Coaching with Heather
Let's go!Confidence coaching for women at a turning point. When the old life stops fitting, and the old identity needs an upgrade.
You’re done with putting yourself last - and you’re not willing to lose yourself in what’s next. That’s the work we do together. Confidence built from the inside out, whatever stage you’re in.
Whatever stage you’re at, the work underneath is the same. We start with telling the truth to ourselves about where you are NOW. Kind and brave seeing, without flinching. We practice self-compassion, especially where you’ve been hardest on yourself. And we work with your mind and body together.
The coaching is curated to meet the nuance of the different stage of becoming in a woman’s life.
For the emerging adult years: Who am I, when I’m standing on my own two feet?
For when you’re in the thick of it in your thirties and forties: How do I carry it all, without losing myself?
For midlife and beyond: Who am I, after tending everyone else?
How it works
We start with a free chat, to see if my style is the right fit for you.
You set the pace and the depth — there's a way in whether you want one deep session or a full season.
Real change means action between sessions, and I'm in your corner by message when a plan meets real life.
What I bring
A Master Health and Mental Health Coach with three decades in women's health — midwife, nurse, professional leader, and women's health advocate. The toolbox is broad and holistic, because everything’s connected:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the psychology of flourishing, and behaviour science.
Mindfulness, self-reflection, and self-compassion.
Metabolic and movement lifestyle medicine.
Women's hormones, physiology, and developmental psychology.
The Map of Meaning.
We don't separate mind from body and spirit. All of you is welcome.
All private coaching starts with a free chat — book in and we'll find the right fit together.
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Coaching
with Heather
Come home to yourself. Govern your life from there.
Nine sessions of one-to-one coaching programme for women at a significant turning point.
Who it's for
Something significant has shifted.
A marriage that ended, or changed shape. A body you no longer recognise. Children grown and gone. A role that used to tell you who you were, loosening its hold.
Underneath it sits a quiet question. Who am I now.
You have spent years reading everyone else's signals first. Fitting in. Keeping the peace. Talking yourself out of the small voice in your gut that knew. You are done with that. You are no longer willing to put up with what you once put up with.
You’re ready to dig in and create a joyous new chapter.
The promise
By the end, you back yourself again.
You know what matters most to you now, and you spend your energy there. You feel at home in your body. You meet difficult feelings without turning away. You trust your own gut, and you act on it. You ask for what you want with kind clarity, and you hold a boundary even when it disappoints someone. You allow yourself to want, and to take pleasure in your own life.
You are in the driver's seat. And you are looking forward to what comes next.
How it works
Nine one-to-one sessions, online or in person here in the Hawke’s Bay, just you and me.
We will focus on what matters most to you. Each session starts with your own experience. We make sense of it together, find the tool that fits, and turn it into a small daily practice you carry between sessions. I will teach you three core practices to support your transformation — noticing without judgement, self-compassion that is both soft and firm, and presence in your own body. By the end they are yours, for good.
You set the pace.
Depth tools
Who am I now
Self-portrait now. Your values, your strengths, what matters most at this point in your life.
What has shifted, and what you are beginning to want.
Mapping my energy and meaning
What’s most meaningful in your life, and what is shifting
Where your energy actually goes, and aligning energy with meaning
Befriending my mind
Making friends with feelings. Meeting hard feelings without turning away, and tending yourself when it is difficult.
Challenging limiting beliefs. The inner critic, and the old beliefs that have kept you small.
Befriending my body
Coming home to your body. From criticism to a kinder relationship.
Your body as a guide. Reading what you sense, and acting on it.
Reclaiming my desire
Centreing your own wanting. Permission to want and to need, with your desire at the centre.
Pleasure and appetite. Desire as a force across your whole life.
My sovereign voice
Kind clarity. Asking for what you want, holding a boundary, repairing without losing yourself.
Integration, and what's next. Looking back at who you have become, looking toward the chapter ahead.
What's included
Nine live one-to-one coaching sessions, paced to suit your life, online or in person here in the Hawke’s Bay.
A full wellbeing snapshot — mood, energy, stress and self-trust — to focus your energy where it will make the most difference, and revisited so we can both see what is shifting.
Professional notes after every session, written to grow your insight and confidence in the space between sessions.
Messaging support between sessions for continuing your momentum, and spot support for the moments when your plan meets real life.
Pacing and investment
You choose how to pace the sessions, weekly or fortnightly. If you choose, you can add on another three sessions.
The full programme is $1,800, paid over 9 or 18 weeks, with an additional 3 sessions available to add on.
All amounts in NZD.
Make your mark. Stay whole while making it.
For the woman who wants to discover:
How do I navigate this challenge, without losing myself?
You're carrying a lot. The work, the people, the roles everyone leans on.
You took these on because they matter to you. But somewhere in the carrying, you went missing. The pressure to get it right for everyone doesn't switch off. The 2am worries. The small stuff that won't stop nagging. The sense that however much you do, it's never quite enough.
This coaching is to support you to become your own best ally.
The promise
You meet what life's asking without emptying yourself to do it. You hold a boundary even when it disappoints someone. Your inner voice steadies — kind enough to be on your own side, brave enough to act. You stop proving yourself by everyone else's measure, and start making your own mark, in your own voice. You're still the one others lean on — and you're no longer last on your own list.
Calm confidence, in place of constant depletion.
How it works
Six sessions paced weekly or fortnightly. These are one-to-one, online or in person here in the Hawke's Bay.
The work moves through the BRAVEKind Mindset:
The Seeds. The you before the roles. Your values, your strengths, the superpowers you've yet to appreciate — the ground everything grows from.
