Mental Health & Personal Development Coaching
About Mental Health & Personal Development Coaching
Life can feel overwhelming, confusing, or unmanageable — especially when you’re navigating emotional pain, identity struggles, or high-functioning anxiety beneath the surface. Mental Health & Personal Development Coaching offers a safe, non-judgmental space to explore your inner world, heal emotional wounds, and reconnect with your most authentic self.
At The Authenticity Centre, our approach blends psychological insight with practical tools for growth — so you can better understand who you are, why you feel the way you do, and how to move forward in a way that feels grounded and empowering. This is not just about “fixing what’s broken” — it’s about building emotional resilience, breaking self-sabotaging cycles, and creating a life that aligns with your values, boundaries, and truth.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, trauma, low self-worth, toxic relationship patterns, or simply feeling stuck — this coaching is here to support you.
Meet Your Coach - Louise Niemann
Louise Niemann is a trauma-informed Mental Health Practitioner & Personal Development Coach with over two decades of lived, academic, and professional experience in emotional healing, psychological wellness, and personal growth.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology (cum laude) and combines her background in cognitive behavioural therapy, coaching, and emotional intelligence with deep empathy and intuition. Louise’s unique journey — surviving childhood trauma, loss, codependency, and mental health challenges — allows her to hold space for others with authenticity, compassion, and real-world insight.
Clients often describe working with Louise as life-changing, deeply validating, and empowering. She doesn’t just coach — she walks with you through the messy middle, guiding you toward emotional stability, self-worth, and a renewed sense of identity.
Offering & Key Benefits
Anxiety, Stress & Emotional Overwhelm
Learn to manage racing thoughts, physical symptoms, and emotional dysregulation.
Childhood Trauma & PTSD
Understand how early experiences shaped your self-worth, and begin the healing process.
Toxic Relationships & Codependency
Rebuild your identity, set boundaries, and break free from unhealthy dynamics.
Low Self-Esteem
Shift from self-sabotage to self-acceptance through guided reflection and mindset reprogramming.
Life Transitions & Personal Growth
Navigate grief, loss, divorce, parenting, or major change with grounded support.
Nervous System Regulation & Emotional Resilience
Tools to calm the body, regulate emotions, and feel safe within yourself again.
When you commit to this work, you can expect to:
Feel more emotionally stable, safe, and in control of your responses
Understand yourself on a deeper level and shift toxic thought patterns
Heal unresolved trauma and develop self-compassion
Break free from destructive cycles and limiting beliefs
Set and maintain healthy boundaries
Cultivate emotional resilience and a calm nervous system
Reconnect with your values, voice, and personal power
Build healthier, more fulfilling relationships — with others and yourself
Career Coaching
About Career Coaching
Your career should be more than just a means to an end — it should feel aligned, fulfilling, and purposeful. Whether you’re navigating a transition, feeling stuck in your current role, returning to the workforce, or craving more meaning in your professional life, Career Coaching can help you reconnect with your true potential and design a path that reflects who you are and what you want.
At The Authenticity Centre, our Career Coaching services provide clarity and confidence to professionals at every stage of their journey. Whether you’re stepping into leadership, considering a complete pivot, or rebuilding your personal brand, we’ll help you realign with your values, sharpen your professional presence, and make empowered decisions about your next chapter.
This is about more than just finding the next job — it’s about rediscovering yourself in the process.
Meet Your Coach - Candice Lategan
Candice Lategan is the founder of The Bloom Room, a Career Coach and Personal Branding Strategist who brings a rare blend of corporate insight and soulful guidance to her work.
After more than two decades in HR and talent development roles within high-performing corporate environments, Candice followed her calling to help others grow into careers and identities they truly love. Her own transition out of the corporate world gives her a unique perspective on the courage, clarity, and self-trust required to pursue meaningful change.
Candice works holistically — supporting her clients not only with CVs and interviews, but with confidence, mindset, and clarity. Her coaching style is gentle, intuitive, and values-driven — perfect for anyone seeking a career that feels aligned, not just successful.
Offering & Key Benefits
Career Discovery & Alignment
Uncover your strengths, values, and vision — and align them with career paths that make sense for you.
Career Transition Coaching
Navigate job changes, corporate exits, re-entry after a break, or pivoting industries with clarity and courage.
Personal Brand Development
Build a compelling professional identity, online and offline — from LinkedIn profiles to confidence in interviews.
Interview Preparation & Confidence Building
Practice real-world strategies to present yourself authentically, with calm, clarity, and conviction.
Work Life Integration & Goal Setting
Set meaningful, sustainable goals aligned with your lifestyle, values, and vision of success.
Sessions & Packages Available
Single consultations, short-term strategy packages, and transformational coaching journeys.
Career Coaching with Candice can help you:
Gain clarity on your career direction or next step
Build a personal brand that feels both authentic and professional
Regain confidence and navigate transitions with resilience
Prepare effectively for interviews and workplace challenges
Reconnect with your values, purpose, and long-term goals
Create a career that supports your life — not the other way around
Move from self-doubt to self-trust, and from confusion to action
MindBody Coaching
About MindBody Coaching
Your body holds more than just your posture and presence — it holds your emotions, your stress, your stories, and your healing potential. MindBody Coaching bridges the gap between what we think and how we feel, helping you reconnect with your body as a source of wisdom, safety, and resilience.
