About Vanessa
I provide bespoke wellness programmes for organisations, host women’s nature retreats, and offer 1:1 coaching, blending mind-body practices with urban nature. Grounded in current research, my approach helps clients build resilience, manage stress and achieve balance.
As the founder of ParkBathe, a peer-led forest bathing initiative in southeast London, I champion accessible well-being while tackling health inequalities.
Previously a TV producer, a sudden illness in 2012 left me blind and paralysed, sparking a decade of research, scientic collaborations, a TEDx talk, two books and a science-art EEG exhibition.
1:1 coaching for 2% tweaks
Make small, realistic shifts for lasting change. Using proven techniques, cognitive reframing, and my recovery blueprint, I’ll create a bespoke well-being plan to bring more balance, meaning, joy, and connection into your life
1:1 coaching for women, helping you make small, impactful 2% shifts that are realistic, measurable and effective
Using simple, tried-and-tested practices and cognitive reframing, I’ll provide a bespoke wellbeing programme including personalised tracks.
Small 2% shifts help you form a foundation for better balance, greater meaning, more joy and deeper connection in your life.
"Let's talk about how small shifts can make a world of difference."
Online courses
Book me to speak at your event
I’ve delivered keynotes in the U.S. and U.K., including a TEDx talk, and spoken as a guest expert at numerous events. With an engaging, accessible style, I tailor talks on resilience, well-being, nature connection, and disability to inspire audiences of all ages
Book me to speak at your event
"Let's talk about how small shifts can make a world of difference."
Finding My Right Mind
Do you wonder if mindfulness might lower stress or if hypnosis might cure your insomnia? Knowing where to start is often the biggest barrier to helping yourself. Finding My Right Mind narrates the 3 years and 900 hours I spent practising 12 different ways to train my mind (all while wearing an EEG headset that recorded my brain activity) as part of a meditation experiment with neuroscientists.
Could the right mind-training technique help me shout less, sleep better, and connect more? Find out what I discovered about myself and which technique might work for you.
Patient H9: The Story of my Second Sight
In 2012, Vanessa Potter was rendered blind and paralysed overnight following a rare neurological illness. During her year-long recovery and determined to understand the mechanics of her brain, Vanessa reinvented herself as Patient H69 and worked with vision scientists to investigate the science of her lost sight.
When together they discovered previously undiscovered insights about the way in which we see, it opened up the doors to a whole new adventure.
