Empowered with Raphael

Before moving into this work, I was a consultant at PwC, then went contracting as a Diversity and inclusion specialist and moving into various stakeholder engagement and organization transformation roles over half a decade. I have been a board of director for not-for-profits and supported transformation at the senior leadership level. But the lifestyle was not supporting my health and deeper supportive work was calling me.
I have been on my own health and wellbeing journey since 2016 that involved support across the medical and alternative fields, surgery, healing from chronic illness, and many different waves of processing and grieving all the while working, and trying to maintain the outward image of being fine. I learnt a lot about myself physically, mentally and spiritually over this time and found more balance in my work and lifestyle while still maintaining these senior roles.
I stepped formally into the role of supporting people in the middle of 2020 during the COVID pandemic and started Empowered with Raphael. I retrained in counselling and various other qualifications and I moved to Wanaka. I wrote two books as well, as well, Your Conscious Awakening was an international bestseller on both amazon.com and amazon.au.

I am passionate about blending alternative wisdom with science-based psychology approaches to bring you the most integrated and supportive experience.

For Holistic Coaching & Counselling I support those who are struggling to feel confident, connected to themselves. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, grief, body image issues, sexuality, or some forms of historic trauma. I work with people from all walks of life and a variety of ages, seventeen and above.
While I am a qualified counselor, I don’t work with people who are in a serious mental health crisis, currently suicidal, self-harming, or disassociating. I don’t work with people with significant depression or experiencing frequent PTSD. I also do not work with anyone under the age of seventeen.