1-1 Coaching for Major Life Events & Transitions

For people navigating illness, bereavement, caring, relationship change, midlife reinvention, retirement, or unexpected events.

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 identity. A sense that the life you’ve built no longer fits.
Or simply the quiet realisation that something needs to change.

1-1 coaching gives you a space where you don’t have to be strong, sorted, or certain.
A space where you can turn up exactly as you are.

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 what’s happening
• find language for things that feel hard to articulate
• reconnect 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

This is coaching for the moments that change you

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.

How We Work Together

Sessions are online or in person.
You bring whatever is happening.
I bring more than two decades of coaching experience.

Together, we explore:

• what’s shifting
• what matters now
• what you want to have happen
• what needs to be true for that to become possible

You set the pace.
You choose the focus.

What Would You Like to Have Happen?

If you’re sensing a shift — or simply feeling the quiet pull of change — let’s talk.

Book a 30‑minute conversation
A calm, no‑pressure space 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.

Typically, early sessions are in quick succession (weekly or fortnightly), we decide at the end of each session. After that, regular check-in sessions, 4-5 times a year.

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 if practical.

You can ask any questions, we decide if we would like to work together.

The Details:

We can meet online or in person – or a combination – some sessions online, some in person – depending on circumstances

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.