Stories of change to uplift and inspire

Behind every story of success is the inspiration you may need to start your own success story with me.

A life-changing realization

"I was empowered to move forward and to advance my career. I gained great confidence and finally saw that I am employable I just need to change my approach. I finally realised what I was doing wrong and thanks to Michalina’s coaching I got to the final stage of a job interview."

Agnieszka Galicka, Nov 2022

Life-shaping, life-changing

"The sessions with Michalina have really been a transformational experience and one of the sessions was so powerful that it is helping me shape my life. She really allowed me to tap into deeper aspects of my psychology by powerful questions and she allowed me to face and deal with inner me.

Michalina made sure I have clearly defined goals and I had a plan of action in every session – how I would approach my goals and achieve them. Furthermore, Michalina was always so present during each session as if it was as important as it is to me which is a rare quality in this fast-paced world."

Amith Adoor, December 2022

Energy, enthusiasm, empowerment

"Michalina is a fantastic and highly emphatic coach who has always brought so much enthusiasm, energy and positivity to our sessions. Is her warmth and authenticity that truly sets her apart as a super coach – and she build up rapport and trust very quickly with me, helping me to open up and explore areas of my life that I didn’t even think were tension-points. She is always able to tap into my values and beliefs so well, often meaning that we end up exploring topics that were totally different from the ones I was initially intending to speak about – but end up being exactly what I needed to talk about!

Michalina is an excellent listener – and her ability let me open up without judgement has made her an excellent coach – empowering me to develop concrete goals and coming up with ways to achieve them. I always leave sessions with her with clear action steps and much more clarity on my own shorter-term goals.

I have always found Michalina to be very strong at encouraging me to come up with different ideas and options of how to achieve these goals too. Her conversational technique and ability to challenge my thinking really helped me to stretch myself and explore ideas that I would not have done otherwise. She brings out my creativity and creates a safe space for me to come up with interesting and stretching ideas, and often these have been the most interesting action steps for me!"

Cleo, London, February 2023

Finding my ‘why’, finding my power

"The coaching sessions with Michalina were brilliant. It was a dedicated time for me to go deeper into what matters for me and she helped me to really understand what matters for me to get closer in contact with my WHY and most importantly – to take action.

I admired her deep listening skills, maturity and observatory skills. More than once she would say I noticed… and she was spot on with what was underneath my words or my tone or my body language and would challenge me to go to a second layer of thinking or feeling.

She knew how to pull on my strengths, which shows how carefully she listened to that and knew when to pull those in and made me think of the art of the possible and what would it mean for me if I bring those closer in supporting me to reach my goal.

I appreciated having session with someone like Michalina who believes in me and my success, who would use challenging questions and who would remind me of the power I have lying in me."

Cristina Mincu, February 2023

From self-conscious to self-aware

"I did not know what to expect, but I did know this was an opportunity to take myself out of my comfort zone and challenge myself to be more self-aware. Michalina took the time to get to know me on a personal level before starting our coaching. She encouraged me to talk about my interests and shared information about her own hobbies, helping to build rapport, creating a foundation for productive, open and honest communication.

It often felt like I was talking to a friend. This was both positive and challenging. Positive because I felt comfortable enough to brainstorm aloud and process my thoughts to generate insights. Challenging when I had anxieties around how Michalina might perceive what I was saying, when I was conscious that we ‘get on’ and I do care what she thinks. I did feel self-conscious at times but do acknowledge that this is likely down to Michalina pushing me to look at myself beyond the level of comfort. Perhaps the challenge I faced was therefore also a positive.

Michalina helped me define a specific goal that I wanted to work on/achieve during our sessions. She outlined the process, lightly giving structure, whilst also allowing creative freedom for me to use the time as best as I saw fit. She asked open questions which did challenge me to think about and reflect on those aspects of my thought process/psychology that I’m less comfortable with. I had the opportunity to put my reflections into conscious action to build constructive habits. From the conscious development, I could further analyse the good and the bad and talk about next steps to progress my self-learning and development further each time."

Emma White, July 2022

More relaxed, grounded and aware

"Michalina is an excellent coach. She is patient, warm, non-judgmental and welcoming. In this era of burnout I could tell that she cares a lot about her coaching and that her whole heart is in it, she brings joy to the process and I looked forward to seeing her every week that we met! She helped me identify specific goals that fit into the larger framework of getting my work projects into better focus and in better alignment with each other. Honestly, I wish I had met and worked with Michalina years ago! Michalina is so good about checking in about WHY I had certain goals and not just drawing out the WHAT of the goals.

She manages session times very well, which made me feel that I could relax, knowing that she would move us along as needed while I worked through defining / clarifying my goals. I always felt as if the sessions were open to unfolding along whatever path came from the questions related to goals and action planning, but that I wouldn’t get too lost in my own thinking through things: she helped me feel more grounded and empowered. Michalina also has a talent for picking up on my quick / side comments, and then gently opening up space to explore those in more details (because there was always more there!): this is a rare strength and is part of the brilliance of her coaching style."

Karen Patterson, January 2023

So many ‘Aha!’ moments

"To set the context for my interest in coaching sessions, I must say I’m an accredited family and couple psychotherapist. Yet, after taking the certification one year ago, I was basically doing nothing else in this area, and felt going back to one-to-one therapy sessions to help with this would just be repeating a pattern that clearly doesn’t work. Now, after my sessions with Michalina, not only my enthusiasm to continues is back, I also have a clear action plan on what to do in the following years and strategies on dealing with my moment so feeling down.

It would be impossible to list all the ‘aha!’ moments experience during the process, yet one of my biggest reflections is “reality versus what we say to ourselves about what is real can be very different sometimes. So being clear on both is very empowering. I learnt in the sessions that our own thoughts are so familiar that we don’t even distinguish if they are far from reality but when we do, we realize the potential of clarity on what you want and where you want to be, what can help or hinder you towards your objective. Then it’s so much easier to build and implement a plan, as you’ve found those very specific strategies that work for you.

I’ve tried this process by myself, believing the psychotherapy skills would be enough to guide me, but only now partnering with someone outside of my ‘routine thought pathways’ has helped me. During the process I felt safe to share with Michalina my deeply emotional areas and end up with a conversation with the hope sparkle in my heart. She is a very positive yet pragmatic individual and it really felt like in a short time she managed to adapt in being in driver’s seat to support me driving my own path. Michalina is one of the best coaches I’ve met!"

Oana Isopescu, August 2022

Vision-led, values-driven

"I was at a point in my working life where I needed to really think about what my next steps would be. Throughout the six sessions with Michalina, I was able to reflect not just on my work priorities but perhaps more importantly , how my personal values and other life goals were integral to having clearer work choices.

I found the sessions on personal values really useful as they helped me see past others’ expectations and identify what made me happiest. Michalina was an excellent listener and had a focused but friendly and caring approach which I greatly appreciated. Some of the sessions were quite intense and personally challenging , asking me to do some real soul searching and be really honest with myself which can sometimes be uncomfortable. However, Michalina was always patient and sensitive. In the end, I saw that positive changes can come in small steps, rather than having to always be huge leaps."

Christine, June 2022

Bringing down the barriers

"Michalina’s relaxed but challenging style truly provoked my thinking about what it is that I want from my career and what is holding me back in achieving my goals. She took the time to understand my thoughts and concerns and helped me work through them to find a solution that I was responsible for, constantly encouraging me to think about the barriers I was putting up and how I was going to knock them down! Our discussions felt very natural and focussed on practical solutions and I have taken a lot away from the time we spent together."

Leigh Ann Byrne, June 2022