Nicola has over 20 years experience working with people with brain injury, neurodiversity and those who want to improve their brain health, so get in touch with Nicola at Brains at Work Academy; your brain will thank you.

Nicola is the Founder of Brains at Work Academy. She has over 20 years of helping people improve their brain, as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Brain Health Coach and Keynote Speaker.

Brains at Work Academy helps people understand how their brain works and, more importantly, what they can do to help it work better.

Translating neuroscience into simple, practical and actionable strategies,

Brains at Work focuses on the everyday factors that influence how we think, feel and function, including sleep, stress, mental load, focus, energy, memory, movement and recovery.

The aim is to take brain health out of the laboratory and make it relevant to real life, helping people understand why they may feel tired, overwhelmed, distracted or mentally drained and giving them realistic strategies they can use to support their brain.

Through accessible education, online resources, webinars and coaching programmes, Brains at Work Academy empowers people to make small, sustainable changes that can support their wellbeing and cognitive performance both now and for the future.

Dr Sue Peacock’s business is built around a simple but powerful belief: a health condition may change the rules, but it does not have to determine the size of your life. A Consultant Health Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with more than 25 years’ experience, Dr Sue has expertise in complex chronic pain, long-term and persistent health conditions, cancer and the psychological impact of cancer treatment, sleep difficulties, anxiety and trauma. Through her specialist private practice, retreats, speaking, professional training and innovative programmes such as The Adaptive CEO, she works with individuals whose health has profoundly affected the way they live, work and see their future—often when conventional approaches have not been enough.

Drawing on advanced psychological expertise and evidence-based approaches including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR), Compassion Focused Therapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy and clinical hypnosis, Dr Sue provides highly individualised care that goes beyond simply helping people to “cope”. Her work is about helping people understand what is happening psychologically and physiologically, reduce the cycles that keep them stuck, and regain a greater sense of confidence, control and possibility.

An award-winning clinician, published author, international speaker and BPS-approved supervisor, Dr Sue’s work increasingly extends beyond the consulting room. She challenges the assumption that people living with chronic illness, pain, cancer and other long-term health conditions must either continually push themselves to meet the demands of lives and workplaces designed for predictable health—or accept a smaller life. Instead, she helps people redesign the way they live, work and lead around the reality of their capacity, without surrendering their ambition, identity or future.

When not working, Dr Sue enjoys running, natural history, walking her dog and spending time with family and friends