The Growth Medium. The practices that let you grow: self-reflection, self-compassion, and a growth mindset, so the inner critic stops running the show and you can meet a hard moment without folding.
Steady Tending. What keeps you steady through a demanding season — the way you eat, move and sleep, the basics that decide what's left in the tank.
The Trellis. The structure that lets you rise with intention. Boundaries that hold, communication that's clear, a way of leading that's actually yours — where you stop shrinking and stop over-functioning.
The Harvest. Where the proof accumulates. You take values-led action — the boundary you set, the conversation you start — and build the evidence that you can trust yourself to keep going. That's calm confidence, earned.
Each session starts with your own experience. We make sense of it together, find the tool that fits, and turn it into a small practice you carry between sessions.
What's included
6 live one-to-one sessions— paced to suit your life, online or in person here in the Hawke’s Bay.
A full wellbeing snapshot - mood, energy, stress and self-trust — to focus your energy where it will make the most difference, and revisted so we can both see what is shifting.
Professional coaching notes after every session, written to grow your insight and your confidence in the spaces between.
Messaging support between sessions including spot support for the moments when your plan meets real life.
The BRAVEKind video library with guidance on self-reflection, self-compassion and mindful presence.
The investment
The full programme is $1,350, with installment plan available.
You choose how to pace the programme. The total length and content is the same. A longer arc gives you more time to integrate the work.
Weekly, over six weeks. Focused and intensive.
Fortnightly, over three months. A steady rhythm, with time to practice between sessions.
Let's begin
The best way to know if this is your next step is a conversation. Book a free clarity call.
Know yourself. Own your choices. Stop looking for permission.
Your brain is wired to react strongly to uncertainty and stress, and the noise is relentless. Instagram versions of success. Everyone's opinions about what you should want. The pressure to have it figured out. So you're still following paths that don't quite fit — in work, in relationships, in how you spend your time — because you haven't actually worked out what you want.
You're not clear on your real strengths or your core values. You haven't named what kind of life you actually want to build. You're still second-guessing your choices, still looking around for permission, still wondering if you're doing it right.
This coaching is for you.
What you'll have by the end
You know what matters most to you — not what you think should matter or what anyone else says should drive you.
You’ll get a new sense of what’s possible, and a framework for making confident decisions.
You're standing on your own two feet, making choices that are actually yours — with the self-trust that comes from knowing yourself. You stop looking for permission and start trusting your own judgment.
How it works
A focused 1:1 coaching programme over three sessions, paced to your rhythm — weekly over three weeks or fortnightly over six weeks. Online or in person here in the Hawke's Bay.
The work moves through getting clear on who you are and how they apply to the question in front of you:
The Seeds. Who you are right now — your real strengths, what's already strong in you, the qualities you've yet to appreciate. The foundation everything grows from.
What Matters. The values that actually guide you, not the ones you think should. Where you find meaning, and what kind of life you genuinely want to build at this point.
What’s Possible. Going beyond either/or to and/and solutions, and creating the possibility for new options to emerge.
Each session starts with your own experience and the real questions you're living. We make sense of it together, find what's true for you, and turn it into something you carry forward.
What's included
Three live one-to-one coaching sessions paced to match your life. Real time, just you and me. Online or in person here in the Hawke’s Bay, NZ.
A full wellbeing snapshot - mood, energy, stress and self-trust - to focus your energy where it will make the most difference, and revisited so we can both see what is shifting.
Professional notes after every session, written to grow your insight and confidence in the space between sessions.
Messaging support between sessions — a check-in between sessions, and spot support for the moments when real life meets your plan.
What you walk away with
Clarity on your core values and what actually matters to you.
A clear picture of your real strengths, and how to use them.
A new sense of options, and how to create space for new options to emerge.
The self-trust to make decisions without looking for permission.
The investment
You choose how to pace the programme. The total is the same.
Weekly, over three weeks. Focused, creating momentum.
Fortnightly, over six weeks. A steady rhythm, with time to explore between sessions.
The full programme is $750, with options for an installment plan.
All amounts in NZD.
Let's begin
The best way to know if this is your next step is a conversation. Book a free clarity call.
A single deep session to get clear and get moving.
For when you don't need six months — you need a few honest hours and a map.
Some moments don't call for a programme. They call for a clearing. Time to stop, look squarely at what's really going on, and leave with a plan you'll actually follow.
The Turning Point is one focused session for the woman standing at a decision, a change, or a fog she can't think her way out of on her own. You bring the thing that's pressing. We make sense of it together — and you leave with your next moves mapped.
How it works
Before — a holistic wellbeing snapshot. Ahead of our time together you complete a full assessment across mind, body, energy and what matters most to you. So we don't spend the session getting oriented — we start where it counts.
The session — two and a half hours, just for you. Unhurried and focused. We get to the truth of where you are, what your inner voice has been trying to tell you, and what you actually want from here. No rushing, no watching the clock.
After — your written plan, with resources. Within a few days you receive a clear written plan from me — your next moves, the practices to support them, and a set of resources chosen for you. Something to hold onto, not just a good conversation you half-remember.
What you walk away with
Clarity on what's really going on, under the noise.
A concrete plan for your next steps.
Practices and resources matched to you.
The feeling of being back in the centre of your own life.
Discount on the Back Yourself coaching package
If you decide that you want to sign up for the Back Yourself programme, the full cost of The Turning Point will be discounted from your Back Yourself subscription.
Let's begin
Book a free clarity call if you'd like to check it's the right fit — or book your Turning Point session directly.