Hi, I’m Kathryn

And I’m going to be honest, I am terrible at introductions… But here’s my go anyway:

I coach creatives and creatively minded people. Before I became a coach, I spent the best part of a decade at a digital agency helping small businesses bring their ideas to life online. I wasn’t the one making the visuals or coding the website; I was the person making sure everything fit together. 

As it happens, I’m good at seeing patterns, seeing how everything connects, and helping people make sense of things — particularly useful when you need to see a project through from vision, to strategy, to design, to the technicalities of making it work.

I’m also a natural sounding board. I can hold a lot of ideas in my head and help people make sense of what’s tangled, what’s missing, and what wants to emerge next.

Of course, like many creative people, I’ve taken a few detours.

I studied illustration at uni, had a bit of a mental breakdown (which taught me a lot), and graduated feeling like I wasn’t cut out to be creative. (Spoiler, not true.)

I effectively abandoned that part of myself, and spent many years managing other people’s projects. Eventually, I realised I need to change something — which meant facing the parts of myself I’d left behind.

I didn’t have a five-year plan, but I did have a lot of confusion. I tentatively started making art again, and sold my artwork for a while. I got curious about coaching, trained, got my diploma, and started working with creative people… and turns out, I loved it :) 

These days, I work with artists, writers, and creative business owners who are working towards a more fulfilling, creative life for themselves, but feel a little stuck in the process.

Together, we untangle the stuckness. We notice the patterns, internalised rules, and subtle but unhelpful pressures we place on ourselves when we’re building something creative and meaningful. 

We blend external strategy (what’s needed to make a business work, for example), with internal clarity (the self-trust you need to make your decisions), and together we make something that feels genuinely sustainable and uniquely yours.

A few extra things, since you're here:

  • I’m half Scottish, half Hong Kong Chinese.

  • I was the kid asking existential questions and reading Aesop’s Fables while everyone else ran about in the playground.

  • I have an extremely loving relationship with my critical side (we get on super well now, after years of not).

  • I enjoy writing my email newsletter, coaching, hanging out with friends, eating ice cream, and browsing restaurant menus.

  • I live in Glasgow (yes, it’s as grey as everyone says it is).

  • And I love a good nature metaphor.