Coaching & Wellbeing for Professionals
Sophie Anderson is an ICF-certified coach and social entrepreneur. After 25 years working in high-pressure corporate roles, Sophie knows exactly what it feels like to juggle huge workloads, constant pressure, and burnout creeping up. She now helps busy professionals protect their energy, set boundaries, and avoid burning out. Sophie blends mindfulness with science and practical tools and programs to make wellbeing and productivity simple and sustainable. Based in Cairns and serving Australia-wide, she is passionate about creating healthier, more fulfilling ways to live and work.
Because burnout is not inevitable — and support shouldn’t start when it’s already too late.
Featured Programs
My work is grounded in burnout prevention, self-leadership, and sustainable wellbeing. These signature programs bring together years of research, lived experience, and practical coaching tools. They are designed to meet people and workplaces where they are.
🌿 The Wellness Blueprint
Our signature workplace wellbeing program
A 12-month, licence-based burnout-prevention system for organisations who want to proactively support their people - not wait for burnout to occur.
The Wellness Blueprint helps teams build:
Self-awareness and self-leadership
Healthy habits and energy management
Sustainable ways to reduce stress and psychosocial risk
The program includes structured planning tools, leadership guidance, and 120 ready-to-use wellbeing activities. It can be implemented at any time of year and adapted to suit organisations of all sizes.
✨ Self-Coaching Workbook
Burnout-prevention support for individuals
Designed for high-caring, high-performing people who want to start making changes at their own pace, this self-coaching workbook provides a guided introduction to burnout prevention and personal wellbeing.
The guide supports you to:
Increase self-awareness
Manage stress and energy more effectively
Step out of over-functioning before burnout takes hold
Available digitally or as a printed workbook delivered to you, with optional next-step support for those who want to go deeper.
"I don't work around limitations - I create possibilities"
Health: I prioritise my mental and physical health in all situations by making decisions that positively impact my overall wellbeing. When working with clients, I always provide a holistic approach that benefits all dimensions of their health including emotional, spiritual, and social.
Authenticity: I am true to myself and embrace my own individuality through everyday actions even if it clashes with what "most people do". I encourage my clients to explore their values and align their actions with them, and I help them live a life that enables them to be true to themselves.
Integrity: I lead by example, managing my own challenges and striving to create value in all that I do. I work with a Coach, I model healthy habits and consistency, and I create value in my own life to feel alive and fulfilled.
Growth: I am a lifelong learner. I take courses and read books, attending workshops, and I welcome feedback. I am optimistic and curious, and I am willing to make changes that support my wellbeing even when it is uncomfortable at first. I am ambitious and do not let fear stop me from progressing.
Respect: I treat everyone with respect, and I demonstrate this by actively listening to people's perspective and help them feel heard and understood. I invite my clients to practice self-compassion and to reframe their limiting beliefs. I know that we are all born worthy and nothing can alter this.
At the core of my philosophy is the belief that growth and wellbeing is a lifelong journey, with no right or wrong path, and that understanding and prioritising our desired lifestyle and our personal values is central to our wellbeing.
I firmly believe that true growth happens when we take full ownership of our lives, refusing to wait for circumstances to change and instead proactively shaping our journey to achieve fulfillment.
By finding fulfilment in our daily lives, we become equipped to improve other areas of our life and the lives of those around us.
Through small, incremental changes to our focus, mindset, and habits, we improve our mental health and wellbeing, and increase our productivity and motivation to take action and contribute to the world.
I believe that social change is made possible when individuals like yourself start making changes to their own lives.
It is my passion to share this philosophy with you, and to empower you to take control of your life and make a positive impact on the world.
Clarity
What do you actually want? What do you value? Who do you want to become? What are your strengths? Who's in your corner? What's in your way? What is success to you? When are you at your best?
Empowerment
What can you change about your situation? About your perception? How can you stop shooting yourself in the foot?What BS are you telling yourself? What beliefs will you let go of?
Results
Create a ripple effect of wellness on yourself and the lives of people you encounter. Become a happier human who contributes to the greater good. Be unapologetically yourself and keep on kicking goals.
Life Coaching is a transformative process that helps you unlock your potential and maximise your performance.
Working with a qualified Life Coach helps you achieve specific goals, change habits, gain confidence, find purpose, or simply understand yourself better and make the most out of life.
A Coach guides you toward your own solutions and holds you accountable for taking action, helping you bridge the gap between your current situation and the future you want to see.
Through a structured process, your Coach inspires you to identify what matters to you and why, establish exciting goals, and find the best way to get results. Their role is to facilitate your reflection around a topic, and acquire the skills and mindset required to achieve your ultimate goals and desires.
Coaching is a safe place to gain clarity on who you are and what you want in your life, empowering you to take the necessary steps to achieve your goals and dreams. Qualified Life Coaches are non-judgmental, non-critical, and their services are confidential. It allows you to be 100% honest, open-minded, and ready to raise your awareness level to allow breakthroughs and shifts to happen.
A legitimate Coach will have achieved formal training with a recognised institution and be accredited by a reputable organisation to ensure maximum competence and integrity.
Coaching can be a series of sessions where you work on the stepping stones leading to a long-term goal, or it could be individual sessions that achieve particular outcomes. Regardless of the approach, you will leave each session with an empowering action plan that you have chosen, a task you have given yourself to progress in the direction of your objectives.
Absolutely. According to a recent survey by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), individuals who work with a Life Coach report a median return on investment of 3.44 times their initial investment, with 86% of clients reporting that they have recouped their investment.
99% of individuals and companies who hire a Coach are “satisfied or very satisfied” and 96% say they would repeat the process.
...99%!!
Most clients confirm that the benefits of coaching sessions continue to positively impact one's life indefinitely, providing ongoing value and growth. Working with a Life Coach helps you focus on your goals and objectives, and attract the resources and support you need to achieve success.
A Coach also serves as an accountability partner, providing motivation and support to help you stay on track and achieve your goals. You will gain confidence in your abilities and decision-making skills, leading to greater success and satisfaction in all areas of your life.
Sounds too good to be true? Evidencealso shown that coaching can also have a significant impact on brain function and growth. Coaching interactions and the learnings derived from them help individuals develop new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones, leading to improved cognitive function, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.
It's undeniable, the benefits of working with a Life Coach are numerous. From increased confidence and motivation to improved brain function and greater success in all areas of life, a qualified Life Coach will become your best ally.
That is a question I often get! One of the most powerful attributes of coaching is the new perspectives and insights that coaching brings to our clients. By seeing your stories from a non-biased, non-critical and non-judgemental angle, you will discover your next best step with much more ease and efficiency!
Einstein once said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Let a qualified Life Coach prove this to you.
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I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I coach, collaborate and grow, the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji and Yirrganydji Peoples. I acknowledge and pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the world’s oldest living culture and embrace their continued connection to land, waters and community. I pay my deepest respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.
I also recognise, value and celebrate diversity and act in the spirit of inclusion.