For Wise Leaders

Leadershipat depth.

Where intelligent leaders do their inner work — and powerfully transform the way they lead.

UKCP Accredited 30 Years’ Practice IFS Level 2 MA Core Process ACPP Registered

Depth coaching for leaders who sense that something more is possible.

Simplicity reveals meaning,

everything lives in the pause;

wisdom resides in the comma.

Sharon Charlton-Thomson

Sharon Charlton-Thomson — Founder & Director

About Comma

Where psychotherapy
meets leadership.

For almost 30 years I maintained the two parts of my work in careful separation — the psychotherapist and the coach.

Comma is the synthesis: a depth coaching practice for leaders who sense that something more is possible, and who are ready to discover what that is.

Who We Serve

Leaders who have achieved everything — and sense there is more.

01

Corporate Executives

Senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, or the invisible ceiling that no competency model can explain.

02

Visionary Founders

Builders who understand that the quality of their inner life determines the quality of everything they create.

03

Board Leaders & Trustees

Those who carry responsibility for others and seek the depth of self-awareness that makes wisdom — not just knowledge — possible.

Qualifications & Accreditations

The authority
behind the work.

Sharon holds some of the most rigorous clinical qualifications available in the United Kingdom — grounding every Comma engagement in decades of accredited, evidence-based practice.

UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Fully registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy — the gold standard of psychotherapy accreditation in Britain, under the Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy College.

MA in Core Process Psychotherapy

Post-graduate degree from the Karuna Institute — integrating Buddhist psychology, Western psychotherapy, mindfulness, and neurobiology.

IFS Level 2 Practitioner

Fully qualified in Internal Family Systems therapy — an evidence-based model widely used in trauma-informed leadership coaching.

Systemic & Developmental Therapy

Specialist training from the University of Bristol and DDP UK — providing deep understanding of relational dynamics in organisational leadership.

ACPP Registered Member

Additional recognition spanning developmental and relational modalities across the full life course.

30 Years of Clinical Practice

Three decades working with individuals, couples, families, and corporate leaders — an accumulation no short-term programme can replicate.

UKCP Registered ACPP Member Karuna Institute MA IFS Level 2 Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapist Couples Therapy · Spectrum / Tavistock
The Depth Coaching Framework

Our Work

The Depth Coaching
Framework.

A powerful fusion of robust leadership coaching and mindfulness-based psychotherapy — creating a new kind of Wise Leadership, fit for an uncertain world.

My work with Comma has been unquestionably one of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had. I feel far more equipped to thrive in what continues to be a turbulent world. Their generosity and commitment marks Comma out from anyone or anything else in this field.

Charlie Hurrell Chief Client Officer, House 337

Clients

Three decades.
Thousands of leaders.

Across 30 years, we have worked alongside hundreds of committed organisations and thousands of intelligent leaders — each doing the vital inner work.

Meet our clients
30Years of Practice
100sOrganisations
1,000sLeaders Coached
Deloitte House 337 BBC Unilever Goldman Sachs ITV KPMG McKinsey & Co. WPP Barclays Channel 4 PwC Vodafone Saatchi & Saatchi NHS Leadership Academy

Representative client organisations — names used with permission.

Articles & Insights

Unlocking the deeper
realities of leadership.

All articles
The Parts We Leave Behind
Essay · Sharon Charlton-Thomson

The Parts We Leave Behind

Every client has an inner part we have come to know as the Inner Critic — and it shapes far more than we realise.

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Leading from the whole self.

Our articles challenge leaders to look inward — exploring Jungian roots, the inner critic, the wisdom of the pause, and what depth truly means in practice.

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Comma — Giving

Giving

Committed to social
mobility.

We support charities creating equitable outcomes for young people who face extra barriers in higher education and high-status professions.