You are not stuck. You are between versions of yourself!
Is this you?
From the outside, everything is working. Inside, it is quieter and more complicated. If any of this sounds familiar, you are in the right place.
- A decision you've been avoiding for months.
- Something needs to change, and "change" is as far as you've got.
- You've hit the goals you set ten years ago and felt almost nothing when you got there.
- You're the person everyone relies on, and you have no idea who you lean on.
- You can lead a room of thirty people and still doubt whether you deserve to be in it.
- You say yes quickly, then resent it quietly.
- You've started editing yourself so often that you're no longer sure which version is actually you.
None of this means something has gone wrong with you. It usually means you want to or have outgrown the shape you were living in.
The approach: See. Shift. Shine.
See - We start by looking honestly at what is actually happening: what you may have avoided naming and which patterns keep producing the same result. No judgement. No fixing. Just clear sight.
Shift - Awareness on its own changes very little. This is where we work on the beliefs, habits and boundaries underneath the pattern, and where you start making different choices in real situations, not hypothetical ones.
Shine - The change becomes the new normal. You stop performing a version of yourself and start operating as yourself, with the confidence, boundaries and direction that come with it.
The I.TH.A.C.A. Method
My coaching is built on a framework called I.TH.A.C.A., Integration Through Awareness Coaching Application.
The name is deliberate. In the Odyssey, Ithaca is the destination, but the whole point of the story is that the journey is what makes you who you arrive as. Coaching works the same way. The goal you bring into the first session matters. Who you become on the way towards it may matter even more.
Integration is the key word. Insight that stays in the session room is entertainment. This method is designed so that what you realise on a Tuesday evening changes how you handle Wednesday morning.
About me, the short version
Hello, I'm Yiota,
I've spent over two decades in communications, which is a polite way of saying I've spent 20 years watching the gap between what people say and what they actually mean, and sometimes what they can't quite say yet. .
I became a coach because I know that gap from the inside. I've been the person who looked entirely fine and was quietly running on empty. What I learned getting out of that is the foundation of everything I do now.
I'm an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), a Coach and Mentor within the Ministry of Justice Coaching and Mentoring Hub, and a mentor on the Government Graduate Aspiration Programme. I work with clients in both English and Greek.
THE JOURNEY
“Your Journey, Your Growth”
When the bigger question won't leave you alone.
You're successful on paper, unsettled inside. You've built a life somewhere else and it looks right but doesn't feel right. You're at a crossroads and can't see the way forward. You're tired of shrinking to make other people comfortable.
That's where our work begins.
The See-Shift-Shine journey through my I.TH.A.C.A. method. Structured enough to give you progress. Open enough to make room for you.
How it works:
- Ad-hoc sessions when you need them
- Session packages
- Async support between sessions
- Online • In person • Walking coaching
- English or Greek
Common journeys I walk with clients:
- Redefining success on your own terms
- Building a life abroad that actually fits
- Navigating identity as a Greek or expat professional
- Moving past patterns that have shaped your life
- Leadership without losing yourself
Greeks Abroad
When home is more than one place.
You built a life abroad. Perhaps even a successful one. But living between countries can sometimes mean living between versions of yourself too: who you were, who you became, and who you are becoming now.
As a Greek professional who has built my own life abroad, and through my work with Greeks navigating life and careers outside Greece, I understand that integration is about much more than learning how another country works. It is about finding your place within a different culture without feeling that you have to leave your own behind.
And somewhere along that journey, questions can emerge that don't fit neatly into “career” or “life” coaching:
- Where do I belong?
- Have I changed too much, or not enough?
- What does success mean to me now?
- How do I integrate without losing part of myself?
- Do I stay, return, start again, or create something different altogether?
Perhaps this is where I.TH.A.C.A. takes on another meaning. Ithaka doesn't have to be the place you left, or even the place you're heading towards. It can be the journey of creating a sense of home within yourself - wherever life takes you.
This is a space where you don't have to explain the cultural context first. We can work in English, Greek, or naturally move between both.
You don't have to choose between where you came from and who you've become. You can integrate both and decide what you want to carry forward.