In your life coaching sessions you will:

• Work out your new positive life direction

• Develop clear, meaningful goals

• Take action to successfully achieve your goals

• Develop new skills and positive habits that will last

• Identify and resolve blockages that have stopped you from reaching your potential so far

• Feel encouraged, supported and motivated every step of the way

• Learn practical, evidence-based tools to understand and ease anxiety

• Steadily raise your baseline optimism, so that a more positive outlook becomes your new normal

• Feel more secure, content and happier

Why life coaching matters?

Working with a life coach is like having a personal trainer walking alongside you through life. By helping you build clarity in your direction and holding you accountable for implementing actions and building positive habits, coaching fast-tracks your success.

What Anky brings to every session

Anky has 16 qualifications related to professional life coaching and positive psychology. It’s one of the things her clients have always valued most, because in an unregulated industry those qualifications are your assurance that you're working with someone who genuinely knows what they're doing.

Anky's approach is solution-focused and rooted in positive psychology - a fundamentally different way of working from traditional psychology. Rather than focusing on what's wrong, positive psychology looks at what's right with you: your strengths, your values and your capacity for growth. Anky harnesses those strengths to help you build on what's already working and move confidently toward the life you want.

During your sessions she draws on:

• Positive psychology tools and frameworks

• Neuroscience findings and research on habit on behaviour change

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Mindfulness and visualisation techniques

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Sherpa Executive Coaching

• SMART goal setting

• Tailored aromatherapy support where useful

What sets Anky apart

I'm no stranger to change. At 13 I moved from the Netherlands to New Zealand, learning a new language and adapting to a new culture. Twenty-five years later, my family and I moved again, this time to Australia. I returned to university at 30, raised a family young, built successful businesses, and spent over 17 years in corporate life implementing large-scale change as a Change Manager.

That breadth of experience is what I bring to every coaching session. My personal mission is simple: for every client to leave feeling more positive and hopeful than when they arrived.

I work with clients across all walks of life, with a particular focus on three groups close to my heart.

Having navigated perimenopause personally, I understand what women are experiencing beyond the current clinical knowledge alone.

I also have a deep passion for supporting young people navigating anxiety and life transitions. Over fifteen years of coaching I've helped many young clients move from feeling overwhelmed to finding confidence, clarity and resilience. If you have a young person in your life who is struggling, I offer a warm, practical and highly effective approach.

As a qualified positive parenting educator, I support parents through the challenges of raising children and teenagers. Whether you're navigating a difficult phase with your child, looking for more confidence and calm in your parenting, or simply wanting practical tools that work, I can help you as I’ve helped many other parents. I bring both professional training in Circle of Security and Triple P, as well as personal experience to this conversation.