Hi, I’m Rachana.

If you’re here because something inside you feels stuck, anxious, or lost — I want you to know that I understand. Not from a textbook. From my own life.

Mental health has been part of my story since I was young. Growing up, mental health wasn't something we talked about — and so I carried my anxiety silently, even as I excelled academically, graduated top of my class, and built a career I was proud of. Underneath the achievement, something was always quietly struggling.

When I moved to the UK in 2013, something unexpected happened. Uprooted from everything familiar — my culture, my career, my sense of self — I found myself face to face with everything I had spent years pushing aside. The anxiety I had always managed surfaced fully. I lost my sense of who I was. It wasn't the move that broke me. It was me, finally meeting myself honestly for the first time.

What helped me rebuild was therapy and, eventually, coaching I received myself. Both changed my life in ways I hadn't expected. Therapy gave me a space to process the pain. Coaching helped me find clarity, direction, and a sense of possibility again. Sitting in that experience — feeling what it meant to be truly heard, and to start moving forward — I knew with complete certainty that I wanted to offer that to others. That knowing led me to study for my PG Certificate in Coaching and Counselling. It wasn't a career decision. It was a calling.

My healing journey also led me to discover the profound connection between mind and body. Health challenges that mainstream medicine couldn't resolve brought me to Ayurveda — and with it the revelation that my stress and anxiety had been living in my body all along. It was through Ayurveda that I first encountered the concept of Sattwa — a Sanskrit quality describing a state of clarity, balance, and pure awareness. The grounded, peaceful version of yourself that exists beneath the noise and the anxiety. I didn't just find a word. I found what I had been searching for. That insight deepened through a daily yoga and meditation practice that continues to anchor me to this day. Together, these discoveries led me to qualify as an Ayurvedic nutrition and lifestyle practitioner — because I believe that lasting change has to work at the level of the whole person.

I am still on this journey. I don't stand here as someone who has all the answers. I stand here as someone who has done the deep work, keeps doing it, and knows from the inside what it takes to move from lost and anxious to clear, purposeful, and alive.

Coaching chose me as much as I chose it.With a background in Learning and Development and four years as a student coach, I bring my whole self — training, experience, and lived story — to every session.