Returning to Work After Maternity Leave Coaching
Leadership coaching for mothers who are returning to work, rebuilding confidence or questioning whether the career they once wanted still feels right.
You've worked hard to build your career. You know what you're capable of, you've earned your place, and perhaps you've spent years working towards the role you're now returning to.
But something has changed.
Maybe you're excited to be back at work, yet your confidence feels different. Perhaps the expectations, compromises or working culture you once accepted no longer sit comfortably with you. Or maybe you're beginning to question whether the career you wanted before motherhood is still the career you want now.
The challenge isn't simply returning to work after maternity leave. It's returning after you've changed.
And that change deserves more than advice about getting organised, managing your time or finding your old confidence again.
This coaching is for you if you're:
Preparing to return to work after maternity leave and feeling uncertain about your confidence or professional identity.
Back in your old role, but feeling dissatisfied, unfulfilled or disconnected from work you once enjoyed.
Questioning your career direction, ambition or the compromises you're no longer willing to make.
Trying to balance demanding leadership responsibilities with motherhood, without losing sight of yourself.
Ready to explore what you really want from your next professional chapter.
You don't need to have the answers before coming to coaching. That's what we'll explore together.
What if you're not the same woman who went on maternity leave?
Motherhood changes more than your daily routine. Through matrescence, the profound transition into motherhood, your identity, priorities, values and relationship with ambition can evolve.
You might still love your work, but want to approach it differently. You might feel increasingly dissatisfied in a role you once enjoyed, less willing to tolerate a difficult manager or more protective of how you spend your time and energy.
And sometimes, you might discover that you want something entirely different.
None of this necessarily means you've lost your ambition or your ability to lead. You may simply be discovering what success means to you now.
Through my Just Matrescence® approach, I help mothers make sense of these changes and move forward with clarity, confidence and intention.
Read more about what matrescence is.
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave | 6-Session Programme
A personalised coaching journey to help you understand what's changed, reconnect with your strengths and make confident choices about your career and leadership.
Across six private coaching sessions, we'll explore the questions that matter most to you. There is no predetermined outcome or expectation that you should return to your old way of working.
You might want to rebuild confidence in your current role, pursue a new opportunity, redefine your ambitions or explore a completely different direction.
What we'll work on together
Identity and matrescence
Understand who you're becoming through motherhood and how your priorities, values and professional identity have evolved.
Confidence and leadership
Reconnect with your strengths, find your voice and lead with greater self-trust, rather than feeling you need to prove you're still the person you were before maternity leave.
Career clarity and direction
Explore what genuinely motivates you now, what's no longer working and what possibilities you want to pursue.
Boundaries and expectations
Challenge the compromises and pressures you've grown accustomed to, and explore more sustainable ways to work and lead.
Your next chapter
Turn reflection into meaningful decisions and practical next steps that align with the life and career you want.
Your coaching programme includes
6 × 60-minute private coaching sessions, online
Flexible scheduling over approximately 3–6 months
WhatsApp and email support between sessions
Personalised coaching tailored to your circumstances
Practical tools and reflection exercises between sessions
Investment: £995
This is space to explore more than how to succeed in your old role. It's an opportunity to decide what success looks like for you now.
Need clarity on one specific challenge? Try a 60-Minute Leadership Reset
Sometimes you don't need a longer coaching engagement. You need dedicated space to untangle one question that's been occupying your mind.
Perhaps you've returned to work and something no longer feels right. You're questioning your next career move, struggling with a difficult situation at work or trying to understand why your priorities have shifted.
The Leadership Reset is a focused, one-hour coaching session to explore what's happening, gain a fresh perspective and identify meaningful next steps.
What you'll take away
Greater clarity about the challenge you're facing.
A better understanding of what's changed and what matters now.
Fresh perspectives on your career or leadership choices.
Practical next steps that feel right for you.
60-minute private online session | £195
Why work with me?
I'm Eve Ostrovskaya, an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Mama Rising® Certified Coach and founder of Working Parent Coaching.
With more than 20 years of experience in global HR and organisational leadership, I understand the realities of demanding corporate careers, complex workplaces and the pressure to keep performing through major life transitions.
I'm also a mother of three, and I know personally how becoming a mother can reshape your relationship with work, identity and ambition.
My Just Matrescence® approach brings together professional leadership coaching and a deep understanding of the transition into motherhood.
I won't tell you what your career should look like or assume that staying, leaving or progressing is the right answer.
Instead, I'll create a confidential, supportive and appropriately challenging space for you to discover what feels right for you.
You don't have to go back to who you were
Returning to work after maternity leave doesn't mean you have to return to the same ambitions, priorities or definition of success.
You can appreciate everything you've achieved and still want something different.
You can love motherhood and want a fulfilling, ambitious career.
And you can change direction without seeing everything that came before as a mistake.
You don't need to become the leader you were before motherhood. You get to decide who you want to be now.
Whether you're preparing to return, finding your feet again or wondering where your career should take you next, I'd love to explore how coaching could support you.