Founder of BU Life Skills Institute | Transformation Specialist | Trainer
B.A., B.ED, Board Certifications from the American Board of Hypnosis & NLP, TNLP, TTLT, TCHt
Meet Katherine
Katherine has played many roles in her life—employee, educator, tech developer, entrepreneur. Each chapter taught her how to think strategically, solve complex problems, and keep reaching for more.
She achieved all that success… while being quietly consumed by fear and anxiety.
On the surface, she looked like the perfect corporate player—driven, smart, always chasing the next level.
Underneath, she was crumbling—held together by perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the belief that she had to prove herself at all costs.
What she didn’t realize was that an unresolved trauma was driving it all.
Her unconscious mind was doing its job—surfacing old memories for healing. But instead of understanding the message, she interpreted it all as fear.
Eventually, that fear ran the show.
And all the unprocessed emotion stored in her body turned into illness.
The turning point came when she began working with her unconscious patterns alongside a coach.
That was the beginning of everything shifting.
Through neuroscience-backed tools, unconscious mind transformation, and powerful techniques that tap into the brain’s neuroplasticity, she rebuilt from the inside out. She stopped simply surviving—and began to truly thrive.
Today, Katherine is the visionary behind BU Life Skills Institute, where she coaches, trains, and empowers others to break free from survival mode, rewire old patterns, and step fully into their radiant, authentic power.
A Few Things You Should Know About Katherine:
- Katherine is internationally trained in transformational tools that shift beliefs, behaviours, and identity at the unconscious level.
- Thanks to years in IT Development, Katherine has turned behaviour pattern recognition into an art form—identifying the root causes that keep clients from living the lives they desire.
- Katherine has faced illness, anxiety, and trauma—and emerged with tools that truly work.
- Katherine believes surviving isn’t enough. We’re here to thrive. To rise. To remember our own magnificence.
I help clients rewire the emotional patterns that keep them stuck, disconnected, and exhausted—so they can reclaim their voice, their vitality, and their vision.
Awaken the Power Within – Your Healing Begins Here!
Creative Coach | Artist |
| Transformation Specialist
Yukkin (ze/zir)
B.A., MNLP, MTLT, MCHt,
Meet Yukkin
Creative Transformation Specialist
Yukkin is a bold embodiment of authentic self-expression. From coming out and following zir creative calling to forging new possibilities when doors closed, ze has learned that becoming yourself is not about fitting in; it is about having the courage to create your own path.
Yukkin recognizes someone’s potential and believe in their magnificence, even when they cannot yet see it for themselves. Ze brings outside-the-box thinking, a passion for creative expression and a willingness to be vulnerable to helping others discover what is possible.
Growing up feeling like an oddball, Yukkin spent years carrying the weight of self-hatred for not fitting in. Perfectionism and overcompensation became ways of masking a suffocating anxiety around zir self worth. What others saw as excelling, often felt like the bare minimum ze had to achieve to feel wanted.
Eventually Yukkin made a different choice. The next step was working through self judgment and using creativity to consciously design who ze wanted to become. When zir mental health was falling apart and medication side effects made everyday life increasingly difficult, Yukkin chose to step forward and create a future for zirself, to become the light ze wanted to see.
Through hypnotherapy, NLP and Time Line Therapy®, Yukkin learned how to take the wisdom from zir experiences without reliving the pain. Finally ze released emotional baggage, reconnected with ignored parts of zir identity and built a more intimate relationship with zirself.
The journey involved navigating significant identity shifts; from engineering to earning an arts degree, exploring names and pronouns, understanding neurodivergence and ultimately becoming a Creative Transformation Specialist.
Today, Yukkin helps creatives, and other unconventional thinkers free their self-expression, reconnect with who they are and intentionally create who they want to become.
Ze invites you to discover yourself in a new portrait; the one in which the person you become is your greatest masterpiece.
A Few Things You Should Know About Yukkin:
- I’ve been trained in transformational tools that shift beliefs, behaviours, and identity at the unconscious level to align people with their goals.
- From following life’s many adventures, I’ve found many ways to examine details to combine various skills and systems in new ways that focus on achieving bigger goals effectively faster.
- Yukkin has been through illness, mental health challenges, and trauma with resilience finding possibilities out of hardship
- I believe we are here to make our dreams a reality, to shine our light and thrive. To embrace & let our freak flag fly.