Life Transitions Coaching

Support for the in-between times, when everything is changing, but nothing is clear yet

There comes a time—maybe it’s quiet at first—when the life you’ve been living no longer feels like it fits. It might show up as a restlessness you can’t shake. A growing disconnection from your work, your relationships, or your body. A sense that you’ve outgrown something, even if you can’t yet name what comes next.

The typical Transitions my clients face include:

• Navigating the Peri/Menopause journey from a physiological, psychological, spiritual and cultural perspective. Menopause is more than just a list of symptoms it is a profound identity change and unravelling of your psychological scaffolding that drove your choices in your first half of adulthood. My work is somatically focused on exploring your unconscious and working with this scaffolding so that you can home to the truth of who you really are.

• Becoming a parent which is more than just sleep and logistics. We birth a new identity and that involves both loss and expansion. This impacts on your relationship with your partner and sometimes your childhood wounds that may be triggered by the new baby in your life. My work is more than just talking it through - it is about exploring somatically those nervous system patterns and holding you in the identity change.

• Transition to Elderhood, doing the deep work to heal so you can move toward trust and acceptance in life with grace and move toward thriving in your third act.

• Having the deep inner knowing that you have to make a big career change but you don’t know where to start, this is more than working out what you are good at it is about discovering your identity underneath this desire for change,

• Working through a Midlife Crisis - Wanting to birth a new version of ourselves during Midlife. The developmental challenge is coming home to the truth of who we really are. So it is no surprise at this time most of us crave more purpose and authenticity. Who are you underneath all your masks and coping strategies that you created early in life to survive. Midlife is about letting those strategies go and stepping into emotional adulthood.

• Dealing with Death of a loved one. Death brings profound grief and sometimes relief for all of us. Something alchemical happens in our grief that happens us integrate the loss of what we once loved. Held in the right container of support, the change we experience can be profound.

• Reblooming after a divorce/significant relationship breakup so that you can find the love you want and deserve. Relational breakups can really crack our foundations and rock our self-confidence. We are starting over and discovering ‘Who am I?’ outside of the relationship.

You might identify with one of these scenarios or maybe three or four. Maybe more? It is not uncommon that we deal with many life transitions woven together and that is why they can seem so overwhelming because they are most often inter-related.

These are not just moments of loss or disruption. They are sacred thresholds—powerful invitations to reclaim yourself. We might think of them as initiations.

You don’t need to navigate this alone

I work with people who are standing at life’s crossroads—often unsure, overwhelmed, or afraid to make the wrong move.

Together, we create space to:

• Slow down and listen to what your body is trying to tell you

• Make meaning of your experience—without rushing to fix it

• Access the wisdom held in your nervous system, so you can meet change with more steadiness and grace

• Reconnect with your aliveness, your voice, your yes and your no

• Integrate the past and move forward in a way that honours your deepest truth
  

  This work is not about forcing a new path—it’s about letting one emerge from within.

Why are big life transitions Initiations?

Initiation isn't just change. Change can happen gradually, additively — you learn a skill, you get a promotion. Initiation requires the old identity to actually die before the new one can be born. That's why grief is structural to it, not incidental — grief is the felt experience of that death.

Initiations have a beginning which we call a separation. You're removed or remove yourself from your old role, identity, or way of belonging. Something ends. Often involuntary at first (a diagnosis, a divorce, a death) even when some part of you has been quietly outgrowing the old shape for a while.

Then the middle is the liminal stage where we can feel quite unmoored because our inner compass is dissolving. You're between identities. Not who you were, not yet who you're becoming. This is the disoriented, ground-not-solid phase . Traditional cultures held this phase with ritual containers and community; most people today go through it alone, without a guide or a name for what's happening, which is a lot of why it feels like breakdown rather than passage.

Then the end is the reorientation phase. You ‘return’, changed, with a new status or identity, recognised as such by the people around you.

Often these transitions take time and we need support. That is what I do. I provide the support container to help you make sense of what you cannot grasp and give you tools to cope when life feels overwhelming.

Grief is the gateway when it comes to big life changes

Grief isn’t just something we experience when we lose a loved one. It’s part of every transition—every moment we’re asked to let go of who we’ve been, to become something new.

Many people are surprised by the grief that surfaces during big life changes. But grief is the secret ingredient that helps us loosen our grip on the past. It softens the edges. It prepares the soil. The tears of grief bring fluidity—making space for who we are becoming.

