The Present Perfect

Stop waiting to feel ready.

Confidence coaching for the moments that ask more of you: adolescence, a career transition, a move abroad, navigating your day-to-day in a language you're still growing into.

You already know what you want. The challenge is taking steps before you feel certain.

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How I can help

Every one of these looks like a different problem. It isn't. Each one is a transition that needs a type of confidence you don't have yet, and that is exactly what we build.

Career change

For the moment you decide the life you have isn't the one you're staying in.

  • Getting clear on what you want
  • Interviews and difficult conversations
  • Doing it before you feel qualified

Moving abroad

For anyone rebuilding a life, a network and a sense of self in a new country.

  • Finding your feet in a new place
  • Making friends as an adult, in a second language
  • Culture shock, and the way out of it

Language confidence

You're on a high power career track in a language that is not native to you. You know the theory and still freeze when you get put on the spot.

  • Stop translating in your head
  • Speak authentically without rehearsing
  • Handle the interview, the review, the exam comfortably

Teens & young adults

For parents who can see the gap between what their teenager has achieved and what they're ready for.

  • Finding out who they are
  • Expat, homeschooled and study-abroad teens
  • A ten-week group course, or one-to-one

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About me

Hi, I'm Nicole.

I coach people through the big changes: a new career, a move abroad, growing into a second language. For many of my clients, the hard part is the confidence, not the language.

I work with psychology and CBT tools, so we look at how your thoughts, feelings and behaviour feed each other, and at what keeps the old loop running. Then we change it, one real situation at a time.

I moved abroad at sixteen, and again at twenty. I know the version of you that arrives before the fluency does.

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Feeling ready comes after the first step, not before it.
The Present Perfect

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Tell me what's stuck.

Not the version you've been describing to other people. The real one. I read every message myself.

Ready when you are.

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