Life Coaching FAQs

Life coaching helps you identify what may be holding you back and supports you to move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and direction.

Coaching can help with overthinking, self-doubt, perfectionism, confidence, career decisions, boundaries, relationships, motivation, and feeling stuck.

If you feel disconnected, overwhelmed, unfulfilled, stuck in old patterns, or unsure what your next step is, coaching can help you gain clarity and momentum.

Many people come to coaching when they know something needs to change but aren’t sure where to start.

Every person’s journey is different, but clients often experience improved confidence, stronger boundaries, reduced overthinking, clearer goals, better communication, and greater self-belief.

Because the coaching process is highly practical and action-focused, clients often notice increased momentum, improved follow-through, reduced procrastination, and greater consistency in taking action toward the life or leadership goals they want.

Many people also report feeling calmer, more motivated, and more aligned with the life they truly want.

Yes. Accountability is one of the biggest reasons coaching creates lasting change. Many clients know what they want to do, but struggle with procrastination, overthinking, perfectionism, or self-doubt.

Coaching provides structure, support, encouragement, and practical accountability to help you follow through on the changes you want to make. Clients also receive personalised session summaries and action steps via email to help maintain focus and momentum between sessions.

Many clients come to coaching after trying therapy or counselling or self help books/courses to work through challenges on their own. Sometimes what’s missing is objective support, accountability, new strategies, and someone who can help you see your blind spots more clearly.

Coaching is fundamentally future-focused and action-oriented. While we may explore past patterns and limiting beliefs, coaching is designed to help you create practical change moving forward.

My coaching combines practical action-based strategies, emotional support, accountability, and honest conversation. Every session is designed to create meaningful forward movement — not just insight.

Clients also receive a personalised session summary via email with reflections, practical tools, and clear action steps to help maintain momentum between sessions.

I focus on helping people feel more authentic, confident, and empowered in both life and leadership.

That’s completely okay. Many people begin coaching feeling confused or disconnected. Clarity often develops through the coaching process itself.

The free 30 minute introductory session can often help initially clarify some directions to explore during further coaching.

Yes. Coaching can help people rebuild confidence, reconnect with themselves, process change, and create a clearer vision for the future.

As a divorcee myself, I've lived through this challenge, and solo parenting whilst running/growing a business.

Yes. Career coaching can support you to identify what you truly want, build confidence, explore possibilities, and create a practical action plan.

Yes. A large part of my coaching work focuses on helping people build self-belief, quiet their inner critic, and develop the courage to show up more authentically in life and work.

Yes. I work in-person if you are Wellington NZ based. And online across New Zealand and internationally delivering both coaching and workshops.

Yes. Overthinking is one of the most common challenges clients bring to coaching. Together we work on identifying thought patterns, reducing self-doubt, building self-trust, and creating practical strategies to move into action.

Absolutely. Many people struggle with perfectionism, procrastination, people-pleasing, and unrealistic expectations of themselves.

Often perfectionism keeps people stuck in overthinking, avoidance, or fear of getting things wrong. Coaching helps break those patterns by combining mindset work with practical action-based strategies, accountability, and manageable steps that build confidence and momentum over time.

The goal is progress, not perfection.

Coaching can help you better understand your triggers, thought patterns, behaviours, and coping strategies while building confidence and emotional resilience.

Coaching is not a replacement for clinical mental health treatment, but it can complement personal growth and wellbeing support.

Yes. Many clients seek support around speaking up, leadership confidence, career progression, visibility, and believing in themselves professionally.

Often, self-doubt is driven by long-standing beliefs, conditioning, comparison, fear of failure, or fear of judgment.

Coaching helps people challenge these patterns and reconnect with their strengths. Learning how to reassure and negotiate with our inner critic can be life changing.

Leadership coaching is for managers, business owners, executives, emerging leaders, and professionals who want to improve communication, confidence, emotional intelligence, leadership presence, or team performance.

Absolutely. Many capable leaders struggle with self-doubt, fear of failure, or feeling like they’re not good enough. Coaching helps uncover the beliefs driving those patterns and develops strategies to lead with greater confidence and authenticity.

Leadership coaching can include emotional intelligence, communication, confidence, difficult conversations, resilience, team engagement, conflict management, decision-making, visibility, boundaries, burnout prevention, and leadership presence.

Yes. Coaching can help new leaders develop confidence, communication skills, leadership strategies, and a stronger sense of identity in their role. Building a personal brand and presence.

Better leadership often creates better communication, stronger trust, healthier workplace culture, improved morale, and more engaged teams.

Yes. I work with leaders, teams, and organisations to improve communication, engagement, emotional intelligence, leadership capability, and workplace culture.

Yes. Facilitation can help teams navigate conflict, communication challenges, disengagement, or workplace tension in a constructive and respectful way.

Yes. Leadership development workshops can be tailored around communication, emotional intelligence, confidence, team dynamics, resilience, and leadership growth.

I work with individuals and organisations across a variety of industries including corporate, education, health, community, and professional services.

Coaching can support wellbeing by helping individuals manage stress, improve confidence, strengthen communication, and develop healthier ways of working.

I facilitate workshops focused on leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, confidence, team engagement, teambuilding, resilience, workplace culture, and personal development.

Yes. Every workshop is tailored to the needs, goals, and challenges of the organisation or team.

Yes. Workshops can be delivered both online and in person depending on your team’s location and needs.

Teams often leave with improved communication, greater trust, stronger engagement, clearer action plans, and practical strategies they can immediately apply.

Yes. Workshops create a safe space for honest conversations, improved understanding, and collaborative problem solving.

We begin by exploring your goals, challenges, and what you would like support with. Together we identify priorities and create a plan that feels achievable and aligned for you.

Sessions are typically 45 or 60 minutes depending on your needs and coaching package.

This depends on your goals and current challenges. Some people benefit from a few sessions for clarity and momentum, while others prefer ongoing support and accountability.

My most popular package is a 5 session block, which can be used weekly, fortnightly or monthly.

Yes. I offer a free introductory 30 minute chat so we can explore whether what I offer feels like the right fit for you. Use this link to book an available slot in my diary. 

Yes. Confidentiality is an important part of creating a safe and supportive coaching environment.

• Session prices start from $175 for a 45 minute session with agreed actions
• A 60 minute session with an emailed action and accountability plan starts from $205.
• 5 session blocks are paid in full but save between $50 and $100 on single session prices.
• Corporate rates start at $255 an hour for entry level leadership coaching.

Workshops are always customised and priced depending on the preparation time and delivery method. Travel and general expenses and accommodation are charged separately.

Yes. Flexible payment options may be available depending on the coaching package.

Yes. I work in-person if you are Wellington NZ based. And online across New Zealand and internationally delivering both coaching and workshops.