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About Me

I became a coach because I understand, from the inside, what it means to keep going when life asks more than feels possible — and how much difference it makes to have the right support and a structured space that is entirely your own.

 

I have been the person whose health was sending signals they didn't have time to hear. Who was loving a parent through decline from another country. Who was raising children across cultures and languages, trying to give them roots and wings in equal measure. Who had built a career that looked impressive from the outside and was held together, on the inside, by a long list of shoulds. Who was starting over, again, in an unfamiliar place — rebuilding a sense of home and self from the ground up. Those experiences are not separate from my coaching. They are the reason I can sit with you in the middle of it and not flinch. 

 

Two decades inside organisations — with formal grounding in people management — taught me a great deal about how change feels from the inside, how pressure accumulates, and how rarely the professional and the personal can be neatly separated. 

 

What I offer is a coaching relationship built around the whole of who you are — warm, rigorous, and deeply human. Because the people who find their way here are often the ones who have been last on their own list for far too long. And that is exactly where we begin.

My Approach

Coaching with me is structured, but never rigid. We follow what is most alive and most necessary for you — not a predetermined agenda.


I bring my full presence to all that there is — not only what feels heavy, but what is already alive and capable in you. Compassion isn’t a soft extra in this work — it’s the foundation everything else is built on.


The work is evidence-informed and psychologically grounded, but it never feels clinical. You will be heard, gently challenged where it helps, and supported in finding your own clarity — not handed mine.


Every session is a calm, focused space that belongs entirely to you.

“Maria is a thoughtful and considerate coach... wouldn’t hesitate to recommend!”

- Emily W. (UK)

“Coaching with you today helped me to significantly overcome my nervousness and other problems.”

- Michael L. (USA)