About
About Nat
I partner with high-achieving women to transform limiting beliefs, patterns and behaviours - so they can perform at their best, without burning out.
I’m a certified and HCANZA-accredited coach with a background in live event leadership, education and the performing arts.
For over 15 years, I worked across creative production, performance, and teaching — leading large-scale events, mentoring artists, educating the next generation, managing teams, and holding presence under pressure. I’ve stood on stages, in rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and control rooms — shaping experiences that moved people, and often holding more than anyone realised.
That world taught me how to read a room, trust the body, adapt in real time, and show up with clarity — even in high-stakes, high-pressure spaces.
It also taught me how easy it is to lose yourself in the doing. To keep saying yes. To stay composed. To be what’s needed — while quietly wondering where you went in the process.
That experience didn’t just shape my career. It shaped how I coach.
Now, I work with high-achieving wāhine who are ready to slow the override and reconnect with the version of themselves they’ve drifted from — the one who wants to feel clear on what she needs, what she values, and how she actually wants to live.
When we partner together, the process is collaborative, embodied, and respectful of your lived reality. It’s not about pushing harder. It’s about coming home — and building a life that holds you too.
Background Overview
Certified Master Health & Wellness Coach (AFPA)
HCANZA-accredited coach
Bachelor of Arts (English & Drama)
Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary – English & Drama)
Trained in motivational interviewing, belief work, and trauma-sensitive, nervous system-informed practice
15+ years across performance, education, live events, and creative leadership
What I Do
I coach high-performing, tenacious women who are ready to explore what’s really driving their habits — and build a way forward that reflects who they are, not just who they think they should be.
Through 1:1 coaching and group programmes, I support you to:
- Understand the unconscious beliefs and internal rules shaping your decisions
- Interrupt cycles like people-pleasing, over-functioning, perfectionism, or emotional over-responsibility
- Rebuild trust with yourself — through boundaries, values alignment, and body awareness
- Make choices that are aligned and intentional, not performative or reactive
- Learn to create and sustain realistic goals and decisions that connect with your intrinsic motivation
How I Work
This is your space. You lead — I guide.
Everything I do is grounded in collaboration, consent, and care. My role isn’t to tell you what to do — it’s to help you reconnect with your own clarity, capacity, and direction.
Motivational Interviewing
I use evidence-based communication tools that support you to explore your own motivations for change — especially when things feel tangled or unclear. You’re the expert on your life. I’m here to guide the process, not direct it.
Seven Dimensions of Wellness
We explore your wellbeing holistically — across physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal and social, spiritual, occupational, and environmental dimensions. Because what drains you in one area often has a ripple effect on the rest. This work supports the full picture.
Trauma Sensitive Practice
While I’m not a trauma therapist, I coach with sensitivity to the invisible loads many women carry. That means we work at your pace, with nervous system awareness and emotional safety. If a deeper level of support is ever needed, we can discuss referring you to a health professional who has scope to address this with you.
Who I Partner With
I work with wāhine who are used to doing it all — and doing it well.
They’re the ones others rely on. The steady ones. The fixers. The ones who quietly hold more than anyone realises.
Some are running businesses. Some are leading teams. Some are raising families or navigating life transitions. Many are doing all of that at once.
They’re emotionally intelligent and highly self-aware — but often stuck in cycles they can’t fully name.
They’re not in crisis. But they feel the pull for change. A desire to stop overriding their own needs. To stop performing ease while internally pushing through. To live in a way that reflects their values — not just their responsibilities.
They don’t need fixing. They want space, support, and someone who can hold the complexity with them — clearly, compassionately, and without judgement.
I work with all women (cis, trans and non-binary who identify with womanhood) and am proudly LGBTQI+ friendly.
Why I Do This
In 2023, I burned out
The lead-up was gradual. I was still performing, running events and managing teams — always switched on, always holding it together.
I was also trying to be a present and attentive mother, run a household, support whānau, hold space for friends and be a partner to my husband - alongside the countless other responsibilities we as women carry.
But when a huge career opportunity came my way, I grabbed it with both hands…and worked myself sick.
Literally.
One day, my body finally said “enough,” it wasn’t subtle.
It was a full stop. I was off work for eight months.
That experience didn’t just slow me down - it effects rippled through every part of my life.
It forced me to listen in a way I never had. To unlearn the patterns that kept me in override.
To rebuild my relationship with rest, boundaries, and self-trust.
To finally tune in to the signals my body had been sending long before I shut down.
It made me think about how many other high-achieving women were on the same path — and how I could use what I’d learned to support them before they reached the point that I did.
I retrained, became certified and accredited, and created the kind of space I needed then: collaborative, respectful, and deeply attuned to the real pressures high-achieving women carry.
Now I offer that to the wāhine I work with — not as someone with all the answers, but with deep respect, lived insight, and a shared commitment to doing things differently.
