Sue Naughton-Marsh · Bristol
Untangle your thinking. Trust your own judgement. Decide what to do next.
I’ve spent more than 30 years being fascinated by how people do what they do.
I’m Sue Naughton-Marsh: coach, psychotherapist, Master NLP Coach and Trainer, and organisational development specialist. It’s an unusual mix, and it means I tend to notice things.
The word you use three times without noticing. The rule you’ve quietly made for yourself. The assumption hiding underneath a decision. The sequence of thoughts that takes you from “I’ll sort this” to “I have absolutely no idea what to do.” Or the tiny thing you do differently when you’re confident, decisive and completely yourself.
My particular fascination is patterns: language patterns, thinking patterns and behavioural patterns. I use NLP and modelling to get underneath how you’re doing something, not simply why and turn what we discover into practical instructions you can actually use.
That might mean decoding how you do confidence, how you make a good decision, how you get yourself into an overthinking loop or finding something you already do brilliantly in one part of your life and working out how to use it somewhere else.
I’m warm, curious, straightforward and very practical. I’ll ask questions, challenge the odd thing you’ve accidentally turned into a fact, and probably notice something you hadn’t realised you were doing because once you can see your own patterns, you have far more choice about what you do next.
1:1 coaching, career coaching and 'Get Unstuck' programmes.
My speciality? Decoding exactly how you’re doing stuck.
I help you identify your stuck cycle, spot the language and thinking patterns running it, uncover the invisible instructions you’re following and work out exactly where to interrupt the loop.
Using my blend of NLP, behavioural modelling, psychotherapy and coaching, we turn “I don't know what to do” into “I can see what I'm doing and now I know what to do differently.”
I speak about the small things that shape how we think, feel and behave often without us noticing. Here are some talks I have done before...Words That Change Minds — How the words we hear, repeat and use with ourselves influence what we notice, expect and believe is possible - From rumination and negative conversations to the people, media and messages we repeatedly expose ourselves to — what are you giving your brain to work with every day? The Mechanics of Stuck — Why capable people get caught in thinking loops, how to recognise where you are in your own stuck cycle, and what actually interrupts it. The Invisible Instructions Running Your Life — The shoulds, musts, always, nevers and rules you've accumulated along the way — and how they quietly influence your decisions, confidence and behaviour. Your Brain Under Pressure — What happens to our thinking when we feel stressed, anxious or under threat; why perspective, creativity and decision-making can shrink just when we need them most; and simple ways to create enough space to think differently. How Do You Do Confidence? — Instead of telling people to “be more confident”, let's decode it. What do you think, picture, say and do differently when you're at your best — and can you learn to recreate more of it? When Thinking Becomes the Problem — The difference between thinking something through and repeatedly thinking about it. Why more thinking doesn't necessarily create more clarity — and how to know when it's time to stop circling and start choosing. Borrow From Your Brilliant Self — Using behavioural modelling to find where you already have the confidence, resilience, decisiveness or motivation you think you're missing — and work out how you do it so you can use it somewhere else. What To Do Next — How to make decisions when certainty isn't available, quieten the noise, trust your own judgement and take the next useful step.How Are You Doing That? — A fascinating introduction to NLP and behavioural modelling: how to decode the tiny things you do to create confidence, procrastination, overthinking, motivation — even stuckness — and learn to do something different.
