Coaching

Welcome to Your Coaching Journey

Find Clarity. Build Confidence. Create Lasting Impact.

Why Coaching?

You’re navigating a major life transition, such as a relocation, parenthood, menopause, or career change, and want guidance to handle it with clarity and confidence.
You want to grow as a leader, developing the skills, self-awareness, and confidence to lead effectively in your life or work.
You wish to create impact and meaning, using your voice and actions to contribute positively to the world around you.
You’re seeking emotional balance, whether by managing anxiety, building self-esteem, or learning to better regulate your emotions.
You have a dream or goal you’re ready to pursue, but you feel stuck or unsure about where to begin.
You’re ready for personal growth, whether by creating healthier habits, finding a deeper sense of purpose, or improving your relationship with yourself.
You want to improve or redefine a relationship, whether that means strengthening, questioning, or bringing closure.

How We’ll Work Together

I will meet you in your wholeness.

We’ll work with all aspects of you—your mind, body, emotions, shadow, spirit, and the beautiful mystery of who you are.

I commit to cultivating a sacred, judgment-free space where you can listen, explore, and experience fully. I will bring my curiosity, my willingness to experiment, and all that I know to serve you. And always, you will guide the way.

This is YOUR space to lead.

My Approach is

Co-Active

At the center of our work is the dynamic, collaborative relationship between you, the client, and I, the coach, grounded in the belief that people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. We’ll partner to co-create experiences that support your journey—both to yourself and toward your goals: aligning actions with personal values and purpose; supporting you to make conscious choices around how you are and what you do; and allowing you to be present to your emotions.

Integral

I bring a deeply holistic approach to personal development. This means working with your thoughts, imagination, intentions, and belief systems. We’ll explore how your body, feelings, narrative, and behaviours reflect and influence your experiences. We’ll look at your relationships, culture, and the environments you live in, all through the lens of your development and evolution. By honouring the complexity of who you are and where you’re starting from, rather than focusing solely on goals or behaviour change, we will consider internal and external dimensions, developmental stages, and multiple lines of intelligence. In order to support not just change, but growth that endures.

Embodied

We will work with posture, breath, movement, sensation, and somatic awareness to access deeper patterns of behaviour and belief. This approach helps clients reconnect with their felt experience, uncover unconscious habits stored in the body, and develop new, embodied ways of being.

Trauma and AD(H)D Informed

In a world where so many of us experience trauma, I bring a trauma-informed approach. I am trained to recognize stress responses and respect the boundaries of what we can safely explore together. If needed, I will help you find the support of a mental health professional. Furthermore, in the current reality we are being bombarded by stimulus, and everyday, I find more clients that are diagnosed or experience various aspects of attention deficit. My training in this field allows me to understand the ADHD brain and work with it—leveraging strengths, building practical systems, and developing self-awareness. Helping clients navigate real-life challenges like time management, procrastination, and overwhelm with empathy and structure. The goal is not just productivity, but empowerment—helping clients build confidence, resilience, and agency in a way that truly fits how they function best.

Practice-Oriented

Our work will focus on co-creating deep learning during our sessions and building practical tools and practices you can use between sessions. These practices will help you stay aligned with your goals and experience lasting, embodied transformation lived and felt from the inside out.

Your Role in the Process and Mine

Even when you don’t believe it, you are the expert on your life, your work, and your purpose.

You will do the work.

My role?

To empower you to step out of your comfort zone.

To enable you to ask yourself questions you never thought of or always thought of in the same way.

To help you connect and listen to yourself at a deeper level; to your emotions, your body, your own wisdom.

To evoke your courage to try things out so you may use your resources and create new ones, moving forward deliberately and according to your own choices.

To hold you accountable in a compassionate way, supporting you to turn intentions into sustained action.

At times, our work will feel smooth and comforting, as you uncover new clarity and strength within. Others, you’ll feel stretched, maybe even frustrated with me—and that’s okay.

