, Devon. The coaching philosophy prioritises embodied, presence-based leadership over strain-driven performance, aiming to make clarity and steadiness the client's baseline functioning.
Hippo Coaching, based in Leicester, offers therapeutic coaching for leaders and creatives struggling with internal pressure despite outward success. Founded by Nicola Drew, a certified Human Givens therapist and trauma specialist, the practice addresses the gap between professional capability and inner peace.
The business recognises a specific client challenge: high-performing individuals who achieve consistently yet experience constant self-criticism, difficulty resting in success, and emotional strain beneath competence. Rather than offering another productivity hack, Hippo Coaching targets the root cause—conditioned nervous system patterns and limiting identity beliefs.
The work is distinctive in its integrated approach, combining nervous system regulation, trauma clearing, identity restructuring, and inner critic quieting. Sessions are deliberately brief and solution-focused, requiring fewer appointments than traditional therapy. This efficiency appeals to busy leaders and creatives who value tangible results without extended commitments.
Nicola's background spans organisational consultancy (including Accenture), manufacturing, education, and non-profit sectors, lending credibility when working with complex leadership systems. She's also an author of six books, further establishing expertise.
Hippo Coaching offers flexibility in delivery—Zoom sessions for accessibility, plus occasional walk-and-talk appointments in Quorn, Leicestershire and Dartmouth, Devon. The coaching philosophy prioritises embodied, presence-based leadership over strain-driven performance, aiming to make clarity and steadiness the client's baseline functioning.
Services offered
Nervous system regulation coachingTrauma-informed therapyInner critic workLeadership coachingIdentity restructuringSingle-issue clarity sessionsDeep integration intensivesWalk-and-talk coaching