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.