Born and raised in Europe, Ivy, is a bilingual (Portuguese & Creole), Coach, Architect, Project Manager, and Business Liaison Consultant. She is a mother of three and a community-driven individual, who believes that “Your life is like building a dream home”. She is known as the “Business Relationship Architect”.

She brings her 15 years of skills and experience from the Architectural Industry to the Coaching and Mentoring arena as the “Window Glazer”. Revisiting Africa after many years of living abroad, and facing her limiting beliefs in the motherland, gave her a sense of purpose and a new direction which helped her establish her priorities and boundaries, as a survivor of life, toxic relationships, a speech impediment, PTSD, and burnout.

She is the Founder of Hugs Consultancy the wing of Hugs Coaching, a relationship, healing, and accountability hub. Its mission is to empower, elevate and connect women and communities, with language and behaviors through “Art Therapy”.

Ivy.i as a Developer, an Accredited Member of The Association of Professional Coaching Founding Member, The Association of Black Coaches, Emotional Geographer, Speaker and Strategist Consultant. Her strength is converting pain into art, creating the ultimate expressions of self in the process. Ivy enables her clients with the power to visualize and recreate the current space within self and habitat and how to move through the world, with “eagle eye analogy”.

Ivy’s coaching style is self-centric, future centric, community centric and goal orientated. Through a variety of NLP techniques, Emotional Mapping, Vison Boarding, she moves her clients from the present into their desired futures with confidence.