For anyone who has experienced states of mind they didn't choose and couldn't control.
Ashley Pollak
CPCAB Qualified
One-to-one guidance for people navigating a complex mind
alongside the ambitions, careers, and lives they're determined to build.
You're functioning. Probably well. But your mind moves between states you didn't choose and can't always predict. Periods of unusual energy and momentum. Periods of flatness or inertia. An anxiety that sits underneath everything else. These states shape how you work, how you lead, and how you see yourself.
You may have a diagnosis. You may not. What matters is that you recognise the pattern, and you're ready to understand it rather than just survive it.
What I bring.
I built a career as a Creative Director for marketing organisations and broadcasters including the BBC, in the UK, Spain and UAE. All of it while navigating bipolar disorder.
That has meant hyper-productivity where ideas arrive faster than I can capture them. Depression where making a phone call feels insurmountable. And everything in between.
Over several years I have explored and learnt from leading thinkers: psychotherapists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and practitioners working in meditation, movement, and building communities.
I've documented my own episodes in real time and studied what actually shifts things. That led to a podcast, and then a book, Embracing the State You're In. And it has become the foundation for the work I now do with people one-to-one.
What we do together.
One-to-one sessions grounded in the states of mind framework, in lived experience, and in counselling skills. We work on understanding your own patterns of mind well enough to work with them more effectively.
This isn't therapy. It isn't conventional coaching. It's guided thinking with someone who has been navigating this territory for a long time, and who has spent years learning from the people who understand it most deeply.
Rates & packages
120 per hour
180 two hours
6 sessions - 500
12 sessions - 900
Free 20 minute consultation