You don’t need to become someone else. You need to return to who you already are.
If you’ve spent years being the strong one, the reliable one, the one who holds it together, and some quieter part of you is beginning to ask “but what about me?”: then you’re in the right place.
I work with women who have become everything to everyone.
Not defined by a single role; you might be a mother, you might not; you might run a business, you might not.
What you share is a pattern: you’re the one everyone leans on. You’re capable and loving and dependable, and somewhere along the way, being needed quietly replaced being fully you.
Who I help
I'm Andreya.
For a long time, being capable was the way I knew how to matter. I grew up in Brazil, raised mostly by my mum on her own, and life asked me to adapt early as I had to manage, to make things happen myself rather than wait for help that might not come. So I did what capable girls do. I studied obsessively, earned a scholarship to a school we couldn't otherwise afford, became the first in my family to graduate university, and built a career that made me the youngest manager in one of Brazil's largest companies. I was the one who could cope, the one who could solve it. The one who never dropped the ball.
For a while, that determination felt like a gift… and it was. But somewhere along the way, it quietly became armour. I stopped noticing the weight of holding everything together, until my body noticed for me. It took getting seriously ill, twice, before I finally heard what I'd been overriding for years: that surviving and living are not the same thing.
So I did something that would once have felt reckless. I travelled alone to the Atacama desert and let myself ask what I actually wanted, without needing it to make sense to anyone else. There, I started to connect to myself. A month later, not looking for it at all, I met my Kristian. Within a year I'd left my career, my language, and my country behind, and moved to England to build a completely different kind of life.
I've lived several lives inside that one decision since: new wife, immigrant, new mother, a woman rebuilding her sense of self somewhere that didn't know any of her old versions. And through all of it, one thread never left: a fascination with why we do what we do; the mind, human behaviour, what actually helps someone change. I thought about coaching for years before I let myself begin, circling the same quiet doubt: who am I to do this? Until I understood I didn't need a perfect story or a flawless credential. I needed exactly what I had: a life that had taught me, over and over, how to find my way back to myself. That's the work I now get to do with other women.
These days, home is Kristian, and our two boys: Charlie, 8, and Max, 6. (If you've read my Substack, you may already know Max, he's quietly one of my wisest teachers.) I wouldn't trade the winding way I got here :)
My Story
My gift is simple to describe and takes a lifetime to hone: I hear what you feel but haven’t said yet, and I help you understand it simply.
In our work, I listen for what’s alive beneath the practical problem: the belief under the choice, the old role under the overwhelm, the ceiling under the “realistic” goal. Then I help you turn that tangle into something clear and usable. Not “destroy the old you,” but: understand what shaped you, honour what it taught you, and choose what still belongs.
From there, we build a vision for your life that’s finally spacious enough to reflect who you really are.
How I work
This work is grounded, not mystical.
I draw on identity work, emotional awareness, and your own natural design to help you see yourself clearly, but I’ll never hand you a label and call it done. Your design is a lens I use to help you work with yourself rather than against yourself. The focus stays where it belongs: on your life, and on you.