Private coaching for work, life, and the places they overlap.
When something important feels stuck, complicated, or ready to change, I help you slow down, see what’s really happening, and find a way forward that feels like your own.
Bring the whole picture.
Our lives don’t divide neatly into work, health, relationships, and identity. What happens in one area inevitably shapes the others. A complicated work situation can follow you home. Burnout can affect your confidence, energy, and relationships. And the patterns that keep you stuck in one part of life often appear somewhere else.
Coaching with me is a place to explore the whole picture. Together, we make sense of what’s happening, uncover the patterns beneath it, and translate insight into meaningful change.
What might bring you here
Work and organizational life
Leadership challenges, career decisions, difficult dynamics, organizational complexity, confidence, influence, or figuring out what comes next.
Burnout and transitions
Overwhelm, loss of motivation, competing priorities, identity shifts, and the desire to build a more sustainable way of working and living.
Relationships and personal patterns
Boundaries, people-pleasing, recurring conflict, difficult conversations, and patterns that keep showing up even when you understand them intellectually.
Food, body, and self-trust
Support for people who are tired of fighting with food or their bodies and want to create a more trusting, peaceful relationship with themselves.
A place to bring what’s actually going on
I work privately with individuals in confidential, highly personalized coaching engagements.
Some clients arrive with a specific decision or challenge. Others simply know that something isn’t working anymore. You don’t need a perfectly articulated goal before we begin. We start with what feels most important and build from there.
My approach is candid, compassionate, practical, and tailored to the person in front of me. I won’t hand you a formula for how your life should look. I’ll help you hear yourself more clearly, challenge what is keeping you stuck, and make choices you can stand behind.
I’m Nina Rafaela.
During my 15-year career at Google and Intuit, I have coached executives, leaders, and professionals through demanding work, complex organizations, career transitions, and personal change.
Alongside that work, I developed a deep specialization in coaching women around food, body image, and self-trust.
Those areas may appear very different. I don’t experience them that way.
Whether someone is navigating a high-stakes workplace, recovering from burnout, struggling in a relationship, or trying to stop fighting with her body, the deeper work often involves the same things: seeing patterns clearly, trusting your own voice, setting boundaries, and making choices that reflect who you actually are.
That breadth is central to how I coach. I understand systems, strategy, and organizational life—and I never lose sight of the human being inside them.
Let’s Work Together
You don’t need to have the right words or a tidy goal. Tell me a little about what is bringing you here, and we’ll have a conversation about whether working together feels like the right fit.
