Life Transitions Coaching

Change is hard and Life transitions are super complex.  Sometimes they feel brutal and when we come out the other end of them we can see it has been a period of profound personal growth and learning.   Many people can get really stuck and derail during life transitions. This can have a catastrophic impact on our relationships and our health.

We go through many natural life transitions, like our teenage years, then becoming an adult,  parenthood, or moving into midlife/menopause and then elderhood.  Or we have transitions that occur as a result of life event, like Career Transitions, Divorce and Grief.

Although, I’ve discovered that grief, whilst being an important experience for us to metabolise when we lose a loved one, is a part of every transition we go through. Grief is the secret ingredient that we need to help us let go and move on. The tears of our grief help us in every transition in life, they provide the fluidity for us to let go of what we don’t need anymore so we can embrace our future self.

Through all of these big changes, our foundations of our identity can get very shaky because our identity as an individual is changing.  It is often expanding.  These times can be very challenging if they come unexpectedly.  Even if we know they are coming, they can sometimes turn out to be nothing like we imagined.  Sometimes we feel like the earth is moving underneath us and it is hard to get any stability, we want life to go back to normal but actually we are transforming and normal is going to look different.  These are times when getting support is critical, you do not have to do it alone.

I specifically focus on these Rites of Passage because they are incredibly complex and challenging for most people and we have very little support around them.  I want to provide you with 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 anchorless and can find it hard to find their direction and way through.

The typical Transitions clients face include:

• Divorce and Infidelity

• Becoming a parent

• Transition to Elderhood

• The feeling that you want to make a big career change but not quite sure how to do it

• Navigating the Peri/Menopause journey

• Working through a Midlife Crisis - Wanting to birth a new version of ourselves during Midlife

• Women’s Empowerment, discovering, stepping into and becoming your personal power.

• Dealing with Death of a loved one

• Reblooming after a divorce/significant relationship breakup

I like to surface ideas that are counter-cultural and talk about the stuff that nobody wants to talk about.  I really believe these passages are so difficult because culturally, we have been taught by the patriarchy that our bodies are secondary and not important so we shame them and disconnect from them.

I often find in midlife we are dealing with multiple transitions because of the stage of life we are in. We may have elderly parents we are caring for, want a career change and can be dealing with menopause all at the same time. Or maybe we have all of this and are going through a Divorce also. It can be a very complex and confusing time.

So whether you are struggling to navigating becoming a parent, making your way through a divorce, finding peri/menopause very challenging, having a huge midlife crisis, trying to make a big change in your career during this time, contemplating retirement or dealing with multiple combinations of everything I have mentioned, I am here to support you and empower you through your journey so that you can birth a new version of yourself.

“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 in complex change, adult development and life transitions and am a midlife person myself. I am a parent of teenagers, have been through menopause, dealt with a life threatening illness, and navigated a corporate career to executive level, only to leave it all to work in coaching and trauma resolution work which has involved a lot of study, self-reflection and deep inner work, whilst at the same time parenting teenagers.

I offer 6 month coaching programs.   All sessions are online and I will give you home practices to do each week, in between our sessions, to facilitate the change you are growing towards. You can do either two or three sessions a month. We can co-create a program for you so that you can blossom into the next stage of your life. You may be feeling that you need to combine transitions coaching, with relationship coaching and even a bit of executive coaching. We can do this. The program is bespoke and tailored to what you need as an individual. Therefore we can combine transition work, sexuality and relationship work, deep shadow work, nervous system repatterning; whatever you need.

The biggest gain from coaching is you 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.

If you would like to explore working together in a coaching relationship please hit the button below to book a complimentary clarity call with me online. Explore the Coaching FAQs if you want some more information.

‘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!’