transitions June 2025
Midlife as a Threshold: What the Research and My Clients Teach Me
Midlife is not a crisis. For many women I work with, it is a reckoning — a layered, unfolding process of asking: what do I actually want?
Senior Practitioner Coach · EMCC Global · Berlin
Navigating complexity through a layered, unfolding process
A space to listen beneath the surface: not to fix or optimize, but to discover what's already trying to emerge. For individuals and for those leading mission-driven work.
Where are you?
What brings you here?
Each path has its own texture. Explore what resonates with where you are.
For You
Individual Coaching
You are navigating a transition, facing burnout, or seeking to understand more deeply how you move through the world. There is nothing broken. You are in process.
- Life transitions (migration, career, relationship, identity)
- Crisis intervention & non-clinical support
- Relationship challenges & relational dynamics
For Your Mission
Leadership & Supervision
You lead an NGO, social enterprise, or mission-driven startup. The work is meaningful, and so are the human dynamics that shape it. Through supervision-informed coaching, I support founders, directors, and teams in navigating the relational side of organizational life.
- Leadership development for founders & directors
- Team development & organizational culture
- Supervision for coaches & practitioners
The Approach Read more about my background
An Interdisciplinary Practice
My academic background in Political Science and Social Work informs how I approach both individuals and organizations, with attention to personal development and to the relational, institutional systems in which we are embedded.
My coaching practice is informed by both Western psychological frameworks and Eastern contemplative traditions. This isn't about throwing everything into the same pot. It's about working thoughtfully with what is needed in each situation.
"This is a layered, unfolding process. Together, we listen beneath the surface: not to fix or optimize, but to discover what's already trying to emerge."
Voices
Stories from the Journey
Every coaching relationship is unique. Here's what some individuals have shared about their experience.
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Working with Michaella gave me permission to slow down and actually hear myself think. After years of pushing through, that space felt like oxygen.
Programme Manager, Berlin
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The supervision sessions created a rare kind of safety — not to have answers, but to think together about what was really happening in our team. Invaluable.
Executive Director, International NGO
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I came to coaching feeling stuck in a life that looked successful from the outside. Michaella helped me find the thread back to what actually matters to me.
Consultant, 47
Recent Reflections
All reflections → transitions May 2025
Navigating Complexity Without Losing Yourself
Complex systems — organisations, relationships, life transitions — do not yield to simple answers. What they ask of us is presence, not solutions.
leading March 2025
The Courage to Pause: Why Slowing Down Is an Act of Leadership
In a culture that rewards speed and relentless productivity, choosing to pause can feel radical. Yet it is often in stillness that the most significant shifts occur.
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