Meet Karen

This work is personal.

Hi, I'm Karen, a clinical hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and midlife mindset coach, based in New Zealand and working online with women worldwide.

The hot flushes. The brain fog. Waking at 3am for no obvious reason, exhausted but unable to switch off. Not recognising the body you're in, and not understanding your own feelings half the time.

That was me.

I had dreadful hot flushes in the middle of the day, and I knew something wasn't right. I had medical support for my hormones, and it mattered.

At the same time, my son had grown up, and the next step was mine to work out. What now? Who am I? What do I want this next chapter to look like?

I tried everything we're told to try, and I kept asking, why is this so hard? Then I realised: life had changed, but my beliefs, habits and patterns were still the same as they'd always been. Some of them had served me well, but they weren't relevant for the woman I was discovering and stepping into.

It's not a crisis. It's a turning point.

We're often told midlife is a crisis, and that it's all hormones. Hormones are part of it. But so is a shift in who you are. The ways you've always done things, the beliefs you've carried and the patterns that once kept you going stop fitting the woman you're becoming.

For many of us, it arrives alongside other changes too: children growing up, careers shifting, the roles we've held for years no longer fitting.

That isn't something going wrong. It's the start of the most powerful chapter you'll step into.

What I wish I'd had

I went looking for answers, and it took me years of training and searching to find my way, mostly because I had no one beside me.

Looking back, what I needed most was someone who really listened, who understood, and who gave me the space to discover this next chapter and the new me emerging.

That's what I do now. You don't have to do this on your own.

How I work

I bring together coaching, NLP and clinical hypnotherapy. We talk, we make sense of what's really going on, and we work out what to keep and what to let go of.

Then I write and record a hypnotherapy audio just for you, so the work carries on long after our session ends. The audio works gently with the subconscious, where many of those old patterns live.

My training

Diploma in Clinical & Advanced Hypnotherapy (NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy)
NLP Practitioner (NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy)
Life Coaching Diplomas (NZ Institute of Business Studies & New Zealand Life Coaching
Professional Member - ANZCAL

I’m also the author of The Midlife Relief Kit and co-host of the Women’s Wellbeing Hour, a monthly live radio show on

Compass FM.

If any of this sounds like you, you're not imagining it, and you're not alone.

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