Richard says: “Before we manage anything else we must manage ourselves. Weight gain is a defence mechanism. The subconscious mind uses the body to send a warning message to the conscious mind. Overweight people know how conscious‚ their weight makes them; this is indeed the intention of the subconscious mind to draw attention to deep latent needs not being addressed.”
Rich agrees that forming good habits play a vital part but feels the secret to achieving genuine weight loss results lies in making a conscious effort to meet one’s deeper needs. This can be done by stimulating personal growth and creating forward momentum.

Name of Practice: Lionheart coaching
Where: Durban, KwaZulu Natal
Born: 1965
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Coach, New Insights Advanced Coach Training, New Insights Certified Life Coach
Specialises in: Weight loss and personal management
USP: An intrinsic understanding of life outside the comfort zone, managing uncertainty and moving forward, coupled with a deep passion to assist others to achieve the same.
Fees: R300-R399 per session negotiable. Discounts for small groups
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.lionheartcoach.com

Herman boasts 30 years experience in business and management and specialises in business and personal development coaching.
His style is hands-on and practical with an honest approach. Although he is still involved in business, coaching is his passion. As he says: “I love to experience the difference it makes to people’s lives on a day to day basis.”
Herman feels privileged to help people become the best they can be in their business and in their personal lives. And with a powerful combination of advanced coach training and a wealth of business experience he is uniquely equipped to do just that!

Name of Practice: Herman Smit Business and Personal Development Coaching
Where: Swellendam to Somerset West, Western Cape
Born: 1960
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Coach, New Insights Advanced Coach Training, New Insights Certified Life Coach
Specialises in: Business and Personal Development
USP: A combination of many years of business experience and life coach training; Tweetalig
Fees: R300-R399 per session, negotiable
Website: www.lewensafrigting.co.za



Tobo is passionate about people!
She loves to see people succeed in everything they set their mind on. As a wife, mother of five and a business woman she would love to see all young people grow into responsible, focused, proactive adults who will not stop at anything to achieve their goals.
Studying Psychology increased Tobo’s interest in understanding human behaviour and how to help people understand the potential they have within. Life Coaching is now her vehicle to living a Life of Purpose.

Name of Practice: Talk to Tobo the Life Coach
Where: Mthatha, Eastern Cape
Born: 1968
Qualifications: BA Hons (Psychology); New Insights Certified VIP Coach (Advanced Training).
Specialises in: General life coaching and bereaved clients.
USP: I grew up in the funeral business and have a passion for helping bereaved people. I have more than 10 yrs experience working with HIV and AIDS programmes.
Fees: R400-R499 per session negotiable.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: None listed

Jenni refers to herself as a ‘True Essence’ Life Coach and focuses heavily on her clients’ personal development by taking them on a journey of self-discovery towards self -empowerment.
Jenni believes that with heightened awareness of who we really are, we can strive to live more consciously and choose to make choices! Thus, we begin to be in creative control of our own life experiences.


Name of Practice: True Essence life coaching
Where: Glencairn, Western Cape
Born: 1958
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Coach (Advanced Coach Training)
Specialises in: Helping people to connect with their true essence, find their passion and grow and develop as individuals.
USP: Jenni offers an optional extra of tailoring her own gentle exercise technique, called Chi Moves, to the unique needs of her clients. Chi Moves, which activates the energy systems of the body, complements the life coaching programme to promote balance and harmony.
Fees: Available upon application
COMENSA Registered: Yes


Hayley Ryan believes there are three essential elements to living a healthy lifestyle, viz. living with a feeling of purpose and passion; eating tasty, healthy food for sustained energy and maintaining a fit, healthy body.
Hayley specialises in helping clients become aware that the body is a reflection of the mind. By taking the mind into a more positive and self accepting space, the body can be made to feel and look as fit and healthy as one desires it to be. Though her niche is healthy lifestyle coaching, she is also passionate about empowering people to discover their life purpose and build self-esteem, confidence and self-motivation.


