Sara Lee, licensed psychotherapist and executive coach based in Andalusia Spain
Sara Lee

Licensed Psychotherapist
Executive Coach
Emotional Mentor

Coaching since 2004. Psychotherapy since 2015. Based in Andalusia, Spain.

The work

I have always been fascinated by one question:
Why do intelligent, capable people keep doing things that no longer serve them?

Not at the level of understanding, but at the level where responses are formed. The place beneath insight, beneath willpower, beneath all the things we know but struggle to live.

That question first led me to study social psychology. I wanted to understand how we become who we are through our relationships, our families, our cultures, and the systems we live within. Why we adapt. Why we perform. Why we repeat the same patterns long after they have stopped serving us.

From there I moved into coaching, leadership development, and organisational work. For years I worked with executives and leaders from the inside, supporting leadership programmes, organisational change, and individual development. I loved the work. But I kept noticing the same thing: people could understand exactly what was happening and still find themselves repeating the same patterns under pressure.

Insight wasn't the missing piece. Something deeper was driving the behaviour.

That realization led me back into training. The truth is, I had known since my twenties that I wanted to become a psychotherapist. While still working in the corporate world, I began training in CBT. In 2018, I left corporate life to fully commit to that path. In 2019, I graduated as a licensed psychotherapist and later became a certified Schema Therapist.

Alongside extensive professional training, I have spent many years in my own therapy. Not because I was unwell, but because I was deeply curious about myself, other people, and what shapes us. Looking back, much of the real learning happened there. Not in books or certifications, but in the lived experience of meeting myself more honestly.

In 2023, life asked me to do exactly that. I burned out. Not gradually. Completely. For years I had been helping others reconnect with themselves while quietly losing touch with parts of my own life. So I stopped. I moved to Spain and began building the life I had always wanted.

That experience changed the way I work. I don't speak about emotional exhaustion, performance, self-abandonment, or the cost of living disconnected from yourself from the outside. I speak about them from the inside.

My work is not about becoming a better version of yourself. It is not self-improvement or optimisation. It is about returning to yourself. Beyond the roles. Beyond the adaptations. Beyond the strategies you developed to stay worthy, loved, accepted, or safe.

Today, my work draws on everything I have studied, trained in, experienced, and lived. Social psychology, leadership development, psychotherapy, cognitive and behavioural science, attachment theory, trauma psychology, nervous system regulation, and decades of curiosity about what shapes us have all influenced the way I work.

Different paths. One question:
What helps us reconnect with ourselves?

After more than thirty years of studying, training, practising, and living that question, my answer is simple: the life you want becomes possible when you reconnect with the parts of yourself you learned to leave behind.

That is the work.

Training & background
BA Social Psychology
The academic foundation for everything that followed
NLP & Neurosemantics
Cognitive behavioural sciences · From 2004
Counselling Skills
College of Applied Psychology · Sydney · 2005
Certified Meta-Coach
2006 · Trainers Training NLP & Neuro-Semantics 2007 · Executive coaching and leadership 2006–2018
CBT Training
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy · 2013–2014
Lifespan Integration
Since 2015 · Certified · Lifespan Integration method
Licensed Psychotherapist
Graduated 2019 · Certified in Schema Therapy
EFT — Emotionally Focused Therapy
Trained in EFT for couples · 2021–2023

"This is where patterns repeat. Or end. In real time. Under pressure. In relationship."

Who I work with

Senior leaders and executives who are tired of performing in their own lives.

They look composed. But they struggle to relax. They are emotionally unavailable at home without meaning to be. They carry responsibility for everyone. They hold themselves to standards that never quite let up. And at some point success started costing them their sleep, their relationships, their presence, their sense of themselves.

Not because they are failing. Because the way they learned to succeed is no longer sustainable.

Many have done the work — coaching, therapy, leadership programmes. They know themselves well. And still find themselves back in the same place. Because insight alone doesn't change the patterns the nervous system learned long before the boardroom.

I work remotely and in person. In English and Swedish. With clients across Europe, the US, and the Middle East.

Senior Leaders & CEOs
Executives in Transition
High Achievers & Creatives
Leaders Under Chronic Pressure
People Who Have Lost Touch With Themselves
Couples in Leadership Roles
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Ready to begin? Let's talk.

A conversation. No pitch. Just an honest place to start.

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sara@self-in-sight.com · Andalusia, Spain