Tara Kanerva Mental & emotional strategist Start a conversation
Tara Kanerva

The woman behind
the woman.

Depth, with a strategy.

Mental and emotional strategy for women who are capable, stretched, and ready to seek more from life right now, as they actually are — not as they were expected to be.

Tara smiling in a bright room by a window Five Weeks Unbound Five weeks of unlimited coaching. A close look at who you are now — and a strategy to live from it. Explore → A pen resting on an open notebook The Punch Card Six sessions, used whenever you need them — monthly, or whenever life calls for it. Explore → A cup of coffee on a wooden table in soft morning light For Returning Clients Three sessions in quick succession, focused on one specific issue. Explore →
What I know

Growth doesn’t only happen
in the light.

Strategy, the way I mean it: how your mind and heart decide what comes next — with power, character and softness.

The patterns that run your life sit below the surface. That’s where I work — with language, the unconscious mind, and the way you’re built to move.

Listen to The Persephone Shift
How we work

Simple, from the first hello.

01A first conversationFree, and no pitch. We see whether what you need is what I do.
02Your mapHow you’re wired, what moves you, what keeps snagging. We start from what’s true.
03The workNinety-minute sessions on the patterns underneath — specific, practical, and paced for you.
04In betweenNotes, personal recordings, and a way to reach me. The work keeps moving when we’re apart.
Tara on a video call, listening
Meet Tara

I work with fewer people, more deeply.

I came to this work through birth rooms, humanitarian projects overseas, and a training centre I co-built from the ground up. Along the way I learned that the fastest change happens when you speak to the part of the mind that’s actually running things.

Now I keep a small private practice — based in Guelph, working online — for women who are done performing a version of themselves that never quite fit. The work is specific and rigorous, and it is warm.

NLP · Core Transformation · Time Line Therapy
Two master’s degrees · In practice since 2013

Two women in conversation at a table by a bright window
By invitation

For founders and senior leaders.

I work as a mental and emotional strategist for a small number of leaders, on retainer — a standing resource for the pressure no one else sees. This work comes by referral.

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Offerings

Learn, listen, read.

Training · Nov 26–27 · Online Foundations of Core Transformation Two days, 10am–3pm Eastern, on Zoom. For practitioners learning the process for the first time, and for anyone ready to refresh it. Register, and bring a colleague at no cost. Details and registration →
the persephone series A free series of spoken stories on the growth that happens in the dark. Start with the first recording. wired differently Talks on ADHD, wiring and how your mind really works.
the second spring Letters on midlife, wiring, and the woman you’re becoming.
When you’re ready

Start a conversation.

A free first conversation to see if we’re a fit. No pitch, no pressure — just a clear sense of what’s possible.

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