About Benedict: Benedict Midworth is an experienced coach and psychotherapist. A psychological ally to leaders who shoulder responsibility, take initiative and solve problems for the benefit of others. Over the past 25 years, he has provided over 30,000 hours of coaching and therapy to individuals, couples and groups in private and professional environments worldwide. Benedict’s professional journey is marked by a deep commitment to fostering transformation and resilience, both personally and within organisations.

His Expertise: Benedict's approach is both academically rigorous, personally attentive, time efficient, expert, kind and patient. He emphasizes building trust by immediately and seriously addressing concerns and listening intently, acknowledging the courage it takes to seek help. A positive working alliance is fundamental and is established quickly through supportive and challenging dialogue. Assessment begins with deep discernment of how the irrational is personal, historic and professional in a crisis. A series of ideas, interpretations, thoughts and responses are created and shared in dialogue to gain immediate clarity and insight. Emotional re-regulation is a key focus, allowing re-connection and processing of feelings (or lack of feeling, numbness).

In parallel, Ben identifies patterns of irrational thought and behaviour, emphasising the need for evolution beyond habitual survival-based strategies. He views crises as opportunities for profound reflection and growth. Making connections between the irrational in personal crises and in organisational challenges is crucial, leading to shifts in understanding and perspective. His multi-layered perspective of cognitive and emotional work within a psychological framework makes paradigm shifts occur in-session. The felt change in the session is a crucial component of habit change, realisation, consciousness development and work within a transformational purpose-driven framework.

Ben’s approach reflects his commitment to personal and professional growth, as well as his extensive experience and qualifications, and make him a profound resource for leaders seeking to navigate life’s complexities and transform.

His Experience: Benedict specialises in accompanying leaders, emerging leaders, entrepreneurs and C suite executives at pivotal moments where they have to handle critical situations in conditions of uncertainty, crisis and stress. Whether the sources of the leader’s difficulties are personal or professional, Ben enables them to see through the crisis, make the hard choices and take the high-stakes decisions. He is especially known for his ability to handle the particular power of the irrational when it inevitably rears its head in threatening dilemmas.

This skill was shaped by his extensive experience of dealing with the most complex traumas and destructive individual/interpersonal emotional processes in his therapeutic work. Over the years he has honed the tools that allow him to move fast and incisively with his clients in a coaching setting, helping them break patterns, grow a new consciousness of their and others’ behaviours and develop insights into the best courses of action.