About Us

Welcome to The Greenhouse!

A space to nurture resilience, restore calm, and grow capacity when life and work demand more than ever.

We work with people in high-pressure environments. From individuals carrying heavy responsibilities to teams navigating constant demands, we help them tend what’s already there. The focus isn’t on doing more or adding tasks, but on creating space to steady, reset, and grow.

A different approach to wellbeing
Our work supports psychological resilience through practical, evidence-based strategies that fit real life. In high-pressure contexts, small, intentional habits, not extra tasks, make the biggest difference.

Grounded in health psychology and delivered through skilled facilitation, the approach is:

  • Evidence-based and practical

  • Designed for high-pressure environments

  • Focused on removing friction, not adding load

Thoughtful facilitation, real-world impact
Whether supporting individuals, teams, or organisations, we work by facilitating conditions for resilience through creating space for people to settle, restore perspective, and allow sustainable habits to take root.

Think of it as cultivation rather than correction… tending what’s already there so it can thrive.

Meet
Laura McAlpine

Director of The Greenhouse
With nearly two decades working in clinical health psychology, I’ve specialised in chronic pain and injury rehabilitation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to create practical, person-centered solutions. As Director of The Greenhouse, I work with individuals, teams, and organisations to build resilience, restore calm, and cultivate sustainable habits under pressure.

My work spans supporting mums through a six-week group course, business leaders and entrepreneurs through a nine-week leadership course, and teams across civil defense engineering consultancies and financial services. Across every setting, my approach is grounded in facilitation, evidence-based practice, and small, intentional strategies that fit real life.

I’m a mum and with a husband regularly travelling internationally for work, I understand the realities of life mean that balancing our own wellbeing with competing priorities can be tough.

Ready to steady, reset and grow under pressure?

Work with The Greenhouse

  • Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

    Viktor Frankl

  • We succeed and thrive best when we work together and support each other. When we struggle alone, that’s when the struggle can seem impossible.

    Vivek Murthy

  • I know that point of balance, I swing past it all the time.

    Jane Pujji