I give each client an opportunity to re-examine their path in life. Clients who finish one of my sessions come away satisfied and with an improved mindset in managing challenges and pursuing goals. I take pride in reading my clients’ testimonials and learning how I’ve helped to change their outlook on life. Check out some of their experiences below and contact me to add yours!

The first thing I noticed is the quality of her listening. She is a very good listener! Being listened to in such an active way is so gratifying as a Client. Stella also has a good way with time. There is no rush, no haste. Her coaching sessions are an open invitation to talk about what is on my mind. And the sessions have been helping me to think through and clarify some things I have been concerned about. Her skills and sensitivity have made this happen.

Dr P Allender, Sheffield

I am a Paramedic and have 30+ career in the Emergency Services. I have found the sessions very helpful because Stella has a very laid back and open approach. I have found myself opening up and really talking about my life and future goals. I've not experienced anything like this before. I've found it very helpful to reflect on my past working life and look at my goals for the future. She seems very adept and proficient in this field.

B. Mear Paramedic, England

Stella is very gifted and a natural Life Coach. If you happen to meet her on your path of life consider yourself blessed. If you are stuck or at a crossroads, even if you are successful and yearning for more, I cannot recommend Stella enough, you will do the work and Stella will be with you every step of the way

I. C. East Cork

Stella is a natural Coach, I think she has a very positive professional approach to such a sensitive subject such as food. I personally have had food issues for years + I'm sure that many people do. This course was quite emotional in many ways for me, however I discovered so much about myself. Probably the biggest take-away for me was the "reasons" and the "whys" relating to the food I consume + more importantly the choices good or bad that I made. I truly have rethought food, Thanks Stella.

Rethinking Food Group Member East Cork

Was very good, really insightful, I learned a lot about myself and habits I can use with my relationship with food. The group was really open and I was comfortable to share. I loved it , thank you for all I have learned.

Member of Rethinking Food Group East Cork

Trying to work my way through a particularly difficult time of my life in early 2022, I felt I needed some professional assistance in helping me to identify what pathways to take going forward into the uncertain and confusing future that I believed awaited me. Against that background and knowing that "Counselling" was not for me I contacted Stella Collier to arrange to meet with her for a Life Coaching Session that at first I was a little skeptical about but needn't have been as for me it was one of the best Life decisions I ever made.

Stella and I met for an initial session where she explained very clearly and precisely what Life Coaching was all about and from that initial session I requested a number of sessions to be arranged over the following weeks and months. From the start Stella was always very flexible with our agreed arrangements and was also willing to be available to suit my diary on a week to week basis. Over an extended period of time Stella proved herself to be the best possible choice that I could have made with regard to her listening, caring and understanding nature of my indecisiveness. She never decided for me but did advise on the various directions that were available to me and the options and choices that I could make in getting my life balances correct to suit my way of living. But it was always my decision only to make. She was always very calm, understanding and professional when she had to listen to some prolonged rants from me.

T. B. East Cork

"I got a lot out of the 5 sessions I had with Stella. I found the sessions enlightening and made many revelations which allowed me then to progress and move forward.

Stella has a way of helping you reveal and discover ways of achieving your personal goals and re-thinking your approach.

Stella was very professional and provided a warm and friendly environment.

Member of Rethinking Food Group

ADDICTION COACHING: A Client's Story

I remember well the evening telephone call and his first words "I don't think you will be able to help me", my answer "let's talk".

His story is shared with permission and a hope to inspire others to take their first step towards recovery.

I am 62 years old and had a lifetime of addiction of both drugs and alcohol.

I have lost my business, my marriage and many friends due to my addiction.

Having some periods of being dry and clean over a period of five years, I relapsed with alcohol and was unemployed and at a very low ebb.

When I first spoke to Stella I had relapsed, was feeling very low and needed to find some help and hope to stay sober and to live a 'normal' life.

I had no awareness of where to get help at the time, it has been a great help with guidance from Stella to gain an understanding as to where my issues with addiction stemmed from.

"From the early stages of my coaching sessions with Stella, I felt a connection, she is empathic understanding, caring but also straight to the point, I felt comfortable enough to speak honestly about the good and the bad times, no matter how bad."

I was a victim of childhood abuse and the emotional difficulties that I have had since childhood resulted from not having any help for this, with support and encouragement from Stella I was able to reach out to a therapist and begin counselling and also attended regular AA meetings and attended important Doctor and Hospital appointments which I had been missing because I had lost hope in ever getting sober again.

"I had no awareness of where to get help at the time, it's been a great help to see what the issues may be and how to work on them."

"I found great help in being able to revise my week with Stella, reflect and recall very new and something I had avoided in the past, it gave me a sense of direction and encouragement."

I was in a spiral of drinking, isolating and not caring about myself, I had no confidence, low self-esteem and no motivation to change.

"Go out and meet people was important advice, isolating was tough to get out of, Stella helped me gain the confidence to start going out again and meeting people, by showing me tools and techniques I can use in everyday life, having someone to trust and talk to is a great help."

"I can speak about it now, I was really messed up."

Today I can say I can say I have totally turned my life around, I have been dry for one year, I am a completely different person to the isolated alcoholic with no hope.

I not only joined a gym, I go to the gym regularly 3, 4 times a week, inspired by Stella's own fitness story.

I play a round of gold weekly.

I have joined a book writers club.

I take Adult education courses.

I tutor English classes.

I recently joined a Yoga class.

Stella helped me with organisational and time management skills with enabled me to clean my flat and attend meetings and appointments, which before I would either not attend or forget.

I am currently working on Stella's Rethinking Food Coaching to help me improve my food choices.

"Coaching with Stella has been a real life changing experience."

"No matter how bad it is there are people that can help you."

"It's how to live a life."

"Stella is someone who cares, someone who will go on that hard journey with you, that's something you won't get everywhere."

"I got a lot out of the 5 sessions I had with Stella. I found the sessions enlightening and made many revelations which allowed me then to progress and move forward.

Stella has a way of helping you reveal and discover ways of achieving your personal goals and re-thinking your approach.

Stella was very professional and provided a warm and friendly environment.

Rethinking Food Group member March 2023