Loopbaancoaching bij loopbaanonzekerheid: Hannah Ray over werkidentiteit, zelfvertrouwen en carrièreswitch bij professionals (2026)

someone coming in who has who is maybe in a career that they've been in for a very long time

but they've always had this niggle that's been this little whisper inside that's like

is this is this right and they've maybe changed roles they've maybe even changed careers a little

bit but they've got to a point where they are it just becomes they can't they can't ignore this

anymore it starts to maybe even become physical like there's just this feeling of i can't continue

ignoring this um and so then we've spent a lot of time kind of stepping back from that and going

okay rather than thinking what should i be doing or what are my expectations of where i'm meant to

be successful what i'm meant to do um we take it back inwards and we say okay what do you actually

like what are your expectations from life do you like those expectations what are your strengths

what do you um value and and also just how do you want your life to be in the next few years

so yeah it's really we step back ask those questions and sometimes people will just go

back into the work they were doing actually um and just feel more confident or trust themselves

more or have more balance sometimes it will give them that permission to actually listen to

themselves and take a bit of a leap and maybe start their own business or switch careers

um but i'd say the main transition is that they re-enter their relationship with work and it's

almost like this new chapter in their relationship with work yeah yeah is it mainly related to work

like expectations from work or is it also for example when uh when a woman goes through a

transition when she becomes a mother for example or is it always in your sessions related to

like the mother related to work for example well it is a good question because i position myself

as a life coach career coach and business coach which is the kind of top line category but i think

most of my coaching is actually about your identity and your sense of self-trust and

self-belief because yeah it's it's what's my relationship with work but ultimately that's

saying what's my relationship with myself and who am i in this role yeah makes so much sense yeah

yeah yeah and what do you like what kind of feedback do you receive from your clients what

they really appreciate in the way you work i'd say a big one is i get a lot of feedback that

people really feel listened to and heard and that i have a bit i kind of hold the space so it's it's

not me telling them actually no that's not one but it's more it's more i think a balance of

intuitively like really seeing someone and tuning into them and asking insightful questions

but then also balancing that with i mean i've got a background as a strategist so very strategic

and actually going well here's some frameworks like how does that feel so um yeah i'd say the

biggest one is just i think people feel really seen and that gives them space to then take back

ownership of their own yeah yeah yeah and last question but is there a specific moment in a

session what really has stayed with you i think something that stays with me and it's happened a

few times is when i have a realization in a session that i'm that i may be seeing something

of myself in someone else and i think as a coach when you see those moments and can then

step back and go oh am i asking this from my place and is that useful to put that on the table

or can i actually put myself in a different position to ask you a question that is more

in service of you i think that and that's a skill i'm quite open with with my clients and i've had

moments with my clients where i go oh this is bringing this up in me and but what's that

bringing up in you is this me is this you so it's it's quite a i'd say it's quite a relational

approach in that way um