I am a Transformational Coach. However I need to remind myself that although I am very skilful at facilitating rapid and lasting transformations, very few individuals want to hire Transformational Coaches. This is because most human beings don’t like change and are resistant to change. Most of us prefer the struggle. The success feels sweeter after the struggle. So to experience rapid and lasting change feels like cheating. Yet for anyone who has experienced years or decades of struggle and has the opportunity to experience rapid and lasting transformation, this takes bravery. This requires courage very few possess. Many assume most are scared of failure.I actually know the opposite is true. Most are afraid of success.
This though was not the case with Asma a woman from California that I first met in January 2019 on a Zoom call who then referred her two sisters to me. I ended up with all three sisters. I feel very privileged, having worked with all three sisters.
Asma is not this woman’s real name and her sisters are not called Fahima or Maryam either but as I run a private and confidential service, that is what I will call these three brave women. Fahima lives in Texas and Maryam in North Carolina. Three sisters. Three different US States. Three different problems
It was Asma though in hiring me that transformed not only her life but the life of her whole family.
There is this ripple effect that occurs when you hire a Transformational Coach. An individual life is not just changed drastically but a whole family’s life changes.
Those close to you witness your rapid lasting transformation and usually want what you have.
When Asma came to me she was so burnt out, she didn’t even realise it. I helped her to name the experience.
I then gave her techniques to prevent the burn out.
When Fahima came to me, she could not do anything without her husband’s permission and felt so unloved and unvalued.
I gave her techniques and strategies to learn how to love herself and value herself.
When Maryam came to me she was obsessed with finding out her life’s purpose.
I gave her techniques to be able to let go and reflect on what could be her life’s purpose and that this is evolving and not restricted to a certain role or job.
All three sisters really let go of so many expectations of themselves. Many of these expectations came from societal expectations of what it means to be a good wife or good daughter or good sister or good employee.
Working with me they discovered that they didn’t have to live up to societal expectations. They could be themselves. They didn’t have to repress what they felt or thought. They needed to be brave and express what they truly wanted.
All three were living unfulfilled lives, surviving but not living.
All three had such fast paced lives, I taught them to slow down.
Their lives started changing drastically as soon as they did this.
Opportunities started coming up for them.
They started enjoying their lives.
But none of them would have if Asma had not booked the Zoom call back in January 2019.
It took her a few months to book that call.
She first met me on the screen from an Online Summit she subscribed to called Beat Burn Out. She watched the interviews I did with Authors and Experts on Burn Out. She signed onto the Webinar I did afterwards.
Asma was brave in asking for help. Being a Coach herself for the Company she worked for, she realised all these personal development courses she invested in, were not really helping her. Asma realised she needed the guidance of an expert in burnout. She could not figure it out by herself. Asma was tired of struggling on her own. She decided that she would brave it and hire the expertise of an expert.
Taniya Hussain qualified as a Social Worker in 1991 from Coventry University in England, UK. She has been working on the front lines in London UK, consistently holding space for individuals and families in chaos and crisis for three decades especially, children and young people on the margins of society. Taniya studied Psycho-dynamic counselling from 1991 to 1993 at Goldsmiths College in London. Taniya met Sheikha Halima Krausen in 1992 and has been studying Islam with her ever since especially Mystical Islam, Tassawuf (Sufism) and walks on the Chisti path. Taniya fuses Jungian Pyschology and Islamic Psychology and this fusion can best be understood if you read her book Dancing with Darkness which is available on Amazon. It became a Best Seller on Amazon in the UK, U.S and France in April 2025. The book tells the story of Tamara Alvi, a fictional charachter and is a psychological thriller and a story of healing. Taniya started her coaching and consulting business in January 2018 and she works mainly with High Achievers and High Performers and High Performing Leaders, offering reflective spaces since 2018 and what she refers to as THE REFLECTIVE SPACE. Taniya since starting her busines discovered that she is a powerful healer and was shocked that clients were relieved from pain even though they have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. Taniya is delighted to have discovered Paceology, which is the detailed study of PACE. She is the first paceologist. She noticed when working with high performers when you slow down in one area of your life, this causes you to speed up in another area and vice cersa thus leading to increased levels of productivity, creativity, clarity and energy. She brands herself as the Muslim Alchemist because she really is The Muslim Alchemist as she guides you to transfom the base, in other words the shit that you have experienced into GOLD whether that is love of yourself or God or another human being or a healthier body or a life where you feel at peace and calm and fulfilled or more energy or more money. You definintely will feel lighter, more freer and more clearer even if you book one consultation with her or several sessions.
Taniya has a very holistic approach when working with individuals and works with you on multiple layers, the emotional, the psychological, the social, the physical, the mental and the spriritual. She uses stories from the Quran and the Bible when working with clients on a one to one basis or in group workshops as well as breathwork, body scanning, cognitive behavioural therapy, neuro linguistic programming, motivational interviewing. systems theory, neuro science. She is trained in multiple modalities as well as using her own Paceology and insists on offering her clients a trauma informed and trauma responsive service.
She is constantly integrating her knowledge of the Quran and Bible with her vast social work experience and training. Taniya's extensive ability of applying psycho-dynamic theory to organisational settings, teams and groups as well as to individuals results in those who attend her sessions or workshops as feeling lighter and more energised. Taniya uses skillfully her understanding of the Shadow, that Jung constantly talked about and her Mystical Training. She also has integrated her passion for inter-faith dialogue and the archetypes that Jung often refers to, come alive in her one to one sessions and her group workshops thus resulting in individuals feeling more freer and fulfilled after they stop working with her. Taniya just does not provide clarity she WAKES you up to. Taniya has a great skill in being able to see the blind spots in others and does this in a non judgemental way and a way that you feel safe. She also "untangles energetic knots" (a term she uses for Shadow) in your body to promote healing from mental and physical disease. Clients usually are healed in a short amount of time because she pinpoints the memory, the event, the thought that first caused the disease. She also provides one to one sessios or training workshops to social work teams, school, secure and prison estate on youth justice, knife crime prevention as well asidentification and prevention of early onset of burnout.
Taniya has three sons, who were born in 1996, 2001 and 200 and lives in Surrey, England and when she is not coaching or writing songs, blogs and poems, she loves to spend time, travelling, walking, listening to music, watching films or playing cricket.
She speaks fluent English and Urdu and basic German and French and is learning Arabic and Hebrew.
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