This form of coaching is ideal for individuals who feel stuck in their heads, disconnected from their bodies, or overwhelmed by stress and emotional dysregulation. Through somatic practices, breathwork, movement, and nervous system education, MindBody Coaching helps you regulate, recalibrate, and come home to yourself.
At The Authenticity Centre, this service is for anyone seeking grounded healing, embodied self-awareness, and a more integrated, present way of living.
Meet Your Coach - Ilana Serfontein
Ilana Serfontein is a trauma-informed MindBody Coach, breathwork practitioner, and founder of Live Inside Out. Her work centres on helping individuals reconnect with their bodies as allies — especially after stress, burnout, trauma, or chronic disconnection.
With a calm, intuitive presence and deep somatic knowledge, Ilana supports clients in shifting from survival mode into regulation, self-trust, and embodied awareness. Her approach is compassionate yet powerful, weaving together the physical, emotional, and energetic layers of healing.
Ilana believes that your body isn’t something to be fixed — it’s something to be listened to. Her work is perfect for those who are tired of overthinking and ready to experience change from the inside out.
Offering & Key Benefits
Somatic Awareness & Emotional Integration
Learn how to feel safely, gently, and fully — releasing tension and emotional holding patterns stored in the body.
Breathwork For Healing & Clarity
Explore guided breath sessions that help you calm anxiety, clear your mind, and return to emotional balance.
Trauma Aware Mind Body Coaching
For those who’ve experienced emotional trauma, burnout, or chronic stress — without the pressure of talk therapy.
Body Based Lifestyle Alignment
Reconnect with natural rhythms of rest, nourishment, and inner alignment in daily life.
Mind-Mood-Food Program
Transform the way you connect with your body, food and mental health.
Coaching Format
One-on-one sessions, in-person or online, with optional add-ons like immersive breathwork journeys and self-regulation tools
MindBody Coaching can help you:
Regulate your nervous system and reduce anxiety or overwhelm
Release stress, trauma, and emotional tension stored in the body
Reconnect with your body’s signals, rhythms, and wisdom
Feel calmer, clearer, and more present in everyday life
Improve emotional resilience and body awareness
Create inner safety and trust within yourself
Live more authentically — from the inside out
Healing With Horses
About Healing With Horses
Healing doesn’t always start with words — sometimes, it starts in stillness, presence, and the connection with another being who simply sees you.
Healing With Horses offers a powerful, non-verbal, and deeply intuitive space where growth, regulation, and trauma healing happen naturally through guided interactions with horses.
These sessions are designed for individuals and teams who find traditional, talk-based approaches difficult, or who are seeking a deeper, more embodied form of healing and self-discovery. Whether you’re navigating trauma, stress, burnout, grief, neurodivergence, or relational challenges — or whether you’re a team looking to strengthen communication, empathy, and trust — horses offer profound insight into who we are and how we relate to the world.
No horse experience is required — just a willingness to show up, breathe, and be seen.
Meet Your Facilitator - Louise Niemann
Louise Niemann is a trauma-informed coach, equine therapy facilitator, and the founder of Healing With Horses. With a background in psychology, somatic awareness, trauma recovery, and corporate leadership, Louise bridges the worlds of mental health, emotional healing, and personal development — all through the presence and partnership of horses.
Having overcome her own experience with childhood trauma, PTSD, grief, and burnout, Louise brings depth, safety, and insight into every interaction — both human and equine. Her intuitive connection with horses, paired with a calm, grounded coaching style, creates a supportive space for clients to regulate, release, and reconnect.
Louise is also a certified life coach, registered EAPA-SA practitioner, and experienced equine handler, known for her gentle but powerful presence — especially with those who feel misunderstood, dysregulated, or emotionally overwhelmed.
Offering & Key Benefits
Private Sessions (Individual or Family):
- PTSD / C-PTSD & Trauma Recovery
- Emotional Regulation & Nervous System Support
- Neurodivergence (ADHD, Autism, BPD)
- Anxiety, Depression & Grief
- Childhood Trauma & Identity Healing
- Self-Esteem & Boundary Work
Community & Youth Programs:
- Partner Programs with Schools & NGOs (e.g., Miriam School)
- Emotional Resilience & Social Skills for Children and Teens
- Support for At-Risk Youth, Caregivers & Educators
Session Format:
- Outdoor, nature-based settings
- Ground-based interaction with horses (no riding required)
- Half-day, full-day, and multi-session formats available
- Programs can be customized for personal healing or team objectives
Whether for personal healing or group development, Healing With Horses offers:
A safe, calm space for non-verbal emotional processing
Support for those who struggle with traditional therapy or coaching
Improved emotional regulation and nervous system resilience
Insight into boundaries, trust, communication, and self-awareness
A break from overstimulation, performance pressure, and “fixing”
Profound clarity and personal insight through the mirror of the horse
Enhanced team empathy, presence, and relational intelligence
Restoration of inner calm, groundedness, and personal empowerment