The
wholehearted
coach

Working with people who want to live and lead with courage, connection and clarity

Namaste

Hello, I’m Rathy Thiruchelvam, Founder of Rathy Coaching and Consulting.

One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learnt on my own journey with coaching is that whilst answers can be great, the best thing is often finding the right question. The question that makes you stop and take a breath or metaphorically stumble. When the stories you’ve told yourself about who you are and what you can do fall away. What you find is clarity. It’s something so simple yet hugely transformative. In those moments, new possibilities are created and potential released. I love helping people discover those moments.

Are you…

A leader who wants to make a profound shift in how you show up?
Ready and willing to honestly reflect on where you are and what you want from life?
Willing to be in the present with courage and a curiosity about your life?
Daring enough to do more than tinker?
Ready to live more wholeheartedly? Where your heart and head are aligned?

Working with me

The approach I take is unapologetically wholehearted. I blend behavioural development models with philosophies designed to unleash your super-powers. By getting out of your head and listening to your body, I’ll help you to live in the moment, and to explore how language and thoughts influence your perception/reality. By challenging your ‘accepted thinking’ and exploring different perspectives on how and why you do what you do, we’ll find ways that will help you to live more wholeheartedly too.

The way I work is always guided by my professional and personal principles: courage, connection and clarity. These values guide everything I do: how I live, how I show up, how I work and what I ask of myself.

Courage

Courage is what I’ll ask of you as you step into the coaching relationship. I’ll call on you to: be honest, be willing to look at yourself through different lenses, show yourself some kindness. Sometimes it might get a bit messy, but in the unravelling, you’ll find the nuggets of truth you need.

Connection

Connection is what it’s all about. Connection to who you are without the stories. Connection to your purpose and your potential. To what stops you from showing up as you are and how to change that. Connection will help you see who you’ve always been.

Clarity

Clarity will quieten the noise around you. You’ll find an ease with which you meet life head on. You’ll show up and lead with a comfortable honesty about who you are, what you do and what you give. In this space you’ll find the freedom to be you without fear of comparison or failure.

However you work with me you can expect…

A confidential and safe space to be seen and heard
An approach steeped in non-judgment
To be challenged to serve your growth
Your values to be honoured
To be supported throughout
To focus on all of you

My programmes

I design and deliver programmes that put courageous conversations at the heart of how we communicate, lead and live. If you want to build confidence, capability and resilience in your leaders, teams, or yourself, and are willing to do things differently, I’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch

What my customers say

Testimonial entries

My coaching sessions with Rathy were enlightening, she made me ‘see’ myself more clearly. She gently pushed me outside my comfort zone of the now apparent safety of not talking about my feelings EVER !! Although my values have never changed I am now very aware of them in a work context and as the coaching journey progressed, reflecting on previous conversations made more and more sense. Rathy is so lovely to work with too!

Jackie Timmons, Manager, Scottish Council

Rathy and I were having a conversation and I knew that I felt completely comfortable with her, I trusted her, I liked her values and I felt she got me. We started a coaching relationship and it has changed several fundamentals for me in a really good way. Close friends have commented on the change. I know finding a coach can be trial and error and you have to have a match. For me Rathy was and is that match, her skills are finally honed and there is just a sense of wanting the best for you that shines through. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.

Alix Meekison, Director, FWB Park Brown

I was introduced to Rathy at the start of 2019. I was interested in exploring my future direction and needed someone to help me step back, reflect and plan. From the outset we hit it off. She's so easy to work with, really listens and gives insightful feedback. She really helped me make some difficult decisions. I owe Rathy so much.

Andrew Horne, Director, We Are With You

If I was asked to use one word to describe what it’s like to work with Rathy it would be ‘delightful’. From our initial meeting, there was an easy flow in our discussion, a great sense of non-judgemental inquisitiveness and curiosity.
Based on feedback I’ve received directly from my colleagues who have been coached, without exception, all have mentioned Rathy’s quiet, unassuming style combined with specific inquisitive open-ended questioning and incredible listening skills which belies her demeanour.
It’s refreshing to work with a partner who is genuinely interested in knowing if the impact of their interactions are making a positive difference to colleagues and the business.

Janice Pentland, Group HR Manager, Cairn Energy

Rathy was exactly what I needed. She is patient, thoughtful and insightful which makes her approach disarming when she asks those timely questions. Rathy pays attention to what you say but also to what you don’t say and that’s where I’ve found the insights and challenges to be powerful. The sessions developed real clarity in my own thinking. I would recommend her without hesitation. She’s a real star with some incredible skills!

S.Springham, Inclusion Manager, Financial Services

With, Rathy, I always feel like I’ve been listened to, she has an amazing strength in her ability to ask simple yet powerful questions. She has helped me rationalise my concerns and worries and look at things with clarity. Rathy discreetly leads you to tap into your own strength and experience to find solutions and for me it has helped my self-awareness and I’ve made better choices.

P.Myles, Coach, Financial Services

My background

I studied at the Coaches Training Institute in 2005 and set up my practice whilst working full-time as a Human Resources expert in financial services. This was during a time of major upheaval and uncertainty in the industry allowing me the perfect opportunity to make a real difference to how leaders approached change.

I found coaching and human resources to be a great mix. I worked with and supported many unique and different people, from a number of different professions. Regardless of background, responsibilities or aspirations, I found that the challenges they needed to face were often the same.

How do we set ourselves up for success?
How do we avoid setting ourselves up for failure?
How does being courageous and compassionate influence our chances of success?
How honest are we with ourselves, and others? What impact does that have?
How do we do each of these things at different times, in the day and in our lives?

I’ve spent 20 years supporting and coaching people, leaders and teams to find the questions and answers they need to think about. I help people own who they are, to understand and value their own stories and purpose, and to be open and honest, and less afraid of what might be, so that they can appreciate what is.

• Member of the CIPD since 1999
• A Co-Active Coach since 2005

Contact me

If you want to live and lead with courage, connection and clarity, reach out today. You can also catch me on LinkedIn. Look forward to hearing from you soon.

- Rathy

Email: rathy@rathycoachingandconsulting.co.uk

LinkedIn: rathythiruchelvam

Instgram: @rathy_thewholeheartedcoach

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The wholehearted coach