MindGuard Coaching™

Resilience for leaders and key personnel

“Some of my collagues have bodyguards, but you are my mindguard.” CEO, Belgium

MindGuard Coaching™ supports leaders and key personnel in staying balanced, empowered, and engaged—even in high-pressure situations. It strengthens resilience, prevents burnout, and helps them navigate challenges while transforming emotionally taxing workplace cultures before these turn into costly problems for wellbeing, collaboration, and productivity.

“Mari is a unique combination of warm human insight, straightforward capacity to evoke insights, and understanding of demanding expert work. She has served our company for years with results – both empowering our key personnel and delivering substantial cost savings.” – HR Director, Finland

Coaching and In-Depth Support — All in One !

The effectiveness of MindGuard Coaching is based on combining performance and mindset coaching (SF), EQ skills training (EASEL^®), and brief psychotherapy (CAT) into an interdisciplinary, evidence-based theory-in-use.

“I’ve worked with people like Mari for the past 15 years in helping businesses grow. Mari has such a wide area of expertise that she is able to help individuals and companies faster than anybody else… I’ve worked with therapists, business coaches, life coaches, performance coaches, impact coaches, you name it. And I am yet to meet somebody who actually understands how to impact and empower people better than Mari”. – Business Consultant, Silicon Valley

A strategic investment in managing human capital risk and a positive expression of employer care

Professionals in demanding roles thrive on challenges and manage stressors well. However, when stress is constant or something happens, it begins to affect both performance and psychological well-being. The risk is that it is natural for high performers to keep pushing through exhaustion and warning signs – until they can’t. By then, they will have crossed their boundaries multiple times, and the road back is longer, costlier, and they might decide to walk out.

Therefore, MindGuard Coaching™ is a strategic investment.

Employees of client companies perceive MGC as a positive expression of employer care. It makes early intervention easier and increases people’s own initiative. Partners report that key personnel themselves ask: “Can I meet Mari a couple of times?”

The longest collaborations have continued since before the Covid pandemic.

“Mari has the heart, the skills, and the tools to drive positive change in people of any age, background, position, gender, or culture—even in the most challenging situations.” – Long-term collaborator

Fast Results

Often just three 90-minute coaching sessions is enough to regain clarity and balance.

“Thank you so much for our first meeting last week. It helped enormously, and I already feel better than I have in a long time!” – Business Director, Finland

MindGuard Resilience Partner contract is a strategic 3-12-month investment in your high performers’ performance, wellbeing and commitment.

• Packages:
  • Starter (3 x 90 min) – focused support for immediate challenges.
  • 3-month Partnership – early intervention & recovery.
  • 6-12-month Partnership – sustainable resilience & deep personal development.

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More on Why MindGuard Coaching™?

Combining coaching, EQ skills training, and therapeutic depth

Mari doesn’t just coach. She facilitates processes: information, tools, experiential learning, reflection on three levels, transfer. She trains you to lead your mind to lead your life and others. She help you manage triggers, tame anxiety and walk back from burnout. She teachs you the psychological skills needed to build sustainable resilience and navigate change and crisis all zen. She can also support you in transforming sidetracked cultures before they turn into costly problems and make you lose sleep.

“Mental debriefing” skills

Unprocessed situations with negative emotions risk being stored on the brain’s autopilot “threat list” – and the body remembers. Over time, a full inbox or simply anticipating some encounter ties a knot in the stomach. This is one reason why stress levels often bounce back to pre-holiday levels within just a week. Breathing exercises can calm the nervous system in that moment, but they are not enough on their own. It is essential to relax and engage in enjoyable activities during free time, but these do not equal true “mental debriefing.” Some clients have even exercised themselves into Overtraining Syndrome—and then suffered a mental collapse.

Emotional Intelligence in Action

Clients often ask what it actually means to use “emotions as information.” How can one trace personal triggers so they fade, or manage one’s emotional reactions more effectively? How does one shift into a different emotional state? How can empathy be mustered and constructive communication practiced when tensions are high or dislike is present? And most importantly, how can these situations be processed in time—rather than collecting a “sea container” of stressful memories to carry around? Experiential EQ training (EASEL®) offers precisely the tools needed for these challenges.

High Demands on Oneself and the Fear of Failure

are examples of themes that require deeper work. A typical feed from a high achiever’s brain goes like this: ‘No one will buy anything from us, I’ll be laid off, I’ll lose the house, my spouse will leave me, and I’ll die alone on the street.’ It sounds almost comically dramatic, but it’s not a fun script to have running in your subconscious. Going to the gym or enjoying a nice Saturday is like fixing the toaster when the TV is broken. Some clients have even pushed themselves into overtraining—only to end up in a mental collapse. Continuous stress inevitably spills over into private life, draining the very resources we depend on most.

So, don’t just endure, but come and learn the skills needed in today’s working life—in time.

* Credentials and Experience: M.Sc. & Ed., Supervisor/Coach, Psychotherapist and 15+ years coaching clients from small and large companies, public sectors, media, sports, organisations like UN and European Commission

* Scientific Base: EASEL is grounded in social neurosciences and related fields, biochemistry of health, and evidence-based methods from education, supervision, coaching, and psychotherapy.

* Depth: As a certified brief (Kat), family (SF) and couples (EFCT) psychotherapist, Mari can address mindset and mental health issues as well as challenges in personal life influencing professional performance and resilience.

* EASEL® (Applied EQ): Our work is underpinned by Experiential Social Emotional Learning methodology, which Mari developed 20+ years ago and, with her team, has also trained hundreds of professionals in Finland and abroad in workshops and training programs. Strengthening EQ and social competence with this psychoeducational framework is key to our clients’ sustained results.

“Mari is a warm and approachable coach. She creates a safe space to explore a wide range of themes and challenges. Her approach is clear and concrete, which greatly enhances the impact of coaching. With Mari’s support, I’ve been able to access my strengths and potential in a significant way.” Psychotherapist line manager

Virtual sessions, flexibly and across all time zones

Virtual sessions make it possible for the client to get an appointment flexibly, more affordably, and faster, as no time is wasted on travel for either party. The length of the process, frequency of sessions, working method, etc. are shaped according to the client’s needs and goals.

If necessary and at the client’s request, Mari travels on-site both in Finland and abroad (indicative costs in the price list). Clients may also come to EASEL Training’s own training facilities at Savikko Farm in Vihti, about an hour’s drive west of Helsinki.

Please note!

MindGuard Coaching is not psychotherapy. However, as a lisenced psychotherapist Mari will refer the client to occupational health services for medical assessment if therapeutic care is needed.

Get in touch!

If you’re a potentially new client organisation, book a 15-minute videocall with Mari HERE.

Book coaching sessions HERE.