1-1 Coaching for Major Life Events & Transitions

For professionals in midlife and beyond, who are navigating illness, bereavement, caring, relationship change, midlife reinvention, retirement, or unexpected events.

Coaching can be arranged privately, or through your organisation.

There are moments in life when everything feels different — even if you can’t quite explain why.

A diagnosis. A loss. Caring for someone. A relationship ending. A shift in role. A sense that the life you’ve built no longer fits.

The quiet realisation that something needs to change.

1-1 coaching gives you a space where you can turn up as you are, without the armour of everyday life or the need to protect anyone else.

When You’re Navigating a Major Life Event

People come to this work when they are living through:

• illness or health changes
• bereavement or anticipatory grief
• caring responsibilities
• relationship breakdown
• midlife reinvention
• the emotional shift into retirement
• unexpected events that reshape your sense of self

You may be carrying a lot.
You may be holding things together for others.
You may be asking quietly: Who am I now? What matters now? What needs to happen next.

You don’t have to figure it out alone.

What This Coaching Helps You Do

• make sense of, or accept, what’s happening
• find language for things that feel hard to articulate
• connect with your inner steadiness
• understand what you want now
• navigate uncertainty with more clarity
• feel less alone with what you’re carrying
• create a future that feels aligned and meaningful

What Sessions Feel Like

Clients often say:

• “I can breathe again.”
• “I didn’t realise how much I was carrying.”
• “I feel steadier.”
• “I can see myself more clearly.”
• “I know what matters now.”

The work is gentle and powerful.
Calm, spacious, and grounding.
A place where you are seen and heard.

A calm, no‑pressure chat to explore what you need and whether this work is right for you.

Please note: This is COACHING, NOT THERAPY. Coaching focuses on now and the future. Therapy is used to heal the past.

What you can expect

A space where you can breathe, where status is irrelevant, where the noise and clutter of everyday life melt away.

When you have regular sessions and a meaningful relationship with your coach:

Before we begin:

We meet for a friendly chat – online or in person.

You can ask any questions. This is particularly important when your organisation has suggested we work together – it’s your decision.

We have a number of packages, from a simple series of sessions (where most people start), to the Deluxe Package – a year of extended support.

We can discuss what would work best for you, this can be adapted over time.

The Details:

We can meet online or in person – or a combination

Before our first session, you will be asked to complete an intake questionnaire

We begin each session by taking a few minutes to fully arrive in the space and become present to the process

We will establish what you would like to have happen in the session, your desired outcome.

During the session you will be asked clean questions, enabling you to create a metaphorical model of what you want – you can be as creative as you like, being in a metaphor landscape is like being in a dream, anything can happen.

As you build the metaphor landscape, you will gain access to new information about yourself, allowing you to understand more about the changes needed to achieve what you want and for the change to be sustainable.

Changes you make in your metaphor model generally lead to changes in real life, this is one of the things that makes the process feel so simple and aligned.

In-person sessions

If you are new to coaching:

Coaching is different to a chat with a friend, although it can look very similar. It is time for you – so there is no back and forth, taking turns as you would with a friend. This can feel strange at first, most people settle in very quickly and enjoy the chance to take a breath, to notice what is important – which can sometimes be surprising.