Julie-Anne Wood is the founder of Empowerment Coaching - a contemporary voice for personal empowerment and self discovery. She is a life coach, transpersonal counsellor and creative workshop facilitator, providing inspiration and innovative coaching for soul-directed people.

Her highly refined intuitive skills, her capacity to listen on many levels to what is really going on for her clients and her vision for what is truly possible in people’s lives are important parts of the unique skill set she brings to the coaching relationship.

In addition to being a CPLC, Certified Professional Life Coach and member of the International Coach Federation she is also a PMACA, Professional Member of the Australian Counsellors Association. Julie-Anne’s educational background is in Psychology, Counselling, Visual Art, Spirituality and Social Science.

Her career pathway has involved the social welfare and social justice arena for over fifteen years. She has coordinated a children’s mentoring programme in which young people were matched with adult mentors from the corporate sector, she has providing mediation and therapeutic service for families dealing with a disruptive teenager, and she has worked in a women organization as a crisis counsellor, group facilitator and policy writer.