About me

CLAIR VAN DEN BOOGAARD

I help people who seem to have it all together. Capable and competent on the outside, constantly proving themselves on the inside. Together, we find out where that comes from, so you can finally let go of the pattern, instead of just working on the symptoms over and over. I do that with a certain lightness. We don’t avoid the hard stuff, but I’m certainly not going to work you deeper into a hole. Sometimes the shortest way through something serious is to not make it heavier than it already is.

I know that not just from my work, but from my own path too. I’ve been drawn to personal growth for a long time, long before it became my job. It got me through hard periods: my divorce, loss, times I felt low, my burnout. Not all at once, but step by step, I learned what was underneath those periods.

I don’t want to help you understand more. I want you to feel what it means to live again.

I saw the same thing happen at work. Every time I helped someone on my team feel more grounded, the work itself got easier. That grew slowly, until I decided to make this my work, for real.

Meanwhile, I’ve been coaching for fifteen years now, and I’ve worked with people from more than eighty different nationalities. That’s only possible by staying flexible in method and strategy, regardless of culture or background.

What I’ve heard, again and again, over all these years: this path saved me years of trying to figure it out alone. Not because people were doing anything wrong, but because some things move faster with someone experienced alongside you. I also hear, often, how good it feels to finally have something practical to do, instead of just more talking.

A lot of coaching and guidance runs on assumptions, not on what’s really going on for the person in front of you. That makes the process longer than it needs to be, or it just doesn’t get to the heart of it. What I do is make room for you. Not literally, but the kind of room where you finally dare to deal with what’s been in your way all along.

I want you to know you’re enough, without having to prove it. And that you don’t have to figure that out alone.