Self-Concept Licensed Coaches
Ismael Dreger
When people want to improve their relationships, performance, or emotional well-being but feel disconnected from themselves, Ismael Dreger helps them build a stronger internal foundation for lasting change.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach, NLP Trainer, researcher, and educator with the Self-Concept Research Group, Ismael combines precise language and sensory acuity with deep listening, compassion, and flexibility. He works with parents, professionals, entrepreneurs, and others committed to personal growth and more meaningful relationships.
Ismael helps clients strengthen their self-concept, reconnect with their values, and become more comfortable in their own skin. Through this process, they learn to relate more authentically, regulate their emotions, make aligned decisions, and move forward with greater openness and confidence.
Email: ismael@selfconcept.com
Henning Kurz
When ambitious entrepreneurs, executives, and traders know they are capable of more but continue getting in their own way, Henning Kurz helps them identify and transform the internal patterns limiting their performance.
Drawing on more than 20 years of corporate experience and advanced expertise in Self-Concept work, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Results Coaching, and Conversational Hypnosis, Henning understands the pressure and complexity that accompany high-level decisions.
His focused, results-oriented approach helps clients recognize the unconscious beliefs and behaviors shaping their choices. Through this process, they develop greater clarity, confidence, and self-trust, allowing them to make stronger decisions, perform more consistently, and pursue their goals without being held back by their old patterns.
Email: henning@selfconcept.com
Pierre Ortiz
When people know what they want but feel held back by self-doubt, limiting beliefs, or an unclear sense of who they are, Pierre helps them create meaningful change from the inside out.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach and NLP Trainer, Pierre guides clients through a structured exploration of the values, beliefs, strengths, and internal narratives shaping their lives. His thoughtful and dedicated approach helps clients recognize what has been keeping them stuck and develop a more supportive self-concept.
Through this process, clients gain greater confidence, clarity, and trust in themselves, giving them a stronger foundation for making decisions, taking purposeful action, and creating the results they want in their lives.
Email: pierre@selfconcept.com
Mieke Vermeulen
When limiting beliefs and unresolved parts of your identity keep you from moving forward, Mieke Vermeulen helps you understand what is holding you back and create a more supportive relationship with yourself.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach, Mieke provides a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where every part of you can feel welcomed, seen, and heard. Rather than rejecting the parts that create internal conflict, she helps you understand their positive intentions, find peace with them, and integrate the wisdom they offer.
Through this process, Mieke helps clients transform limiting beliefs into more empowering beliefs and behaviors, creating greater inner alignment, confidence, and freedom to pursue the life they want.
Email: mieke@selfconcept.com
Lani Buess
Many accomplished professionals appear successful on the outside while privately struggling with self-doubt, impostor syndrome, overthinking, or people-pleasing. They often know what to do but find themselves repeating the same patterns.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach, educator, and mentor with advanced training in NLP and hypnosis, Lani Buess helps clients transform the self-concept beneath these patterns. Her calm, insightful approach helps clients understand what is keeping them stuck and develop a more supportive relationship with themselves.
Through this process, clients learn to trust themselves, make clearer decisions, build healthier relationships, and take purposeful action. The result is lasting change that feels believable, attainable, and natural rather than forced.
Email: lani@selfconcept.com
Brandt Linkowski
Brandt Linkowski helps high-performing traders, entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives act decisively when the stakes are high. His clients often know what they want and what they need to do, but find themselves hesitating, overthinking, or second-guessing when action matters most.
Trained in the Self-Concept Model, Brandt helps clients transform the identity-level beliefs behind resistance and inconsistency. The goal is not simply to feel more confident, but to trust their judgment, execute under pressure, and follow through consistently.
As a trader, musician, father, and experienced guide through complex change, Brandt brings discipline, perspective, and a grounded understanding of high-pressure decisions. Based in Victoria, British Columbia, he helps clients turn insight into action and make dependable performance part of who they are.
Anna Galabova
When entrepreneurs, founders, and executives know they are capable of more but remain trapped in perfectionism, over-responsibility, or constant over-functioning, Anna helps them transform the internal patterns limiting their growth.
An experienced NLP coach with a background in entrepreneurship and intercultural studies, Anna brings both practical business understanding and personal insight to her work. Fluent in five languages and deeply trained in the Self-Concept Model, she tailors her approach to each client’s unique needs.
Anna helps clients develop greater confidence, resilience, and clarity, especially when making decisions involving money, leadership, and visibility. By transforming the beliefs driving their old patterns, clients can pursue their goals with stronger intrinsic motivation, a clearer sense of purpose, and success that feels authentic and fulfilling.
Barbara Neufeld
When individuals and couples find themselves repeating protective patterns that no longer serve them, Barbara helps them understand what is driving those reactions and create more intentional ways of relating.
Her approach combines identity-level Self-Concept coaching with evidence-informed relationship principles, mindfulness, and practical nervous-system regulation tools. Clients describe Barbara as perceptive and responsive, knowing when compassion is needed and when it is time to challenge them and encourage accountability.
Barbara specializes in supporting remarried couples, blended families, and high-performing professionals and leaders. She helps clients transform the beliefs shaping how they see themselves and others so they can communicate more clearly, make aligned choices, and lead, live, and build relationships with greater confidence, integrity, and intention.
