When I was 8 years old, I decided I would leave my home country, Belarus, for the safety of a Western country as soon as I could apply for a university. At the age of 14, I made up my mind - I was going to leave and build my life in the Netherlands. Not maybe. Not someday. I knew. From that moment on, everything became very clear: I would get an education, build a stable career, and create a life that makes sense. A life that looks right. A life that is right. And I followed that path all the way through. By the age of 25, I had done everything I set out to do: I had the degree, job, stability, and a safe citizenship. Everything was in place. And then something unexpected happened. Nothing fell apart. But I started waking up with a feeling I couldn’t ignore anymore - Is this it?

I felt empty. Not in a dramatic way, just… disconnected. Like I had built a life that worked — but didn’t fully belong to me. For a long time, I didn’t understand it. Because this is what I had worked for. This was the plan. So why didn’t it feel right? Eventually, I saw it clearly: I had built my life based on what I believed was expected of me. What is good. What is respectable. What makes sense. But I had never really asked myself: What is true for me? That question changed the direction of my life.

I didn’t find the answer all at once. But I started to slow down. To question. To listen. And to see how many of the beliefs I was living by were never really mine. Little by little, I stopped trying to be who I thought I should be - and allowed myself to be who I am. Not perfect. Not always certain. But real. I claimed myself. I reconnected with my nature - with how I actually feel, think, and experience life, without forcing it into something more acceptable.

Coach‑counselling became part of that process. Because I realised how easy it is to lose yourself while doing everything “right,” and how powerful it is to come back to yourself. That realisation eventually led me to formalise this work. In 2025, I joined the Academy for Coaching and Counselling, and in 2026, I became a certified practitioner. I’m currently continuing my education there with an additional year of training focused on life & health coach‑counselling — deepening my skills and expanding the way I can support my clients.

This is the space I offer now. A space where you can be honest about what’s really going on. Where you don’t have to perform or have it all figured out. I will meet you with attention and care — and I will also challenge you when needed. Because feeling safe matters. But so does being real.

In our sessions, we look at what’s really going on inside you — the quiet overwhelm, the pressure to hold everything together, the confusion that comes when a life that “works” no longer feels right. This space is especially helpful if you’re:

• navigating a major transition

• questioning the path you’ve built so far

• feeling disconnected from yourself or your desires

• constantly performing a role that no longer fits

• struggling to make decisions because you don’t know what you truly want

• realising that external success hasn’t brought internal alignment

You don’t have to have the right words or a clear goal. You just need a place where you can stop performing and start listening to yourself again.