Neil Holloway
Therapist in Business
About
I came to psychotherapy by an unusual route — and I think that matters.
My working life began in New Zealand and spanned six decades in technology and business. I worked as a programmer, systems analyst and company director through the formative years of the IT industry, then founded and ran my own conference and exhibitions business serving the global telecommunications sector. I have sat in boardrooms, managed teams, navigated commercial pressures, and carried the particular weight that comes with senior responsibility. When my clients describe the relentlessness of life at the top — the isolation, the performance anxiety, the difficulty switching off — I understand precisely what they mean.
It was that understanding, hard-won over a long career, that eventually drew me to train as a psychotherapist. Retiring from business gave me the space to pursue something I had long been curious about — the inner life of high-achieving people, and what happens when the demands of professional success begin to exact a personal cost. I qualified at [Training Institution] and now work exclusively with professionals in financial services and the broader business world.
My approach is integrative, which means I draw on a range of therapeutic frameworks — person-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural — choosing what will be most useful for each individual rather than applying a single method to everyone. What remains constant is my belief that the therapeutic relationship itself is central to any meaningful change. This is a space in which you can speak honestly, think clearly, and begin to understand yourself more fully — perhaps in ways that the pace of your working life has never previously allowed.
I work with professionals experiencing burnout and executive stress, anxiety and depression, workplace conflict, leadership pressures, career transitions, and the complex questions of identity and purpose that often surface at moments of change — including, as I know from my own experience, the transition into retirement.
Outside the consulting room, I am committed to keeping both mind and body active. I am a long-distance walker, a regular parkrunner, and a writer — pursuits that require persistence, presence and a willingness to keep going when the path gets difficult. They are, I think, not so different from the work of therapy itself.
If any of this resonates, I would be glad to hear from you. The first step is simply a conversation.