LIFE COACHING, CAREER COACHING
& BUSINESS COACHING
IN AMSTERDAM OR ONLINE
TAKE Coaching
ICF-certified life coach, career coach, business coach, mental health first aider & yoga therapist.
Welcome! I'm Hannah Ray - a certified life coach, career coach and business coach in Amsterdam and online, in English.
We can lose ourselves, our sense of direction or meaning for many reasons. It can happen gradually or suddenly, and make us self-doubt, lose our energy or meaning, feel overwhelmed, forced, misaligned or stuck. Something needs to change, right?
I hold space for you to re-align and find your way again.Get clarity in life and work, so that you can take ownership of your next chapter and create YOUR version of success.
I listen to you deeply, offering judgement-free and experienced coaching support for you to speak from the heart and get honest. My approach is considered, warm, grounding, intiutive + practical.
All parts of you, your life, dreams and work are welcome - the sky is the limit! Let's have a chat and get you making moves again.
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 integrated + 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.
WHY CAREER, LIFE + BUSINESS COACHING?
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, or frustrated, or overwhelmed... Like we can't keep doing it like this. Something needs to change. We can't pretend or perform anymore.
Amongst this, we spend a huge majority of our lives working... So we may as well, at least(!), 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, enjoyable. Right?
So, my mission is to reconnect you to your resourceful, resilient + trusting self so that you can adapt, feel well, and find a way in this chapter of life + work that feels like you once again.
I hold confidential space for you to find a sense of freedom, momentum and courage; exploring ideas, ways of thinking, expressing and being - so that you can hear your own voice (again, or for the first time) and take ownership of your next chapter.
COACHING METHODS
Every coaching journey is different because everyone is unique. I completely tailor the journey and structure of our work together to you, drawing on different methodologies and approaches depending on your goals, challenges and process.I find this to be important because tailoring the process to you means we can go deeper and do inner work that is effective and lasting beyond our time together.
There are so many worksheets, tests and self help books available to to understand your values, strengths, skills etc yourself. But working with me we do these things but also combine them with the power of being held in an intuitive space that enables you to make it yours and integrate it in to your own unique behaviours, beliefs, and experience of life/work.
My coaching approach is practical at heart, combined with a therapeutic nature due to this depth, along with a unique and powerful blend of training. My tool box includes:
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Deep 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 visualisations with influences from meditation and Nidra
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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 dimming your voice; start taking yourself seriously and building the courage + confidence to make new 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, what you value + what you're going to do about it
Sound like something you might want to explore?
PLENTY OF life, CAREER 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
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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 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, 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
Are we on the same page? I'd love to hear your story over a discounted try out session.
WHAT IS A LIFE, career and business COACH with a therapeutic touch?
Not to be confused with therapy, therapeutic coaching is a style of coaching that 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, experiences, physical sensations or feelings in sessions, or talk about other stuff in their life that's connected. You are *absolutely welcome* to. Coaching shouldn't feel robotic or overly rational.
Making plans and changing behaviour can be 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 mental health first aid, yoga therapy, somatic (bodily) processing and CBT tools for coaching so that I can hold this space safely for you and in full awareness of the boundaries 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. If you are in the grips of a crisis or severe anxiety or depression, coaching is likely not appropriate right now. If this is you, please consult with your therapist or GP.
See my experience, 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."
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What is a Life Coach?Life coaches provide a safe space for you to explore where you are, where you want to go, what is holding you back, and what you can work on to get there. The main purpose is to be a thinking partner for you to explore + facilitate your own creativity + answers so that you can take your next step.
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What should I expect from a Life Coach?A life coach helps you explore + reconnect with your own sense of self and resourcefulness. You should expect to be deeply listened to, asked questions, have someone reflect yourself back to you, and engage with tools, exercises etc. that help you find your own answers and figure out what you want to do with them. You should expect complete confidentiality, non-judgement, and unconditional positive regard. You can expect to have regular check ins about what is working or not working, and how you can keep moving forwards together.
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Why might I need a Life Coach?Often people wait until they're in a sticky situation, or things have gotten a little too bad. If you're in this place, then you might need a life coach to help you explore what got you here, and how you want to move through + out of it. Working with a life coach is also great when things feel pretty good, too. Life coaching can take your life from fine or good, to extra exciting, calmer and more content, or more fulfilling.
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What are the benefits of hiring a Life Coach?- Navigating or making changes in career, work, business or personal life - Developing self-awareness, self-trust, self-belief, and self-esteem - Managing anxiety and stress - Setting + managing boundaries - Replenishing sense of wellbeing, energy and balance - Developing visions and setting goals - Exploring and articulating ideas, thoughts or feelings - Connecting with your creativity - Creating strategies, structures + frameworks for (sustainable!) action