Professional Life Coaching and Therapeutic Support for Leaders and Executives
Phone
0451 903 260
10/1 Hobart Place, AMP Building
Canberra ACT 2600
Available out of hours and online
Services: Respecting Your Unique Values, Learning Style and History
At StartAnew, we offer a tailored suite of services – professional coaching, therapeutic support, or an integrative blend of both.
Our programs are designed to support you, as a leader or executive, in navigating meaningful personal and professional transitions and growth.
Whether you’re seeking clarity, resilience, or renewed purpose, our approach respects your unique values, learning style, and personal history.
StartAnew works with you in confidential, supportive settings to co-create impactful change.
Grounded in evidence-based practices, we believe that powerful outcomes in life, leadership, and career coaching are built on a strong, trusted relationship.
You lead the journey – we provide professional support, accountability, and care to help you stay aligned and empowered every step of the way.
What Best Suits You Right Now?
Professional Life Coaching
Our Life Coaching programs are tailored for executives and leaders seeking whole-of-life growth. No one-size-fits-all.
Whether navigating key transitions, stepping into new leadership roles, or expanding executive impact, we align with your goals.
In a program of between 6 – 10 sessions, you will grow clarity, resilience and presence across your career, relationships, and wellbeing. Each program is designed to meet you where you are – with strategic support for your personal and professional development.
Therapeutic Support
Our therapeutic support services provide a safe, confidential space to support you to navigate inner and outer struggles.
When the cracks are widening in your external and internal world, we help you navigate deep-set patterns that are holding you back such as self-doubt or other sabotage, emotional overwhelm, grief and loss, substance use, past trauma, and complex relationships.
With therapeutic support you can build self-awareness, healthy strategies and identify tools for self-care and lasting personal growth.
Teams and Organisations
We offer distinct programs for Teams and for Organisations.
Team programs focus on building engagement, psychological safety, communication, and productivity, using tools like Motivational Mapping and emotional intelligence.
Organisational programs address broader challenges – like leading through change, fostering innovation, resilience, and inclusion. They help your organisation thrive in rapidly changing worlds of work.
Meet Karen Freedman,
Founder of StartAnew
Karen Freedman is a certified professional coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a certified Life Coach and has advanced training in process-oriented organisational coaching with the Global Coaching Institute. She is accredited in a range of psychometric tools.
Karen holds Master level qualifications in Public Health, Psychotherapy and Counselling. She is a member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
Answers to Your Coaching & Therapeutic Support Questions
Explore how you can take charge of your direction, wellbeing, and growth through an integrated approach.
Curious about combining life coaching with therapeutic support? A life coach helps you align your inner world and values with outer goals, offers mindset support and engenders emotional insight together with leadership tools.
A professional life coach trained in psychotherapy provides more specialised skills to assist with deep seated issues that are holding you back. The result is more lasting change, greater alignment in how you think, feel, and lead in life and work.
Whether changing careers or advancing, career coaching style is most effective when it includes therapeutic insight. Integrated career consulting services help you explore identity, values, and goals – clarifying your direction, identifying blind spots, and removing internal barriers. You’ll move forward with purpose, resilience, and renewed confidence.
A life coach is qualified and a member of the International Coaching Federation
Yes. A Life Coach is most effective when they are also a health and wellness coach. Being healthy and well should be your first focus in life. Cliched but true, if you lose your health, you have very little. Learn to tap into your potential for self-regulation, develop more healthy habits, and practise self-awareness for greater wellness. If you need to do more, we offer you a Health and Wellness Plan as an adjunct to your Life Plan.
If you’re asking what professional development is, it’s more than skills training. When combined with therapy, executive leadership coaching supports clarity, confidence, and behavioural change. It helps you identify what truly matters, improve relationships, reduce stress, and lead with greater presence, empathy, and vision.
Building resilience is more than just bouncing back – it’s transforming through adversity. With a combined resilience training and a therapeutic approach, a coach-therapist can help you uncover strengths, manage emotional triggers, and shift patterns of self-sabotage. You’ll develop sustainable strategies to adapt, perform, and thrive – personally and professionally.