Grief can be hard to feel. Most of us haven’t been taught how to meet these deeper emotions.
And often, what rises to the surface—big feelings, out-of-the-blue reactions, overwhelm — is just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath is something your body is ready to resolve.

When we work together, we explore what your nervous system is holding:

• What’s tangled together that doesn’t need to be

• What’s missing that needs to be integrated

• What’s asking to be met, metabolised, and released

Sometimes it feels like you’re falling apart, when really—your body is doing its best to reorganise and heal. You’re not broken. You’re not too much. You’re not going crazy. You’re responding in a very human way to the load you’ve carried for years.

Hormonal shifts, identity changes, nervous system thresholds — All of it shakes the ground beneath you. And yes, even if you knew change was coming, it might look nothing like you imagined.

This is why support matters.

You don’t have to navigate this terrain alone. With the right support, this in-between time becomes a powerful passage — not into breakdown, but into wholeness.

This might be the work if:

• You’ve always been the one holding it all together, and now you feel like you’re the one falling apart,

• You’ve tried talking about it and you have some insight but you still feel really stuck,

• You're done with pushing, striving, and overriding your body’s signals,

• You’re ready to live with more honesty, depth, purpose and alignment.

I want to provide you with support, lived experience and information so that you can navigate these transitions in an empowered way.  I believe our cultural narrative around transitions through rites of passage have been lost over time. Without the container of support, people feel lost and anchor-less and can find it hard to find their direction and way through.

I help individuals navigate deep healing, life transitions, and relational challenges by restoring nervous system balance, rebuilding trust, and creating a foundation for lasting change. My work is for those ready to move beyond coping into true emotional and relational transformation. I do this by helping you build trust, clarity, and emotional resilience so that you can navigate change with confidence.

“Kellie is relatable, knowledgeable and puts you at ease. She takes you on a journey where you learn a lot about yourself and your behaviours. Very valuable sessions in which I continue to utilise the strategies learnt day to day. Thank you so much!”

“Kellie has a unique gift where she empowers her clients to work through what is stopping them from being the best they can be. Working with Kellie is like talking with a friend who cares about you deeply, and is committed to seeing you rise”.

I have deep expertise, professional training and education in Complex Change, Adult Development, Sexuality, Love and Relationship coaching, Somatic Experiencing and Life Transitions and I am a midlife person myself. I have a huge amount of lived experience moving through multiple life transitions. I am a parent of young adults, have been through menopause, survived cancer and a long cancer treatment, and navigated a corporate career to executive level, only to leave it all behind and then work in coaching and trauma resolution work which has involved an enormous amount of study, self-reflection and deep inner work, whilst at the same time parenting two children through their own transitions. I am a true ‘second act’ in progress myself. I also worked in culture change and executive development for years so I know this work inside out and back the front.

How is coaching different from therapy? How does it work?

I am a somatic coach so we work with the body and the mind at the same time. This means my approach is an experience first approach. This means we don’t just talk about things, we get to actually feel them, live them, practice them and make them your new reality.

Unlike other types of therapy that only work with the mind, we will go through a unique, leading edge experience that is founded in neuroscience, where we work towards your desires, discover what is blocking you and then go through practices together. I create bespoke home-plays for you (guided practices to do at home) to help you grow, transform and return to your natural wholeness and a new level of confidence, self awareness and self knowledge. So you will walk away with your own toolkit to help you regulate your nervous system, communicate better with the people in your life and to be with whatever life throws your way.

Typically I work with clients over a six month period and you can do either weekly or fortnightly sessions. We often find our own rhythm of what works best for you. I am based in Melbourne, Australia and I work both in person in Hawthorn and online with clients locally, throughout Australia and Internationally.

The biggest gain from coaching is that you will come through your transition, whatever its nature, not feeling like your old self but a newer, more vibrant, more emotionally mature, more empowered version of yourself, with a new outlook on life and lots of new tools and strategies to deal with the day to day. This will boost your resilience and capacity to thrive.

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‘I am in my mid-50's, mother and partner, successful professional. Over my career I also needed to take on a lot of therapeutic work to manage issues from a difficult childhood. Kellie's work is for ME. It is to extend me past my 'hang ups', explore my vulnerability in pursuit of joy and freedom I want at this stage of my life. Emotional freedom, physical freedom, and deeper self-knowledge. I am using the work with Kellie to find my post-50 liberation. And loving it!’

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