If you are considering coaching, you might be asking yourself: “What actually happens in a coaching session?”,  “Will the coach tell me what to do?”,  “Is this like therapy?”,  “And what if I don’t even know what I want?” 

If these questions sound familiar, you are not alone. Many people come to coaching during periods of change, when they feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves. In these moments, we often try to find answers outside of ourselves: the right decision, the perfect plan, the safest next step. 

But most of the time, the real challenge is not a lack of answers. It is the noise. Stress, overthinking, pressure, burnout, and constant mental overload can disconnect us from our inner clarity. Coaching creates the space to reconnect with that clarity. Not to give you answers but to help you hear your own. 

What Coaching is NOT 

Let’s address the elephant in the room. Coaching today is often misunderstood. You may have seen versions of coaching that promise fast transformations, life-changing breakthroughs in a few sessions, or advice for every area of your life. I understand the skepticism and in many cases, I share it. 

For me, coaching is NOT: 

• Telling you what to do
• Giving advice or ready-made solutions
• Motivational talk or “positive thinking”
• Fixing your life for you
• Therapy or clinical treatment. Therapy often focuses on healing past trauma and psychological patterns.

Coaching, as defined by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), focuses on the present and the future. helping you build awareness, clarity, and aligned action based on your own values and direction. 

You are the expert of your life. My role is not to define your path for you but to help you see it more clearly for yourself. 

What Happens in a Coaching Session?

My work focuses on people navigating life transitions, burnout, stress, and periods of deep internal change. 

During sessions, I combine ICF-based coaching tools with somatic and nervous system regulation practices. Why? Because most blocks are not only mental. They are also physical. They live in the body. In tension, fatigue, overwhelm, and nervous system dysregulation that makes clarity feel inaccessible. When the body is in survival mode, even simple decisions can feel impossible. 

That’s why, depending on your needs, a session may include: 

• Coaching questions for clarity and direction
• Breathwork techniques for nervous system regulation
• Somatic awareness practices to reconnect with the body
• Release exercises to discharge stored tension
• Exploration of limiting beliefs and inner narratives
• Practical action steps aligned with your real life 

This is not a session where I talk and you listen. In fact, most of the time, you will be the one speaking. My role is to guide the process, ask the right questions, and create the space for your own clarity to emerge. It is a deeply experiential process that connects mind, body, and action. 

When Can Coaching Help You?

Life transition coaching can be especially supportive if you are: 

• Navigating a career or life transition
• Feeling burnout or chronic stress
• Experiencing a loss of direction or purpose
• Thinking about change but feeling stuck or afraid to act
• Disconnected from yourself or your motivation
• Knowing something needs to change but not knowing what! 

Most of the time, we do not need more information. We need space to hear what we already know.