Understand yourself. Find your direction.

When life feels stuck or uncertain, space to reflect can help you see a way forward.

I offer thoughtful, practical coaching to help you understand what’s holding you back and take steps towards a more fulfilling life.

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“Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life”

Mandy Hale

How I can help

You may be navigating change, struggling with relationships, questioning your career or simply wanting more from life.

Together, we’ll explore what matters to you and what you’d like to change.

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My approach

I combine the depth of exploring past experiences with the forward focus of coaching.

With over twenty years’ experience, I bring warmth, honesty and constructive challenge. Our work creates space for understanding, alongside practical steps towards your goals.

Qualifications

  • BSc Hons, University of Bristol,
  • WPF Certificate in Counselling,
  • Coaching Diploma, The Coaching Academy.

What My Clients Say

“Daniella has a gift for helping you to get to know yourself better and enabling you to reach your potential. I have felt incredibly supported both personally and professionally during our time working together...”

HT - Surrey

“I felt like I had been scrambling about in the dark of a mental blind alley for some years... Daniella helped show me a door to somewhere completely different that had been there all along.”

Dr H - Hong Kong

I first met Daniella as a bereaved mother and initially assumed this was the reason for all my pains and sorrow.... little did I know. I now feel lighter, stronger and so very grateful to have realised that I had all the tools in me and that I am capable of achieving anything. Very powerful! Thank you Daniella

“My coaching with Daniella has been a fantastic experience, I truly believe she is my life-changer and will be instrumental in all the future successes which I know will now come in both my career and personal life.”

LB - London

“Thank you so much Daniella! What a pleasure this has been for me. It has been challenging and insightful and it made me grow!! All that in such a short space of time. You truly are exceptional!”

JD - Manchester

“I always looked forward to my sessions with you and feel these are tools I will take with me the rest of my life....”

Jackie - New York

“This is not therapy, this is much more practical. This is not a conversation full of platitudes and feel good phrases - this is focused, constructive help. This is not easy, it’s hard work. It’s not a sugar pill but rather a realistic discussion.”

HB - London

I found her technique and her non-threatening approach very useful in getting the best out of me. I would recommend her to any professional who has high goals for him/her self

PB - London

“Working with Daniella has been inspirational. She has helped me understand many things about myself that I never realised. My self-awareness has improved so much. Her style is challenging, but warm, friendly and relaxed, she had a way of making me feel accountable without applying pressure.”

SC - California

“Daniella approaches any issue with sympathy, intelligence, clarity of thought and generosity of spirit. I have found her method of working to be very effective because it aims to give you the tools to deal with both logistical and organisational matters as well as more personal and emotional ones. Once you start putting such tools into practice, it changes your way of seeing and dealing with all sorts of areas of your life.”

LA - London

Previous Clients Include:

  • Disney
  • Barclays
  • NEX
  • Worldpay
  • Standard Chartered

Working together

Based in central London, I offer online and walking sessions, usually lasting one hour.

We’ll agree the frequency and length of our work around your needs.

“The most secure prisons are those we construct for ourselves”

Dr Livingston

“Ignore what other people are doing. Ignore what’s going on around you. There is no competition. There is no objective benchmark to hit. There is simply the best you can do — that’s all that matters”

Ryan Holiday

“We see the world not as it is but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it”

Stephen Covey

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky”.

Rabindranath Tagore

“The grass is green wherever you are - if you take proper care of the lawn”

Jeni Purdle

“It always seems impossible until it is done”

Nelson Mandela

“When you achieve your dreams, it’s not so much what you get, as who you have become”

Mark Twain

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”

Anais Nin

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse”

Jim Rohn

“Its choice not chance that determines your destiny”

Jean Nidetch

Let’s start a conversation

Get in touch to explore what you’re looking for and whether we would work well together.

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