Katherine’s coaching was tailor-made and gave me good foundations for doing my PhD. It was surprisingly flexible and I loved the book recommendations, readings and podcasts. Katherine's candid sharing of her own experiences as a PhD student and, later, early-career researcher, helped me overcome some initial fears and intimidation. I'm really looking forward to the next few years, and beyond!

What I learned from coaching with Katherine is thinking about work differently which started with understanding how I work. Keeping a writing log helped me face how I feel each time I sit down and write and get in the habit of checking in with myself. I cannot emphasise enough how helpful listening to yourself is. And having someone listen to you intensely reminded me that attention is truly the best gift one can offer to another human being! Katherine's feedback on my writing log provided me with fresh and useful insight as well as a sense of accountability. Coaching sessions were like unearthing potatoes. I didn’t expect everything to be so interconnected and in need of interrogating. It surprised me how the way we work is all rooted into our upbringing. Katherine asks challenging questions, that were sometimes really difficult to process, but gave me food for thought over many weeks. In that way, Katherine’s coaching was very personalised and the follow up resources and readings meant I didn’t feel left alone to figure out where to go between sessions.

What a fun experience! Katherine was patient and empathetic while also pushing me to look inward and identify maladaptive thought patterns. Often this process left me feeling silly for having held certain beliefs in the first place, yet Katherine was always kind and supportive and gave me a safe space to make these uncomfortable realizations. Most impressively, I found her coaching to be highly relevant and applicable to my life and career, even though we are in completely different fields of work and live on different continents!