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Life coaching · Maya Ellison · Bristol

The year you stop waiting.

I’m Maya — an employment lawyer for eleven years, until I admitted the life I’d built was the wrong shape. Now I coach people through the change they keep postponing. Practically. No incense required.

One 75-minute session. Full price list on the programmes page — no surprises on a call.

Maya Ellison smiling in low golden sunlight, wearing a red coat
Potted plants crowding a sunlit windowsill

Why I do this

I billed 1,900 hours the year I burned out.

On paper it was a brilliant career. In practice I was crying in the car park of a Sainsbury’s on a Tuesday, working out how few hours of sleep I could survive on. I left law at 38 with no plan beyond “not this” — and the slow, ordinary work of rebuilding taught me everything I now coach.

So no, I won’t tell you to manifest anything. We’ll work out what you actually want, what’s actually in the way, and what you’ll actually do about it — one honest fortnight at a time.

The whole story

The method

Ground. Grow. Bloom.

Twelve weeks, three phases, CBT-informed and refreshingly free of cosmic language. Here’s the shape of it.

  1. Ground

    Weeks 1–4

    Where you actually are, said out loud for once. What you want, minus everyone else’s opinion of it.

  2. Grow

    Weeks 5–8

    The plan you’d defend. Small moves, fortnight by fortnight, with someone who notices when you dodge.

  3. Bloom

    Weeks 9–12

    The change made real — said at work, told to family, booked, signed, started. Out loud, in the world.

The method in full

Programmes & prices

Priced here, not on a phone call.

Everything included
  • First Light

    £95 one session

    One 75-minute session. Bring the thing you keep circling. Leave with one honest next step.

    Book it
  • The Season

    £1,450 12 weeks

    The full arc — Ground, Grow, Bloom. Six fortnightly sessions, journal prompts between, one change made real.

    See what’s in it
  • The Year

    £180 per month

    For after the turn: monthly sessions and a check-in line, so the new shape holds through an actual year.

    See what’s in it

“I cried in the second session and laughed in the third.”

Laura Pemberton at sunset Laura Pemberton, 41 · Bath Left a 15-year teaching career; now a garden designer

Client stories

Real names, real faces, real befores and afters — because you’re right not to trust a testimonial signed “Sarah M.”

Three whole stories

Start small

One session. Seventy-five minutes. The thing you keep postponing.

First Light is £95, on a Tuesday or Thursday evening, online or in Bristol. If we’re not a fit, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better. Either way, you’ll leave with one honest next step.