I help high-achieving women like you move from daily crisis to genuine control. Through intentional strategy, we cut through the chaos so you can finally reclaim your time and energy. We’ll validate the immense significance of the work you do, both at home and professionally, and create a clear path to the achievement and career growth you’ve put on hold. Best of all, you’ll join a supportive space where you know you belong, finding the compassion and understanding you need. You deserve to thrive, not just struggle.
Through my PhD research on resilience, I discovered something profound: resilience isn’t something you either have or don’t have. It’s something you do. And it flows from a source within you—your own unique pattern of responding to life’s challenges.
The RIVER Method helps you flow back to your source:
RECOGNIZE Your Reality
Stop minimizing what you’re carrying. Get honest about the impact of dual caregiving across all areas of your life—without judgment.
IDENTIFY Your Resilience Signature
Discover your unique responding style across seven domains: social, physical, practical, financial, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional. This is your personal resilience blueprint.
VALUE Your Strengths
Lead with what naturally works for you. Stop wasting energy on strategies that don’t fit your Signature and strategically develop the domains you’ve been neglecting.
ELIMINATE What Doesn’t Serve
Let go of guilt-driven obligations. Protect your career while caring deeply for your family by distinguishing between what truly matters and what you’re carrying because you think you “should.”
RECLAIM Your Life
Move from surviving to thriving. Create guilt-free time for yourself, advance your career, and be genuinely present with the people you love.
This isn’t about doing more. It’s about flowing back to your source—building a smarter, kinder system that works with your natural resilience, not against it.
Dr Alison Bishop has helped many people overcome these types of issues and many more situations that affect our wellbeing. An appointment with Dr Alison will give you a chance to take a step back and think through these situations so that you can thrive in your life. Dr Alison will be with you every step of the way, cheering you on while asking questions that will help you think through the options, and then decide on the way forward in your life.
It’s time to move beyond feeling unsupported, stuck, or defined by past challenges. Leveraging the River method of coaching, my unique resilience model and the powerful principles of Positive Psychology, I provide a supportive, strategic space for you to process, heal, and then powerfully step into your next phase. Together, we’ll systematically build your resilience, tap into your hidden potential, and design a future that feels truly authentic and exciting. My focus is on empowering you to regain control, find renewed purpose, and confidently step into a future filled with possibility and authentic joy.
The Resilience Cycle: We show you why resting is not quitting, it is an essential part of resilience. Stop the cycle of perpetual exhaustion and learn how to recover efficiently.
Your Resilience Signature: We map your unique energy blueprint across seven critical domains (Physical, Emotional, Social, etc.) so you know exactly what you need to recharge—no more guessing.
The Outcome: You move from reactive caregiver to strategic Chief Wellness Officer of your life, making time a resource you manage, not a scarcity you panic over.
⏰ Reclaim Your Time: Gain back 5–10 hours per week by eliminating guilt and implementing personalized, hyper-efficient recovery strategies.
💰 Protect Your Financial Future: Safeguard your career momentum and earning potential, avoiding the high cost of burnout and career slowdowns.
✨ Restore Your Joy: Reconnect with your identity beyond caregiving, transforming strained interactions into meaningful connections, and securing guilt-free personal fulfilment.
Do you feel like your life is running you? Juggling aging parents, growing kids, and a demanding career leaves you exhausted, guilty, and feeling like you’re failing on all fronts. You are doing the work of three people, yet you feel completely unseen and unsupported. It’s time to stop just surviving.
Tailored approach: The session is designed just for you and will be unique to your circumstances.
Detailed attention: The session will look at the details of your situation and the things you have tried so far, to find out what the road blocks to your success have been.
Transformation: Gain science-based tools and techniques from Applied Positive Psychology my resilience model. These can uncover the roadblocks, for example limiting beliefs, then you can find some new beliefs that will support you to lean into your greatest potential.
Accountability: Create change activities to complete between sessions with a check in to help you follow through and move forward
Self-awareness: discover some quick results by using psychometric tests scales and measures to help you understand your unique personality traits and how they might affect your life satisfaction.
Flexible approach: We can meet for your sessions either in person if you live close to Ipswich UK, or online via TEAMS, whichever you prefer.
Inspiration: don’t leave a session empty handed, take a sheet with some questions designed to keep the coaching going into the week.
