About me
Why I work this way
I’ve spent much of my life questioning scripts that other people seemed happy to follow.
I grew up atheist in Catholic Poland, studied philosophy among future lawyers, built a corporate career, and eventually realised I was far more interested in the internal worlds of the people around me than the targets we were meant to hit.
Born and raised in Warsaw, I lived in the UK for seven years and recently moved to France. After enough years of being asked, “where are you from?” I’ve stopped expecting myself to give a simple answer.
Living across different cultures, careers, and identities has made me increasingly interested in the stories we inherit about what a “good life” is supposed to look like – the prestigious degree, the sensible job, the relationship that makes sense, and the life that looks great on LinkedIn.
Because most of us are living, at least partly, inside a script we didn’t write.
My work is about helping you figure out which parts of your story you actually want to keep – and which ones you’ve just been performing for an audience that wasn’t even watching.
Why coaching?
I’ve always been interested in the gap between understanding something intellectually and actually doing something differently.
You can be incredibly self-aware, you can think something through from every possible angle, understand where your patterns come from, anticipate every potential outcome – and still find yourself having the same argument with yourself six months later.
Sometimes more thinking becomes a way of staying in the same place.
That’s part of what draws me to coaching. It gives us space to slow down, reflect, and explore what’s really going on, while also keeping an eye on the question that comes next: What do you want to do with what you’re discovering?
I’m not there to analyse you or tell you what the answer is. I’m there to help you think more clearly, question what you’ve been taking for granted, explore possibilities you may have ruled out too quickly, and – when you’re ready – act on what you’ve discovered.
What shaped my approach
My approach combines solution-focused coaching with philosophical inquiry, informed by my experience across different cultures, careers, and disciplines.
Solution-focused methodology
I trained in The Art & Science of Coaching with Erickson Coaching International, an ICF-accredited coach education programme with a solution-focused approach. I’m currently working towards the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Philosophy
I have master’s degrees in both Law and Philosophy. My philosophical background, together with my interest in existential and psychoanalytic thinking, shapes the things I pay attention to and the questions I bring into my coaching.
Who am I outside of my roles?
What do I actually want – and what am I avoiding?
What does it mean to live a life that genuinely feels like my own?
Personal work
I’ve done more than six years of my own long-term psychodynamic therapy. That experience shaped how I listen, including paying attention to what is left unsaid, while also teaching me to pay attention to my own processes, projections, and interpretation.
It also made me much more aware of the responsibility involved in working with another person’s inner world, and paying attention to the ways my own interpretations might influence how I understand what a client brings to the room.
I take seriously the responsibility of continuing to work on myself as a coach, through coaching, personal reflection, and professional development.
Corporate experience
Before coaching, I worked across corporate and international environments, including institutional investment journalism and data research, law, and recruitment.
I know professional pressure from the inside – the relationship between work, identity and achievement, and the pressure to make choices that are sensible, impressive and easy to defend.
And I know what it feels like to be good at something, successful by all the usual measures, and still feel disconnected from the life you’re building.
Who I tend to work with
I tend to work with people who are used to figuring things out themselves – and who have reached a point where thinking harder isn’t giving them the answers.
You might be questioning your career, your relationship, where you live, what success means to you, or simply whether the life you’ve built still fits.
You might have a goal you’re working towards, but find yourself wondering whether it’s something you still want. Or you might have plenty of ideas about what you could do next, without knowing which one feels like yours.
I believe that clarity doesn’t always come from finding the right goal. Sometimes it comes from understanding what has been getting in the way of knowing what you want in the first place.
And when you’re more in touch with what you actually want, goals and motivation tend to emerge more naturally – and are easier to sustain.