Growth requires discomfort, but we’ll hold it together in a safe and supportive space.

If this approach resonates with you, let’s connect.

(Only reach out if you feel there’s potential for trust and intimacy in our work together. Take a look at this questionnaire to further evaluate if coaching is for you.)

What You Can Expect

A Safe Space

I’ll meet you where you are—without judgment.

A Bold Vision

I’ll hold an expansive vision for you and your growth.

Your Leadership

You will always decide where we go and how we get there.

Let’s Begin

TESTIMONIALS

What my clients say about our work together

Coaching with Pilar grounded me more fully in myself, while also helping me expand the range of ways of being that feel available to me. Our work together transformed my experience of small but important things (e.g., my to-do list) and large (e.g., what I believe about myself and life). She has a special ability to make space for everything - including hard feelings, big longings, and abundant laughter. It was life changing and life affirming.

Suzanne Alonzo Barbarao - USAProfessor and Associate Vice Provost

Working with Pilar has been truly transformative. Obviously this is on a personal and a professional level as working with the whole person is always the starting point for Pilar. Pilar has the ability to explore the depths of life and at the same time get very practical and down to earth when it comes to actions and next steps. She is intuitive, brutally honest, highly intelligent and very loving and caring all at the same time.

Barbara Besançon - NetherlandsPartner Leadership and Transformation @Ebbinge

Pilar gave me some pivotal mentoring and coaching during a crisis in confidence when I was preparing for my Co-Active exam after a long break since my training. I so appreciated Pilar’s personal touches, like a guided meditation she recorded just for me based on our sessions together, and her notable warmth and compassion. She helped me to process a difficult experience and our work on this was so powerful that I had a huge burst of creativity in the following days. She helped me build confidence, take things less seriously and relax into my strengths as a coach. I can’t recommend working with Pilar enough.

Genevieve Nathwani - PortugalMindful Impact Coach

Pilar possesses a rare ability to see into the very essence of who you are. Years ago, she guided me with wisdom, clarity, and unwavering empathy, helping me connect with my vision, my strengths, and my emotions. Today, as I reflect on my journey, I can say how the buttons she pushed in myself activated things, allowing me to achieve goals I never thought possible and to become a version of myself that I am truly proud of. Pilar’s impact is not fleeting; it transforms you, leaving an enduring legacy of clarity, confidence, and purpose. She didn’t just change my life back then —her influence continues to shape it today.

José Loro - SpainCommercial Director at CIRES21

Pilar is such a great coach and mentor! She was one of my co-active training institute supervising coaches whom I later hired to help me obtain my ACC. Pilar has immense skills and talent as a coach; and, I credit much of my success as a coach to my early work with her. Pilar gives honest and direct feedback in a personnable way. She's patient, supportive - and great at bottom-lining strengths and development areas in a constructive and optimistic way. I would hire Pilar again; and,I recommend her if you need an experienced, compassionate coach to achieve your dreams and goals.

Kim Morton - USALife Transition Coach and HR Consultant

Working with Pilar has been truly transformative. She helped me unlearn limiting thought patterns and guided me with patience, compassion, and deep understanding. Throughout our journey, she made me feel seen and heard, creating a safe space for growth and self-discovery. Pilar’s warmth and care are unmatched, and I couldn’t have asked for a better person to support me through this journey of self-discovery and a multitude of possibilities.

Yousra Annabi - SwitzerlandHR Leader and Co-Active Coach

Pilar has been my invaluable coaching mentor for several years. I deeply admire her ability to share her experience with both grace and directness. Her emphasis on the importance of humility and authenticity has been particularly impactful. I've learned that these qualities are as essential as any technical skill or theoretical knowledge in building a successful and meaningful coaching practice. Thanks to Pilar's guidance, I have a profound belief in coaching's potential to positively impact our lives.

Niko Kinkladze - GeorgiaLeadership Coach PCC, CPCC, MBA

"It’s your life - but only if you make it so."

Eleanor Roosevelt