The Spiral
For women who are needed by everyone else but missing from their own life.
Private identity coaching to help you stop abandoning yourself and start building a life that includes you.
I’ve spent 20+ years helping 700+ people navigate life transitions. Now I help women rediscover themselves amidst the lives they’ve built for others.
Women’s Identity Coach | Build a Life That Includes You l Stop Self-Abandonment, Change Old Patterns & Avoid Burnout | ICF
Senem Palaz x
Currently accepting a small number of private clients.
"The realisations alone were enough. Everything around me started to shift." Yolanda, Full-Time Mum
"I had been hiding behind busyness. Three sessions changed how I show up entirely."
Claire , Business Owner
"I stopped snacking completely. I do not even think about it anymore."
Sehal, Private Coaching Client
"I stopped reacting the way I always had. For the first time I felt like I was choosing how to show up." — Michelle, Marketing Professional
Inside the Spiral
Private identity coaching for women who have spent years being the strong one, the responsible one, the one everyone relies on.
This work focuses on the root of over-giving, over-responsibility and self-abandonment so the change is not temporary, it becomes who you are.
In our work together we focus on:
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Why you became the strong one
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The emotional exhaustion that comes from always holding everything
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The patterns driving your relationships and decisions
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Rebuilding self-trust and internal safety
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Learning to include yourself in your own life
The work
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The roots of self abandonment and people pleasing and why they formed.
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The emotional exhaustion that comes from years of giving without including yourself.
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The patterns quietly driving your decisions, your relationships and your sense of self.
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The version of you that has been waiting underneath everything you have been carrying.
The Return
A private coaching programme for the woman who is ready to stop abandoning herself and start building a life that includes her.
Your Commitment: 4, 8, or 12 Weeks
Total Investment:
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4 weeks (4 sessions): £550
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8 weeks (8 sessions): £1,050
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12 weeks (12 sessions): £1,500
Monthly payment plans available on all packages.
Through five carefully held phases —
The Noticing, The Uncovering, The Acceptance, The Unfolding and The Arrival — I walk beside you as you move from self-abandonment to self-love. From lost to found. From absent to home.
A structured, powerful reset.
• Identifying over-giving and over-responsibility at the root
• Separating love from performance
• Rebuilding internal safety and self-trust
• Creating healthier relational and professional dynamics
A structured, powerful reset.
The Results
Clients commonly experience:
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Clear boundaries without guilt
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People pleasing patterns lose their grip
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Emotional exhaustion begins to lift
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Stronger decision-making in career and relationships
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Less resentment and more balance in relationships
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Greater ease with money and self-worth
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Confidence being visible, heard and respected
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Success that no longer costs them themselves
This is an investment in deep internal restructuring, so your growth, relationships, and success are no longer built on self-abandonment.
About Me
Welcome. I’m Senem.
For over twenty years, I have supported more than 700 people through significant life transitions.
I am ICF, NLP, and counselling skills trained.
But what really matters is why I do this work.
When I was sixteen, my mother left, and I became the one holding everything together. I learned very early that my value came from being useful, reliable, and strong for everyone else.
I built a life where I was needed by many people, but I was not in my own life.
I know this pattern because I lived it and I changed it.
Years later, as the wife of a professional football coach, I built a life of balance, presence, and connection while navigating relocations, high-pressure environments, and raising a child across countries. The patterns I created in the past did not repeat, and this experience became the foundation for The Spiral Coaching.
Today, I work with women who recognise themselves in this story. Women who are capable, responsible, and relied upon, but who feel emotionally exhausted and disconnected from themselves.
This work is deep, structured, and personal.
The women who work with me are not looking for surface level change. They are ready to change the pattern at the root.
“I don’t know when it happened… but somewhere along the way, I moved away from myself.”
Life did not fall apart. It expanded.
More responsibility. More people relying on you.
More of you poured into everyone and everything around you.
From the outside, you look capable. Grounded. Together.
But quietly, something shifted.
You feel disconnected from yourself.
Emotionally exhausted in a way that is hard to explain.
You give endlessly, and yet something feels missing.
You handle things. You hold things. You hold everyone. And somewhere in all of that, you stopped holding yourself.
At some point, being needed felt like being valued.
Giving felt like love.
Being strong for everyone felt safer than having needs of your own.
That made complete sense then.
But you are here now.
And something in you knows it is time.
This is the pattern of self-abandonment, quietly running your life.
And once you see it, really see it, everything changes.
The women who work with me describe what happens next like this.
"Something shifted after our first session. I started making decisions from a completely different place."
"I came in thinking I needed more confidence. I left understanding that was never the real question."
"For the first time in years I felt like I was living my own life rather than managing everyone else's."
If something here has named what you have not quite been able to name yourself, that is not a coincidence.
That is the beginning.
The Receiving Wheel — Free Coaching Tool
Do you find it difficult to accept help, support or kindness, even when it is genuinely offered?
This short exercise will show you where you close off and why.
Eight segments. Five minutes. It may name something you have been carrying for a very long time.
Used with every client inside The Return.
Download it free below.
