BY YOUR SIDE
Develop, evolve and grow with Jean Peters Allen
TRANSFORMATIONAL
Integral Development Coaching
Typical coaching practices focus on where you want to get to and how to get there. Integral Coaching takes a more multi-dimensional look at you as a human being and assists you in seeing yourself as a part of something bigger.
“Integral” means inclusive of everything and as such, Integral Development Coaching explores your relationship with yourself, with others and with the world around you.
The Integral coaching method attends to your individuality as well as the social context in which you are embedded. Your individuality includes your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and intentions as well as everything that is happening to you physiologically.
Your social context includes the language you speak, the cultural practices you engage in, your relationships and the groups you belong to.
By looking at the whole you, Integral Development Coaching makes sense of who you are and helps you evolve and move forward with purpose.
CLIENTS
MEASURABLE IMPACT
Whether you’re navigating professional growth, personal fulfillment, or leadership challenges, Jean’s support empowers you to approach life with a new sense of purpose and clarity. By shifting long-held patterns and introducing tailored practices, clients often find deeper balance and growth in both their personal and professional lives.
"Jean’s guidance has allowed me to reflect deeply, tackling what’s most important in life and work...The personal insights I gained were profound, showing me both the drivers of my success and the blockers I hadn’t seen."
Working with Jean has had a measurable impact upon my success in work, as you would expect with a highly qualified coach. But more than that it has enabled me to reflect deeply and understand the drivers that have both enabled my successes in the past and those that have unexpectedly de-railed what I thought was a straightforward path. Jean manages to do this with sensitivity, clarity, humour and a deep sense that she understands me and wants the best for me.
Integral coaching is, perhaps, a much harder journey – personally and emotionally – than some other approaches to executive development. But when you work on the deepest issues you get both the sense that you are really tackling what’s most important and also the actual observable results in what’s changing in your life and work.
SIMON
"Real, outcome-focused support combined with genuine challenge helped me move forward, and two years on I’m stronger, clearer, and unrecognisable from where I started."
I reached out to Jean when I realised I wasn’t where I wanted to be, and I needed real, actionable help.
Jean created both challenge and space for self-reflection. What truly helped were the early talks about outcomes – where I wanted to be and how to get there.
I looked forward to each session, as she genuinely listened and helped me move forward.
Now, looking back, I’m unrecognisable from two years ago. Jean didn’t do the work for me, but she gave me belief, strength, and renewed self-worth. I couldn’t recommend her enough.
SENIOR LEADER JERSEY
“I feel a resilience I didn’t have before. Jean’s guidance helped me find new strength. Jean helped me accept and celebrate all of who I am, equipping me to face challenges with newfound confidence.”
“I’ve been working with Jean for well over six months now and I feel I’ve learned more about myself and my resolve in that short period than in any other time in my life. I’ve gained confidence, built reserve and feel I have the resilience to face issues that would have previously tied me up in knots and anxiety.
Jean has introduced various approaches and techniques that have helped me to accept and celebrate who I am, all of me. I am sleeping better, feel better equipped to face challenging times and see doors opening when before they felt closed.”
SENIOR LEADER JERSEY
“Jean offers the guidance, understanding, and non-judgmental support that fosters true healing. In Jean’s safe space, I’ve felt empowered to address my deepest issues.”
“Jean is everything you could hope for in a therapist – and more. Her guidance and support have been invaluable as I’ve navigated some incredibly challenging times. Her understanding, non-judgmental approach, and safe space have created an environment where I feel comfortable and empowered to address my issues. I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking a compassionate and effective therapist.”
JANE
“Working with Jean has been transformative—her support helped me overcome life’s toughest challenges. Jean’s encouragement helped me find relief, compassion, and a path to live more authentically.”
“I approached the process with some skepticism, uncertain if it could truly make a difference. However, I quickly felt a deep sense of relief, understanding, and compassion. Jean fostered an environment of trust and encouragement, which allowed me to open up and explore my challenges in a meaningful way.
Throughout our work together, Jean played a pivotal role in guiding me through some of the most stressful and difficult periods of my life. Her expertise and support were not only instrumental in helping me overcome these hurdles but also in empowering me to thrive in all areas of my life.
Jean’s impact has been transformative—her guidance has helped me live a more authentic, fulfilling life. I am profoundly grateful for the positive and lasting changes she has helped me achieve.”
ANONYMOUS
“The transformation has been rapid, profound, and, surprisingly, almost effortless. Jean’s unique empathy and insight created a space for deep healing and self-discovery.”
“I wasn’t expecting the impact that working with Jean has had on my personal growth, development and overall holistic wellbeing. The transformation, hasn’t just been superficial, but profound, rapid and most surprisingly quite effortless.
Her insightful wisdom and ability to really listen, and hear not just my words, but to sympathetically and intuitively explore with me, really feel my experiences, and then communicate this deep understanding and empathy, so I can really sense her genuine care, has created a unique space for me to be able to heal and grow.
I’ve experienced this alliance as truly collaborative, as we work together to delve into past wounds, conditionings and traumas, to be able to attain freedom and contentment in the here and now.
I can’t recommend working with Jean highly enough, and I am blown away by the difference for the better that it has made to my life, in my ability to not only become more of myself, but to find more joy and peace in each moment, whilst also possessing an increased resilience to weather life’s inevitable storms.”
