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Lauren Valbert knows something about not fitting the mold.
She spent years in corporate and tech — taking jobs, not building a career — until burnout finally forced the question she'd been avoiding: what actually makes me happy?
The answer became Training 2.0. Fifteen years ago, she built a business around the thing she'd always done best: helping people reach their full potential. She has never looked back.
Today, Lauren is a published author, trainer, coach, and the kind of force people tend to underestimate. People often find her intimidating at first. What they discover is the greatest cheerleader they have ever met.
Her book — Imposter: Dismantle the stories you tell yourself and overcome Imposter Syndrome — was written for women, neurodivergent people, and anyone who has ever felt like they don't quite belong in the room they worked so hard to enter. She was named one of Thinkers360's Top 50 Global Leaders and Influencers on Health & Wellness.
She'll also say something most coaches won't: Imposter Syndrome is a contested idea. That feeling of not belonging in the room? For many women, it's not a personal failing. It's an accurate response to rooms that weren't designed for them.
She agrees. And she helps you function in those rooms anyway — while the world catches up.
She works step by step. Not from aspiration, but from what's achievable right now. Because she knows from experience that's what actually changes things.
"Treat working on yourself as a vital part of living.
Grow from a sense of curiosity and enthusiasm. Not as a last-ditch effort before collapse."
In person or online, Amsterdam.
Jeannette Bolck is a registered NIP psychologist based in Amsterdam. And she came to specialise in hormones and mental health the same way many of her clients arrive at her door: by seeing something the system kept missing.
She saw extreme cases. Women struggling severely — with anxiety, brain fog, blackouts, emotional dysregulation — who had been in the system for years without answers. Until Jeannette found out hormones had been playing a part all along, and no one had connected the dots.
That gap — between what women were experiencing and what the system was actually looking at — is what shaped everything she does now.
At Counseling Amsterdam, Jeannette works at the intersection of hormones, brain, and nervous system. Not just the hormones. Not just the feelings. Both, at once, in the same conversation.
She also says something most practitioners don't: you don't need to be "bad enough" yet to ask for help. Coming in preventively is just as valid.
And when something falls outside what she knows, she says so — and refers you to someone who does know, while staying connected to your care. Because you're not bounced between specialists who don't talk to each other. You're held by a team that does.
One thing she wants more people to understand: PMDD is linked to a real increase in suicide risk, yet it's still routinely dismissed as "bad PMS." Hormones affect emotions, brain, and body — and the consequences of missing that link can be serious.
"Taking biology seriously in mental health care isn't optional. It changes outcomes."
Two and a half years ago, Kathryn Askew moved countries and became an empty nester at the same time.
Two of life's biggest transitions — arriving together, without warning, without a roadmap.
She knows what it feels like to lose your sense of self. To look around at a life that used to fit and find it suddenly unfamiliar. To quietly ask: who even am I now?
That experience is at the heart of everything she does.
Kathryn is a Root Cause Therapy Practitioner, community leader, and founder of Healing Hearts Healing Minds, based in Melbourne and working with women online worldwide. She supports women navigating life's transitions — empty nesting, moving countries, divorce, grief, identity shift, rebuilding after a major life change.
And she comes to every session with something that sets her apart: she's not afraid to draw on her own lived experience when it feels relevant. Which is part of why clients often say that working with her feels less like therapy and more like talking to a trusted friend.
She also wants you to know something before you arrive:
"I'm not here to fix you. Because you're not broken."
She's here to gently support you on your journey — at whatever pace feels right. You don't need to have it figured out. You don't need to be at rock bottom. You just need to show up.
And on the subject of self-care: she'll tell you honestly that a spa day is lovely, but it's not where self-care actually starts. It starts with learning to love yourself. Creating and holding boundaries. That's the real work — and it's the work she does.
Online worldwide.
Veronica has a gift she's had her whole career: as she listens to a client, she immediately sees what makes them different — and exactly how to position it.
Since 2017, she has worked with purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organisations across Europe through her agency SPIN Ideas, helping them build marketing strategies that feel natural, aligned, and genuinely theirs. Not noisier. Not more generic. Just more clearly themselves.
