Darshana Qureshi

Founder, Teacher Restore

ICF AccreditedIAPC&M AccreditedPatient Satisfaction Award 2025Wellbeing Coach of the Year 2025 Finalist

The founder story

Why Teacher Restore exists

Teacher Restore was created by Darshana Qureshi. Darshana is an educator, an ICF accredited Life Coach, and a wellbeing practitioner with over fifteen years of experience across the state and private sectors. She is a winner of the 2025 Patient Satisfaction Award from Business Awards UK and a finalist for Wellbeing Coach of the Year at The National Coaching Awards 2025.

But the thing that shapes everything she does is lived experience.

In 2016, while working in schools, Darshana experienced burnout that led to her leaving teaching, a career she loved. There was no structured support available to help her before she reached that point. That experience was transformative and revealed a critical gap in how schools support their teaching staff.

After retraining as a coach and spending years working with clients and teachers experiencing stress and burnout, Darshana saw the same patterns and the same gaps over and over again. She decided to build the solution she wished had existed when she needed it.

Teacher Restore is the result of that decision.

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Team Experts

Our Team of Experts

Teacher Restore works with a growing team of specialists, coaches and practitioners who share the mission to keep teachers well, happy and in the profession.

Cheri McMahon

Speaker and Leadership Communication Coach

Cheri McMahon is a speaker, leadership communication coach, and qualified mediator who helps women in leadership and business communicate with confidence when the stakes feel high. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience leading teams, negotiating complex commercial relationships, and mediating difficult situations, she helps people navigate the conversations they often avoid; whether that's giving feedback, setting boundaries, managing conflict, or speaking up when it matters most. Because the right words, spoken with confidence, can change everything.

Nikhita Chadda

Movement and Yoga

Nikhita Chadda is a graduate of Rishikesh Yogpeeth School in India. She has produced the content for the Movement section in Teacher Restore. Having also graduated in Interior Design, she has used her knowledge on holistic design to create the perfect balance of exercise and aesthetic in the videos. She firmly believes that Yoga is not just about movement, it is a way of living. There is no correct way to practice, flow with yourself.

Rhu Strand

Functional Wellness Practitioner

Rhu Strand is a Functional Wellness Practitioner. She is a Level 5 Functional Wellness Practitioner and Functional Kinesiology Therapist, using a holistic, whole-body approach to help clients move out of chronic stress and reconnect with steady, sustainable energy. She specialises in root-cause nutrition and lifestyle strategies that support the body's natural ability to find balance.