ANONYMOUS
“Jean’s compassionate approach helped me rebuild my sense of self, free from the anxieties and coping mechanisms I’d held for decades. Working with Jean has been a truly transformative experience—she guided me through complex emotions and helped me find a healthier way to live.”
“Working with Jean has been a truly transformative experience. From the very beginning, she provided me with the vocabulary to express my feelings, guiding me through the complex landscape of my emotions. Her compassionate and empathetic approach allowed me to confront difficult emotions and understand my traumas and defensiveness on a deeper level.
Jean supported me through an unbelievably difficult time in my life when all the support structures, coping mechanisms, and work-focused grandiosity I had built up were ripped away, and everything I was and knew felt annihilated. She helped me completely rebuild my sense of self, becoming a much better version of myself without the constant anxiety, depression, and problematic coping mechanisms I had developed over 40 years.
Through her guidance, I came to appreciate the value of vulnerability and started embracing a healthier way of living. Jean’s authenticity, empathy, and compassion created a safe and nurturing environment where I felt genuinely understood. She helped me make sense of the dissociation and disconnection I often experienced as responses to my childhood trauma.
There were times when I would fall into dysregulated states and dissociation, unable to process what was happening and not remembering the details afterwards. Jean patiently helped me recognise these patterns, teaching me to be on the lookout for triggers and providing me with strategies to manage them effectively.
Her ability to create a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship provided me with a sense of security and containment I hadn’t felt before. This allowed me to process my experiences without feeling overwhelmed. Jean’s genuine empathy and support challenged my negative self-perceptions and offered me a corrective emotional experience I hadn’t imagined possible.
I am immensely grateful for the significant impact Jean has had on my journey towards healing. She not only helped me understand my anxiety and coping mechanisms but also guided me towards healthier strategies for managing them. Her presence has been a constant source of support, enabling me to develop self-empathy and a renewed sense of self-worth.
If you’re considering taking a positive step in your own journey, I wholeheartedly recommend Jean. Her expertise, compassion, and dedication can make a profound difference, just as they have for me.”
ANONYMOUS
WHY AUTUMN
Transformational Coaching
With her coaching, psychotherapy and mediation experience, Jean draws on a library of resources and inventive techniques that will help you to be more competent in dealing with your life’s circumstances.
She will be by your side as you learn how to stop functioning in a way that is reactive to the world around you and find deep meaning in your life.
INTERNAL EXCELLENCE
Find the ability to face life with vulnerability, self awareness and discipline.
DISCOVER YOUR REASON
Live your life with purpose and benefit the world around you.
REFRAME YOURSELF
SELF CARE
Mediation Expertise
Jean is a qualified mediator and works with people to find their way through conflict and move on to a better future.
Jean’s most experienced in helping families through complex and highly emotive disputes and helps everyone involved to express their true feelings in an open and inclusive environment.
Jean provides private mediation services and calls on other qualified mediators where appropriate.
Psychotherapy
Working one on one, Jean’s client relationships start from six weeks and can last for many years. As an Integrative Psychotherapist, Jean’s blended approach draws on the range of theories behind human behaviour, thought, feeling, and development.
"The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free."
– ROLLO MAY
LIFE'S INTERRUPTIONS
How we make sense of these experiences often determines the actions we take, and this, of course, influences our competence and fulfilment in life.
DIVORCE
BECOMING A PARENT
PROMOTION or JOb change
REDUNDANCY, DISMISSAL
CAREER BREAK
LOSS OF A LOVED ONE
ILLNESS
INJURY
A sense of uncertainty or that something is missing
ABOUT
Jean Peters Allen
Her professional experience and qualifications in all three disciplines provide Jean with a deep and genuine understanding of human behaviour.
In addition to her professional credentials, Jean’s own life experiences bring unique insights and wisdom. She grew up as a white child in apartheid South Africa, travelled extensively in her young adult years, immigrated and adopted and adapted to new cultures. A mum to three unique human beings, who she has nurtured and loved, Jean has also experienced heartbreak, loss and disappointment as an adult.
It is this texture and raw human experience that Jean brings to her Integral Development Coaching and allows her to understand the richness of her clients’ lives.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Your Coaching Experience
INTAKE
GETTING TO
KNOW YOU
Jean is genuinely curious to understand the way you come at the world so your relationship will begin with her getting an understanding of what it is like to be you.
Influenced by the works of Ken Wilbur and others, Jean looks at how internal and external factors have affected your evolution.
Internal factors include your thoughts, memories, perceptions, values, relationships and culture. External factors include your body, your environment, systems and technology.
DESIGN
CREATING YOUR
BESPOKE PLAN
Following your first meeting, Jean will take time to absorb and understand everything you’ve told her. She will consider what she’s heard and think about the areas of your life that need attention.
As no two people are the same, Jean’s coaching programmes are completely unique to you and sensitive to your daily routines and time.
Your plan will be future focused and involve creative tasks and exercises that align to your stage of evolution and where you want to get to.
PRACTICE
BUILDING
COMPETENCE
Over three to six months, Jean will provide one-to-one coaching, and support your ongoing practices and exercises.
The content of your programme will flex and change as your relationship with yourself evolves.
Over time you will develop the ability to recognise when you need to make a change and know what you need.
Your plan will help you become more competent in stepping up to the challenges your everyday life presents.
