W E L C O M E

Most of us long for real connection.
To find balance & resilience in the face of change & uncertainty.
To connect with a deeper sense of our own authenticity,
& to share our authenticity with others.

My coaching practice integrates different modalities, described below. However, underpinning everything I offer through coaching and mentoring is an attitude of ’radical inclusivity’ and the body as a doorway.

This comes from the understanding that accepting yourself just as you are whilst being in touch with the felt sense is the first base for any kind of change process.

Through somatically tracking our own body sensations with compassionate inquiry I support you to recognise and come into relationship with unconscious dynamics that ‘run your life’ or create ‘sticking points’ and show you how to liberate yourself from them.

This inquiry includes, “holding and experiencing in consciousness seemingly paradoxical aspects and linking them together.“ Dan Siegel, Embodiment Conference 2020


 

About My Practice

Do reach out if you’d like to explore working with me further. I work 1-2-1 one in person in my office, out in nature and via the web. I also offer personal development nature retreats, online webinar courses and vision quests.

My offer is to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with you, champion, challenge, and support you in the serious commitment to you own individuation, healing and transformation.

Whiles this work can be healing, liberating and empowering, it can also prove challenging to the identities and fantasies we have gathered along the way. It requires the investment of time and money but more importantly it requires your commitment and energy.

All coaching begins with a complimentary 20 minute session. From there, if we both feel we are a good match, you can book future sessions on a pay-as-you go basis or book a block of sessions at a discounted rate.

 
 
 
 

Testimonials

“Since Natasha become my personal coach I also attended her nature retreat in 2020 which was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I whole heartedly recommend her to anyone seeking truth.”

- Gesina Dybdahl-Ovesen - Director at GDO Synergy Ltd

 

“I had the pleasure to be guided through my vision quest by Natasha and coached thereafter. My highest recommendations go to Natasha as a vision quest leader and a coach. A wise woman at home in the wilds.”

- Christoph Jünger - Executive Director Austrian Committee for UNICEF

 
  • Natasha is an exceptional coach and facilitator and I’d highly recommend her services to both individuals and corporates. She models leadership that is both honest and kind, authentic and empowering of others. She offers much needed skills and experiences in outdoor experiences of nature that encourage people to live sustainably. Natasha is superb!

    - Alex Lenoel - Executive Search and Talent Management

    After my first mentoring session with Natasha I already felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders and enthusiasm flood back into life. Natasha used therapeutic exercises and mindful approaches from her vast toolbox of professional and personal experience and combined them with active listening, connection with internal and external natures and a kind curious heart. I felt challenged and nurtured in equal measure and able to sit with grief in a way I haven’t be able to before.

    - Anon

    A friend recommended Natasha to me when I was in a very dark place. After a couple of months of working with Natasha I was already free of anxiety attacks which used to exhaust me and keep me up at night. She taught me a variety of techniques that really helped with all the turmoil I was experiencing and I still use these when I encounter difficult feelings. We've gone deeper than where I've been with other therapists. Her style is definitely what I needed. She is authentic, compassionate and knows what she is talking about. If you're ready to do some inner work then you need to go and see Natasha.


    - K F

    “I owe you a new life.”


    - Anon

    Natasha is a wonderful coach. She is empathetic, very structured and professional. I had been fascinated with coaching for a while and my curiosity led me to speak with a few coaches and try different techniques. I "discovered" Natasha as a co-participant at an experimental group coaching session and was immediately drawn to her. She explains abstract matters in a structured and easily accessible way. Since Natasha has become my personal coach and I also attended her nature retreat in 2020 which was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I whole heartedly recommend her to anyone seeking truth.

    - Gesina Dybdahl-Ovesen - Director at GDO Synergy Ltd

    I sought Natasha out to help me forge a new path in life that was better aligned with my true self, more sustainable and purposeful. Natasha immediately put me at ease. I felt safe and held throughout our time together. She guided and empowered me to find my own way forwards. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this work, delivered with open-hearted warmth. She has had a profound effect on my life. I cannot recommend Natasha and her work highly enough. She's a wonderful mentor and guide.

    - Leesa Whisker - Online Image Consultancy

    We live our lives and things come up. And we have choices: ignore, repress, become victims - or assimilate and digest. Through Natasha’s skilful coaching, I’ve found ways to develop a positive responsibility for what emerges from inside: by turns, fascinating, revealing - and ultimately real.

    — Will Cottrell - Chairman Brighton Energy Co-op

    Natasha’s sessions are unique and transformative; we meet outdoors and walk our way to understanding. Experience is embodied and physically felt rather than just talked through and it feels luminous and unfamiliar to feel this lit up and motivated. I immediately experienced a sense of belonging and enlivenment, walking in a beautiful, natural landscape with someone who clearly feels at one with the wild world. It means so much to have this space in which to share experience and Natasha’s lively, perceptive support has helped to clear a way through paths that had grown tangled and difficult to navigate. She is an ally in the wildwood.

    - Ruth Lawrence - Artist

    My regular sessions with Natasha are a space to be true to myself. It’s not always obvious how to be honest to what’s going on inside, but Natasha has an intuitive sense of where to lead, and a watchful compassion as to when things are too fast, or too charged.

    - Anon

    Natasha brings a light touch and embodied wisdom to the serious work of transformation.

