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You built a career to fund a wonderful life. Now, that career is the very thing stopping you from living it.

This program helps you navigate high-pressure environments with clear coping mechanisms rather than just pushing through, allowing you to reclaim the energy to do your best work and to enjoy the life that happens after you log off.

The Becoming Present Framework 

Finding Clarity & Calm
amidst High Pressure

Coaching that helps ambitious professionals move from pressure to presence, confidence, and sustainable leadership.

"It's been an unexpected ride! Thank you for all the clarity, the questions and helping me feel more empowered again. I am now able to sleep better and let go of work after working hours"

Team Manager - European Q-Commerce Platform

"I have never felt more seen and understood. I sleep better, communicate better and I am more optimistic at work."

Lead Project Engineer - Global E-commerce Company

"I feel more confident. I'm able to express my boundaries at work as well as at home. Because of that I no longer feel overwhelmed, I get more work done and enjoy being amongst my collegues again."

Executive Secretary - Global Manufacturing & Technology Company

Moving From Pressure to Presence

Through this program you will be able to:

  • Release the compulsion to people-please so you can fully focus on your own tasks, make decisions that benefit the team, and protect your energy.
     

  • Share your ideas before they are "perfect" by silencing the inner critic that keeps your best contributions hidden.
     

  • Replace the "responsible for everything" mindset with clear role boundaries, eliminating the friction and burnout of overextending.
     

  • Break the cycle of work-related restless nights to get better sleep, allowing you to communicate with more kindness and less reactivity.
     

  • Move past the fear that you must do everything yourself and build the internal safety needed to delegate and trust your team.
     

  • Possess a reliable toolkit for high-pressure moments that allows you to stay grounded and clear-headed, even when the stakes are high.

 

 

As a result you will be able to work better, be the leader your team needs and be fully present with the people you love.

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"Thank YOU for all of your time and patience and for giving me what I needed most: to strip away all the outside noise and focus on getting back to the stability of myself. 

Tessa has a deep ability to recognize the strength within others. Over the past year, I’ve learned with her guidance how to harness my inner power, stay present, and intentionally shape my future.

Her unique perspective on life and the method she uses to draw out the best in people have profoundly resonated with me. I feel a newfound sense of freedom and ownership over my life."

Digital Innovation Manager -  French Fashion House

Energized at work.
Fully present at home.

In his role as Lead Project Engineer, my client was responsible for projects generating millions in revenue for his company. On the surface, he appeared to have everything under control: meeting deadlines, taking ownership and consistently delivering high-quality work.

Behind the scenes, however, the pressure was taking its toll. He struggled to sleep, found it difficult to trust his team enough to delegate and he became short with colleagues.. and his kids.

This is a pattern I see time and again: highly capable employees who continue to perform while quietly struggling with the demands of their roles and their personal insecurities.
 
Because you keep delivering, the warning signs often go unnoticed until your ability to work is affected. But before that moment comes, the signs are actually already there: the over-thinking, difficulty to switch off after work, being absent with the people you love. Or perhaps a heart that starts racing as soon as Monday morning arrives. Or anxious dreams about a presentation you're supposed to do.
 
You know, my clients biggest worry wasn't the impending burn-out.
It was the fear of losing his children, due to the sleepless nights and his inability to be fully present with them after working hours.

How you move through the day at work, defines how you experience life after work.

 

And that's why it's imperative to change your working strategy from pushing through -

to Becoming Present.

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Practical Info

  • 1x one hour intake to identify the objective for the program

  • 5 or 10 x one hour sessions

  • Practical tools and guided support between sessions

  • All sessions take place online and are available in English, German and Dutch

  • Hourly rate €110
     

Sessions are tailored to each employee’s individual challenges, role and work environment.

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"After more than 10 years of intense run after my career, starting a new job, starting my executive studies and all of that together with additional little miracle to come - my way to motherhood. 

 

It is actually hard to put it into words and not everyone will understand it, but this journey has been so many things to me ... understanding what kind of practical methods work for me when I get confused, transforming myself into a new stage of my life and mostly - understanding that so much is already in me, and I just have to open it up. 

 

But the easiest way to visualise this outcome for me ... are those moments when I am simply walking the street. I am here, in this moment, feeling the internal strength and happiness. "

Director of Innovation - European FinTech Company

Not Another
Time-Management Workshop.

​​Whether you are a manager, ingenieur, creative, or support professional, within your role you will learn to lead and collaborate from a place of self-compassion, clarity and excitement for growth.

You may have done many leadership courses or time management workshops before. But this program is not about learning how to take on a specific role, or how to plan your day more effectively.

 

This program is about stripping away all the fluff that is weighing down on your shoulders. So that you get to make decisions and act from a place of clarity and presence. Whether it’s at work or at home.

Because when you are present, you don't just work better, you live better. Your colleagues see a teammate who is calm and focused, your family sees a person who is truly there with them, and you see a life that is once again, a playground of possibilities.

Are you ready to make an impact at work while feeling calm and inspired?

Contact your HR representative or follow the link below to schedule your free discovery call.

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"Tessa's free, intuitive, sometimes impulsive and challenging approach enabled me to embark on the journey in a completely different way. It required feeling into myself more than thinking about myself as before.
 
The journey enabled me to really understand connections, imprints in me, physically, emotionally, not just to know about them, and to be able to deal with them in a self-determined way.
 
All this was possible thanks to Tessa's supportive and encouraging guidance, which was always more of an offer than a request, and thus left room for me to decide for myself. But besides work, it also meant a whole lot of fun! Joining Tessa's curiosity, her perception and also questioning of all our must-dos is fun because it is liberating."

E. - Psychotherapist

About Tessa

​A person with a deep longing to live this life to the absolute fullest and a passion for exploring the world through hiking and biking.

My road has led me from doing a Bachelor in Cognitive- Neurobiological Psychology, to a Master in Clinical & Health Psychology, followed by courses to become a Pilates teacher, other coaching modalities and many highly intensive yoga programs, as I am very keen to get to the bottom of how this life works (at its best).

​​In the past decade I have had the pleasure to work with employees from companies such as Adidas, Wolt, Nike, Le Wagon, Charité and Vista Print through Employee Assistance Programs and tailored workshops.

Through this work, I’ve seen the profound impact of helping employees cultivate clarity and become deeply grounded in their own presence. When people learn to master this, they unlock the ability to function at their best - not just at work, but after hours too.

 

And the beauty of it all is that this groundedness creates a ripple effect that elevates entire teams and transforms lives at home as well.

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Tessa Dongelmans, psychologist and empowerment coach helping ambitious professionals become more present and resilient.
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