1:1 Mentoring & Coaching
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring is a relationship built on trust, where someone with lived experience offers guidance, encouragement, and perspective to someone navigating their own unfolding. It’s not just about skills — it’s about sharing stories, insights, and presence in a way that helps you feel less alone as you walk your path. A mentor can act as a sounding board, role model, and steady companion — someone who has walked through challenges and can open up new ways of seeing and becoming.
Not sure if this is right for you, or simply want to know more before deciding?
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a collaborative process that helps you uncover your own answers and strengths. Rather than telling you what to do, a coach creates space for exploration through questions, reflection, and creative practices. Together, we focus on the goals that matter to you — whether that’s developing self-trust, moving beyond self-doubt, or finding practical steps toward change. Coaching is about drawing out your wisdom, so you can take action with clarity and confidence.
My Approach:
In my work, I often weave mentoring and coaching together. Sometimes you need someone to hold space while you find your own way forward. Other times, it helps to have someone share what they’ve learned from walking a similar path. Both can be powerful — and both honour the truth that belonging begins within.
I draw on:
- 25+ years of counselling practice and mentoring.
- My lived experience of being “wired differently” and learning to see difference as a gift.
- Flow-Inspired Creations as a way to unlock self-expression and shift focus away from self-doubt.
- Gentle, strengths-based guidance to support your voice, belonging, and becoming.
🌿 Mentoring & Coaching Sessions
What a single 1:1 session can offer
A single mentoring or coaching session is a place to pause and listen to what wants attention right now. There’s no fixed agenda — we begin with what feels most present for you.
These sessions may support you to:
- explore self-expression and give voice to what’s been held quietly inside
- gain clarity through reflection and creative exploration
- recognise strengths, patterns, or inner resources you may have overlooked
- reframe unhelpful stories or beliefs that no longer serve you
- find steadiness or direction during times of uncertainty or transition
Sometimes clarity arrives through conversation. At other times, it emerges through creative moments — drawing, writing, symbols, or simple reflective practices — always guided by what feels accessible and supportive for you.
There may be times when meaningful change asks for more than a single conversation. Ongoing mentoring & coaching sessions offer you the chance to move more deeply into your journey, with regular sessions that build on one another at a pace and frequency that feels right for you.
Single Sessions
A single session offers a spacious moment — a one-off chance to pause, breathe, and explore how your difference can become your strength, opening new pathways to self-trust and belonging.
Each session is 60 minutes (online, by phone, or in person — your choice),
$130 per session, confidential and tailored to your needs.
Ongoing Sessions
If you’re interested in working together over time, ongoing sessions are available. We can talk about this together after your first session and find an approach that feels supportive and sustainable for you.
You’re welcome to begin with a single session first, and decide then if ongoing sessions are right for you.
Meet Your Mentor & Coach
I’m Ruth Brunner — counsellor by qualification, and mentor, coach, and author of Uniquely You.
For over 25 years I’ve companioned quiet trailblazers, creative navigators, and those who feel “wired differently,” helping them move from self-doubt toward self-trust.
Drawing on my counselling expertise and lived experience, I now offer mentoring and coaching as a more spacious and creative way to walk alongside you — supporting your growth, voice, and becoming.
How I Work With You
These sessions offer a spacious, focused pause — a place to explore what matters most to you right now. You might be seeking clarity around something from the book, needing support through a moment of self-doubt, or simply wanting a safe space to be heard and seen. I walk alongside you as you untangle what feels complex and reconnect with what feels true.