    - Sidonie East - International Development Student

    This was a re-discovery of myself and of my primary urges. What unfolded for the duration was a deep acceptance and embrace of who I want to be and what keeps the fire inside of me alive. Many friends found me changed but could not say exactly how, except for noticing a different light or radiance in me.If I look back over the last year I cannot believe how much I’ve accomplished of what I’d always dreamed but I’d always put aside. Natasha has a gentle yet powerful way of working with a person - I cannot recommend working her highly enough.

    - Giulia Menichelli - Playwriter

    Natasha showed me how to acknowledge and turn towards the feelings of ‘the young one within me’ with warmth, encouragement and presence. I learnt to be present and build relationship with my neglected self. With Natasha’s guidance my most intimate relationships are flourishing.

    - Anon

    Doing this weekly work has become an anchor in a mentalised world where emotions are blown around like chaff in the wind. Natasha’s creative sense of inquiry and supported delving are a very human, and perhaps ancient, antidote to a fascination with being up-in-the-head.

    - Anon

    We walked, as sun dropped west and the land grew cold; we talked of elements, of stags, of men and the wildwood, of time alone with the trees. We saw a cloud of corvids flying into bitter citrus light, twelve dozen slate grey shadows calling up the evening. We devoured them as though they were the last birds on earth.I cannot name the thing I love. It flutters on wings of red and black, it shuffles, pad footed among fallen leaves, it calls, full throated across the frosted field. It has a million voices and as many forms. It holds beauty in its wild song and autumn in its fur. A small sun rests in its eye and lights its summit. I breathe it in and out come words, and, gathered in the spaces in between, is love. Natasha’s mentoring sessions are unique and transformative. She is an ally in the wildwood.

    - Ruth Lawrence - Artist

 

A brief overview of the modalities I draw upon

Embodiment

My coaching practice centres around working with and through the body - exploring the intersection between coaching and body psychotherapy.

Embodiment understands the importance of being present to our feeling and sensing body in balance with the mind, not in opposition to it. This matters because no true growth or healing is possible without it. It is the only way we can be fully present, and presence brings choice. 

We can’t think our way to healing or change. Our culture is dominated by the importance of mind. Mind disconnected from the body is essentially limited and will only take us so far. The body is a doorway.

Focusing & Mindfulness

Focusing is a mindful and compassionate process that is relational and embodied. Relational means that it is practiced with a partner.

Focusing enables us to create space to come into a different relationship with ‘parts’ and move towards greater integration.

Through mindfulness we open to a quality of being that is grounded and spacious. When we connect with this state we discover we have choices in how to respond to what life brings our way.

Nature Connection

We sorely need to rediscover the sense that to be human is to be part of nature. 

My work offers a way to connect with the resources that nature offers for the human mind and body - reconnecting with our place in nature and connecting with a direct experience of our inter-relatedness with all life. 

I offer this for you personally, for those wanting to become proactive around caring for the environment and for professionals who need guidance on how they might integrate Nature Connection into their own coaching practices or other professional spheres. 

Generative Change Coaching

Generative Coaching approaches teach you how to build the generative states needed to make meaningful change. The core intention of this work is relationship or connection. 

We open to a state that enables connections to occur between seemingly contradictory states (usually locked in the body/mind). In practice this means opening to multiple types of intelligence at the same time - verbal and visual, individual and collective, somatic and intellectual. This ‘trance state’ releases mind/body locks that keep us stuck in unhelpful habitual patterns.

We then focus on how to maintain these states through practices so that you can deal with whatever challenges arise on this journey called life.

At moments of identity shifts we can draw
on the wisdom of Victor Frankl and ask:

What is life calling from me?

Individually and collectively we are entering a time of deep adaptation.
It’s my deep privilege to be able to support others through personal and collective change.

To be authentic means to be true to oneself.

It is a very, very dangerous phenomenon, rare people can do that. But whenever people do it, they achieve such beauty, such grace, such contentment that you cannot imagine…

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

How I like to work with clients

  • Trauma Informed Somatic Therapy

    My approach to somatic therapy draws on my background in Gendlin’s Focusing method, Levine’s Somatic Experiencing and Broughton’s IoPT (Identity-orientated Psychotrauma Therapy).

    The main focus is to support clients in developing their capacities for healing, integration, self-regulation & resilience.

  • Embodiment Coaching

    Somatically tracking our own body sensations or ‘felt-sense’ enables the nervous system to show us trapped survival energy felt in the body and its release.

    This body-aware approach enables you to connect with your deeper authentic voice and navigate the world from a place of centredness (your inner compass). This ultimately shows you how to be at home within yourself with natural confidence.

  • Integrative Approaches

    If you don't welcome yourself at your front door no amount of deadbolts will keep the back door secure.

    Sooner or later we will be ‘invited’ to accept, and bring curiosity to those places inside of ourselves that we reject and suppress. When we learn the to skilfully respect and offer presence to all of ourselves this becomes the craft of self-love. This is not some rose-tinted sentimental ideal, this is necessary to become a mature human presence.

When you speak from the heart,
when you speak as one
who has been touched by life,
you speak not only
to the face I show to the world
and the self I wish to be,
but to the rebels and outcasts in me;
to the tender longing
and the quiet yearning
that has yet to be expressed;
to the love of what is unfinished,
what is still forming,
and what is forever left behind.

- Nick Leforce