LIFE COACH, CAREER COACH, BUSINESS COACH
IN AMSTERDAM OR ONLINE
READY TO EXPLORE & CREATE
YOUR VERSION OF SUCCESS?
Welcome! I'm Hannah Ray - life coach, career coach and business coach in Amsterdam or online. I coach thoughtful humans who are questioning themselves / their career or business. My approach has a therapeutic feel and includes life coaching, because work is personal.
You're tired of pretending that this way of living or working is working for you anymore. Perhaps, right now, it feels unclear, suppressed or stuck - but you're ready to listen to those inner whispers and do something with them.
I know you could do it on your own. I also know it can be a relief to get experienced coaching support. That's where I come in.
I hold space for you to re-connect and find clarity in life and work. Together, we'll deepen your self-trust & -belief - reclaiming your strengths, desires, needs and identity (some that maybe got lost, devalued or hidden).
I listen to you deeply and actively. My approach is warm, grounded, intuitive, non-judgemental, personal and practical. I will bring lightness or challenge when needed, and be firmly with you in the less 'shiny' moments.
All parts of you are welcome. Let's have a good, honest chat and get you making moves that create *your* version of success.
TAKE CoachinG
Life Coaching, Career Coaching, Business Coaching
ICF Certified & EMCC Supervised
Coaching for people and companies like:
COACHING SERVICES
a holistic coaching approach with a therapeutic touch.
What areas do you need support with?
Because you want to explore some kind of transition, change, or improvement in your life.
Because you want to hire a professional coach to coach your employees on confidence, competence and wellbeing.
Because you want to change how you work, find more harmony, step up you leadership, or change careers entirely.
Because you want to explore what's going on for you in a more somatic + body-based way.
Because you have or want to create your own business, and want support managing it in the way that's best for you.
Because you want specific life + business coaching for being a small business owner.
LIFE AND CAREER COACH AMSTERDAM
Life is always changing, as are we. And for a whole range of reasons, we can gradually or suddenly get out of alignment, or bored, restless, frustrated, or overwhelmed... Like we can't keep doing it like this.
We spend a huge majority of our lives working, whether that's for a company or ourselves. It forms a huge part of our identity and influences our enjoyment of life. Surely, we owe it to ourselves to find a way of doing it that feels aligned and healthy with where we are at with ourselves and life right now, and at best, is enjoyable.
My intention for our work together is to hold space for you to get clear, honest and confident with yourself about who you are and what you want.
This is not just about finding alignment in your career or creating a business you love. It's not just about taking ownership or learning new tools and skills.
It's also about: uncovering what was already yours and reclaiming your truth and identity; dismantling any shame or fear around having, deserving and creating what you want and need; and creating enough safety in yourself so that you can give yourself permission to allow and be open to receiving it.
My coaching is not a 'fix', it's more like a homecoming.
COACHING METHODS & THEMES
No coaching journey or trajectory is the same. I personalise and tailor the structure of our work together, drawing on different methodologies, tools and approaches to your unique goals, challenges and process.
I prioritise guiding you to find your own answers and trust your own choices.
Forming an honest, respectful and strong coaching relationship with you is integral to the effectiveness of our work. Creating more safety and trust between us will mean that you feel more seen and heard, can be more authentic, take more risks and steps that create effective and sustainable change in your life and work. So I will spend time getting to know you and regularly checking in with how you are finding the process. I also find that this approach creates a deeper sense of satisfaction, capability and meaning for my clients long after finishing working together (the research on coach-client relationships shows it too).
My coaching approach is practical and action-focused, incorporating things like worksheets, tests and tools to understand your values, strengths, skills etc yourself. There is a focus on you making these things yours, and integrating learnings in to your own unique behaviours, beliefs, actions, and experience of life/work. This is combined with the therapeutic nature of how I hold the space, that remains intuitive, spacious, holistic and human. My blended tool box of training includes:
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Deep, active listening + reflecting
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Nancy Klein's 'Time To Think' theory
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CBT-informed coaching
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Yoga therapy + somatic/embodied inquiry
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Positive psychology + mental wellbeing
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Gestalt techniques for coaching
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Journaling + drawing
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Guided visualisation for therapeutic change
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Neuro-linguistic programming
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Transactional analysis
why might you want to find a coach?
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Listen to + trust yourself, your opinions and decisions more, instead of living by 'shoulds' and expectations
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Find out what your wants, needs and likes are
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Explore how you approach your work so that it, and your relationship with it, becomes more satisfying + aligned
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Stop playing yourself down, staying small or hiding your voice; start taking yourself seriously, grow self-belief and build the courage, competence + confidence to make aligned moves
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Become more aware of how you deal with things and experiment with new ways, so that you have a greater sense of choice and confidence to choose
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Explore new ideas, exercises, mindset, rituals or systems that enable more confidence, creativity and flow
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Feel empowered and confident to respond with skill and discernment to choices in your life - so that your resourcefulness continues beyond our work together
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Take space to figure out what's really important to you, your sense of identity, what you value + what you're going to do about it
Sounds like good stuff you want more of?
