I know what it feels like to outgrow the life you worked hard to build.
Something in you kept growing, even when everything around you stayed the same
The Moment Things Began to Change
I accepted a promotion I didn’t truly want. My mind had so many rational reasons to say yes, but my body knew. I felt tightness and resistance. Again, I overrode something that my body was telling me because I didn’t trust that feeling. I was ignoring those feelings.
I asked myself:
“Why do I keep choosing what other people expect from me over what actually feels right for me?”
After I sat with that question, I started searching. What do I do with all the photos I've been taking?
That search led me to a creativity coach, which led me to open my first Etsy store, which led me to a coaching certification. One thread pulling on another, all of it pointing somewhere that finally felt more like me.
I followed what genuinely interested me and trusted it was going somewhere. And it was.
Years earlier, I had tried building a business of my own. I trained as a massage practitioner and started a practice. It was so exciting and so terrifying. At the time, I interpreted fear as proof that I wasn't ready. So I walked away and returned to work for another organization that felt safer and more familiar.
Later, when I found myself standing at another crossroads, I approached things differently. This time I didn't wait for certainty before I moved. I stopped treating confidence as a prerequisite, and I stopped trying to map every step in advance. Instead, I started paying attention to what I already knew, the things I'd been dismissing, minimizing, and explaining away.
I returned to photography. I wrote more. I started creating without needing every step mapped out. Slowly, I began building a life and way of working that felt more honest. More sustainable. More mine.
That process, learning to hear yourself clearly enough to trust what you find, is what I now do with other women.
Learning to Trust Myself Again
What I Bring to This Work
I hold a BSc in Business Administration, an MSc in Pharmaceutical Medicine, and I'm an ICF-certified coach. I spent thirty years navigating career transitions across five countries, including roles with the EBRD, OECD and the European Central Bank, before building this practice.
But what I actually bring is something harder to put on a credential.
I've rebuilt my career after burnout. I questioned my direction so many times. I reinvented myself in new places, new stages, new versions of what felt possible. And I've learned, slowly and not always gracefully, what it actually takes to trust yourself when the path forward isn't clear.
My approach is honest, grounded, and deeply human. I pay attention not only to what you say but to the patterns, fears, and quiet knowings underneath it. The things you've been talking yourself out of. The thread you've been missing because you're too close to it to see it clearly.
I reflect your own words back to you in a way that makes you stop, recognize yourself, and finally see what you've been missing.
It changes things at a level that's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. Women leave these conversations genuinely changed, not just clearer, but different in a way they can't walk back from.
The version of them that walks out of the work cannot fully go back to the version that walked in.
The Thread Finder
Women come to me having tried everything: books, coaches, courses, psychotherapy, frameworks. They have information, intelligence, capability, and ambition.
They've spent decades inside organizations created by other people, and somewhere along the way, they stopped fully trusting themselves without one. There was always a role, a boss, a process, a qualification, a client request, or someone else's need telling them what was important and whether they were doing well.
When that structure is gone, or no longer fits, it feels like failure rather than freedom. Like someone who has navigated decades of complexity should not be standing here, uncertain about what comes next. But they haven't lost their direction. They are learning, perhaps for the first time, how to make a decision that doesn't need to be justified, approved, or proven useful to anyone else.
What have you been telling yourself isn't for you? What did you file under "not mine" before you ever gave it a real chance? What have you been waiting for permission to pursue, and who exactly were you waiting for it from?
The answer is always there. It runs through everything they've lived, every project they've abandoned, every direction they've moved toward and then talked themselves out of. You just need someone who can see it when you can't, and reflect it back clearly enough that you can't unsee it.
That's why I'm called The Thread Finder. I didn't give myself that title. It's what this work actually does.
A Few Things About Me
I'm also a photographer, and creativity remains one of the ways I stay connected to myself.
I've lived and worked in Slovakia, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada. That experience shapes how I see change, identity, culture, and what reinvention actually looks like in practice.
I believe meaningful change almost always happens through small decisions repeated consistently over time.
I believe women deserve work that fits the life they actually want to live, not the one they inherited, not the one that made sense ten years ago.
And I believe doubt doesn't lift first. You move, and then it lifts. That's the only order it happens in.
Some Fun Facts About Me
I am obsessed with photographing birds and have no problem:
Walking around a park in circles to get the perfect shot (yes, my husband is happy to join me; ask him!)
Standing beside a blooming tree for hours to capture a bird feeding on its nectar (no, my husband is not happy to join me).
I love decluttering. There is something deeply satisfying about a bag going to charity or a drawer that finally closes properly. I feel lighter every single time. In my life, I have applied this same energy to everything: possessions, commitments, identities that no longer fit. Letting go has never felt like loss to me. It has always felt like finally having room.
In my life, I have learned seven languages. I speak three well. A couple more I understand reasonably. And then there's Mandarin Chinese, where I successfully retained: what's the weather like in Taipei?
I love playing tennis, but as I age, a 30-minute game has become ideal for me without feeling my hip joints. I prefer not to be so intimately aware of my anatomy.
Ready to Take the First Step?
Our first conversation is a paid Discovery Call. 60 minutes, US$129. We'll look at where you are, what's underneath the stuck, and what you're actually ready for next. You'll leave with clarity, no matter what you decide.