Meeting you where you are, I offer personalised, person-centred therapeutic coaching to help you uncover inner resources, shift limiting patterns, and navigate life changes with clarity, safety, and curiosity. Informed by my lived neurodivergent experience and life-long creative practice, my goal is to help you thrive and bring you closer to belonging and self-acceptance.
Hi, my name is Thomas, and I am a Certified Therapeutic Coach based in Melbourne, Australia. I offer finely tuned personalised coaching and guidance to promote transformational change. Whether that’s navigating a change in life, or a desire to change your life, I can help you to explore and shift the thoughts, feelings and emotions that are holding you back: feelings of anxiety; phobias and fears; limiting self beliefs; stress; and issues around lifestyle changes and health conditions.
Learning recently that I am ASD and ADHD and being the child of migrants, I have struggled with feelings of belonging all my life. I have been working with the tools I now use in my practice to help me navigate and grow amidst the confusion, overwhelm and grief that has come with a late diagnosis. This lived experience is something that I bring to inform my practice and my work with clients.
I am a lifelong creative, having written and performed music for over 30 years. Working to maintain a connection to my creativity has involved navigating many crises of identity and purpose. I came to Therapeutic Coaching (TC) in the midst of such a crisis and found its approach a revelation.
Because TC is a whole person and client centred approach it helped me to get to blocks and uncover resources that other approaches didn’t seem to emphasise. For instance, It brought me into my body and made me realise that I was safe there, and that I could explore and accept any challenge from there.
Grounded in proven therapeutic and psycho-spiritual practices, we will work to understand the blocks that keep you trapped in old holding patterns. We will use openness, curiosity and kindness to cultivate a receptive attitude to your experience in the moment. And then use a number of tools which tap into the resourceful states that are inside you, so you can get to the change you want to see in your feelings, thoughts and emotions. TC works to understand the impacts of the past whilst learning to create your future intentionally, in the way you want it to be, ultimately by learning to live in the now.
My practice is informed by constant learning. I completed my training in Therapeutic Coaching with Alex Howard and Anna Duschinsky, the developers of Therapeutic Coaching, in 2025. My approach is also shaped by my continuing psycho-spiritual study and experiential practice of the Diamond Approach in Australia.
I have been earnestly engaged in self expression and musical creativity all my adult life, cultivating my own unique practice and path as a singer-songwriter and recording artist. I am the loving husband of Lee Beaton, an accomplished EFT couples counsellor and psychotherapist and the devoted father of Amelia.
I am currently working in private practice and taking on new clients.
I offer a tiered service, with a sliding fee scale based upon your situation and needs.
- Concession: $A80*
- Full: $A120
- Pay it Forward: $A180**
Initial Six Session Packages***
I highly recommend you book an initial 6 sessions using the discounted package rate, so we can come to a clear understanding of your therapeutic needs. These are for first time clients only.
- Concession: $A360*
- Full: $A480
- Pay it Forward: $A720**
I am currently seeing clients exclusively online. Contact me at thomaskresscoaching@gmail.com to organise a short discovery call.
* I offer this rate to those who are financially disadvantaged such as low-wage earners and the unemployed. I reserve the right to increase my fees if it becomes apparent that a client does have sufficient means to pay the full client rate.
** I offer this premium rate for those who can afford it. This is a way that more fortunate clients can help support someone with lower means by subsidising my concession and pro-bono work
***I insist we try to work together for at least 6 sessions in order to overcome any resistance. However should you choose to not continue after 3 sessions I am happy to give a 50% refund of your package investment