Caleb Vallevand
When caring, thoughtful people struggle with overthinking, a harsh inner voice, or the feeling that they do not belong, Caleb Vallevand helps them develop a more supportive relationship with themselves.
Based in Vancouver, Caleb is a coach, musician, and longtime meditator whose approach is grounded in mindfulness, connection with nature, and the belief in every person’s basic goodness. He helps clients understand self-critical patterns, strengthen their inner support, and cultivate a greater sense of belonging and self-trust.
Caleb also brings personal understanding to this work through his experience living with Tourette syndrome and navigating anxiety and OCD patterns. Today, he helps others move beyond constant internal struggle and experience greater ease, peace, and engagement in their lives.
Chaya Perl
When people with learning differences struggle with identity, self-worth, or expressing themselves confidently, Chaya Perl helps them develop a more supportive understanding of who they are.
As a speech-language pathologist, Chaya brings specialized experience in communication and learning disabilities to her coaching. She understands how learning differences can influence the way people see themselves, relate to others, and approach new challenges.
Chaya helps clients reframe the meaning they have attached to their learning differences, recognize the strengths within their experiences, and build an authentic self-concept that reflects who they want to become. Through this process, clients can communicate more confidently, strengthen their self-worth, and navigate their lives with greater clarity and self-trust.
Email: chaya.perl@selfconcept.com
Chad Nelson
When solopreneurs, consultants, creators, and coaches enter a new chapter of life but find themselves held back by self-doubt, Chad Nelson helps them reconnect with their strengths and move forward with clarity and confidence.
As a Self-Concept Coach, Chad uses NLP and the Self-Concept Model developed by Steve Andreas to help clients transform identity-level beliefs and develop a stronger understanding of who they are and what they stand for.
Chad’s own journey through corporate offices, classrooms, film sets, entrepreneurship, fatherhood, and travel to more than 24 countries taught him that achievement alone does not create lasting fulfillment. Today, he helps clients reframe their experiences, strengthen their self-concept, and approach their “second act” with greater confidence, purpose, and self-trust.
Email: chad.nelson@selfconcept.com
Jacqueline Boegli
When women feel unfulfilled in their careers but uncertain about pursuing something more meaningful, Jacqueline helps them build the confidence and self-trust needed to create heart-led businesses.
Based in Switzerland, Jacqueline began working with the Self-Concept Model in 2022 while facing depression, anxiety, and addiction in her own life. Through transforming her self-concept, she gradually rebuilt her life and discovered a new sense of purpose.
Today, she uses that personal experience to guide women through their own transitions. Jacqueline believes lasting fulfillment does not come from continually achieving more, but from recognizing the strengths, value, and potential that have been within us all along.
Joe Duchene
When business owners know what they need to do but find themselves procrastinating, avoiding decisions, or getting lost in mental clutter, Joseph DuChene helps them turn insight into consistent action.
As a mindset coach with a background as a chiropractor, U.S. Air Force veteran, and solo business owner, Joseph brings an educational, practical, and collaborative approach to coaching. His training in NLP and subconscious behavior change helps clients identify the patterns influencing their decisions and behavior.
Joseph works with clients to clarify what they want, reduce internal resistance, and develop an identity that supports their goals. Through this process, they become better equipped to make clear decisions, follow through consistently, and move their businesses and lives forward with greater confidence and ease.
Email: joe.duchene@selfconcept.com
Judy Colton
When entrepreneurs and business leaders feel they have reached the limits of strategy alone, Judy Colton helps them uncover the beliefs and identity patterns affecting their growth.
With more than two decades of experience in small and mid-sized companies, Judy has also built businesses across the food, technology, health, and consulting industries. This firsthand experience, from launching startups to sustaining established enterprises, brings practical understanding to every coaching conversation.
Judy helps clients move beyond limiting beliefs, reconnect with their deeper purpose, and develop a self-concept that supports the future they are creating. Through this process, clients become better equipped to lead confidently, make purposeful decisions, and build success that feels meaningful and sustainable.
Email: judy.colton@selfconcept.com
Karim Bandali
When people feel uncertain about themselves, disconnected from their purpose, or stuck in patterns affecting their confidence and relationships, Karim Bandali helps them create lasting change from within.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach and former school principal with more than 23 years of experience in education, Karim brings patience, perspective, and a deep understanding of personal development to his coaching. He works with young adults, parents, educators, retirees, and other adults navigating meaningful changes in their lives.
Karim helps clients transform how they see themselves so they can build greater confidence, strengthen their relationships, and move forward with a clearer sense of identity and purpose. He offers coaching in both English and French.
Rasmus Welling
When accomplished professionals and creatives feel stuck, uncertain about their next step, or disconnected from the work they once found meaningful, Rasmus Welling helps them move forward with clarity and confidence.
As a Certified Self-Concept Coach and Master Coach, Rasmus helps clients identify the beliefs, values, and patterns shaping their choices. Together, they develop a more supportive self-concept and turn new insight into practical action.
Drawing on more than 40 years as a professional musician, educator, creative leader, and mentor, Rasmus brings perspective, creativity, and grounded guidance to the coaching process. His clients leave with a clearer understanding of who they want to become and the direction needed to create a meaningful life and career.
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