What Is The Breakthrough Process?

Developed by experts in psychotherapy, leadership and coaching, The Breakthrough Process combines three powerful elements to help you experience rapid breakthrough on your challenge.

How real clarity happens

Most approaches to change focus on thinking differently or doing differently.

The Breakthrough Process starts somewhere else.

It recognises that real change only happens when you understand what has been getting in the way — not just intellectually, but at the emotional and psychological level where real obstacles live.

The work is designed to help you see clearly what you have been circling, understand why progress has been difficult, and decide how to move forward.

The Breakthrough Process brings together three elements. Individually, each is useful. Together, they create the conditions for genuine change:

  • Expert Facilitation

    You work with facilitators who know how to listen — not to fix or advise, but to help you see clearly. They ask the questions that matter, notice what is not being said, and create the safety required for honest conversation.

  • Creative Exploration

    You do not just talk about your challenge. You work with it. Through reflection, creative exercises, time in nature and dialogue, you see your situation from angles you have not yet considered. Assumptions surface. Patterns become visible.

  • Group Work

    Breakthrough rarely happens alone. Working alongside others who are engaging honestly with their own challenges creates perspective, recognition, and permission to see differently.

Together, these elements allow something to shift.

You move from confusion to clarity.
From circling to decision.
From stuck to direction.

Each Breakthrough Process is an unforgettable adventure, with one common path:

  • Arrive with a challenge
  • Experience breakthrough
  • Leave with a plan

Our Story

The Breakthrough Process was created in 2018 by Dr Tom Cotton, a psychotherapist and executive coach.

Through years of work with individuals, leaders, and organisations, he recognised a gap. People needed something that went beyond therapy or coaching alone — a process that combined psychological depth with practical clarity and decision-making.

Over time, the approach has evolved and deepened. We have brought together a team of experienced facilitators across psychology, leadership, and strategy. We have worked with hundreds of individuals facing significant life decisions, leadership teams navigating change, and founders building businesses that matter.

Meet the team