About Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt Advisory grew out of a long-standing interest in how people understand themselves, rebuild self-trust and navigate periods of uncertainty, emotional pressure and life transition.

My work brings together several strands of experience: international diplomacy, public policy, mental health and wellbeing coaching, trauma-informed policy work, writing, and many years of personal reflection on emotional resilience and psychological growth.

Earlier in my career, I worked in international diplomacy and conflict prevention, including in the political department of an international diplomatic organisation dealing with armed conflict and post-conflict crisis management. That work involved careful listening, judgement, discretion, analysis and the ability to help people think clearly in complex situations.

Over time, my interest increasingly turned toward the inner lives of people: how capable adults can appear outwardly functional while privately carrying self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, uncertainty, over-responsibility or a persistent sense that something is not quite right.

I trained in mental health and wellbeing coaching and became involved in trauma-informed policy work, including as a member of the Welsh Government’s Steering Group developing the national Trauma-Informed Wales Framework. I am also a long-standing contributor to Wales’ Traumatic Stress Public Advisory Group, which helps ensure that clinical developments and policy frameworks are shaped by public perspectives.

Alongside this work, under the pseudonym Luke Pemberton, I have written five illustrated books exploring emotional wellbeing, self-worth, identity, shame, recovery and psychological growth. These books reflect a long personal and intellectual engagement with the question of how people move from emotional confusion, self-doubt and inherited patterns toward greater clarity, self-respect and psychological freedom.

My advisory work is not psychotherapy, counselling or crisis support. It is psychologically informed coaching and advisory work for thoughtful adults who want to understand themselves more clearly and make grounded decisions about their lives.

I hold an Advanced Diploma in Mental Health and Wellbeing Coaching, a joint British/French Master’s degree in European Public Policy, a degree in Business Studies, and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence concepts and applications from the University of Oxford.

I am based in Dublin, Ireland, and work with clients online and in-person.