Mindfulness Coaching
Navigate Big Changes with a Gentle and Fierce Guide
Living abroad during a major life transition, the ground beneath you has shifted: new systems, missing support, cross-cultural expectations. If you are overwhelmed, tired, or stuck, it's only normal! Mindfulness coaching helps you take refuge in what's here: the breath, the body, the felt sense of this moment. As you pause and steady yourself, you hear your inner wisdom. You sense your next steps, and move through big changes with more clarity, compassion, and spaciousness.
Is This You?
Feeling overwhelmed or stuck in a major life transition
You are navigating a big life change – like a break-up, burnout, or a health issue – while living abroad. You are managing not only its emotional toll, but also the absence of familiar support (family, language, cultural fluency) and the confusion of complex systems (visas, healthcare, or labor laws).
In mindfulness coaching, we slow down. Through guided meditation, embodied inquiry and gentle conversation, you begin to feel more grounded, meet your experience with tenderness, tap into your inner wisdom, and gain clarity on your needs and next steps.
Craving support that understands your context
You’re emotionally aware, intellectually curious, and growth-oriented, but the support you’ve found so far doesn’t fully get your multicultural experience. You want to feel less alone in your inner work, and more supported as you navigate complex questions.
I’ve lived and worked across three cultures — Turkey, USA and France — and many of my loved ones come from many other cultures. I not only bring deep experience as a mindfulness teacher and coach, but also as a foreigner who understands the layers of navigating change in a multicultural life.
Struggling to apply what you know
You’ve learned the tools - meditation, journaling, movement - but it’s hard to turn them into lasting change. You lack the inspiration and accountability to make it stick.
These sessions offer structure, compassion, and a co-regulating presence. Together, we clarify what matters, gently rebuild your rhythm, and adapt practices to your real life — closing the gap between knowing and doing.
Session Details
60 minutes
Online via Zoom
Flexible Schedule
English, Turkish, French
How often and for how long do we meet?
Commitment deepens the work. Research and lived experience suggest that real change happens over time — it takes a few sessions to settle in, build trust, and begin applying insights in daily life. Most clients find around 4–6 sessions is when the work starts to deepen and bear fruit. If you're not ready to commit, you’re more than welcome to book sessions one at a time, as needed.
You can choose to meet weekly, every other week, or monthly. More time between sessions can give life time to unfold, while weekly meetings create momentum and continuity in the thick of transition.
You can pause or stop coaching any time you’d like - your inner wisdom will know what’s needed.
What happens in a session?
These sessions explore your chosen topic like therapy, but we spend a big chunk of the session meditating (mindfulness + self-compassion). The focus is on somatic awareness, and connecting to your inner wisdom rather than just talking. If traditional talk therapy wasn't helpful—sometimes talking increases suffering—this approach might be worth a try. If you're currently in therapy, these sessions are wonderfully complementary.
Each session unfolds in response to what’s present in your life. We might:
Your Investment
Single Session
The 4-Session Journey
The 6-Session Journey
Our financial situations vary widely. If these prices are prohibitive, please reach out to me at hi@zeynepesin.com, and we can look for solutions together.
Ready to begin?
Let's see if we're a good fit. Book a free, 30-minute introductory session with me. We’ll discuss where you are and how mindfulness coaching can support you. This is a no-pressure, no-commitment conversation.
If you’ve met with me before, you can book your next session directly here:
About Me
I’m a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Coach shaped by many homes and life transitions. I bring 13 years of personal practice, and in depth-training from renowned teachers like Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. I help people navigate big changes when living abroad, survive and celebrate life away from home. Mindfulness changed my life. I hope it supports you, too.
Testimonials
Ready to begin?
Let's see if we're a good fit. Book a free, 30-minute introductory session with me. We’ll discuss where you are and how mindfulness coaching can support you. This is a no-pressure, no-commitment conversation.
If you’ve met with me before, you can book your next session directly here:
FAQs
You might be navigating one or more of these:
- health issues, loved ones getting sick or dying,
- separation (break-up, divorce, estrangement from family),
- becoming a parent, infertility issues, expansions of family (pregnancy, adoption, merged families),
- relocation, life split across multiple cities or countries,
- traumatic events,
- burn out, loss of purpose, career change, unemployment, retirement,
- moving abroad, obtaining a visa or citizenship,
- the loss of democracy, safety or dignity in your country,
- anxiety about ecology and global warming…
This list is not exhaustive. If your specific circumstance isn't listed, please reach out to me at hi@zeynepesin.com to see how I can support you.
No. As long as you are open to trying and learning, no previous experience is necessary. In fact, these sessions are a great, guided way to start your mindfulness practice.
No, they are highly complementary. Many clients work with both a mindfulness coach and a therapist. Our sessions strengthen your inner exploration by offering tangible mindfulness tools and new ways of relating to your experience. This focus is particularly supportive if your therapist is not trained in or focused on somatic and mindfulness practices, or if you are not finding traditional talk therapy supportive (sometimes talking doesn't help or even increases suffering).
Feel free to bring a notebook — many people find it helpful to jot down insights or things they want to remember.
You may find it supportive to be in a calm environment where you have privacy.