Name of Practice: Gear Up Lifestyle Coaching Centre
Where: Durban, KwaZulu Natal (also international coaching via Skype)
Born: 1982
Qualifications: Marketing Management Diploma; International Fitness Trainer diploma; Body for Life consultant; Pilates Instructor (IOFP); Pre and Post Natal Exercise Certification (HFPA); New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Life Coach (Advanced Training)
Specialises in: Healthy lifestyle development, spiritual coaching, Self confidence and self esteem building
USP: An ‘Ironman’ triathlon competitor with firsthand experience of how to release one’s personal power with a positive empowering mindset
Fees: R300-R399 per session
COMENSA Registered: Not specified
Website: www.gearuplive.co.za



Rozanne Raath, a self professed ‘child of God’ and married to Henri, is a CHANGE Lifestyle Coach. She is both outgoing and energetic, as well as sensitive and a practical thinker.
Her motto is “Let Truthful Light Make an Everlasting CHANGE!”
Rozanne’s coaching is all about WHO you are, WHERE you want to be and HOW to get you there.


Name of Practice: Rozanne Raath Life Coaching
Where: Bloemfontein, Free State
Born: 1986
Qualifications: BA Hons (Psychology) (UFS); Theofostic prayer ministry certificate;
New Insights Africa VIP Coach; New Insights Certified Coach (Advanced Coach
Training).
Specialises in: Establishing a lifestyle that’s truly you (helping clients from age 15 to 55 accept, deal with and embrace change to succeed and flourish.)
and embrace change to succeed and flourish.)
USP: Don’t just dream it, live it!
Fees: R350-R450 per session negotiable.
Website: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001759335996


Penny Hennings is a Recovery Life Coach who works primarily with women. As someone who has been through many difficulties, she can personally attest to the POWER of life coaching to bring about the change so many people long for in their lives. If you are in the process of recovery from an addictive behaviour or co-dependency… If you have been through the trauma of loss due to illness, relationship difficulties or children leaving… If you have battled with depression, low self-esteem, low self-worth or loss of identity, then Penny will help you to take back control of your life and move forward into a new and wonderful future!


Name of Practice: Courage to Change
Where: Bryanston, Gauteng
Born: 1959
Qualifications: New Insights VIP Life Coach; New Insights Certified Coach (Advanced Coach Training)
Specialises in: Co-dependency, assisting those who are in recovery from an
addictive behaviour, depression, anxiety, loss – of self-esteem, identity,
self-worth, or loss due to illness or divorce.
USP: Uses a combination of coaching and counselling skills to ensure you get the best possible outcome
Fees: R300-R399 per session.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.courage2change.co.za

Life coach Nicky Attenborough works primarily with women to help them overcome the many challenges they face in the modern world today. Nicky’s primary interest is in helping woman to integrate the life they are living into the life that they truly want to live. Whether you’re working full time, part time or staying at home with your children, it is possible to be loving, successful, responsible and responsive to the needs of others, without losing valuable parts of yourself in the process. By creating a healthy balance between work and play, reconnecting with what matters most, we are able to live far more fulfilling, purposeful and enjoyable lives.



Name of Practice: Causeways Life Coaching
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1971
Qualifications: BA Industrial Psychology; New Insights Certified VIP Coach (Advanced Trained)
Specialises in:Working with women, mostly mothers, who within the framework
of a goal,are seeking to create more balance and personal fulfillment in their lives
by making various changes and strengthening their personal foundations.
USP: None listed
Fees: R400-R499 per session. This is negotiable depending on circumstances.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.causeways.co.za

Mohammed is a dynamic young life coach whose unique style and approach to coaching makes him stand out amongst the rest. He pays a great deal of attention to each client’s uniqueness and individual talents in order to develop them into real strengths. His niche group is young adults who are on their quest to find their ideal career path as well as individuals who either feel trapped in the wrong profession or want to reach their best potential in their existing profession. He has worked successfully with large companies in helping them bring out the best potential of their staff.

