"I guide people through change when they know something in their life isn't working anymore."

Where it Started

I was born in Zürich and moved to Melbourne when I was two. I've called this city home ever since, though for a long time, I wasn't entirely at home in myself.

For years, I lived a comfortable life. Steady. Safe. But underneath that steadiness was a constant, low hum of frustration, a feeling that I had more to offer, that I was capable of something more, and that I had no idea how to access it.

I tried. I started businesses, explored new directions, and reached for things. Then quietly sabotaged every one of them and found my way back to the familiar. At the time, I didn't understand why. I just knew that fear and self-doubt were winning, every single time.

I spent years searching for answers. I read widely. I tried therapy. Some of it helped. None of it fully landed.

Then came the moment that changed everything.

I was in a dark place. Emotionally raw, feeling powerless and alone. I remember standing in the hallway, and something shifted. A clear, fierce intention: I am going to figure this out. And then I'm going to show other people how to do it too.

I didn't believe it was possible. Not then. But the intention was real.

Not long after, I came across life coaching. My first reaction was scepticism. It sounded surface-level. How could anyone claim to understand 'life' well enough to guide someone else through it? But when I looked deeper, I found something very different. Real frameworks. Real results. And a way of working with people that coaching, unlike therapy, is forward-looking: it acknowledges the past without being anchored to it.

So I committed. I trained. And my life, gradually, then all at once, looked very different.

"We are all born perfect."

What I Believe

At the core of everything I do is this: how we feel about ourselves will determine what our life looks like. Not our circumstances, not our luck, our self-concept.

We are all born with unlimited potential. But from our earliest years, we absorb beliefs about who we are and what we deserve, often from environments that weren't equipped to give us what we needed. Those beliefs follow us into adulthood. They run quietly in the background, shaping every decision, every relationship, every moment we almost step forward and then don't.

My work is to help you find those beliefs, examine them, and let them go, so that the self you've always sensed was there can finally come forward.

"No one ever fully realises their true potential," Milton Erickson

I hold this close. Not as a source of despair, but as an invitation. There is always more. You are always more.

What I Do

I'm a certified life coach working one-to-one with women on self-esteem, identity, confidence, and the quiet fears that keep capable people playing small.

I use research-informed coaching models with proven results, including Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and values-based approaches, that go beyond conversation to create real, lasting shifts in how you think and how you live.

I also hold Women's Self-Defence and Empowerment Workshops, combining 30 years of martial arts training with my coaching practice. True empowerment isn't just a mindset. Sometimes it needs to live in the body too.

"Martin's coaching has been transformative in helping me break through mental barriers I never thought possible. I've gained the confidence to face challenges head on, and I'm now living with greater clarity, self-assurance, and purpose.” Natalie

Outside of Work

I'm a lifelong martial artist, I hold black belts in Taekwondo (4th Dan) and Hapkido (2nd Dan), and I've been training for over 30 years. I started because I was tired of feeling powerless. I stayed because martial arts gave me something I hadn't expected: discipline, community, the discovery that strength doesn't come from size.

When I'm not coaching, you'll find me on my motorbike winding through the hills around Melbourne, stopping at a quiet café somewhere along the way. I paint, surrealist work, informed by my fascination with human behaviour and the stranger workings of the unconscious mind. I've held several exhibitions. I love an open fire, whether that's camping in the Australian bush or a log fire in a weekend B&B.

I came to this work through my own pain. That's not a selling point, it's just the truth. It means I understand, from the inside, what it feels like to know you're capable of more and have no idea how to reach it. And it means that when something shifts for a client, when I see the door open that they didn't know was there, it never gets old.