My journey into coaching did not begin with a coaching certification.

It began with a question that arose from not being happy and unfulfilled: What makes me happy?

I am Rinesh and am 42 years old. I was born in the Netherlands, my parents are from Suriname and my ancestors are from India.

At home I was living the Surinamese/ Indian culture and outside of home I was living the Dutch culture. This was very challenging and confusing. I didn't know what my identity was and how to behave in these entirely different cultures: Dutch, Surinamese or Indian?

For many years, I carried emotional pain, inner conflict and questions that I could not easily answer. I wanted to understand why I felt the way I did, why certain patterns kept repeating themselves, and how to be joyful. That search became one of the defining journeys of my life.

After graduating in International Business and Languages, I found myself increasingly drawn toward understanding people, psychology, personal growth and the deeper questions of human existence.

Rather than looking for quick answers, I immersed myself in experiences that challenged and transformed me.

One of the most significant was spending a year living and training at a traditional Shaolin Kung Fu academy in China. The experience taught me discipline, resilience, humility and the value of consistent practice.

Over the years that followed, I explored many different approaches to healing, self-awareness and transformation through coaching, meditation, mindfulness, personal development programs, therapeutic work and extensive travel.

Each experience helped me understand myself more deeply and revealed another layer of the beliefs, emotions and protective patterns that had shaped my life.

What I discovered is that lasting change does not come from fighting ourselves. It comes from understanding ourselves.

As my own healing journey continued, I found myself naturally supporting others. For more than ten years, I worked one-on-one with people from around the world as a Dutch language teacher and mentor. Although language was the focus, I often witnessed deeper struggles beneath the surface: self-doubt, fear, perfectionism, insecurity and limiting beliefs. The same human challenges that I had encountered within myself.

This called me to deepen my professional training through Strategic Intervention Coaching, completed the Professional Year-Long training in Compassionate Inquiry and other approaches focused on awareness, emotional healing and lasting transformation.

Today, I help people explore the unconscious patterns, beliefs and emotional wounds that may be keeping them stuck.

My work is grounded in the belief that we are not broken and do not need fixing.

We need awareness.

We need understanding.

And we need the courage to meet ourselves with honesty and compassion.

When that happens, genuine transformation becomes possible.

My role is to help you reconnect with who you truly are. Then you decide who you want to become