ABOUT KAT CHINI

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The light was always there.

Sometimes we just need someone to walk back toward it with us.

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The light was always there. Sometimes we just need someone to walk back towards it with us.

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My work began long before it had a name. It began in my own life, when I realised how disconnected I had become from myself. How much I had learned to reject, override, and question myself. How much I had been trying to find safety, approval, and direction outside of me, while slowly losing the thread back to who I was. That realisation changed everything.

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It helped me understand that the way we relate to ourselves shapes so much of the way we move through life - our choices, relationships, work, confidence, boundaries, and the way we respond when things feel hard.

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I know now that you can be capable and still feel lost. You can be achieving and still feel disconnected. You can be helping everyone else and still not know how to come back to yourself.

 

That is why I do this work.

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I want to help people become leaders of their own lives - able to see their own potential, trust their own choices, and build circumstances that actually support who they are. Not a life built around coping, proving, pleasing, or surviving. A life shaped from self-trust, freedom, joy, and aliveness.

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WHO I AM

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I'm Kat - a clinical ADHD specialist, ICM Master Coach, Registered Nurse, coach, mentor, facilitator, and founder of Lumivera Coaching & Consulting.

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I bring together 17 years of experience across NHS and healthcare settings with specialist ADHD knowledge, coaching, nervous system understanding, and lived experience of what it means to rebuild trust with yourself.

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Before any title or training, I am someone who has walked this path personally. I know what it is to perform capability while feeling quietly lost inside. To be high-achieving on the outside and disconnected on the inside. To spend years adapting to systems and expectations that were never really built for how I work, think, feel, and lead.

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That personal journey is not separate from my work. It is part of the foundation of it.

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MY APPROACH

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My work is grounded in one belief: you are not broken, you are fully capable human being and I will support you in seeing that.

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There may be patterns that no longer serve you. There may be beliefs you have carried for too long. There may be ways of coping that once protected you but now keep you stuck, but underneath all of that, there is still something steady, wise, and true in you. The work is about finding your way back to it.

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I work with the whole person: mind, body, nervous system, emotions, identity, patterns, beliefs, relationships, and the practical realities of everyday life.

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The process is both deep and practical. We explore what is happening underneath the surface, but we also build tools you can use in real life - in your work, relationships, decisions, routines, boundaries, confidence, and moments of change.

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This is collaborative work. You are not here to be fixed or told who to become.

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You are here to be seen clearly, supported honestly, and guided back into a stronger relationship with yourself.

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WHAT LUMIVERA MEANS

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Lumivera means light through truth. This practice exists to help people return to the truth of who they are, beneath the self-doubt, masking, over-adapting, people-pleasing, shame, and stories that have made them feel smaller than they really are.

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Every person I work with arrives carrying a story about who they are. Some of those stories are protective. Some are inherited. Some were built through difficult experiences, and many are much smaller than the truth.

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Lumivera is a space where those stories can be understood, questioned, softened, and rewritten - not by me, but by you, as you begin to trust yourself again.

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CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

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For those who want the detail:

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Clinical Experience (17 years):

• 100+ hours of ADHD post-diagnostic support 

• 900+ hours specialist mental health and neurodiversity training

• CAMHS - ADHD specialist and lead nurse 

• CAMHS Eating disorder - specialist nurse 

• Adult neurodevelopmental assessment (ADHD & autism)

• Complex care holistic assessments nurse

 

Coaching & Training:

• ICM Certified Master Coach - Institute for Coaching Mastery - advanced trauma-informed somatic and therapeutic ICF-accredited coaching certification training (2024-2025)

• ADHD Foundation Certified Coach & Mentor Certificate (2024)

• Co-Active Coaching Certificate (2018)

• Professional Certificate in AI for Effective ADHD Support (2025) 

• AI Business Consultant - 2026

 

Professional Registration:

• Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) registered since 2009

• European Mentoring & Coaching Council Member 2025

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WHERE I WORK

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Lumivera Coaching & Consulting is an independent practice based in Winchester, Hampshire. I offer online sessions across the UK and in-person sessions in Winchester for local clients. ​