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 sense that something truer is trying to surface in their lives.
Many of us grow into identities shaped by expectation — family scripts, professional roles, cultural pressure, the need to achieve or belong. These borrowed identities help us succeed, but over time they bury something important: authenticity, creativity, desire, self-worth.
The Subcurrent process is a kind of daylighting — the act of uncovering a buried river and letting it see the sun again.
Your river has always been there.
It’s just been covered by years of responsibility, performance, and survival.
“So this is how it feels to not hate yourself.” — client
When you uncover the identity beneath the identity — when the buried river finally sees daylight — this is the kind of shift that becomes possible: a return to self-respect, self-trust, and the quiet relief of being on your own side again.
Is this you?
You might recognise yourself if:
You’ve built a career or life that looks good on the outside, but doesn’t feel like it belongs to you.
You’re performing an identity — leader, founder, parent, achiever — that has stopped feeling true.
Something inside feels buried: creativity, instinct, honesty, desire, aliveness.
You’re tired of holding everything together.
You want clarity, but every option feels tangled.
You sense a different life calling you, but you can’t yet articulate it.
If you feel like you’ve drifted away from yourself, this is the work of coming home.
The Subcurrent approach: Space → Visibility → Agency
Subcurrent daylighting begins with one essential move: stop performing long enough to hear what’s underneath.
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 momentarily, the buried river begins to surface.
VISIBILITY — seeing the real shape of the river
As space opens, things come into view:
the desires you’ve minimised
the truths you’ve been avoiding
the energy drains you’ve normalised
the creative impulses that haven’t had room
the emotional signals that kept getting overridden
This is daylighting: revealing what’s been there all along.
No forcing. No reinventing.
Just seeing with clarity.
AGENCY — rebuilding your life around your real self
From visibility comes choice.
We begin making grounded, honest moves:
small experiments that honour your authentic identity
conversations that have been waiting to happen
clearer boundaries
new rhythms and structures that support the person you actually are
creative or professional decisions that feel aligned rather than reactive
Agency here is not about control.
It’s about coherence.
It’s the moment you stop shaping yourself around the world — and start shaping your world 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:
a sense of relief — finally telling the truth
more room to breathe
clarity about what’s theirs and what’s inherited
honest desires resurfacing
renewed creativity and energy
clearer boundaries
decisions made from self-worth, not fear
a life that feels coherent again
Subcurrent does not require you to burn your life down.
It asks you to stop burying your real one.
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 with clients internationally.
Next steps
If Subcurrent resonates, we begin with a simple conversation.
No pressure. No performance. Just space.