Founder & CEO

Vivienne
Katahena.

The coach who will guide you through change.

Based in the UK, supporting people through 1:1 video sessions - with clarity, compassion, and 25 years of walking alongside people at their turning points.

25Years experience
Vivienne Katahena, founder of Full Bloom Coaching

Her story

A life's work, gathered into one place.

Full Bloom is a culmination of my professional experience, my cultural background, and my role as a Coach. Throughout my life, I've been passionate about helping people realise their fullest potential.

I've spent decades in the rooms where change happens: job centres, schools, prisons, alternative education centres, sitting with people at the exact moment their lives were asking something new of them. I distilled all my experience into creating the Full Bloom programme to help clients create the kind of changes that their lives are calling for, one that, deep down, they know they deserve.

Vivienne tending to a plant

Why Full Bloom exists

I built the service I wished existed.

Full Bloom was born out of a desire to give clients a service that would help them build the lives they wanted.

Full Bloom enables change to take shape through reflection, structure, and support. In a safe, trusted environment, tailored to each client's own pace and priorities, not a programme you're squeezed into, but a space built around you.

Why I do this work

Coming home to yourself.

For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to helping others find their way through seasons of change. As a mother, a great listener, and someone who's navigated deep personal transformation myself, I understand how easy it is to lose sight of who you are, and how powerful it is to come home to yourself.

Coaching felt like a natural extension of everything I'd done in my career: guiding, supporting, encouraging. It brought together my experience in education, psychology, and wellbeing, and channelled it into meaningful, one-on-one support for people who are ready to grow.

This work is deeply personal to me. Everyone deserves a space where they are fully seen, heard, and supported, and that's what I've created through Full Bloom.

Qualifications & credentials

Twenty-five years, properly earned.

With over 25 years of experience guiding people through seasons of change, I've made it my life's work to support others with clarity, compassion, and care including 20 years guiding career and life transitions.

  • Certified Life Coach - Brave Thinking Institute
  • Postgraduate Diploma -Career Guidance
  • BA (Hons) - European Social Studies
  • NOCN Level 3 - Positive Parenting
  • CPD Training - Stress, Anxiety & Anger Management · Psychometric & Motivational Training · Positive Psychology & Parenting
  • Former Higher Education Careers Advisor

Previous roles

Range across every kind of turning point.

01JobCentre Advisor
02Young Women's Project - Alternative Education Programme
03HM Prison rehabilitation services
04Careers Advisor at 5 schools in southern England
05Careers Advisor, Connexions
06Member of the National Careers Service

Who I support

For people at a turning point.

Full Bloom is for people navigating change: a career pivot, motherhood, midlife shifts, or rediscovering confidence after a life event.

If you're at a turning point, this space is for you.

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75% of people I surveyed said they were ready to grow - they just needed the right support to begin.

Full Bloom Coaching Insight Report, 2025

Ready to begin?

Let's have a conversation about where you are, where you want to go, and whether Full Bloom is the right fit for you.

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