Christine Amuge is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her strength and dedication.
She is a therapist whose passion for self discovery, healing, and growth shaped her unique approach. With a background informed by trauma, basic counselling, youth and family counselling, CBT, DBT, Narrative and Somatic therapy, Christine integrates a variety of tools and techniques to support her clients.
Her holistic approach combines professional training with her lived experiences, including her work with youth and her own personal challenges. This rich blend of education, experience, and volunteer work enables her to help others navigate life with greater consciousness and intention. Her coaching style is rooted in empowerment and compassion, holding space with comfort, creative curiosity, and reflective processing.
She steps into the work with humanness, humor, and a client centered perspective, ensuring that each individual feels seen and supported. Her work spans a range of therapeutic methods, from expressive movement and creative exercises to breath work, guided visualizations, and emotional trauma releases. Through these integrative tools, Christine helps her clients tap into their inner power, gain confidence, and move toward a more desirable, conscious life. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Christine Amuge:
Name: Christine Amuge
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to discover, heal, and grow parts of themselves so they can become their best version.
How they can help: By using various tools and techniques like CBT, DBT, Narrative and Somatic therapy, just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?
My family and I are evolving and continuing to grow after the pandemic.
Some dynamics and structure within our unit has changed and we all have gained, lost and grown closer together for it.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The pandemic affected most of my clients in terms of their self awareness.
The nature of how we were all universally stepping into survival mode sent many alarm signals to my clients, prompting them to take a deep dive into exploring their life choices up until that point.
The pandemic allowed all of us to feel, rather than just understand, which I believe shifted the rules of the game for many of my clients.
I think it did the same for me.
For the first time in what seemed like forever, I could hear my own voice so clearly.
It’s as if the world went silent, and we all woke up to our emotional selves.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
Some of the big lessons that stand out for me during the pandemic are how important holistic self care is to our well being.
It’s especially vital to truly understand how to take care of our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
And it all starts with us (you).
If you are not well, nothing in your life will be well.
That was a major realization for me.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
My coaching practice began as a way of honoring my approach to the work, which I term as “self discovery, healing, and growth”.
My curiosity about human behavior led me to a psychology class.
As I started learning about the mind, I realized something was missing, the holistic aspect.
I was gaining an understanding of how we operate through our mental state, but I wanted to know what else was involved.
After hours of volunteering, further education, and some life experiences, I discovered that the holistic approach to supporting and understanding ourselves felt the truest and most aligned for me.
So, I pursued that path and found a great experiential counseling and coaching program at Rhodes Wellness College, where I graduated with a Life Skills Coaching Certificate and a Professional Counseling Diploma.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
I think the biggest obstacle I’ve faced in my life so far is the relationship I have with myself, how I see, treat, and behave with myself.
I immigrated to Canada from Uganda at 21 years old in 2017, and this transition has been the biggest battlefield I’ve ever stepped onto.
Learning to know, consider, and build yourself up from the ground with no foundation or support system to fall back on is a very scary place to be.
I was in that place for a solid two years in a whole new country.
That fear and confusion taught me something so real, the ability to recognize my own capability.
I pulled myself from being new, unhoused for the first eight months in a completely different country, navigating culture shock, social shock, and everything in between, to building a family, a career, and a community.
The lesson I learned here was that I could do it.
All of us can do anything when we allow ourselves to.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
Coaching, for me, is the implementation phase of the process in The Work.
When someone is discovering, healing, or growing aspects of themselves, the stages of change come into play.
I always work with my clients to identify which stages best complement coaching in their journey, and from there, we collaborate to create their desired outcomes.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
My coaching approach is inclusive in that I consider all of my clients’ moving parts at all times throughout the process.
This has allowed my clients the freedom to step into the work in their own way, drawing from a variety of integrative methods.
It makes the work both fun and warm for my clients.
My holistic approach enables me to tailor the work to meet the unique needs of each individual.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
My clients have shared that they are able to transfer the skills and tools they gain from working with me to different areas of their lives, and this has been a great discovery and support for both them and me.
I also strive to help my clients feel empowered, find their own power and presence, and gain assurance and confidence in themselves. I live by that principle as well.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
Immediacy, staying client centered, and holding my clients as capable throughout our entire therapeutic relationship are my absolute saving graces in growing and fostering efficiency with clients.
In my own personal and professional experience, whenever we approach the work from a place of empowerment and compassion, rather than feeling helpless and stuck, the insights land more effectively.
It helps restore or reassure our sense of power and choice in the process.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
Chose yourself.
You are more than worth it.
When you chose yourself, it pours life back into you and everything that surrounds you.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson I’ve learned in my life so far is the importance of learning to allow yourself to play.
I grew up in Kampala, Uganda, where I didn’t have a screen or any form of entertainment that didn’t require me to physically engage.
That experience enriched me with many tools that I’m incredibly grateful for in my teen and adult life.
Your final thoughts?
You are capable.
I believe there are many moving pieces influencing who we want to be, and most of those pieces are beyond our control.
I’ve learned that this doesn’t make me helpless, it might throw a rock in my path, but I have the choice of how I let it affect me.
Knowing and applying this in how we navigate the world is something I always strive to do for myself and my clients.
That reassurance is vital.
We must allow ourselves to see, nourish, and balance our power.
“Balancing” is the key takeaway for me.
Where Can You Find Christine Amuge?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to see how Coach Christine can help you, go here to learn more about her practices.
And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message on her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.