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Testimonials

Coaching 1:1

Lucy has been a true inspiration and clearly has insights and experience with the nature and sometimes stresses of creative careers and that is so valuable for anyone working freelance in the creative industries. Her strengths are her intuition and great sense for people and their current challenges. She digs deeper and is always aiming and unrooting the present challenges and is honestly reflecting on them too. I have been able to look more honestly and appreciative at my achievements and what I am already doing every day. I was able to learn how to practice ease and joy in every moment and every step of the ways and also to trust myself more. Most of all I learned that my intuition is also a pretty good guide in my professional life and just just in my private life.
Simone, AT
Graphic Designer & Creative Director
My sessions with Lucy started off being about a very specific issue. But as she helped me work through it, new doors opened up. I was not expecting the amount of clarity I was about to get in my self reflections, so I feel really blessed for the many new discoveries I’ve made, together with Lucy. She really is a life coach! She represents equal amounts of humane compassion and levelheaded structure. Combined I feel she is able to get to the heart of the issue by being my co-human, and then pave the way for change with her technical skills. It’s been nothing less than a revelatory process.
Julia, DK/DE
Artist
Lucy helped me create order in my chaotic thoughts and realise what I can actually do to feel better, and which things are outside my control. With her coaching she made me not only voice my concerns and problems, but also my dreams and ambitions, which I found very valuable and made me realise how much there is to love and be grateful for in my life!
Eva, NL
Classical Singer
I feel more relaxed, calm, less worried about the future and more focused on the steps I need to take to advance in my career. Working with Lucy was a very valuable experience. It helped me identify perceptions that made me uncomfortable in professional and personal spheres, and with Lucy's help I developed tools for dealing with them. I also learned to ask myself the right questions to see in what direction to move and what further steps to take, to feel more inspired and motivated.
Alina, UK
Lawyer
I experienced the sessions with Lucy as very pleasant and familiar. They helped structure my daily life with work and leisure. Lucy is a great listener and knows how to come up with questions at the right times so that you can look at your own situation in a different way.
Nanouk, NL
Lucy listens, gets the main points from your story and gives you striking insight in return. This creates clarity on different levels and challenges you to see your own beliefs in a new light. She showed me that I don't have to work even harder to become who I want to be, but that I already am that person.
Marleen, NL
Classical Singer
Lucy is really a good listener and knows how to make space and reflect back. Our sessions have been of great support to reduce the stress of blurry unclear expectations.
Barbara, DE
Software Engineer
I was very happy with Lucy's coaching, she can really listen and hold space, allowing for thoughts and feelings that were deeper than what I was trying to work on, to emerge. Our work together gave me an opportunity to heal, develop, focus, understand. She was always helpful and willing to help and provide whatever I asked, during the sessions and after. I would definitely recommend working with her.
Giuseppe, IT
Musician
I learned how to be open, vulnerable and grateful to myself with Lucy in a creative and fun way. She is fantastic! She is the guide you need to knowing yourself in a deep, compassionate and loving way. She encourages you to dig deeper and face what is uncomfortable, and helps you untangle your web.
Ana, MX
Creative
Lucy helped me to have more clarity on where I was standing and where I wanted to go, especially in a time of uncertainty and self-doubt. Our sessions made me realise about my priorities and how to achieve them and insecurities and how to overcome them. I now have more confidence on my artistic outcome, and also have a clearer vision of what I want as an artist.
Nico, CO/DE
Sound Artist
Lucy is very sharp and asks the right questions at the right time, without filling in things for you. She guides you in a process in which you are in control. Underlying issues and values that influence my behavior or patterns have become clearer to me. This gave me a better grip on things that I previously felt happened to me.
Rosa, NL
Artist
My sessions with Lucy gave me the time and confidence to take on challenges that I have been thinking about for a while- I feel like I've made more progress in the last 2 months than I have in the past 8 years. Lucy helped me move towards achieving the life I want. Being able to discuss insecurities that have held me back for so long (without judgement), has really helped me move past negative thought patterns and start to be proud of what I have achieved and feel excited about the future. Would recommend!
Lara, UK
Artist
Through coaching with Lucy I feel better equipped to face challenges and handle decision making by being more secure in myself.
Sam, NZ
Learning Designer
Lucy helped me work through my feelings of being an imposter and feeling inferior about the decision to become a coach. She helped me uncover fears, focus on the value I was bringing and how best to harness my desire for connection. By the end of the sessions with her, I felt confident about my value and accepting of the fact that I couldn't control people's responses to me. I now truly believe I only control my expectations from relationships and nurture positive connections.
Oge, UK
Life Coach

Testimonials

Groups

It was lovely to reflect upon the issue of [...], being able to share and listen to other people's stories. It also made me feel more like: I'm note alone in this feeling, this is part of being a creative/creative freelancer!
CONFIDENT CREATIVES CLUB
It was good to hear others' experience and the fact that (lack of) confidence is not about who we are but how we operate in our environments and what it is that we aim for (e.g. openness/ communication/ sharing vs. demonstrating certainty)
CONFIDENT CREATIVES CLUB
This conversation cleared the air with a lot of the thoughts that I used to have [..] and it has helped me realise that I was not alone feeling lack of confidence.​
CONFIDENT CREATIVES CLUB
It has been very good facilitation, welcoming feeling, good balance of giving input and listening, valuable topic, good flow and insightful exercise!
Participant
Confidence workshop
It brought new perspectives and more ease​
Partcipant
Confidence workshop
We were asking questions that require deep thinking, I liked it!
CONFIDENT CREATIVES CLUB
I felt inspired and represented
CONFIDENT CREATIVES CLUB

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