06/10/2026
What happens when a seasoned practitioner loses faith in their own judgement?
This week I’m sharing a few words from a client, who came to coaching after a difficult period in his career.
He knew he had years of experience in facilitation, training, coaching and community work, but he had started to question his professional judgement. He described feeling bruised, uncertain and affected by imposter syndrome.
The work wasn’t about trying to make him into somebody else or telling him to be more confident.
It was about creating the space to understand what had happened, separate somebody else’s narrow view from his own experience and reconnect with the practitioner he already was.
Reflecting on our work together, he said:
“I started to recover a sense that I belonged in those professional spaces and had both the ability and the right to make a valuable contribution.”
That sentence says so much about what coaching can make possible.
Sometimes we don’t need to become more capable. We need to reconnect with the experience, values and sense of identity that have been obscured by difficult circumstances or other people’s opinions of us.
We need space to remember that we still belong... and that we have something valuable to contribute.
For me, that is the essence of identity and re-alignment coaching. It’s not about fixing you. It’s about rediscovering your identity and realigning your life around what actually matters.
If you’re brilliant at what you do but have lost touch with who you are or what you want next, send me a message. Let’s have a chat.
