About Patty

I live in a former winery in the Vallée de Fleury, in the south of Burgundy. Stone walls, blue shutters, and a valley that does most of the talking. I read charts here — at the kitchen table, and over Zoom for people in Panama, Rotterdam and Portland.

That is the short version. The longer one took twenty-five years.

Before this

I spent twenty-five years inside companies. Philips, Atos, and then five years at ASML, where I ran a development programme for the people the organisation had decided were exceptional. I studied psychology alongside it.

I was good at the work. It never quite reached the thing I was after.

What I kept running into was the same two questions, in one conversation after another, from people who by every measure were doing well. Who am I, actually. And what is this life for. Nothing in the toolkit answered them — not the assessments, not the models, not the leadership frameworks.

Then astrology

I had been studying psychological astrology since 2004, quietly, the way you keep a private interest that does not fit your job title.

In 2014 I began the full apprenticeship with Steven Forrest — three years, finishing at Master Practitioner level. That was also the year I left.

There is a film about that decision, shot at Lake Como where it happened. Watch it on the home page.

And then Human Design

A few years later I went into Human Design expecting to have seen it all before. I had not.

I qualified as an analyst through the International Human Design School and went on to the BG5 business applications, which is the part that works for entrepreneurs and teams.

Astrology is where I start. Human Design is the manual that comes with it.

What I do now

I work with people in a turn: work that stopped fitting, a relationship changing shape, a decade arriving with a number on it. Mostly one to one, sometimes with couples or business partners, occasionally with a team.

Sessions rather than readings. Recorded, with something to take away and use.

“Working with Patty has brought me greater focus, deeper awareness, and a much clearer roadmap of where I am headed and why.”

Caroline Cousins — mentor and coach

Training and background

Evolutionary astrology

Apprenticeship with Steven Forrest, Master Practitioner — 2014–2017
Psychological Astrology, Achernar — 2004–2005

Human Design

Human Design Analyst (Individual, Lifework, Partnership & Life Cycle) — International Human Design School
Living Your Design Guide — IHDS
BG5 Business Consultant — 2021
BG5 Profit Potential Coach — 2022
BG5 Business Cycles Consultant — 2022
Rave Cartography and Rave ABCs — IHDS
Gene Keys Guide — Gene Keys Ltd, 2022

Coaching and psychology

Core Coaching, personality structures and Transactional Analysis — Weisfelt & Partners, 2018
Redecision Therapy, Transactional Analysis — TA Academy, 2018
EMDR — Educas, 2022
NLP Master Practitioner — Vidarte, 2009
Applied Psychology, master year one — NCOI, 2018–2019
Bachelor Psychology — Saxion, 2006–2008

Twenty-five years in organisations

ASML — People Development Program Manager, HR Manager, HR Project Lead, 2011–2015
Metalektro Personeelsdiensten — career coach and trainer, 2009–2010
Atos Origin — HR Manager and training coordinator, 2008–2009
Philips Lighting HQ — project lead employability, 2007–2008

Where to go next

The film about the decision is on the home page. If you would rather just talk, book a call — thirty minutes, no pitch at the end of it.