How I work
I'm not here to sit in it with you. Sitting with something has its place and there are moments where it's the only honest thing to do. But most people arrive having already sat with it for months. They've thought about it, talked about it with friends, read the books and they're still exactly where they started.
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So I work through structure. You bring one real thing and we work it through. I have three different approaches, each with a clear process with a beginning, a middle and an end. There's real depth in the room, but this doesn't substitute therapy. The aim is to get you thinking outside the box. You'll leave the session with insight and next steps, not just a feeling.
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If you're not sure which fits, book a free 15-minute call and we'll work out which one suits what you're carrying.
I take what feels overwhelming and make it navigable.
I'm not a guru and I'd be bad at pretending to be one. I'm more like someone who's crossed a few of these hurdles herself and can actually help you get unstuck. I've been through some of these transitions, and I've used the tools I now offer to find my own way through.
Wherever you're at, I'm not going to tell you what to do, or push you towards radical change. I'll guide you, using the tools, to find your own solutions. I'm interested in the version of change that fits inside a real life, with all its constraints, because that's the only version that holds.
The honest bit
I'm Cata
I help people move through life transitions and get back to themselves. Sometimes that's the big stuff: a move, a separation, becoming a parent. Sometimes nothing has gone wrong at all, life is just happening and you've lost the thread of where you are in it. Either way, the practical and the personal are tangled together and neither gets solved on its own.
How I got here
I spent over a decade in advertising, turning complicated messes into clear plans and translating technical concepts to people who don't speak the language. I was good at it. Give me a tangle and I'll give you back a route through.
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Then I became a mother and the transition took me apart in a way no plan could handle. There was nothing to organise my way out of. I had to go the other way, inward, slowly, into the parts of myself I'd been outrunning.
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That's what pointed me here. Not a clean career change, more of a slow realisation that the thing I'd always done in my career was needed somewhere deeper.
