About Kate

I started my professional career as a Registered Nurse in New Zealand, working mostly in surgical, and orthopaedic wards. Together with my husband, who was a professional rugby player at the time, we travelled to Japan for a year, and then France for 7 years. During this time, I trained to become a Certified Life Coach with Dr. Martha Beck, gaining my certification in 2010. I continued my coach training in the United States with Master Certified Coach, and world renowned Horse Whisperer, Koelle Simpson, to become a Certified Master Equus Coach. Learning how to Coach, and work with horses and people, has been one of the great gifts of my life.

I continued my education, studying, under the work of Dr. Gabor Mate, who’s focus is on the wisdom of the body, disease, addiction and trauma.

I have also studied under Geneen Roth, who’s a world renowned author, coach and facilitator who’s been supporting people with weight and eating for the past 30 years.

My deep belief is; That whatever is challenging for us, is a pathway back to our true nature.
We’re always being offered and shown a way back to ourselves - and this is where our greatest strength and potential lies.

Personal Coaching

Coaching is a way of looking at your life, and asking yourself honestly;
Am I living in alignment with myself?
Living in alignment isn’t always easy, it takes the ability to deeply listen to your self, trust yourself, and act with courage on what you know.
And you know what, sometimes our nervous systems aren’t up for it. You might be experiencing resistance to taking action, it might look like waiting, stalling, procrastinating, shutting down, being over busy or disorganised. This is why I say body, mind and spirit - because all aspects of yourself need attention, and support. Sometimes “go big or go home” “take really big action” isn’t the step you most need to take.

A number of my clients they come to me because life isn’t feeling quite right. They know they could be going better in some way.

• Somethings not working. Often people are feeling pressured or stressed by something or someone - and they’re looking for a way through.

• It could be they’re really excited about something and want to make it happen - and they’re looking for someone to support them as they progress

• Or they’ve got a sense of what they want to do, but they’re not making any progress in the direction they want to go in, and they need someone to see what it is they can’t

• Sometimes people feel an impending sense of doom about their lives, like time is ticking and they’re not really living

My coaching clients are looking for lives that have a sense of freedom and aliveness.

I coach people to grow and expand past their current capacity, through their own presence.

About Equus Coaching……

When you step into a space with a horse, you’re connecting with nature in a very visceral way, horses can literally sense and feel your nervous system in action.

Your nervous system is your body-mind - your heartbeat, your breath, your blood pressure, your thoughts, feelings, and memories etc - with this astute awareness, horses invite you to work through anything that disrupts your nervous system.

Essentially they’re inviting you to learn how to come to a place of balance and peace within yourself.

How does it work?

When we’re with a horse, their body is reading our body….
They hold an awareness of how we’re feeling on the inside. Our internal world is clear to them - and they reflect it back to us.
Irritation, uncertainty, stress… they sense whatever it is we’re carrying - even if we’re tying to hide it - and then they act in a way that makes sense, and matches that feeling.

The horses responses to you will feel familiar.
And in turn, you might find yourself interacting with the horse in a way that feels similar to how your interact the people in your life…your partner / child / colleagues / family…
Or the horse might feel like a situation, a stressful project / a family dynamic / a challenge you just can’t get past

When this happens you’re being shown a current pattern you’re holding in your nervous system - and you’re also being invited (and shown how) to change it if its not serving you.

You don’t have to be good with horses, have any experience, or even be comfortable with them.
Some of my clients come in telling me, they don’t like horses very much, and they’re actually feeling quite nervous or scared. That’s ok.

Horses don’t ask more of us than we’re capable of giving - they don’t show us anything we’re not ready to see. They’re wise teachers and partners that invite us to journey inward and recover our own true nature.

Personal Life

I’m a mother of 3 kids, I’m married, and I’m obsessed with early mornings, swimming, horses, my family, my dog Frankie, and the nature of life.

I try to live by the question: What would be the most loving thing I could do for myself ?
I know this sounds wishy-washy. But try it, feel your body soften, your intuition open up, your senses sharpen.
Dropping into my body connects me to my own truth and allows me to align with myself.

Anyone can drink coffee and push through to their next goal. But that’s not sustainable.
Long term energy comes from ALIGNMENT.
And alignment requires feeling the subtle difference between energy created from anxiety and energy created from inspiration.
- Cory Muscara

Some argue that peace and freedom are “nice to have’s”.

But quite honestly - this isn’t some fluffy bullshit, it’s your life, and if you don’t have peace and freedom in your life - life gets really hard……They’re NEED TO HAVES !

Without the ability to find internal calm - we rush around the world trying to control everyone, change everything, and get it right all the time. We put everyone and everything into a pressure cooker - trying to create calm!

To create peace and freedom, we need connection to our own nature, the ability to listen deeply, and the courage to step into our own presence with action.

This is just a little snippet from my life.
I’d love to hear about yours.
If you’d like to work with me, either one to one, or with horses, please email me directly.

To book a free consult, email me: hello@kateapanui.com

Professional Bio

Kate Apanui is a Certified Coach, Master Certified Equus Coach and Facilitator, and Registered Nurse.  Kate began her professional life as a surgical and orthopaedic Nurse, but due to her husbands career, she spent a lot of time living overseas, mainly in France.  During this time away she retrained and became certified as Coach with Dr Martha Beck. Following that she travelled to the United States and spent time studying and training with world renowned Horse Whisperer; Koelle Simpson. Kate’s currently continuing her eduction with Steven Porges PhD at the Polyvagal institute, and studying under Dr Gabor Mate’s trauma and addiction programme.  Kate has spent the past 13 years working as a health + wellness coach, in-between raising 3 kids, and moving around the world. She is a sought after speaker, writer, and podcaster. Kate’s coaching work includes groups, and one-to-one clients via zoom and in person workshops. She also offers Equine Assisted Learning and Personal Development via Equus Coaching for individuals, groups, and teams .

Kate helps her clients re-discover a life that focuses on listening to the body’s instincts and aligning to the hearts intuition, understanding personal habits and behaviour, an harnessing the power of their mindset. Kate invites her clients to live from a sense of freedom, aliveness and integrity.