Why I Offer Therapeutic Coaching — And What Makes It Different

As both a coach and a trained psychotherapist, I’ve experienced the strengths — and the limits — of each approach.

Coaching can be powerful.
It helps bring clarity, forward movement, and structure.
It’s especially effective for people who feel ready to act, but need steadiness, reflection, or support as they move.

But coaching alone isn’t always enough.

In my experience, the things we bring to coaching — stuckness around visibility, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, boundary confusion — rarely begin in the present moment.
They echo older patterns. Family dynamics. Protective strategies. Nervous system responses that live below conscious logic.

And without space to explore those, most surface-level shifts don’t stick.

I don’t work at the surface

At Aligned, I offer something different:
A space that’s both forward-focused and emotionally anchored.
Where we can explore not just what you want to change — but why the change feels hard in the first place.

This isn’t performance coaching.
And it’s not clinical therapy.

It’s a relational space for:

• High-functioning individuals who feel disconnected from themselves

• Expats navigating inner shifts in work, love, and identity

• People who’ve done the therapy, read the books — and still feel lost in certain patterns

This work holds the past, the present, and the possibility of something new

We move between clarity and depth.
Between narrative and nervous system.
Between your current goals — and the emotional terrain that makes those goals feel distant, complicated, or unsafe.

The approach I use blends:

• Psychotherapeutic training (IFS / ACT / Core Evolution / Mindfulness)

• Coaching structure (intention, accountability, clarity)

• Trauma-aware presence (nervous system pacing, emotional safety)

Why this middle path matters

Because many people who “don’t need therapy” still feel misaligned.
Because high-functioning doesn’t always mean self-connected.
Because sometimes the most impactful work comes not from fixing, but from finally feeling seen.

At Aligned, you don’t need to prove you’re struggling to get support.
You just need to be ready to stop doing it all alone.

I offer therapeutic coaching in person in Copenhagen, and online worldwide.
Book a free 15-minute intro session — and let’s see if this work feels like a fit.