Stress prevention. Powered by science.
Uncouple from the stress that comprises your health & performance
Our founder
Helen Sampson CPC, ELI-MP, CTDS
"I haven't been stressed since 2022 - I've gone from stress-fuelled to stress-free and I want others to do the same. I believe stress is one of the most dangerous yet fixable problems we face as humans - it is also one of the most misunderstood. My mission is to end the stress epidemic by helping people to break their default stress cycle sooner, so that they benefit from improved health and perform from a place of control rather than crisis, regardless of what life throws their way.”
Helen Sampson is a multi-award-winning stress specialist and transitions expert known for her work in stress prevention and her creation of the concept of mesotrauma®. She is the go-to partner for organisations and individuals who want to move from stress-fuelled (and the associated costs to health and performance) to stress-free. Helen shines a light on the hidden risks created when stress cycles go unrecognised, particularly where overwhelm is beginning to escalate into crisis.
Her science-led, tailored approach works where generic wellbeing advice fails because it targets the hidden stress patterns most people miss. Clients break free from being controlled by stress and take steps that rapidly improve their health and performance - once learnt, it's a skill they can use for life.
What is Helen's career background?
Helen's career began 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 supported clients through some of the most demanding and high‑pressure situations imaginable and gained a front-line understanding of how sustained stress affects decision-making and health. This experience shaped her commitment to stress prevention long before she founded Uncouple®.
Helen later moved into people and process management, where she led teams of over 100 and successfully coached high‑performing professionals within their legal career. This gave her a deep understanding of what drives and undermines engagement and how unnoticed stress patterns quietly erode it. These insights now form a core part of her work within organisations and with her private clients.
Having navigated multiple career transitions 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. She brings lived experience of the courage, clarity and resilience required to make bold changes. This makes her uniquely equipped to support clients through all transitions, including high-stakes career shifts and the emotional complexity of divorce - situations where stress often overwhelms and where her expertise has a particularly powerful impact.
Today she combines her corporate background with advanced stress science to deliver work that is practical, grounded and transformative.
Who and how does Helen help?
Helen is on a mission to end the stress epidemic and leverages her extensive corporate experience and innovate science-led approach to help individuals and businesses stress-hack their way to success, whatever that means for them. Stress doesn't discriminate, so Helen works with clients all over the world and across every sector.
Most individuals reach Helen once they're already in crisis - whether that's navigating a divorce, a high-pressure career or any other major change or intensely stressful situation that has topped from manageable into overwhelming. She quickly uncovers the hidden default stress behaviours that are making it harder to cope or effectively perform under pressure.
You'll learn to navigate your current situation, as well as any future stressful circumstance, without the automatic stress response that quietly damages your health and undermines your performance.
Helen's approach is unique, tailored and science-led - a powerful trifecta that gives companies that work with her a competitive advantage in navigating the unpredictable demands of the modern workplace. Her experience as a fee earner, manager and founder gives her a deep, practical understanding of the pressures within organisations, regardless of sector, structure and size.
She cuts through the noise to identify what stress is truly costing your business then provides practical, sustainable solutions that strengthen the health and performance of your organisation and its people.
Whether she is working with an individual or a company Helen focuses on the same outcome. Prevent unnecessary stress at the source, improve how people perform and equip them with skills they can rely on long-term.
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 Forbes-recognised programme and the only qualification that provides its coaches with the level of training required to reach the ICF's highest credential of 'master coach’.
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. To deepen her understanding, Helen has also completed a course on the topic of stress at Harvard Medical School.
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
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