Welcome, I’m Andréa, thank you for visiting my website.
I’m a life coach, and as the first specialist in coaching with collage, I developed the Collage Coaching Technique™. However, before starting my arts-based coaching business in 2012, I felt stuck in a job where I felt overwhelmed, stressed, and unhappy. Thankfully, through the transformative power of collage, I felt confident to make a life-changing decision. In wanting to share this transformational experience with others, I discovered my purpose as the founder and life coach at UnglueYou®.
My coaching approach is grounded in my Art therapy, Clean Language and mindfulness training as well as other disciplines. Such as psychology, embodiment and neuroscience. However, like a collage, my practice is multi layered, allowing my spirituality, creativity, love of nature, journalling, yoga, curiosity and playfulness to flow through my work.
For personal self-expression and reflection, I enjoy creating collages regularly. They’ve taught me that despite societal pressures, we’re not confined and defined by labels and the limitations of either/or thinking. Instead, our humanity is beautiful, vibrant, complex and nuanced.
Becoming aware of this, I’ve learnt to show up unapologetically and help the women I serve do the same, as they shift their thinking to reconnect with and celebrate the amazing individuals they are.
Learn more about me and Coaching with Collage by listening to this podcast recorded with the Association for Coaching.
My purpose is to serve women who feel stuck, facilitating personal transformation, empowerment, trust and growth so they can live a rich and fulfilling life.
At the heart of my life coaching practice is the desire to help women live authentically from a place of joy, love, peace and hope rather than anxiety, stress and fear. Achieving this involves increasing self-awareness and learning to like and trust yourself. It’s also about valuing yourself enough to nurture your well-being, slowing down and taking time to breathe deeply without feeling guilty.
Because we’re all inherently creative, my purpose includes helping women harness their creativity as a superpower. Enabling them to feel confident coping with challenges, knowing they possess the skills to navigate whatever comes their way.
Remembering the struggle of feeling stuck, I create safe and sacred coaching spaces for women to express these feelings without reservation of fear of judgement. Here they can experience profound breakthroughs and clarity through collage creation, storytelling, and discussion.
My vision is to ‘See the Collage Coaching Technique™ used globally as a creative coaching tool for releasing people’s potential’
As other coaches were interested in learning how to use my technique and knowing I couldn’t achieve my vision without like-minded people, I created a training programme. The training is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Association for Coaching (AC) and is open to anyone who wants to use collage as a creative coaching tool.
To share my knowledge further, I wrote, ‘Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool: A Comprehensive Resource for Coaches and Psychologists’, which was published by Routledge in 2022. Since then I’ve contributed a chapter to Arts based Coaching: Using Creative Tools to Promote Better Self-Expression (Routledge).
Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of guest lecturing on psychology courses at several universities in London. These include the position of Honorary lecturer at City, University of London and leading a Coaching Psychology module at Birkbeck. My involvement with universities led to research on my technique by students from both Kent and City. The results from these studies demonstrate the positive impact at work on self-belief, mindfulness and well-being for participants in an UnglueYou® coaching session or workshop.
As an experienced coach, facilitator, trainer and speaker, in addition to my 1-1 life coaching, my clients include Google Health, Imperial College London, Moët Hennessey, The United States Air Force and Jenny Garrett OBE.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
— HEBREWS 11:1