what people say about working with us
Below you’ll find a selection of testimonials, photographs and videos gathered from vision quests, nature retreats,
mentoring and courses over the last twenty years.
Testimonials specifically relating to working One 2 One with me:
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
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
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
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
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