Her philosophy: you don't need to become someone else to be successful. You need a strategy that reflects who you already are.
Working with Veronica feels like being part of a team — one that creates, executes, learns, and has fun. She also brings something many marketing conversations miss: the honest conversation about energy and boundaries. How to protect yourself in business relationships without losing the connections that matter.
"You can be successful and still be YOU."
She works with women entrepreneurs, startups, scaleups, and purpose-led organisations — and she also runs BASE, a community and conference for entrepreneurs building businesses differently.
Jessica grew up as a third culture kid — never quite belonging anywhere, always navigating the space between worlds. She has moved through more transitions than most: personal, professional, cultural.
And somewhere along the way, she learned how to do it without losing herself.
The moment that changed everything: her first child, a health crisis at home, and a promotion all arrived at once. In the middle of the chaos, she came back to herself. She stopped hiding behind a desk and decided to make an impact through conversation, connection, and curiosity instead.
Now she works with women who are stuck, overwhelmed, and quietly losing themselves at the crossroads of career, motherhood, and identity — helping them find clarity, reclaim their confidence, and build resilience that actually lasts.
She also names something most women feel but few talk about: matrescence — the psychological and emotional transition of becoming a mother, and the grief of who you used to be. Because society tells us motherhood should be pure joy, that loss of self goes unspoken. Jessica brings it into the open.
"You don't need permission to become who you are. You need the courage to claim her."
Women who work with Jessica say they feel held and challenged at the same time. She'll tell you that's not a contradiction — that's exactly where the growth happens.
She works with women navigating career change, burnout, matrescence, identity shift, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, overwhelm, and self-worth. Online and in person.
The doctor who goes further
Dr. Ghiselle is a medical doctor, hormone specialist, and mother of four. Born and raised in Curaçao, now based in Amsterdam. She has been a GP for nearly 20 years — and for the last ten, she has dedicated her work to one thing: helping women truly understand what their bodies are going through during perimenopause.
Not just the blood values. Not just the symptoms. The whole woman.
Because perimenopause isn't only a hormonal shift. It is a biological, emotional, and identity transition.
"You are not just losing estrogen. You are becoming someone new."
That understanding is what led her to create Conscious Perimenopause™ — her own framework built on three pillars: biology, lifestyle, and spirituality. A space where symptoms become signals. Where the transition becomes something you navigate consciously, instead of something you just survive.
What working with Dr. Ghiselle looks like
Women come to her when the standard answers haven't been enough. When they sense something is shifting but can't get anyone to take it seriously. Dr. Ghiselle takes it seriously.
Her approach combines 20 years of medical expertise with a deep understanding of what this transition really asks of a woman — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She brings knowledge, care, and intention to every conversation.
Join her at the Perimenopause Café
Dr. Ghiselle hosts the Womanship Perimenopause Café, a bi-weekly live online gathering for women who want to understand what's happening in their bodies and find others who get it.
No jargon. No judgment. Just honest, informed conversation about one of the most significant transitions in a woman's life.
Majda specialised in this work because she lived the search herself.
For years she carried depression, anger, and patterns she couldn't explain...until she uncovered the buried experiences that had been quietly shaping everything.
That journey changed the direction of her life entirely.
Now she helps women reach the layer underneath the symptoms. Through quantum healing hypnosis, Akashic record readings, spiritual coaching, and energy work, she holds space for women to understand the subconscious patterns - the self-doubt, the over-giving, the feeling of never being enough - that have been running silently in the background.
"Until we go to that layer, we're healing the symptom, not the source."
In person in Amsterdam and online.
Nerys specialised in burnout because she lived it.
Her own undiagnosed iron deficiency went undetected for far too long - and she had to research it herself before her GP would help.
That experience showed her how many women are quietly struggling and getting nowhere. Now she helps them understand what's actually going on in their bodies - and recover faster than she did.
She works with women navigating burnout, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, gut health, perimenopause, and menopause.
In person and online.