Uncouple from the stress of today to optimise your tomorrow ⚡
Our people
Helen Sampson CPC, ELI-MP, CTDS
What is Helen's career background?
As a law graduate, Helen briefly acted as a careers advisor before launching her career in the legal industry, spending the majority of her time at the UK’s leading litigation-only law firm Stewarts, working on complex, UHNW divorce cases. She worked alongside some of the best Divorce and Family lawyers to ensure all clients were looked after from a client care and legal perspective. She is now able to provide the same high-quality service to her coaching clients, using her comprehensive experience and bespoke programmes.
Prior to founding Uncouple®, Helen stayed within the legal sector but moved into people and process management, managing teams of up to over 100 personnel and often using coaching to manage talent. Her time in this role allowed her to form a deep understanding of what motivates and disengages employees. Having successfully transitioned careers several times herself, Helen understands what it takes to be fearless in taking action within your career, whether that's in the corporate world or as an entrepreneur.
Helen is an award-winning expert in her field and has been named as one of the top 100 most inspiring female business leaders in the UK by the f:Entrepreneur iAlso campaign in 2025.
Who does Helen help?
Helen founded the concept of mesotrauma® (middle-of-the-road 'trauma'), so although she specialises in career crises and supporting individuals through and beyond their divorce, she is an expert in all transitions and has experience coaching people from all over the world, in all areas of their life. Her clients, however, all have something in common – the desire, openness and commitment to the coaching process and the work it takes to uncouple from the stress of their present and get to the 2.0 version of themselves, where everything is clearer and stress and change are no longer an issue.
Helen's goal is to reduce the impact stress has on her clients by giving them the means to control how much stress they feel, if any, when faced with a stressor. This becomes their superpower.
Helen’s divorce clients start working with her at any point along the continuum of the divorce journey – each person’s path is unique and the impact of their divorce can last years. Her aim is to beneficially impact as many of these transitions as possible, reducing the number of ‘bad divorces’ and enabling her clients to minimise their stress response to the during and after, make decisions with clarity and focus on what’s next. She remains a professional member of Resolution, as she is committed to ensuring a reduction in conflict during separation.
Helen regularly attracts clients in career crisis and uses her unique skill set to support clients in their quest to feel confident, aligned or fulfilled in their career. As a certified TalentPredix™ Practitioner, she is able to effortlessly discover and coach around her clients' talents, career drivers and values.
Helen's associate membership of The Stress Management Society marks her continued commitment to ensuring her clients recognise and manage their stress and improve their resilience.
What is Helen's educational background?
Helen studied Law at university and holds postgraduate diplomas in both Legal Practice and HR Management. She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited Certified Professional Coach, having trained at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a top-ranked programme by Forbes and the only programme globally that provides its coaches with enough training to become a ‘master coach’, the highest credential at the ICF. She is also an Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner, COR.E Transitions Dynamics™ Specialist and has undertaken further training at the Co-Active Training Institute, whose program has been labelled the “gold standard” of coaching by a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Helen also uses her interests in emotional intelligence and neuroscience to explore how these concepts and principles can positively impact her clients’ results. She acts as a co-creation partner using this extensive and unique toolkit to lead powerful conversations, guiding her clients smoothly from A to B.
Helen operates in accordance with the Code of Ethics set out by the ICF, detailed here.
“In summary, 5 stars! I had been reluctant to be coached again but believed in the power of coaching and when I met Helen, I knew working with her would be worthwhile and she did not disappoint! Helen truly listens with great attention to detail and asked questions that helped me grow and motivated me to get the results I both needed and wanted. Each session was eye-opening – I was able to move into a state of flow that was filled with constructive energy, purpose and left me feeling excited for what I’d accomplish next. Thank you Helen, for the unique gift you have - it has helped me make significant changes and I now find myself using the tools I learnt to continue the momentum.”
LM, Founder, Paris
Getting started
If you think that Uncouple® coaching is for you, please fill out the form on our Contact Us page and we will be in touch with a short application for you to complete. If successful, you will be invited to schedule a complimentary, 20-minute call where we will discuss what has brought you to coaching and whether partnering with us would be a good next step.