One-on-one coaching
Private, high-touch work for leaders ready for irreversible change.
Where Real Change Begins
You’re here because you’ve come to the realization that something has to change. You’ve done therapy, coaching, retreats, success, money, relationships, addiction, distraction… You’ve lived the life “as advertised” — the watches, the cars, the status, the success — yet the question keeps coming: “And now what?”
35
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years leading Women's Groups
100
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Repeat clients over 25 years
3500
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Referrals for Individual and Couples work
15000
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Workshop Attendees Transformed
90000
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people supported
2000
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Couples Transformed
When success stops working
The life you built is no longer enough
Executives, founders, creatives, and public figures come to Ariel when something beneath the surface is no longer working. They’ve achieved success, status, and recognition, yet still feel restless, emotionally disconnected, or unable to access real peace, intimacy, or fulfillment.
Relationship Transformation
Marriage & couples work
Ariel has a 98% success rate in keeping couples together. If you're ready to have the relationship and intimacy you've always wanted, explore our couples 1-1 and intensives.
Client Testimonials
The transformation is permanent
I believed I could never have a real relationship. I judged people quickly, pushed them away, and filled the emptiness with work, money, and alcohol. I had no real drive or purpose. After working one-on-one with Ariel, everything began to change. I became sober, lost 80 pounds, and found a steadiness I had never had before. Today, I’m in a partnership built on respect, honesty, and laughter. My work reflects who I actually am, and I feel more authentic, genuine, and open to possibilities than I ever thought possible.
Michael, 52, New York
I spent years working in high-level conflict zones, and I became consumed by rage, mistrust, and hypervigilance. I could barely connect with people. When I began working with Ariel, my body and mind started to release what I had been carrying. Within weeks, I was looking people in the eye, smiling, and feeling alive again. I left my old career, bought land, started a farm, and rebuilt a home. I no longer see the world through anger. I feel grounded, purposeful, and free.
David, 42, California
"I had gone seven years without speaking to my mother. I was hiding important parts of my life from my family because I was afraid they wouldn’t accept who I had become. I came to Ariel highly skeptical, but the work helped me finally face what I had been avoiding. I reached out to my parents, had honest conversations, and eventually met them in person for the first time in years. I stopped hiding and began living openly and authentically. My relationships with my family are now close and loving."
Rachel, 38, New York
About Ariel Daunay
This is not introductory work
Ariel Daunay is a highly regarded coach with more than 30 years of experience working with global leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and public figures across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Her practice is sought out by individuals and couples navigating high-stakes transitions.
Where you find your way back
Where you find Your way back
Online courses
Structured teachings that reorganize how you live and lead.
Live events
In-person and virtual spaces for embodied inquiry.
Immersive retreats
Deep environments for nervous system recalibration.
Online Women's Group
What community among women actually is
Join a curated group of women committed to real growth — a sanctuary designed for those ready to move beyond conversation into true transformation.
Podcast Episodes
Conversations that change you
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For Those Who Want More Than Success
When you've accomplished everything you thought would make you happy, yet somehow lost touch with yourself along the way.
Questions
Take a look at our frequently asked questions.
Is this therapy or coaching?
Neither, and most people who arrive here have done both.
Ariel’s work is somatic. It goes underneath the mind, into the nervous system and the emotional body, where the pattern actually lives. Talk therapy and coaching tend to work on the surface, adjusting behaviour, building habits, rewriting the story.
As Ariel puts it, “what was there still exists and it becomes messy.” This work goes to the crux of what happened a long time ago that is still running the show, and rewires it at the root.
You feel it in the body, not just in your head. And once the pattern releases, change doesn’t take willpower. It happens on its own.
How long does the work take?
Long enough to finish, and no longer.
The patterns you’re carrying were built over a lifetime, so real change needs a structured period of work. For most clients that’s three to six months, and sometimes up to a year. In-person intensives run around five days as a deep dive, and private sessions are weekly or biweekly.
You’ll feel the impact immediately and see it settle over time. The structure exists to stabilize the process, not to prolong it. Ariel doesn’t stretch this across endless years, and she tells you the scope and timeline before you begin.
Is this confidential?
Completely.
Ariel’s clients are executives, founders, public figures and people whose lives don’t allow for anything less than full discretion. Every private session, in person or virtual, is held privately and securely, and nothing you share leaves the room. That has been the standard of her practice for over thirty years.
Group work is held to the same standard of care, with the understanding that a group is a shared space.
How do I know if I’m a fit?
You’ll know because you’ve already tried everything else.
Ariel’s clients are not new to this. They’ve done therapy, coaching, retreats, leadership training, and still find themselves repeating the same inner pattern. They’re outwardly successful and inwardly fragmented, and they’re done managing it.
The other half is readiness. This work produces results when you’re willing to go all the way with it, and Ariel will tell you honestly if you’re not there yet.
The simplest way to find out is a complimentary consultation, a private conversation to see if this is a true fit for both of you.