Coaching for a Life That Finally Fits
Most people are living from borrowed identities. Subcurrent helps you return to who you actually are — and rebuild your life and work from that place.
Subcurrent
What is Subcurrent?
Subcurrent is a 7-session coaching journey designed for people who feel they’ve outgrown the life they’re performing in — but aren’t yet living the one that feels true.
Many clients come to Subcurrent at a moment when success has stopped feeling like safety and started feeling like self-loss. They’ve built impressive careers, carried enormous responsibility, and delivered more than most people will ever know. But a recent shift — in pace, identity, or responsibility — has changed their sense of what they’re willing to sacrifice. The version of success that once made sense now feels too costly, too consuming, or simply out of alignment with who they’re becoming.
Subcurrent is a form of daylighting — uncovering the identity beneath the identity, the buried river beneath the surface — so you can make decisions from clarity instead of pressure.
Your real self hasn’t disappeared.
It’s simply been covered by years of obligation, instinct, resilience, and performance.
Is this you?
You might recognise yourself if:
Your life looks good on the outside, but inside something essential feels missing.
You’ve been performing a role — leader, founder, parent, achiever — that no longer feels like the whole truth.
You’re tired of being the capable one, the reliable one, the one who holds everything together even when it costs you.
You’ve returned to a familiar role after a major life shift, only to realise you don’t want to live the way you did before.
You haven’t lost ambition — you’ve just lost tolerance for a life that erases you.
You feel a subtle but persistent misalignment: “The life I’m living doesn’t quite fit the person I’m becoming.
You may have been successful for years — competent, respected, the one everyone could rely on — but often at a personal cost you learned to ignore. You pushed through, held everything together, and built a life around an older version of yourself. Then something shifted. You can feel it in your instincts, your priorities, your energy. You’re no longer willing to disappear inside your competence.
If some part of you is whispering that you can’t go back to who you were — even if you don’t yet know who you’re becoming — you’re in the right place.
The Subcurrent approach: Space → Visibility → Agency
We don’t start with goals, we start with space — because clarity only emerges when you stop performing.
SPACE — uncovering what’s been buried
This is where the work begins: slowing down.
Softening the pressure to “hold it all.”
Creating room for the identity beneath the identity.
When you stop performing, even for a moment, the buried river begins to surface — the instincts, desires and truths you’ve been overriding for years.
VISIBILITY — seeing the real shape of the river
As space opens, things come into view:
what you want
what you’re done carrying
what drains your energy
what brings it back
what feels like who you used to be
what feels like who you’re becoming
Visibility often arrives when you realise you’re no longer willing to live the version of your life that required you to shrink, push yourself beyond your limits, or mute the parts of you that wanted something different.
This is daylighting: revealing the identity that has quietly been waiting beneath the surface.
AGENCY — rebuilding your life around your real self
From visibility comes choice.
We begin making grounded, honest moves:
conversations you’ve avoided
boundaries you’ve needed for years
creative or professional experiments
small structural changes that give you back time, space and self-trust
Agency isn’t about pushing harder.
It’s about choosing from coherence rather than fear.
It’s the moment you stop shaping yourself around your life — and start shaping your life around yourself.
How the programme works
Body:
Subcurrent is a 7-session one-to-one coaching programme over 3–4 months.
Sessions are 75–90 minutes, online or in-person in Vienna.
We move at the pace of revelation, not pressure.
The work happens primarily in the room, with light reflection between sessions to help insights settle.
The arc:
Session 1 — Space
We clear room. You stop performing. The buried river begins to surface.
Session 2 — Early signals
Your instincts, irritations, longings and desires begin to speak.
Session 3 — The true story
We look at the architecture of your borrowed identity — what it protected, what it limited, and what it’s cost you.
Session 4 — Identity shift
You begin recognising the identity beneath the identity — the one that feels more honest.
Session 5 — Experiments
We create grounded, real-world experiments that help your authentic self come alive.
Session 6 — Structure and support
We rebuild the foundations of your life so that your true identity has space to breathe and grow.
Session 7 — Integration
We make sure you stay in the daylight — knowing what pulls you back into performance and how to stay aligned.
Between-session support
The space between sessions is an important part of the Subcurrent process.
You’ll have:
Email or voice-note access for reflections, questions or moments of clarity
Light prompts (only when useful) to help you notice emerging signals
Simple grounding practices you can return to when things feel overwhelming
Support with experiments, so you’re not navigating change alone
No heavy homework.
Nothing to “complete.”
Just gentle guidance that keeps your inner river flowing above ground rather than slipping back underground.
Between sessions is where many clients experience the most subtle — and most meaningful — shifts.
What changes for people?
Clients often describe:
relief — the quiet sense of “I’m finally myself again”
clarity on what is theirs and what is inherited
more energy and room to breathe
a reawakening of instinct, creativity and confidence
braver conversations and clearer boundaries
decisions made from truth, not guilt
a life that begins to feel coherent again
One client put it simply:
“So this is how it feels to not hate yourself.”
Subcurrent doesn’t require you to burn your life down.
It helps you stop abandoning yourself.
Working with me
I spent years performing a polished, high-responsibility identity as Managing Director — while slowly losing the deeper truth of who I was.
My own daylighting process changed everything.
Today, I work with people who feel the same tension: outward success, inward misalignment.
I bring leadership experience, creative practice, and Internal Family Systems–informed coaching to help you uncover the identity beneath the identity.
I’m based in Vienna and work internationally.
Investment
Subcurrent is a coaching journey created for people who want to make meaningful, lasting change in their life and work — from a place that feels true, not pressured.
Investment: £3,000 for a six-month engagement. Subcurrent is offered as a six-month retainer, allowing time for patterns to surface, shift, and settle. This is not a quick fix, but a supported period of deep work, reflection, and integration.
Payment plans available if you prefer to spread the cost.
Most clients tell me the shift begins the moment they choose clarity over confusion, alignment over performance, and their future self over the old patterns that no longer fit.
If you’re already imagining what a more spacious, honest, energising life might feel like, you’re already beginning the process.