Hi, I’m Stefania.
I coach people who did everything they were told would make them happy: the degree, the career, the life that looks right from the outside. And now they're sensing that something essential is missing. They are frustrated, feeling stuck, or down. What's in the way is a pattern set long ago, still quietly running things. Once you see it clearly, change stops being a fight and starts to happen naturally.
My Story
I was born in Paraguay and grew up between British, American and Spanish cultures. Through all of it, I stayed Latina at heart. That warmth and aliveness never left me, and it’s at the centre of how I work. If you've lived between countries and never quite belonged to just one, I know that feeling.
Like many of the people I work with, I spent years building the kind of life that looks right from the outside. I studied psychology in Barcelona, built a startup from scratch, ran an international real estate company, and eventually became a product manager in London's tech world.
From the outside it worked. Inside, I was burning out.
Burnout brought me to my knees. But it also brought me home. What I discovered in that breaking point was that I hadn't lost myself dramatically — it had happened quietly, over years. The performance, the adapting, the becoming who the world needed me to be. Until I woke up one day and felt the weight of it all.
My own return to myself began in the therapy room, in the forest, and in ceremony with indigenous communities whose knowledge of the human soul runs thousands of years deeper than anything I'd studied in a textbook.
Today I’m based in the Cotswolds, in the English countryside, surrounded by nature, goats, horses and birds that sing all day. I work with clients across the world. And I lead retreats — including in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon — where the forest and the indigenous spiritual leaders do the teaching.
My work is the synthesis of everything I've lived, studied, and witnessed. It is precise, practical, and rooted in genuine depth.
Therapist’s Depth, Coach’s Direction
I trained as a Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapist and in Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry, and I bring that depth into coaching. We don't spend months analysing the past. Together we find the pattern underneath what keeps happening, where it began and what it has been protecting. Then we work at that root, rather than adjusting habits on the surface.
What I've learned — in the therapy room and deep in the Amazon — is that most people don't need to talk more about their stuff. They need to identify the patterns and, most importantly, where they come from. What they need is someone to help them see the one thing they've never been able to see about themselves.
Once they see it, they change. Organically. Without force.
My work is practical and direct. Clients often tell me: 'I've been in therapy for years, but this is different. You don't just listen — something actually shifts.'
That shift is what I'm here for.
What Shifts
You stop reacting to life and start creating it, from choice rather than old fear.
You find a confidence and peace that don't depend on getting everything right.
The gap closes between where you are now and who you feel you're meant to be.
What the Amazon & Indigenous Wisdom has taught me
For 5 years I've learned alongside indigenous teachers in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon. The Huni Kuin women of Pinuya village have become my sisters. I've sat with Imika, an elder of the Tubu Hummurimassá nation, among the oldest rock drawings in the Americas, listening to the wisdom of his ancestors. At Yorenka Tasorentsi I've learned from Benki, an Ashaninka leader whose vision is a world where agroforestry means no one goes hungry and everyone’s spirits remain strong.
I keep returning to my teachers to deepen my connection to nature, to myself and to all of life. I do this work on myself just as the people I guide do on themselves. We all have our blind spots, and we all have gifts to share. I can only take someone as far as I've taken myself.
The teaching I come back to most is simple: it's impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. So much of life goes into chasing the next milestone while missing what's already here. Real gratitude, the kind you feel rather than perform, is where joy begins.
Alongside this, I support my Huni Kuin sisters in sharing their wisdom across Europe, and I bring indigenous knowledge holders into conversation with scientists in fields like quantum computing and AI. All of it rests on reciprocity.
None of this is something I offer as part of coaching. But it lives in me, and it's present in how I listen and how I sit with every person who comes to me.
Training & Formation
Masters in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy — Erich Fromm Institute, Barcelona
Certification in Compassionate Inquiry — Dr. Gabor Maté
Certification in Holistic Health Coaching, in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Taoist principles — Academy of Healing Nutrition, London
5 years learning from indigenous communities — including the Huni Kuin and Ashaninka of Brazil, and the Tubu Hummurimassá in Colombia.
Beyond the Work
I am Paraguayan-European. I have navigated multiple cultures, languages, countries and versions of myself. That navigation — and what I found at the end of it — is the foundation of everything I offer.
The forest teaches me something new every time I return. My clients teach me something new every session.
I believe that joy, freedom, and genuine aliveness are not rewards for getting everything right. They are your natural state — the one you were born into before the world layered over it.
My work is simply helping you find your way back.
Ready to Begin?
If something in this page has resonated — if you recognise yourself in these words — I'd love to have a conversation. No commitment, no pressure. Just an honest exploration of whether this work is right for you.
With love and joy,
Stefania