THE VOICE BETWEEN THE VOWELS
Rebecca-Monique, PCC | Coach | Coach Supervisor
Coaching is one of the most undervalued and under-utilised abilities — yet it is one of the most profound meta-skills we can cultivate, not just in our careers, but in the quiet, sacred spaces of our personal lives.
I often reflect on my own journey and wonder…
How would I have coached the eight-year-old me who had just lost her adopted mother to a heart attack?
How would I have coached the adolescent me through seven long years of psychological and physical abuse, at the hands of someone who was supposed to be a carer?
How would I have coached the seventeen-year-old me — homeless, placed in a hostel, clinically diagnosed with depression, and still fighting to finish her A-levels?
How would I have coached the new mother in me, weeks after giving birth, experiencing postnatal depression, holding my son in my arms yet feeling so numb, so terrified by the absence of connection to my own flesh and blood?
How would I have coached the newly divorced me, weeping on the kitchen floor, knees grazed from falling so hard into heartbreak?
How would I have coached myself, standing at the threshold of reunion, moments before speaking to my birth mother for the very first time?
When my son turned eight, over dinner he asked me:
“Mummy, your mummy died when you were eight… does that mean I’m going to lose you soon?”
My heart bled.
How did I coach myself through that conversation?
Gah!
The truth is: I coached myself through surviving and thriving 100% of those impossible days.
Somehow, I kept breathing. Kept hoping. Kept becoming.
If you place your hand on your heart and feel its steady beat, you’ll realise:
Every single cell in your body is rooting for you.
You already carry everything you need to thrive.
Give yourself permission to think. To reflect. To turn inward, and listen.
Honour that sacred space — and the answers will rise like dawn.
The world is waiting for you to step into your greatness,
to show up unfiltered, unvarnished, and unapologetically you.
My pain became my purpose.
Coaching is not just my work — it is my calling.
It’s how I answer the life that kept calling me back.
WHO - BACKGROUND
Hallo there!
I’m Rebecca-Monique (she/her): a somatic and transformational coach, specialising in grief and trauma. I’m also a certified coach supervisor.
Yes — my first name is hyphenated, and yes — it’s a bit of a mouthful!
Life itself loves a hyphen: holding two seemingly separate things together.
That said, I’m not precious about it — I’ll warmly answer to Rebecca too.
But if you gift me the full Rebecca-Monique each time, consider yourself wrapped in honorary brownie points.
“Names are important,” a coach of mine once insisted — and I couldn’t agree more (I’ve just written several sentences about mine!).
While we’re on the subject of names (in case you’re wondering — or even if you’re not!), my website name is Rebecca-Monique stripped of its vowels.
If we have the chance to connect — and I truly hope we do — I’ll share more about the symbolism behind it.
I’m so glad you’ve found your way here, taking a moment to explore who I am and the value I might offer to your journey.
I’m a professionally trained coach, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and a member of the National Council of Psychotherapists — so you can rest assured: you’re in experienced, compassionate hands.
Before stepping fully into the world of coaching, I spent over a decade in PeopleOps — both as a stand-alone operator and as a leader of small teams in VC-backed tech start-ups.
I built People functions from scratch to support hyper-growth plans, collaboratively designing, implementing, and evolving holistic, people-first frameworks that spanned the entire employee journey: from hiring and onboarding to growth, development, and everything in between.
It was a wonderful — and wonderfully challenging — chapter.
But over time, something inside me grew restless.
Even amidst all the accolades, initiatives, and strategic wins, I found myself feeling drained — disconnected from the heart of what truly lit me up.
Through deep introspection, I realised: while I was building systems to support people, I had moved several steps too far from my true calling — directly enabling individuals to meet, heal, and actualise their fullest, most authentic selves.
Often, that sacred work begins by journeying through the tender terrain of grief and unaddressed trauma — the parts of us that no longer serve our highest good.
Coaching wasn’t just a skill I had acquired over the years; it was a force I had witnessed transform not only professional engagement and performance, but also how people intrinsically felt about themselves, their lives, and their capacity to thrive.
So, I made the vulnerable, courageous decision to step fully into coaching.
To answer the deeper call.
And here we are —
honouring the sacred intersection between pain and possibility,
between survival and soulful thriving —
two humans meeting across a screen,
because somewhere in you, too, something is stirring toward more.
What a beautiful, honourable place to begin.
WHAT I DO
I don’t help people ‘move on.’ I help them move inward—towards clarity, sovereignty, and legacy.
I help people normalise and navigate their trauma and grief, empowering them to thrive with confidence, self-love, and authenticity.
I am me, and you are you — and that is our superpower. To truly coach, I hold individuals in ‘unconditional positive regard,’ listen deeply to understand, and ask generative questions that spark new ways of thinking.
There’s a saying that to explore anything, you must first look to its origin. I’m deeply curious about what drives people — their values, needs, motivations, and desires. I create a psychologically safe space for clients to bring their authentic selves, where together, we can explore limitless possibilities.
It’s my hope that after every interaction, they develop a greater sense of mobility to tackle their personal and professional challenges head on, and see those challenges not as problems, but as puzzles.
In my spare time, I dabble in a bit of amateur photography and have a new-found enthusiasm for cinematography. Click here to view my other website and check out some of my earlier work. Go on.
WHERE
London, UK. No place I'd rather be.