Life Coaching & Goal Setting

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Gain Clarity, Build Direction, and Move Forward with Purpose

In Dubai’s dynamic and fast-evolving environment, it’s easy to feel unanchored—even when everything appears to be going well. Life coaching offers a proactive path to rediscover your focus, define your purpose, and create a fulfilling future.

At MapleTree Psychotherapy Center Dubai, we offer personalized coaching for individuals navigating career changes, relationship shifts, or periods of personal growth—empowering you to live with clarity and intention.

Psychotherapy-Counselling

What We Help With

Our coaching services are ideal if you’re:

  • Feeling stuck or uncertain about your direction in life
  • Struggling to set or follow through with personal or professional goals
  • Adjusting to major life transitions such as relocation, parenthood, or career shifts
  • Recovering from burnout, stagnation, or self-doubt
  • Wanting to live a more values-driven and authentic life

Life coaching is not therapy—but it complements it effectively. We help you move forward, confidently and consciously.

What to Expect in Coaching

Through a supportive, forward-focused approach, we help you:

  • Define clear, actionable short-term and long-term goals
  • Clarify your personal values, motivations, and strengths
  • Overcome limiting beliefs and internal barriers
  • Improve time management, focus, and decision-making
  • Build confidence, resilience, and accountability systems

Sessions are designed to unlock your potential—without pressure, judgment, or comparison.

Our Coaching & Psychotherapeutic Approaches

Our Dubai-based coaches and therapists blend proven coaching techniques with psychological insight:

  • Values-Based Goal Setting – Align your actions with your personal and professional values
  • Solution-Focused Coaching – Focus on achievable outcomes and practical strategies
  • Cognitive Coaching – Reframe negative thinking to boost clarity and motivation
  • ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) – Build psychological flexibility to stay focused despite challenges
  • Life Design Coaching – Explore identity, purpose, and long-term direction in alignment with your evolving self
  • Holistic Coaching – Evaluating and identifying your experience across various life domains to lead a more integrated and fulfilling life

Depending on your goals, sessions can be fully coaching-focused or integrated with therapy.

Who We Help

We support adults, students, entrepreneurs, executives, and expats living and working in Dubai who want to reconnect with purpose and move their lives forward intentionally.

To ensure comfort and clarity, our team offers sessions in English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and Finnish—reflecting Dubai’s diverse and multilingual community.

Begin Your Self-Discovery Journey Today

Whether you’re setting new goals or navigating life after a turning point, our team is here to support your journey. Explore more under our Individual Therapy & Mental Well-being section. You can also Find a Therapist, Meet Our Team, or Contact Us to book your first session.

Dr. Katerine LeMay, Ph.D., C.Psych. (CAN)

Clinical Psychologist/Director and FOUNDER

Dr. JP Arzul, Ph.D. (SA)​

Clinical Psychologist​

Dr. Ava Ghasemi, PSY.D., C.Psych. (CAN)

Clinical Psychologist

Matleena Vanhanen, M.A. (uk)

Counselling Psychologist

Dr. Tima El Jamil, Ph,D. (USA)​

Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Sarah Sease, Psy.D. (USA)

Clinical Psychologist

Karen Anne Hope Andrews, M.Clin.Psych. (SA)

Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Mohamed Tal, Ph,D., (SLO)

Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst

Dr. Clarice Mendonca-King, PsyD (USA)

Clinical Psychologist & Neuropsychologist

Hanadi Beydoun, M.A., (LEB)

Psychologist

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Emotional Wellbeing Check

An Emotional Wellbeing Check is a 30 minute consultation to give you an overview of how you are doing with your psychological wellbeing. It will highlight key areas of your wellness and give an indication as to whether there are any areas of your life that would benefit from some attention. Like any other health check up, an emotional wellbeing check is an important part of staying on top of your mental health. With no commitment to engaging in regular therapy, this service offers a useful measure of your overall emotional wellbeing.

When might an emotional wellbeing check be beneficial?

  • Something feels “off”, but you can’t quite put your finger on what it is
  • You are considering embarking on therapy, but you remain uncertain as to whether this would be beneficial for you
  • You have a history of mental health difficulties and want to stay on top of your emotional wellbeing


Following the wellbeing check you will be provided with a brief summary report with recommendations from Dr Shamarel. As this is not a service that insurance companies typically reimburse for, you will not be given a formal diagnosis.