You are not stuck.
You are unfolding.

Coaching for women in midlife who feel the quiet nudge that something in their life, their work, their identity or their inner world needs to shift.

This is your invitation to pause, reconnect and remember who you are becoming. 

I’m Karen, a certified life coach supporting women navigating the emotional, personal, and professional transitions of midlife — when the old ways of doing, being, and coping start to feel like they no longer fit.

I’m from Ireland, I’ve been living in the Netherlands for 25 years. As someone raising a family abroad, I understand the complexities of weaving your own culture into another, the quiet negotiations and the subtle identity shifts.

Before coaching, I worked as a hair colourist, where I spent years in deep, honest conversations with women, often about the very shifts we struggle to name: changes in identity, purpose, energy, relationships. Over time, I realised I wasn’t just helping them feel confident on the outside. I was holding space for something far more meaningful within. That’s where my passion for coaching was born.

I trained with a highly respected coaching school and continue to invest in mentoring and self-reflection to grow in integrity, presence, and skill. Coaching became a natural next step in my own midlife journey — a path of unfolding, not fixing.

Now, I work with women, from professionals and creatives to caregivers and entrepreneurs, who are ready to stop powering through and start listening inward. I believe coaching isn’t about fixing yourself, its about coming home to yourself.

If you are ready to reconnect with the part of you that’s been quiet for too long, I would be honoured to walk with you on your journey. Let’s explore what’s trying to emerge from within you — one conversation at a time.

You are not stuck you are unfolding.

How We Work Together

The coaching space is a quiet, powerful pause in your life — a place where you can unpack what’s shifting, reflect deeply, and begin to reconnect with yourself.

  • At the heart of our work together is your coaching topic — a clear, meaningful statement that captures what you want to focus on and shift during our time together.

    • It might relate to how you show up in relationships.

    • How you navigate work or change, or how you treat yourself when things get hard.

    We’ll take time in our initial conversation to shape this topic so that it’s precise, emotionally meaningful, and personally relevant.

    Having a clear topic means you’re not just showing up to coaching for general insight — you’re showing up with intention. This clarity helps you,

    • Track your own growth.

    • Notice patterns more easily, and begin making deliberate choices aligned with who you’re becoming.

    Throughout the programme, your topic will act as both an anchor and a compass: keeping you grounded in your why, and guiding you toward the transformation you’re here for. 

  • Once we’ve named your topic, I’ll invite in something powerful: metaphor.

    I’ll guide you through a simple but insightful process where you’ll discover two metaphors:

    • One that represents how you currently relate to your topic — the patterns, emotions, or behaviors that feel familiar (but perhaps limiting).

    • And one that symbolizes how you want to relate to it — the values-led way of being that you’re growing toward.

    We’ll get to know these metaphors deeply. They’ll become touchstones in your journey — intuitive, visual reminders of the choices available to you.

    Over time, you’ll begin to catch yourself “in the act” of your old metaphor — and that awareness gives you something profound: choice. From there, we build the capability and courage for you to respond differently. To shift. To unfold.

    This is not about pushing yourself to change overnight. It’s about gently growing the muscles to meet your topic with calm, clarity, and alignment — again and again — in a way that feels like you. 

  • After each coaching session, you’ll receive a tailor-made practice — a simple but powerful activity designed to help you build the real-life muscles needed to shift how you relate to your topic. These practices are your bridge between the coaching space and everyday life. They’re not about doing more for the sake of it — they’re about doing differently, with awareness and intention.

    You’ll be invited to reflect daily on what you noticed: how your metaphors showed up, how you responded, and where you had the opportunity to choose a new way. This is where real transformation begins. Insight alone is powerful — you’ll have plenty of aha! moments — but it’s practice that turns insight into embodied change. Over time, you’ll begin to meet your limiting beliefs head-on, with growing clarity, strength, and self-trust. 

By the end of our work together, you’ll not only have insight — you’ll have embodied change. You’ll have moved through your topic in a way that feels aligned with your values, and into a new chapter that feels more deeply like you. 

Book a Free Intro Call

  • First Unfolding : Two Sessions

    Perfect if you’re curious about coaching or want focused insight on a specific challenge.

    • 1 × Intake Session (60 minutes): We explore what’s present for you, clarify your topic, and begin to understand why it matters.

    • 1 × Offer Session (60 minutes): I reflect back a refined version of your topic, my understanding of its emotional importance, and offer two metaphors that capture how you relate to your topic — now, and ideally.

    This is a beautiful standalone experience to gain clarity and a fresh lens on your current beliefs, behaviours and how you justify those behaviours. 

    ── Fee: €160

  • Steady Unfolding : Six Sessions

    For women ready to begin shifting a specific pattern or way of being.

    • 1 × Intake & Offer Session

    • 3 × Coaching Sessions (60 minutes): Deepen your understanding of the metaphors, build emotional capability, and explore how you want to move forward.

    • Tailored practices between sessions

    • 1 × Completion Session: Reflect on your growth and anchor the changes you’ve made.

    This focused container is designed to help you build awareness, recognising and start changing patterns, and reconnect with your values. 

    ── Fee: €480

  • Deep Unfolding : Eight Sessions

    For women navigating midlife transitions, identity shifts, or emerging clarity. More space. More depth. More support.

    • 1 × Intake & Offer Session

    • 5 × Coaching Sessions

    • Custom practices to build awareness and capability

    • Completion Session to honour your journey and steady your next steps 

    ── Fee: €640

  • Wholehearted Unfolding

    This is your full arc of support — ideal if you’re ready to commit to deep change that sticks.

    • Intake & Offer Sessions

    • 7 × Coaching Sessions

    • Embodied practices between sessions

    • Completion Session to celebrate, reflect, and move forward with clarity and trust 

    ── Fee: €800

“Karen’s guidance has been invaluable in both my work and family life. She helped me identify my hurdles, understand my strengths and weaknesses, and challenged me to be honest and vulnerable. Her thoughtful coaching created the space I needed for real clarity and growth.”

— Heleen, Creative Director of Dutch fashion brand

“Karen made me feel deeply listened to and understood in a way that few other people have. Through her warm, perceptive, and non-judgmental presence in our sessions and a series of thoughtfully crafted practices and reflections, she helped me to notice the subtle mental and behavioral patterns that I wanted to change and take steps towards a new way of being. By the end of our time together, I felt that I was able to move through the world with a greater sense of ease, confidence, and comfort with being myself. Most importantly, Karen’s coaching helped me to feel more open and connected to others.”

— Isabella, PhD Researcher

“Karen’s coaching style is really invaluable and special. Instead of looking negatively at my problem, Karen was able to help me change my perspective and see the situation from another way around. Being kind to my current self in order to become my future self has been much more rewarding and fruitful than trying to it push away. Karen is so kind and lovely, she is the human embodiment of drinking a sweet warm milky tea inside by the fire on a cold rainy day.”

— Keely, Contemporary Composer and Performing Arts Professional

Let’s chat.

Book a free discovery call - let’s explore your topic and see what support feels right for you.