hi, I’m Kiara
cafe hustler to a life of nourishment
About Me
I fell into hospitality while studying in Australia — the pace, the energy, the people, all of it pulled me in. I spent years working with coffee, food and service, and eventually opened my own café in East London.
Hospitality (like a lot of industries) rewards hard work, long hours and endless giving. Nobody ever teaches you to look after yourself while you're doing it.
I spent over 15 years in this world, and I was good at it. I also loved a lot of it — though I won't lie and say I loved every minute; there were plenty of overworked, underpaid, badly-treated moments I hated too.
Somewhere in there I trained as a yoga teacher, practised yoga for over a decade, and got into meditation, food and wellbeing. And still, I found myself frozen in the worst burnout I'd ever experienced, while running my own business.
It took real honesty to admit that how I was living wasn't just unsustainable — it was actively harming me. I'd hit a point where I could barely function outside the bare minimum, where I had no life left outside my business, even though the business itself was doing well. That's no way to live.
The changes that helped weren't big overhauls (those never stick). They came down to getting honest about my needs, slowing down enough to actually hear myself, getting clear on my values, and making space for all of that within the limited time I had.
It changed my life. And it also taught me something I hadn't expected: hospitality itself wasn't the real problem. The café wasn't what caused my burnout — my patterns were, and those patterns went back to childhood. That's the realisation that led me to close the café, leave London, and eventually rebuild my life from the ground up.
In the years since, I've navigated grief (losing my father to cancer), an intense coaching certification, a lot of deep personal work, motherhood, and starting again more than once. It's why I'm so passionate about helping high-responsibility women break their own patterns for good — so you're not finding yourself in the same place, year after year, wondering why nothing's really changed.
Relevant Credentials
Certified Coach, VITA Coaching (2021)
200hr Yoga Teacher Training (2016)
Botanical Postpartum Doula Certification, in progress (expected completion 2027)
My Approach
Wherever you're starting from — just discovering you're burnt out, beginning to see that it has roots, or already ready to unearth the deep patterns keeping you stuck — here's what I bring to our work together.
Slowing down
Our fast-paced world keeps us disconnected from ourselves. When we're always rushing, we lose the ability to feel what our body, our intuition, is actually telling us.
Tiny moments
You don't need hours of spare time to create change — most of my clients don't have that, and don't need it. A two-minute practice while the kettle boils works because it's genuinely doable, with no room to make excuses.
Somatic and nervous system work
Rooted patterns come from somewhere real, often childhood. Rooting into safety and gently rewiring the nervous system means you can respond instead of react — and actually make change stick.
Support
You don't have to do this alone. Real change, especially with deeply-rooted patterns, needs someone who's been through it and can hold your hand through the process — not generic advice from a stranger online.
Time
My 1:1 support runs over 6 months, because lasting change with deep patterns takes time. We go slow and build practices that actually fit your life, not someone else's.
A Note on Scope
Coaching with me is not psychotherapy, mental health treatment or medical care. If something comes up in our work that feels like too much, or it starts overwhelming your progress rather than supporting it, I'll refer you to a therapist or specialist who's better placed to hold that with you.