Coaching for ambitious women questioning what comes next.
For high-achieving women navigating career uncertainty, burnout, identity shifts, and the pressure to keep succeeding when something no longer feels right.
Most coaching helps you do things differently.
My work helps you see yourself differently.
From the outside, you’re successful. Inside, you’re exhausted.
I’m Lauren, a London-based life and career coach for ambitious, high-achieving women across the UK and beyond. My clients are often successful on paper but struggling underneath it: burnout that keeps returning, work that no longer feels meaningful, constant self-pressure, or the growing fear that they’ve built a life around achievement rather than fulfilment.
They don’t need more productivity advice. They need space to think clearly, understand what’s driving their patterns, and make confident decisions about what comes next.
Together, we untangle the perfectionism, over-performance, and expectations keeping you stuck – and build a version of success that feels sustainable, meaningful, and genuinely yours.
“Lauren is exceptional at what she does – she is thoughtful, a great listener, tactful and really competent. I came to her at a moment of acute stress and self-doubt, while preparing for a job interview process that felt overwhelming.
I cannot overstate how much our session helped me. She took the time to ask careful questions and listened closely to both my recent experiences and longer-term concerns. She created a space for me to feel understood, while gently encouraging me to reconsider how I viewed myself and my abilities.
After just one session, I felt more confident and more grounded. It was a real turning point. I remember calling my friends afterwards and saying that, regardless of the outcome of the interview process, I had already gained so much from the session. Lauren’s advice helped me perform well and be myself in the interview, but it also gave me perspective and insights I’m going to carry with me.
I cannot recommend Orange Tree Coaching highly enough :)”
“…After just one session, I felt more confident and more grounded. It was a real turning point. I remember calling my friends afterwards and saying that, regardless of the outcome of the interview process, I had already gained so much from the session. Lauren’s advice helped me perform well and be myself in the interview, but it also gave me perspective and insights I’m going to carry with me.
I cannot recommend Orange Tree Coaching highly enough :)”
Case Studies
A client came to a single session the week before an interview. She was qualified for the role – she just couldn’t see it. The self-doubt was loud, the guilt was louder, and she’d built a convincing case for why she’d be found out.
She got the job.
Another had been out of work for months. Motivation gone, world shrunk, quietly convinced the version of herself who had a career was probably behind her.
Six sessions later she had two job offers and was showing up for her life again.
The circumstances were different. The work was the same – getting underneath the story, not just the situation.
Ways To Work Together
Bespoke Coaching Partnership
A high-touch coaching engagement for ambitious women navigating meaningful career and life change. For women navigating significant career and life decisions – from burnout and reinvention to leadership challenges and career change.
Right for you if you know something needs to change, but you’re not yet clear what that looks like.
Focused Session
One 90-minute coaching session for a specific, defined challenge – an important career decision, interview preparation, a leadership challenge, or a period of acute uncertainty where you need clarity quickly.
Right for you if something specific is coming up and you want to walk into it differently.
Organisational Sponsorship
Coaching can be funded through your L&D budget – no out-of-pocket cost to you.
Life and career coaching for young professional ambitious and high-achieving women, often with corporate, medicine, finance backgrounds based in London and working remotely across the UK and internationally including the US.
What To Expect
01
Discovery Call
A focused 30-minute conversation about where you are, what you are working through, and whether coaching is the right next step. And if it’s not, I’ll tell you.
02
The coaching
Rigorous, thoughtful, and deeply practical.
We work on what is actually in the way – not just the version of the problem that’s easiest to explain. Each session creates both insight and clear next steps.
03
Lasting change
The work we do together is designed to hold – under pressure, under doubt, and after the coaching has ended. The goal is not just a better decision. It is the kind of self-trust that means the next crossroads is navigated differently.
“Lauren came into my life at a real crossroads, and from the start she created genuine space for me to slow down and reconnect with what I actually want.
What set her apart was the quality of her presence – unhurried, warm, and deeply attentive. She asked exactly the right questions to help me envision my career not just as it is, but as it could be: idealistic but attainable. That balance is hard to strike, and she did it with ease.
She also helped me reframe the journey itself – finding meaning in small wins, keeping perspective through uncertainty, and understanding that this kind of growth is a marathon, not a sprint.
The fact that she offered all of this so generously says everything about who she is. I came away with more clarity, more confidence, and a genuine sense of possibility. I couldn’t recommend her more highly.”
“Lauren came into my life at a real crossroads, and from the start she created genuine space for me to slow down and reconnect with what I actually want.
What set her apart was the quality of her presence – unhurried, warm, and deeply attentive. She asked exactly the right questions to help me envision my career not just as it is, but as it could be: idealistic but attainable. That balance is hard to strike, and she did it with ease.”