You have carried responsibility and care for many years. This is a space to pause, listen, and move toward new possibilities.
Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.
Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.
You have carried responsibility and care for many years. This is a space to pause, listen, and move toward new possibilities.
Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.
Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.Grounded, women-centered coaching for women in life transition.
A different kind of support for a meaningful season of change
There are moments in life when the outer shape of success no longer tells the whole story.
You may still be capable, respected, and effective. And at the same time, something quieter may be asking for your attention. A desire for more alignment. More truth. More space to live and lead in ways that feel sustainable and alive.
Inner Strength and Wellbeing Coaching offers women-centered, trauma-informed support for women navigating life transition, growth, or reinvention. Many of the women I work with come from healthcare and other service-based leadership roles. All are seasoned, responsible, and deeply committed. And all are listening more closely to themselves than they once had room to do.
This work is not about fixing what is broken.
It is about strengthening what is already wise within you.
This work is held within a relational, embodied, and trauma-informed approach. I attend closely to pacing, nervous system capacity, and the subtle signals that arise when women are given space to listen inwardly. The body is treated as a source of intelligence, not something to override or correct. Sessions unfold at a rhythm that allows clarity to emerge without force, urgency, or self-abandonment. What matters most is not acceleration, but steadiness, trust, and integrity in how change takes shape.
Values + Orientation
When the inner life asks for space
Leadership, caregiving, and long seasons of responsibility shape women deeply. Over time, there often comes a season when the inner self asks for room alongside the outer role.
Some seasons feel expansive. Others feel disorienting. You may be excelling, tired, grounded, restless, or somewhere in between. Whatever you are carrying, this is a space designed to support not only what you do, but who you are becoming.
Here, growth does not require pushing harder.
It begins with listening more deeply.
This work is guided by a simple belief. Women already carry deep wisdom shaped by lived experience. The body holds essential knowledge and deserves to be listened to with respect. Transitions are meaningful thresholds, not problems to solve. When women are supported to listen inwardly, clarity, strength, and new possibilities emerge naturally.
WHAT WOMEN ARE CARRYING
Many women I work with are carrying more than they name.
• A deep sense of responsibility, with little room to rest or be supported
• Isolation that can come from years of leadership or caregiving
• Grief for a role, a loved one, an identity, or a chapter that has ended
• Emotional or nervous system exhaustion that cannot be solved by effort alone
• A sense that something new is emerging, without clarity about what comes next
• Readiness to evolve, paired with the desire for a steady, thoughtful space
These are not signs of weakness.
They are signals that an old way of living is completing, and a new way is asking to take shape.
Identify-Level Change Begins Here
This work meets women at a genuine threshold. Not a moment to optimize or refine, but a point where something essential has ended and cannot be returned to. What unfolds here is identity-level change — reshaping how a woman relates to her capacity, her power, her visibility, and her time. This work does not push for reinvention or acceleration. It supports a steadier internal reference point so choices about work, relationship, leadership, and life can emerge with integrity rather than self-abandonment.
HOW THE WORK SUPPORTS CHANGE
I help women in midlife and later life navigate inner transitions by providing a steady, non-performative space. One that supports clarity about what no longer fits, reduces self-doubt around capacity shifts, and restores trust in one’s own timing.
Over time, many women find they can pause without self-reproach, name what has been changing inside them, and make choices with greater integrity rather than pressure. The change is tangible. Life begins to feel more inhabitable again.
About Barbara E Lakatos, DNP, PMHCNS-BC, APRN
My Philosophy
I believe women shaped by leadership and caregiving roles deserve a space that strengthens both who they are and who they are becoming.
The feminine approach I use was developed by Dr. Claire Zammit, with whom I trained personally. As a certified mind-body medicine practitioner and advanced psychiatric practice nurse, I integrate neuroscie
I believe women shaped by leadership and caregiving roles deserve a space that strengthens both who they are and who they are becoming.
The feminine approach I use was developed by Dr. Claire Zammit, with whom I trained personally. As a certified mind-body medicine practitioner and advanced psychiatric practice nurse, I integrate neuroscience, evidence-based methods, somatic practices, and trauma-informed care.
My work creates a confidential, steady space where you can think clearly, grow boldly, and reconnect with your deeper wisdom.
My Experience Psychiatric Nurse | Leadership | Midlife Insight
For more than forty years, I have led, mentored, and supported women within complex healthcare systems. I understand the weight women leaders carry, both professionally and personally.
I also understand what it takes to step into the next version of yourself with clarity, confidence, and wellbeing intact. My background allows me to meet yo
For more than forty years, I have led, mentored, and supported women within complex healthcare systems. I understand the weight women leaders carry, both professionally and personally.
I also understand what it takes to step into the next version of yourself with clarity, confidence, and wellbeing intact. My background allows me to meet you with insight, compassion, and deep respect for the realities you navigate.
This lived experience shapes the steady, growth-focused support I offer as you orient toward what is possible next.
My Services
My Services
I offer one-on-one and group coaching that gives you the space to access your deeper power, open new possibilities, and create meaningful change from the inside out.
When your inner operating system shifts, everything around you begins to shift. Career, confidence, leadership, health, and sense of purpose.
This is the kind of transformation
I offer one-on-one and group coaching that gives you the space to access your deeper power, open new possibilities, and create meaningful change from the inside out.
When your inner operating system shifts, everything around you begins to shift. Career, confidence, leadership, health, and sense of purpose.
This is the kind of transformation I am here to support. Contact me to explore how we might work together.
You don’t need to have answers. You don’t need to be certain.
You only need a willingness to pause and listen.
If you feel drawn to explore where you are and what is unfolding next, I invite you to begin a conversation. This is a calm, confidential space to reflect together and see whether working together feels right.
Coaching is not therapy or mental health treatment.
Inner Strength and Wellbeing Coaching LLC
What support looks like
This is a three-month private coaching container for women navigating a meaningful life transition.
We meet regularly in a calm, confidential space designed to support steadiness, clarity, and inner alignment. This is not a program to complete or a problem to fix. It is a place to pause, listen inwardly, and orient toward what comes next with support.
The container is especially supportive if you’ve spent years carrying responsibility, leading, or caregiving, and you’re sensing that your inner life needs room alongside your outer roles.
Over three months, we work at a pace your nervous system can integrate. Sessions are shaped around what you are carrying in real time, supporting clarity, self-trust, and sustainable movement forward.
Reaching out doesn’t require certainty. We can begin with a conversation.
Services are offered on a private-pay basis.
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Quiet Thresholds
Quiet Thresholds is an ongoing body of reflective essays on transition, sustainability, and the spaces between chapters. Reflective essays are for women navigating life transitions, leadership, caregiving, and the inward shifts that accompany a full life.
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