PLENTY OF life coach, CAREER coach AND BUSINESS COACHES IN AMSTERDAM. WHY CHOOSE ME AS YOUR COACH?
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You want a coach who makes space to first get to know your own unique mind and life/work experience and stays curious & open to evolving and adapting the coaching process to you. (I coach people of a range of ages, genders, industries, nationalities, cultural backgrounds, sexualities, political views).
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You want to explore your values, strengths, skills, ideal work environments/set up, leadership style etc that most coaches offer... but you want take it deeper than surface level so that you can really action and integrate it in to how you do things (self-belief - let's go!)
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You want a coach who actually listens to you and will adapt their approach and tools to you as the process develops, so that you can create things the way YOU want them to be and take action, ownership and confidence back in to your own hands
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You want a coaching experience that has a therapeutic nature and includes a more holistic sense of you, your identity and your life - looking at how different areas of life will be playing in to or affecting the goals and challenges you want to work on
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You want the space to think, explore and rewire longer threads of thoughts and patterns, so that change is deeper and longer-lasting
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You want a coach who is gentle and warm, but will also get real and honest with you, bring some challenge when needed, and sit firmly with you in the 'less shiny' moments
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You want an experienced, deeply and broadly trained, certfied coach, combined with someone who has been through similar work and life related changes, so can also relate (yes, I've been there too!)
Are we on the same page? I'd love to explore working together in a discounted try out session.
(Some) SCENARIOS LIFE, CAREER OR BUSINESS COACHING can SUPPORT with
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Feeling misaligned, lost, disconnected, restless, or unfulfilled in your life and/or work (career or business)
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Professional and/or personal development (confidence, leadership, balance, communication, alignment, self-trust)
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Career changes or pivots
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Starting a business
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Managing running a small business and/or being a small business owner
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Redundancy or restructures
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Feeling overwhelmed, unbalanced, stressed, burnt out
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Creating a brand positiong and business plan that is aligned and authentic to you
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Figuring out what you want to do for studies or work
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Moving or living abroad as an expat and/or for work
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Re-finding meaning in your life or work again
WHAT IS A LIFE, career and business COACH with a therapeutic touch?
Coaching is not therapy. But coaching can sometimes feel therapeutic in the way that it allows space for us to explore the holistic emotional, mental, and physical influence of career, business and life on your relationship with yourself and your world.
We follow the principle of coaching that asks: 'What do I want to do with this information? How can I move through it/forwards?' (VS. 'Why am I like this? How can I make sense of how my past has shaped me?' like in therapy).
Clients often ask me if they're allowed to open up about emotions, past experiences, physical sensations or feelings in sessions, or talk about other stuff in their life that's connected or impacted. You are *absolutely welcome* to.
Making plans and changing behaviour is a deeply human and individual process that taps in to your wellbeing, values, insecurities, thinking patterns, energy levels, relationships, identity etc. Integrating this in to the coaching process and being present with it, is what makes the coaching therapeutic. It allows us to make changes and adopt strategies that go deeper & wider in to our make up; and are therefore more sustainable and impactful, long after we finish working together.
Alongside being a certified and experienced coach, I am also trained in cognitive behavioural therapy tools for coaching, yoga therapy, mental health first aid, and guided visualisation for therapeutic change so that I can hold this space safely for you and in full awareness of the boundaries and limitations of coaching.
It can be effective to work with a life coach and career coach alongside working with a therapist as you can bring insights from that in to the more 'action-oriented' coaching space.
I do not diagnose or treat mental health and do not treat trauma. If you are in the grips of a crisis or anxiety or depression, coaching may likely not be appropriate right now. If this is you, please consult with your therapist or GP.
See my experience, certifications, training and qualifications HERE->
WHERE DO COACHING SESSIONS TAKE PLACE?
Coaching sessions are either online, so you can work with me from anywhere,
or in-person at my practice, Stories, Keizersgracht in Amsterdam.
I offer coaching sessions Weds-Fri.
COACHING TESTIMONIALs
DARYNA
MARKETING ANALYST @ BOOKING.COm,
CURATOR OF GROWTH ANALYTICS COURSE @ PROJECTOR
“Hannah and I did 5 sessions of Life + Career Coaching. We worked on my values and goals to improve my productivity at work (at Booking.com) & focus my personal projects.
It was a great pleasure to share my ideas and thoughts with Hannah. She helped me to look at things from different angles and see things I wouldn't notice myself before.
Hannah is an attentive listener and created a very safe space for me to be honest. She prepared me some practices that made my thoughts & ideas feel easier and more structured.
After our cooperation, I will move forward with a clear vision of what I want and a loving attitude towards myself to enjoy the journey."