EXISTENTIAL coaching
Reflect | Decide | Act
Existential coaching is a space to reflect, reset and move forward – with purpose and without pretence. We'll translate reflection into decisive action so you can navigate uncertainty, make values-led choices and build commitments that last.
It's not about quick fixes or generic advice. It's about asking better questions, challenging assumptions and aligning how you live with what actually matters to you.
What is Existential Coaching?
Existential coaching is a philosophical and practical approach to personal development – suited to people who feel in some way restricted and want help to break out from that, and who are open to looking at themselves differently in order to do it.
It helps you with:
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Direction – sharpen what you’re moving towards and why it matters
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Decisions – criteria to choose with confidence when facing ambiguity
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Delivery – values-aligned plan of sustainable commitments
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Development – grow an authentic identity that matches your intentions
I believe facilitating change through coaching is most successful when we don't shy away from the deeper questions. My clients become more aware of their thoughts and actions, and the impact these have on their situation and available choices. We’ll explore what’s holding you back, what you need to move toward, and how to create the conditions for lasting change – not just surface-level tweaks.
Who is it for?
Anyone ready to take responsibility for making changes in their personal or professional lives. Those who are reflective, open to challenge and willing to sit with difficult questions tend to get the most from it.
You might be:
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At a crossroads – in your career, relationships, or sense of self
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Early in your career and not getting the development, direction or management you need
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Feeling stuck despite outward success
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Questioning what's next – after a promotion, a pivot, or a shift you didn't quite choose
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Wanting to reconnect with your values, energy or sense of purpose
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Good at solving other people's problems but stuck on your own
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Ready to act – but not sure where to start, or what's really holding you back
My clients are typically thoughtful, driven and hard on themselves. They don't need fixing – they need space to think, feel and act with intention.
Many come from fast-paced professional environments – creative, tech, healthcare and brand marketing – where I can draw on my own experience of those worlds and what they ask of people, at every stage of a career.
Some are navigating the quarter-life questioning – about direction, identity and what success actually means – before it becomes something heavier. Others are in the middle of a mid-life wobble, reassessing choices they made when the future felt more certain. For both, coaching at the right moment is a useful and often timely investment in longer-term well-being.
The Questions That Matter
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Goals: What do you want, why does it matter, how can you achieve it?
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Values: What’s meaningful and motivating to you? What’s not?
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Perspective: What assumptions are shaping your choices?
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Responsibility: How can own your choices and the outcomes?
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Obstacles: What’s really holding you back?
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Paradox: How do you manage trade-offs and uncertainty?
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Authenticity: Who are you? Who do you want to be?
We’ll work with the real tensions of life – not just the polished parts.
The biggest breakthroughs can come from the questions you’ve been avoiding.
How is coaching different from psychotherapy?
Coaching and therapy draw on some of the same territory – values, identity, what matters and why. But they have different centres of gravity.
Therapy tends to focus more on internal states and private struggles – what's happening underneath, where it comes from, and what it means. Coaching tends to focus more on external situations and decisions – where you want to get to, what's in the way, and how to move.
In practice, coaching tends to be:
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Shorter-term: Oriented toward specific action
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Goal-led: We’ll co-create what success looks like for you
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Structured: With accountability and momentum between sessions
For many people, coaching is part of staying mentally well and avoiding the need for therapy later on. It can be particularly useful for those who feel broadly in a good place but want support making specific changes. Sessions are typically every two to three weeks, with space to act and reflect between them.
If deeper work emerges, we'll discuss together whether psychotherapy combined with some coaching might be a better fit.
READY TO BEGIN?
Sessions last 50 minutes via MS Teams video calls.
I offer a free, 20-minute introductory call to help clarify your goals and how we might work together. No obligation – use it to decide whether this feels right.
Full details of current fees and how to book here.