Our Story

From darling to “problem child”

Our son was five when things changed. Suddenly and without warning. He sat in the living room playing Lego on the Xbox. He would shrug his shoulders and say “I don’t care”. Repeatedly. Little did we know that would just be the start.

It quickly progressed from shrugging to blowing kisses. Cute in some moments, very awkward in others. Next came an unstoppable need for attention of any kind.

He became unbearable in classrooms. We got that dreaded “we need to talk” call from his teacher. The first of many.

The Odyssey

And so began a seemingly never-ending cycle of dignostics, medication, interventions and special school programs. Months of home schooling because one school refused to take him. Countless hours spent with psychologists, medical specialists and behavior experts. Binders full of protocols, assessment and “findings”.

Unfortunately not many answers.

And worse, no improvement.

The agony of not knowing

We empathize deeply with parents having gone or still going through their own version of this.

For us one of the most frustrating elements was not getting to the bottom of it. Not understanding what happened to our child.

And to sit through years of trial and error, protocols and repeat the same story over and over to every new expert without making any progress.

No permission, but a mother’s motivation

That frustration can cripple. Or serve as fuel.

Sonya took matters into her own hands and started helping kids herself. To learn from them. In the hopes of one day helping her own son. She went back to school, studied Autogenic Training, PMR and dipped her toes into tools like EMDR, hypnosis.

She struggled with the theory. Being dyslexic didn’t help.

The protocols she was learning felt abstract. “Lifeless”, if that makes sense.

She began trusting her instincts instead. Asking the kids to describe in pictures what they were dealing with. How they view themselves and their situation.

Pictures changed everything.

The kids freely shared what they saw in their inner cinema.

The pictures brought clarity. Clarity led to more success. And eventually her first signature breakthrough:

A young girl, who’s painful jolts had doctors puzzled, as medically there is nothing wrong.

After the third session the jolts stopped. And never came back.

The Artist & the Architect

Word spread. Sonya kept learning, adapting, refining.

People wanted to know how she works.

Which led to an even more audacious chapter: making her skill teachable.

It took us a full year to shape a training program built around Sonya’s creativity and experience. We were a near perfect duo: Sonya the creative artist, Chris the logical, rational, systematic counterpart.

We quickly got traction with professionals in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxemburg found us.

To date we have trained close to 900 people. Most were professional therapists and coaches. A handful were pediatricians. And we’ve helped more than a few women leave corporate and build careers in this space. That’s probably what we’re most proud of.

The toll

This journey came at a cost. Raising a struggling child and making marriage work while building a business around this work stretched us to the limit. There were years of long days, doubts, fights, and moments where we wondered if we were completely crazy to keep going.

We continued walking. Eventually with a limp. Sometimes on all fours crawling.

But we’re still here. Ready for a next chapter.

The next chapter

We’re not starting over. We’re re-starting from a completely different place.

Wiser, experience, scarred, and with a much clearer sense of who we want in the room with us.

We’re no longer chasing growth. We’re looking for women we know will blossom. Capable, storied women who feel genuinely pulled toward this craft.

We’ve watched it happen. It’s one of the most fulfilling things we’ve ever been part of.

If that's you, or if you're just starting to wonder, come find us.