Tara Kanerva

A life on your own terms doesn’t happen by accident.
It happens with intent.

Getting people unstuck is what I’ve dedicated my life to.

I’m a mental and emotional strategist. I work with the old programming in your mind: the patterns that decide when you push, when you rest, and what you believe you’re able to want and have. Big life or small, it’s worth having someone skilled and deeply on your side while you find your way through it.

The first conversation costs 30 minutes of your day, nothing more.

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Five Weeks Unbound Ten 90-minute sessions over five weeks. A close look at who you are now — and a strategy to live from it. Explore →

The Punch Card Six sessions, used whenever you need them — monthly, or whenever life calls for it. Explore →

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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.

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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.

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 people 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

In their words

Working with Tara is like having a smart, comforting, easy friend who comes with the added bonus of being able to figure out exactly what I need to clear or reframe or do with my nervous system and my body and my brain to reset. It’s like, when I get anxious or worried, she can see me more clearly than I can see me. And then I am reminded of who I really am and who I can be. She’s a gift I didn’t really know existed and that I needed.

Cynthia G. · Mother, self-made boss & brave preneur

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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