Lara Duke - Coach and Healer
Hello, I'm Lara, and I'm passionate about helping you reconnect with your authentic self, discover a deeper sense of purpose and create a life filled with joy, meaning and spiritual freedom.
Through a compassionate and holistic approach, I offer a supportive space for self-discovery, healing and personal transformation. Together, we'll explore limiting beliefs, reconnect with your inner wisdom and strengths, and open the door to new perspectives and possibilities.
My intention is to empower you to embrace who you truly are and move forward with greater clarity, confidence and a renewed sense of connection to yourself and the world around you.
My Story
I’m a spiritual guide, transformation coach, energy healer and Reiki healer, and I’m passionate about helping others navigate the complexities of grief, healing, and personal growth. My earliest memories are of sitting on my nan’s couch, pondering the world, the universe, life, and death, and asking her questions she couldn’t possibly know the answers to. She joined me in my wondering regardless. From a young age, I felt a deep connection to spirituality, contemplating life’s biggest mysteries and seeking answers through nature, meditation, books, and personal experience. This connection to my soul has shaped my path, guiding me toward a life centred on helping others find peace, purpose, and alignment with their true selves.
After spending many years in the corporate world and reaching senior leadership positions, I realised something was missing. That realisation sparked a transformative shift, and I retrained as a Coach, Mindfulness teacher, Psyco-Hypnnotherapist and Reiki healer. Now, every day, I help others manifest lives that are deeply aligned with their values, morals, and soul’s purpose. I believe true happiness and fulfilment come when we live in harmony with our authentic selves, making conscious choices that reflect our deepest beliefs and desires.
For me, manifesting a life true to my values is at the heart of everything I do. Over the years, I’ve learned the importance of setting intentions that align with my core beliefs. Through practices like meditation, visualisation, and positive affirmation, I’ve built a life filled with purpose and gratitude. Manifestation, to me, isn’t just about attracting what we want; it’s about creating a life that resonates with our soul and reflects our integrity and truth. When what we manifest aligns with our morals and purpose, we create lives that feel deeply fulfilling. Without that alignment, no matter what we achieve, something always feels missing.
That truth became clear to me after climbing the corporate ladder and realising that, despite outward success, I wasn’t living a life that truly resonated with my heart. Choosing to step away from that path and embrace my calling as a transformational coach and healer changed everything. Now, I guide others to reconnect with their values, discover their purpose, and manifest lives filled with intention, joy, and authenticity.
Grief & Caregiving
One of my deepest areas of work is around grief, especially the emotional complexities, guilt, and tenderness that accompany the loss of loved ones, whether human or animal. My relationship with grief began early, through the loss of childhood pets and family members. My first major experience was losing my childhood cat, Tammy. The guilt of not being there in her final moments stayed with me for years, a quiet ache I carried.
When my beloved rescue dog Peanut passed away in 2023, my world fell apart. He was my heart, my shadow, and my greatest teacher in unconditional love. His passing was deeply traumatic and broke me open in ways I didn’t know were possible. But through that pain came the deepest healing and understanding of love, loss, and presence. I held him as he took his last breaths, and in that moment, I found both heartbreak and peace. It was through Peanut’s death that I came to understand that pet grief is not a lesser grief. It is profound, sacred, and life-altering. His loss has become a cornerstone of my work, guiding me to support others navigating the heartbreak of losing their animal companions and the deep love that exists within that bond.
In 2025, I held space again in the most profound way as a caregiver to my mum, who I lovingly cared for over three years before she passed away with me by her side in February. Walking that path with her was one of the hardest and most sacred experiences of my life. It deepened my understanding of grief, love, and the quiet courage it takes to show up each day for someone you love while knowing you’ll one day have to let go.
That experience has become a central part of my calling. I now work with and support caregivers who are navigating anticipatory grief or healing after loss. I understand the exhaustion, the heartache, and the moments of grace that can appear in between. Through energy work, mindfulness, and compassionate coaching, I help others find steadiness, meaning, and self-compassion in the midst of their own caregiving and grief journeys.
Outside Work
When I’m not working with clients, I love spending time with my two rescue dogs, connecting with nature, reading, swimming and cherishing moments with friends. I’m also deeply passionate about organic permaculture, sustainable living and living in harmony with the natural world. One of my aspirations is to grow my own fruit and vegetables, creating a garden that nurtures both nature and wellbeing. For me, it's another way of embracing a more mindful, intentional life and deepening my connection with the natural rhythms of the earth.
My work and my life are grounded in compassion, authenticity, and the belief that even in our deepest pain, healing and beauty can still be found.
Why work with Lara?
My approach brings together professional coaching, specialist grief and end-of-life learning, mindfulness and openness to existential and spiritual questions. I aim to offer a grounded, compassionate space where your experience is taken seriously, without prescribing how you should grieve.
Additionally, I offer support through pet grief, grief and the end-of-life journey, ensuring you feel guided and understood every step of the way.
Helping people grow spiritually and become their authentic selves
Helping people find and achieve their true calling in life
Helping people through end of life
Helping people through grief
Reiki & Energy Healing
Qualifications and professional training
I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), qualified Transformational and Existential Life Coach, Grief and End-of-Life Coach, Reiki Master Practitioner and Mindfulness Now Teacher, with additional professional training in Clinical Hypno-Psychotherapy.
My coaching specialisms include spiritual growth, purpose and meaning, manifestation and abundance, grief and pet loss, end-of-life support and personal transformation.
I completed my professional coaching training with Animas Centre for Coaching, through a programme accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I also hold the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential awarded directly by the ICF, recognising my professional coaching experience, skills and commitment to high standards of practice.
I completed specialist training in Grief and End-of-Life Coaching through Coaching at End of Life, a comprehensive programme designed for professional coaches, supporting my work with individuals navigating bereavement, pet loss, significant life transitions and the end-of-life journey.
As a qualified Mindfulness Now Teacher, I completed my training through a programme accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), enabling me to teach mindfulness to individuals and groups.
My Reiki journey began with Reiki Levels 1 and 2 at The Reiki Academy London, followed by my Reiki Master qualification at Reiki Maya London. I am also a member of the UK Reiki Federation at Master Practitioner level.
Alongside these qualifications, I hold a BPS-accredited BSc in Psychology and a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management, and have undertaken additional studies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and neuroplasticity.
My approach brings together professional coaching expertise, psychological understanding, mindfulness, therapeutic approaches and traditional energy-healing practices, creating a compassionate, holistic and personalised space for self-discovery, healing and transformation.
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