Cead Consulting is a trauma-informed coaching and consultancy practice rooted in safety, growth and compassion. We specialise in supporting individuals, teams and organisations to engage with their work - and each other - on healthier, more sustainable ways.
Cead (pronounced "seed") reflects our belief in growth through nurturing. It stands for:
Congruence. Empathy. Acceptance. Development.
These principles guide everything we do.
Founded by Shrina Purohit. Cead Consulting offers support grounded in professional training, lived experience and deep emotional insight. We believe people don't thrive through pressure - they thrive through permission, curiosity and care.
Shrina Purohit – Founder | Trauma-Informed Consultant & Business Coach
Cead Consulting is led by Shrina Purohit, a trauma-informed coaching consultant with over a decade of experience across the private sector, education, local government and the NHS.
Shrina created Cead to offer a different kind of support: honest, lived-in, emotionally intelligent. Her approach blends psychological insight, personal lived experience, and professional coaching to help individuals and organisations move from surviving to meaningfully thriving.
While Cead is currently a solo practice, Shrina collaborates with a growing network of trauma-aware practitioners and wellbeing professionals for projects that need a team-based approach.
At Cead Consulting, we offer trauma-informed coaching, facilitation and consultancy that support both personal development and healthier workplace culture.
Our programmes are built with a strong foundation of psychological insight and lived experience, designed to:
- Support the mental wellbeing of employees
- Reduce burnout and silent suffering
- Create emotionally safer, more connected teams
Shrina's own experience navigating systems as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman of colour informs everything Cead offers - blending insight with integrity.
We also offer 1:1 coaching for adults seeking clarity, growth or a safe space to explore their next steps - personally or professionally. Whether working with individuals or organisations, Cead centres safety, empathy and sustainable progress over performance.
Cead Consulting bridges the gap between traditional coaching and trauma-informed care. We help individuals and organisations build emotional safety, shifting limiting beliefs and improve communication - without overwhelm or performance pressure. Our work is rooted in lived experience, empathy and real-world impact.
We are not a large firm - and that's the point.
We work at a human pace, with a human voice.
Sophie, 2022
Shrina took the time to listen to me and provided me the safe space needed to express my experiences in ways I had never done before.
I didn’t feel rushed or shamed, unlike when previously opening up to others. Shrina really helped me to take a deeper look at my own thought processes and reactions to things, by asking questions that prompted me to do so.
Rather than being quick to provide a rigid solution, she gave me the space to begin to figure things out myself - which was empowering and healing. I’d recommend Shrina to anyone struggling, her trauma-informed approach is very insightful, and many things began to make sense after our discussions. She is very welcoming and empathetic, yet firm and assuring in her approach. Thank you.
Mary, 2022
Shrina is an empathetic coach who really listens and encouraged me to explore my goals within coaching deeply and ultimately effectively. I enjoyed our sessions and would recommend her approach
Elliot, 2022
Shrina offered me several coaching sessions to help with some frustrations I was experiencing in work. I came into our sessions feeling demotivated and down about things. Shrina was great in mostly just listening to me, giving me space to say how I felt and try to articulate better what exactly was the root cause of these feelings.
She was great at stepping in and challenging me when I needed it, questioning assumptions or limiting beliefs I had about myself.
By the end of our sessions, I felt like I could get out of my own way a lot better and was able to see much clearer both the situation that had left me so frustrated and the path best suited to maintaining my own well-being
If you have any questions regarding our coaching programmes, please get in touch with a member of our team.