Client Stories

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My sessions with Neema. Wow! Where do I even start? I reached out to Neema after I found myself really struggling with overwhelm and mum guilt. I wasn’t able to plan my time, I was snapping at my children over little things and I hated that I would end up scrolling my phone for long periods of time to try and dull the noise in my head. I felt disappointed in myself.

I’m not good at asking for help and my need for people to like me made me worry about really opening up and being honest about my struggles - even to a stranger. How was this going to work? I couldn’t believe it when I had my first introduction call with Neema and I instantly felt at ease. Neema was warm, she listened intently to everything pouring out of my mouth without judgement and repeated things back to help me identify what needed changing. Just hearing myself say everything out loud to someone opened my eyes to how much I’d been bottling up. 

In our first full session Neema helped me identify the specific areas that were triggering the overwhelm and together we focused on these throughout our next sessions, thinking about what I would put in place to tackle them. I noticed almost instantly that I was picking up my phone less. I had to be disciplined and committed to changing and I was ready for it. Neema made me believe I could do it! I bought myself a colouring book for the times I felt like scrolling aimlessly and I feel so much more empowered by it.

Each time we spoke I felt more and more like me again. The noise in my head was getting quieter and for the first time in months I felt in control. Neema challenged me after each session to put something new into practice and she helped me adapt these if they weren’t working. These ranged from making written to do lists to practising internal validation. Neema has helped me gain so much awareness of myself. I understand myself better than I ever have before. I now have a system in place so my head doesn’t get filled with “to dos”.

 I have learnt techniques to calm the overwhelm if it creeps in. I have learnt to be much kinder to myself. I’m calmer, happier and much more present with my children. I’ve even found myself passing on Neema’s calming techniques to my six year old. In just under three months, Neema has helped me beyond words. I will forever be grateful and I know my husband and children are too! Thank you. 

By SL, Fleet

Neema’s holistic approach to coaching has helped me unlock areas of personal growth that I didn’t know I was lacking. I began coaching to try to alleviate mummy guilt from being a single-parent with a hectic self-employed career. 

Within a few sessions she had guided me through an exploration of how I could adapt my work-life balance so I could feel more present with my children during family time. Just a handful of modifications to my thinking made a massive impact on me and my children. 

We all enjoy so much more quality time together and feel happier as a family. The summer holidays was a real turning point for me, as I was able to stay present with the children without feeling overwhelmed by all my work, financial and parental responsibilities. Having made such mind-blowing progress in reducing mummy-guilt, Neema and I began unpacking other areas of my life and personal growth. 

Neema is great at getting right to the core of a situation and helping you to get to the bottom of what is driving your feelings and/or behaviour. I have learned something different about myself in every session and have always taken away some practical (and manageable) actions to practice in-between sessions. 

Through taking these practical steps I have seen an immensely positive change in my overall wellbeing, as well as a reduction in stress and mummy guilt. Neema is great at checking-in to keep you on track and offer support between sessions, and she really goes the extra mile. 

I cannot thank Neema enough. The impact her coaching has had on me has been invaluable and I whole-heartedly recommend her. 

RDF, Fleet

  Neema is very easy to open up to in her sessions. She asks insightful, but gentle, questions; thereby enabling me to give time and space to my answers and to really think through my own challenges and where they might stem from. In the sessions we had, she helped me to cover a lot of things through her coaching and through delving deeply into my answers to her questions.

She is also very disciplined in tying things back to goals and things to work on. So as well as getting the invaluable gift of someone listening to me, I also came away with actions I can actually take to move me forwards in life.

I came to her with some quite tough internal challenges, and she helped me not only to understand them, but made me feel OK about having those worries in the first place.

She has helped me unpick a lot and given me clarity about things that I just didn't have before. 

A very open, understanding and plain speaking person; who is easy to talk to and makes sure there are useful actions and tools at the end of each session.

I feel more open and more able to deal with the challenges she helped me identify.

Thank you Neema. 

KS, Fleet