A very moving recommendation
Please find here below the verbatim of one client recommendation :
** For Anastasia Friar **
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to recommend Anastasia Friar with genuine conviction, as someone who has experienced the impact of her coaching first-hand. I came to Anastasia as a client during a demanding period of professional and personal transition. The work we did together changed not only how I approached the specific challenge in front of me, but how I understand the way I face obstacles in general. I would not hesitate to work with her again, and I recommend her without reservation to anyone considering doing the same.
What struck me first was the quality of the space she creates. From our earliest sessions, Anastasia established a rare kind of trust: direct without ever being harsh, warm without losing rigor. She listens for the person behind the words rather than the surface complaint, and she is remarkably clear about boundaries, which is precisely what makes it safe to be honest with her. At no point did I feel judged or managed. I felt understood, and then, when it mattered, respectfully challenged. That combination of safety and candor is the foundation everything else was built on.
Where Anastasia truly stands apart is in how she thinks. She does not treat a problem as an isolated knot to be untangled in a vacuum. She sees the whole system around it: the patterns, the pressures, and the assumptions I had long stopped questioning. She has a real gift for reframing a painful, tangled situation as something with a structure, something that can be understood and redesigned rather than simply endured. More than once she named the actual mechanism behind a problem I had only been able to describe by its symptoms. That shift, from symptom to structure, is where our most valuable work happened, and it is a way of thinking I have carried with me ever since.
Her guidance also carries a weight that is difficult to manufacture, because it is grounded in a genuinely unusual breadth of lived experience. Anastasia has moved between very different worlds, from corporate environments to cross-cultural leadership in demanding settings, and she has made sense of each one on its own terms. That lived resilience is quietly contagious. Rather than simply teaching me to cope, she helped me build a real capacity to adapt, to stay steady in uncertainty, and to treat difficulty as information rather than as a verdict.
Underpinning all of this is a serious depth of psychological insight. Anastasia combines the instinct of someone who has personally navigated real hardship with the discipline of formal training in clinical psychology and coaching. The result is work that is at once deeply humane and genuinely structured. She never traded warmth for method, or method for warmth, and I always had the sense of being guided by someone who understood both my situation and the deeper dynamics beneath it.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly to me, Anastasia has an exceptional ability to keep a person moving forward. She is not a coach who lets you circle the same problem indefinitely. She holds you accountable with care, restores momentum when you stall, and has a real talent for motivating you to push through an obstacle rather than around it. At a moment when I was ready to abandon a difficult but important decision, she helped me find both the clarity to see it plainly and the resolve to act. That capacity to convert insight into momentum is, in my experience, what sets her apart.
For anyone weighing whether to work with Anastasia, whether to navigate a specific crossroads or to undertake a longer journey of growth, I offer my wholehearted recommendation. She earned my trust, sharpened my thinking, and helped me become more resilient and more decisive. I am confident she will do the same for others.
Sincerely,
