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COACHING

My Approach: Deep, Warm, Insightful, Evidence-Based
 

My coaching style is integrative and systemic and weaves together
 

  • evidence-based psychological tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and narrative psychology

  • solution-focused coaching (co-active frameworks)

  • insights from cultural history, philosophy (especially Stoicism), sociology and literature

  • methods from clinical hypnotherapy and deep nervous system relaxation techniques.


I bring both academic rigour and human warmth – a combination my clients consistently describe as “clarifying”, “grounding”, “life-changing” and “transformational”.

BONUS: All my coaching clients get free access to my complete guided hypnotherapy audio library.


Who I Work With

I work best with thoughtful, psychologically minded or neurodivergent people who are successful on the outside but internally wrestling with tension, exhaustion, self-doubt, over-identification with achievement, or a growing sense that their current way of living is no longer sustainable.

Many arrive mid-story. They are:

  • leaders navigating transitions,

  • founders or professionals carrying invisible pressure,

  • creatives and intellectuals struggling with harsh self-interpretations,

  • people who appear highly capable externally but feel internally conflicted or depleted,

  • polymathic, hyper-curious, or neurodivergent disruptors and rebel thinkers.

 

Most have already done substantial inner work.
 

They are not looking for motivational slogans or productivity hacks.
They are looking for clarity, coherence, agency and meaningful change.

My Mission

  • To help you see yourself and your self-stories more clearly.

  • To help you recover from burnout, overwhelm, stress, anxiety and exhaustion and create a better work-life balance.

  • To teach you powerful metacognitive tools to change your patterns, self-talk and better manage your inner critic.

  • To address the narrative root-causes of your challenges.

  • To help you redirect your attention to what really matters – the projects and people you care about.

  • To help you rewrite the stories that limit you – and author the life you truly want.

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My Qualifications

  • Clinical Hypnotherapist (PDHyp/MBH)

  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)

  • PhD and former Professor of Cultural History

  • ACT practitioner

  • Insights Discovery practitioner

  • Performance Catalyst core team member

  • Featured in the TLS, Guardian, Observer, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Psychologies, BBC and many other media.

  • Regular contributor to Psychology Today (many of my blogs are essential reads).

  • Author of various books that have been translated into 5 languages.

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
Insights Discovery Profile Licensed Practitioner
General Hypnotherapy Registry
ICCHP

Apply for a FREE STORY DIAGNOSTIC CALL now

I offer exclusive 1:1 self-story coaching. Limited availability.

Email me for further details, prices and availability at anna@exhaustion-coach.com.

TESTIMONIALS

"The Hypnotherapy session with Anna felt as though she had just watered my soul."

Dramatist

"After just one session with Anna, my wife said, 'Wow, I have not seen you like this for years. Whatever Anna does must be working!'"

Rugby Coach

“I had the pleasure of working with Anna during six coaching sessions. While I knew I needed to have some accountability for the new direction I wanted to take, I didn't expect to feel supported and guided to better listen to my body. It was eye-opening to share how I felt while implementing new positive changes in my life, but mostly to feel it in my body. Anna's constant mirroring of my thought process helped me better anchor my new rhythms. I needed a (w)holistic implementation of changes, and Anna has helped do that in a very effective way. I would highly recommend Anna for coaching, especially if you are a woman who needs a new healthy, and balanced direction in life.”

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Copyright Anna Katharina Schaffner

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