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The Team Approach Regulated Leaders. Thriving Workplaces. Real Change. No Fluff. Mental health and wellness matters and needs to be a priority in all workplaces!

Founder of The Team Approach — a boutique EAP and workplace wellbeing provider doing things differently. The Team Approach is passionate about helping business owners to create mentally healthy workplaces and supporting employees to deal with change, move forward, build capacity, develop coping skills and strategies, and handle life’s curveballs and challenges! Just like people go to the gym to become physically fit, we also need to exercise our minds to become mentally fit! And that’s where The Team Approach comes in! The Team Approach offers -
- Leadership Coaching for business owners and team leaders - focusing on creating and maintaining mentally healthy workplaces.
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Counselling Services- for all employees, at all levels
- Career Coaching for employees
- E-DISC Behavioural Profiling and Team Profiling - focus on leadership, communication, relationships, culture, productivity, retention, collaboration, results

The Team Approach delivers its services -
- face to face at TTA headquarters
- face to face in the workplace
- remotely via Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Zoom and telephone. Is mental health and wellness a priority for
you and business? Do you currently have an EAP Counselling Program in your workplace? Are you feeling overwhelmed with everything you need to think about and do as a business owner, and just wish someone would come in and support you and steer you in the right direction? Do you want to find out more? Well book a FREE 30 minute discovery call to find out how The Team Approach can help you, your employees and your business in 2022!!

04/11/2026

I want to talk about 2 key words: Capacity & Capability🔋

I work with capable, high-achieving people who are really good at what they do. But when stress, overwhelm and task overload move in, capability drops.

That’s not a personal failing.
It’s simply hard to be capable when you’re running on empty.

So, how are you feeling right now?
Stressed? Stretched? Overloaded?
Trying to hold it all together?

These 2 key words: capability and capacity are interrelated.
I’d love to know what they mean to you. 👇

Tell me in the comments: what do these words mean to you, and how capable are you feeling today?

If you’re ready to shift from surviving and coping to thriving, I’d love to help.

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Same battery. Different recharge. 🔋When you’re running low, your reptile shows up. And each one needs something differen...
02/11/2026

Same battery. Different recharge. 🔋

When you’re running low, your reptile shows up. And each one needs something different to get back to Sage:

🐊 Crank (Fight) needs somewhere for the energy to go. A walk, a workout, even shaking out your hands before you hit send.

🦎 Skye (Flight) needs to slow down, not do more. One thing at a time, feet on the floor, finish something.

🐢 Tully (Freeze) needs warmth and a gentle nudge, not pressure. A short walk, a cuppa with someone safe, one small next step.

🦎 Charm (Fawn) needs permission. A pause before yes. “Let me get back to you.”

Same nervous system. Different way back.

💾 Save this for the next time your battery’s running low.
💬 Which reptile are you, and what’s your recharge?

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Ever had a boss who could walk into chaos and somehow settle the whole room? Or one whose bad mood you could feel from t...
28/10/2026

Ever had a boss who could walk into chaos and somehow settle the whole room? Or one whose bad mood you could feel from the carpark?

That’s capacity: how much our nervous system can hold before we snap, rush or shut down. And it’s catching!

This month’s blog explains why calm (and chaos) is contagious at work. It’s full of real examples, plus simple ways to build your capacity.

This is the work I do, and I love it! As a Capacity Coach I get to work one-on-one and with teams to help people get their energy back, learn to rest, and lead from a steadier place.

Grab a cuppa and have a read - https://tr.ee/calm-leadership-capacity

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, send me a message. I’d love to chat!

— Lou, Capacity Coach & The Team Approach

27/10/2026

Capacity, Not Capability: Matrescence and the Return to Work with Renee Barnes Becoming a parent can reshape your identity, values, relationships and what you need from work. Yet most workplaces have no language for it. In this episode of The EAP Counsellor, Lou Lugsdin talks with Renee Barnes, Peop...

Last week I asked where your energy battery sits, 0 to 10. Here’s what each end — and the middle — actually looks like: ...
25/10/2026

Last week I asked where your energy battery sits, 0 to 10.

Here’s what each end — and the middle — actually looks like: 🔋

🪫 0 — Flat.
No energy left, even for things you enjoy. Reptile mode: snapping, avoiding, going quiet, or saying yes to everything just to make it stop.

5 — Functioning, not thriving.
Getting through the list on autopilot. Running on caffeine and willpower, with no reserve if anything goes wrong today.

🔋 10 — Full. Clear-headed, patient, present.
Things that would normally tip you over barely register. This is Sage (the steady, regulated reptile) — same nervous system, just resourced.

Most people live at 3 to 5 and call it normal, because it’s been normal for so long they’ve forgotten what full feels like.

💾 Save this to check in against next time you’re not sure where you’re at.

Where’s your battery sitting today?

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23/10/2026

0 to 10 — where’s your energy battery sitting right now? 🔋

0 = completely flat, nothing left.
10 = full, vibrant, amazing.

This is the space I work in — helping people have more energy, more fun, more vibrancy, more motivation. Just more.

💬 Drop your number below.

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Do you want more energy?Or time?Or balance? Or fun? Or patience?That’s what nervous system work and capacity coaching gi...
22/10/2026

Do you want more energy?
Or time?
Or balance?
Or fun?
Or patience?

That’s what nervous system work and capacity coaching gives you.

That’s the work I do.

Let’s chat — book a discovery call today.
Comment “CAPACITY” and I’ll send it straight to you. 👇

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Mandatory visit to the ocean when back in Ocean Grove!!Beautiful 🤩 Refreshing 👌
22/10/2026

Mandatory visit to the ocean when back in Ocean Grove!!
Beautiful 🤩 Refreshing 👌

Running on empty doesn’t always look dramatic. 🪫Sometimes it just looks like:🪫 No energy — even for things you actually ...
20/10/2026

Running on empty doesn’t always look dramatic. 🪫

Sometimes it just looks like:
🪫 No energy — even for things you actually want to do
🪫 “I just can’t” becomes your default answer to everything
🪫 Waking up tired, like sleep didn’t do its job
🪫 3pm hits and you’ve got nothing left for anyone, including you
🪫 Overthinking the same decision for the tenth time
🪫 Snapping, then feeling terrible, then doing it again an hour later

None of that is weakness.
It’s your capacity tank sitting on empty, and your nervous system doing its best with nothing left in reserve.

This is the work I do — helping people recognise when they’re running on empty, and rebuild the capacity to stop living there.

Which one hit closest to home?

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