Testimonials

"Karyn delivers executive coaching to school leadership teams as part of our professional development programme. Her wealth of experience in senior roles enriches her work and provides insights that benefit all organisation types. Karyn has an empathetic personable approach and builds effective and meaningful relationships with her clients to ensure they realise both professional and life potential. She generates a new flow of positivity and creativity into stagnant leadership rejuvenating organisation perspectives and culture."

Darren Nixon – CEO eye4education

"I sought life coaching when I was made redundant after twenty-five years in management. Karyn helped me during this difficult period of transition by encouraging me to embrace change and visualise a new career path. She guided me through each step of the journey, uncovering new possibilities whilst setting achievable goals and stretching me out of my comfort zone to upskill and develop professionally. Karyn expertly nurtured and mentored me at a time of great vulnerability in my life. Her encouraging belief in my ability gave me the confidence to make life changing decisions. I am now working in education proving that a brand-new career is achievable in later life. "

Ruth Mercer – Lecturer, University of Ulster

“I completed coaching sessions with Karyn, and I can already see progress in both my personal and professional life. Her insightful open-ended questions and empathetic listening helped me in identifying my limiting beliefs and low self-esteem. She encouraged and motivated me from our first session to feel comfortable and confident in expressing myself, despite the fact that English is not my first language. Every session with Karyn boosted my confidence and self-belief, allowing me to take on new challenges and step outside of my comfort zone. She used powerful open-ended questions in her coaching to help me discover my strengths, overcome obstacles, and set and achieve meaningful goals. At the end of our sessions, I felt lighter, more confident, and had a clear plan for moving forward.”        

Alina, London

"Karyn is the kind of person who you meet once in a lifetime and hold on to!  She is very caring and thorough in her approach to helping me tackle my future and present issues.  She has been an integral part in my steps forward in life through helping me to destress, remain calm and focus on myself.  She is both incredibly friendly and easy to work with while making you feel like it's a friend giving you such stellar advice.  Could not ask for a better coach in any aspect of my life!"    

Patrick,  Dublin

“Karyn is motivating, encouraging and an empathetic listener.  She is trustworthy and non-judgmental with superior time management skills.  She demonstrates excellent communication and inter personal skills, she brings her many positive attributes and varied life experiences to this role.  I would not hesitate to recommend Karyn.”

Lisa, GP, Northern Ireland

“Karyn has been a beacon of light in my quest for growth in both my business and personal life.  Her straightforward approach and absolute belief in me has helped me achieve and indeed exceed what I wanted in both areas. Highly recommended!"

Janet, AstraZeneca      

“Karyn connects with others in a very caring and personal manner.  She is non-judgmental and is very easy to talk to.  I don’t think any other experience will help me to recognize my abilities and give me confidence to work through whatever comes my way as much as working with Karyn as a coach.  Karyn’s positive but also realistic outlook is  so uplifting and motivating and I can’t thank her enough for her support.  I highly recommend to anyone at any stage in life, her advice always carries through!”                               

Michaela, Dublin

"I wanted to write to express our gratitude to Karyn for her incredible help with our daughter who has been transformed through counselling. Following COVID our fifteen-year-old daughter began experiencing high anxiety and turned into a recluse, which was so painful to watch as we felt helpless. However, over the period of counselling with Karyn we have seen a dramatic change in her. She has grown in self-confidence and her anxiety has disappeared. She is now strong, resilient, and excited about her future. We really feel like we have got our daughter back. Thank you – we will be forever grateful."

Mother of young adult client – Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

"After the sudden death of my father, I felt I needed counselling as I was so overwhelmed and couldn’t process what had happened and felt quite desperate inside. I was struggling to find meaning and purpose in life without Dad. Karyn provided me with a safe space to pour out my grief and accept my emotion, pain and anxiety. As we progressed with the sessions, we uncovered other trauma that I had to work through. Karyn was extremely sensitive towards me and intently listened to hear the real need behind my garbled, mixed-up story. She taught me to be kinder to myself, helping me to understand the importance of setting boundaries and self-care. Whilst at times I have found counselling hard I have achieved great freedom and relief in understanding myself better and feel stronger as a result. I believe this therapy time with Karyn really saved me from going down into a spiral of depression."

Elizabeth, Bangor, Northern Ireland.