Connecting the dots.

Welcome, I’m Lara!

Born and raised in Amsterdam, bilingual in French and Dutch, self-taught in Portuguese and deeply curious about people and what moves them. After briefly studying architecture (and having a full blown decisiveness crisis; what is fear, what is intuition?!), I found my way to psychology and my first therapy appointment. 

Psychology was where I belonged. It helped me make sense of the world and myself. I became fascinated by human behavior and went on to build a career in training, recruitment, and eventually, coaching. I grew fast, worked hard, and felt proud of the path I was on.
 

But a trip to Brazil in 2018 changed something significantly.
I’d always been a head-first person, but landing in Rio woke something I didn’t realize I was missing. I’ve always loved traveling, but this was different. I remember sitting in a taxi at 6 a.m., driving past the mountains and ocean, and feeling a rare kind of quiet in my mind. It felt like coming home. 
 

I believe Brazil reconnected me to myself and drastically changed the way I saw my life.
After that, the questions started. About work. About values. About what really matters. But I didn’t reinvent my life overnight. I left a job, went back to the same field, left again. It wasn’t linear. I learned that real change isn’t a single leap, it’s a layering. We don’t just leap into new lives, we build them. Bit by bit. By slowly integrating what matters and keep showing up anyway.
 

That’s the heart I bring to coaching:
A mix of psychological insight, lived experience, and deep respect for the messy, nonlinear process of figuring it all out.

I combine coaching with practical advice,
drawing on my 6 years of recruitment experience - especially on the agency side which gave me extensive knowledge of the labor market and its different options. With that, I bridge the gap by helping you turn self-discovery into clear, actionable next steps that work in the real-world job market.

I love working with people who question the status quo, and want someone who’s been there to provide practical tools, bounce thoughts, and connect the dots.

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