Name of Practice: Mohammed Motara Coaching
Where: Centurion, Gauteng
Born: 1982
Qualifications: BA (Communications); Certified Uniqueness and
Strengths Coach III; New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained)
Specialises in: Career coaching and helping people develop their
real strengths and uniqueness.
USP: Helping each person to live their best and most authentic life.
Fees: R400-R499 per session, negotiable.
COMENSA Registered: Not stated

Life coach Charmaine admits to having had ‘a lot of baggage’ in the past. For years she tried to ‘leave it in lost property’ but it always got returned. After much research, she found a way to permanently lose the baggage, live a life of passion, freedom and empowerment and be financially independent! Charmaine now works to share the tools and processes with her clients so they may start living life to its full potential. Whether it’s about career, starting a business, personal development, finance, health or any other aspect of life, she offers her clients an opportunity to live their dreams.

Name of Practice: The Turning Point
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1962
Qualifications: B.Soc Sci; Economics Honours (post graduate); New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained)
Speciality: General Life Coaching
USP: Will work outside business hours: After 6 pm and weekends. Free introductory consultation covering the basics of life coaching, what you can expect and a client assessment.
Fees: On application only
COMENSA Registered: Pending

Cherri has operated in the coaching sphere for many years having coached school and provincial sports teams. Now she has found her niche in life coaching.
Cherri loves working with people who choose to be proactive about their lives, desire to be the very best they can be, want to jettison negative influences and live positively; people who, when faced with change, choose to approach it with courage.
Cherri’s logo features butterflies, which she says symbolizes the positive transformation, unfurling of potential and opening to new ways that comes with coaching. She aims to help her clients to ‘fly’ with freedom and without limitations.

Name of Practice: Life Vision
Where: Hilton, KwaZulu Natal
Born: 1960
Qualifications: BA (HDE); New Insights Advanced Life Coach Training;
New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained);
Specialises in: Coaching middle-aged women, bereaved individuals, couples and 15 – 20 year olds.
Fees: R500-R599 per session, negotiable.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.lifevision.co.za

Helene is a passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated Life Coach and Group Facilitator. Helene is a highly educated woman with a deep understanding of the human psyche, giving her the ability to relate easily to the various elements of human behaviour. Helene has practical experience in training, motivating and empowering people from her many years in the field of Human Resources and Training and Development. She seeks to create a fun, relaxing and secure environment for her clients. She loves helping others and thrives on seeing her clients overcome their challenges and succeed.

Name of Practice: CONTRACT South Africa
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1981
Qualifications: Bcomm (Hons) Industrial Psychology, New Insights Certified VIP Coach (Advanced Trained); Trained in Transactional Analysis; Accredited Facilitator.
Specialises in: Coaching professionals and SME employees, Transactional Analysis, Team Development, Leadership and Management training
USP: With our coaching we integrate the private, professional and organizational “world” of a client.
Fees: R500-R599 per session. Group facilitation rates available.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
Website: www.contract-sa.co.za

New Insights certified life coach Alana, has combined Dr Patti Britton’s BEMES holistic sex coaching model with the power of the New Insights Life Coaching Programme to create a unique coaching experience. She is registered with COMENSA. As Alana puts it: “You are the greatest expert on your own life. I will help you to get in touch with that expert, your own inner coach. That part of you knows exactly what you want and gives you clues every day about what to do next. We will use those clues to take actions that lead to extraordinary results.”

Name of Practice: Meridian Coaching
Where: Cape Town, Western Cape
Born: 1972
Qualifications: New Insights Advanced Coach Training; New Insights Certified VIP Life Coach (Advanced Trained)
Specialises in: Sexual authenticity and intimacy coaching
Fees: R600 – R799 per session, negotiable. Limited number of places for discounted mentor coaching.
COMENSA Registered: Yes
