Based in Melbourne
In person or online across Australia
COACHING FOR ADULTS, KIDS & TEENS, LEADERS & TEAMS
You know what you want to change. You just might not know what actually needs changing.
Overthinking. Struggling to switch off. Finding it hard to let go. Reacting in ways you wish you hadn't.
There's usually a reason we keep doing things that get in our way. I help you understand why it keeps happening, so you can change it.
Where I've worked
Goldman Sachs EY Ashurst Xero
What is this costing you?
You don't need to be falling apart for something to deserve your attention. When the same thing keeps happening, it can quietly cost you time, energy, confidence and connection.
Doing it yourself because it's easier
You hand something over, then redo it. Letting someone else do it their way can feel harder than just doing it yourself.
Still turning it over hours later
You make a decision, then question it for the rest of the day. The more you think about it, the less sure you become.
Knowing how you want to respond, then doing something else
Under pressure you snap, go quiet or say yes when you meant no. Then you replay it on the way home.
Whether it's something only you notice, something showing up in your team, or something you're seeing in your child, there's a way to work together.
Three ways to work with me
For adults who want to change something that keeps getting in the way. Start with a single focused Breakthrough session, or go deeper over four months. Explore 1:1 Coaching →
For parents who can see their child or teenager struggling with something, and want to understand what's behind it rather than just manage the behaviour. Explore Take Root →
For leaders and teams where the same things keep coming up: decisions that stall, work that doesn't get handed over, conversations that don't happen. Explore Leadership & Corporate →
Client Reviews
Creating real change
Working with Tara has genuinely changed my life in such a short amount of time. The shifts I’ve made since working with her have been huge, both personally and professionally, and I’m so grateful for the impact she’s had on my life.
Feeling safe
I always felt safe to be honest and vulnerable, without any fear of being judged. Tara made me feel seen, heard and valued.
Trusting myself again
I find myself responding to situations with greater confidence, clarity and purpose, and I already feel like I have a stronger framework for making decisions across all areas of my life.
What becomes possible
Change isn't about getting rid of parts of yourself.
Greater choice
Understand what you need, and choose how you meet it.
Trust yourself enough to make the call and move on. Let someone else take ownership without feeling you need to step back in. Recognise when control is helping you and when another response could give you a better outcome.
Greater self-trust
Know yourself well enough to trust your own response.
Say what you think without rehearsing it ten times first. Set a boundary without wondering afterwards whether you were too much. Trust what you know, what you feel and what matters to you.
Greater presence
Have more space for what's happening right now.
Be in the conversation instead of in your head. Leave the meeting in the meeting, rather than carrying it around all evening. Come home after a difficult day and be present with the people you love.
What change can look like
Three clients. Three different reasons for coming to coaching. Here's what changed for each of them.
As we explored what was happening, she began to recognise beliefs and influences she'd absorbed from others that no longer reflected her own experience. Through questions and exploration, she started seeing her situation differently and finding answers that felt true for her.
She built a stronger relationship with herself and learned that fear didn't have to disappear before she could move forward.
She still feels fear sometimes. What's different is that it no longer gets the final word.
Read the related insight →She would put them off, worried about getting them wrong while already juggling work, family and everything else she was carrying.
As we explored the pattern, she recognised an expectation that she needed to do things herself for them to be done properly, alongside a strong attachment to how the outcome should look.
She began trusting others with more, loosening the expectation that everything had to be perfect and finding it easier to make decisions and move forward.
With less pressure to get everything exactly right came more peace, trust and freedom in her choices.
Read the related insight →What emerged was a pattern of controlling and planning the details around her when things felt unpredictable. As we explored further, she recognised something else underneath it: when she felt overwhelmed, she tended to hold everything herself rather than expressing what she needed.
The work wasn't about removing control. It was about understanding what it was doing for her and creating another choice.
She began recognising the pattern when it appeared, expressing what she needed and allowing others to support her rather than carrying everything alone.
"Working with Tara has helped me see patterns in myself that I knew were there but couldn't fully understand on my own. In one of our sessions, she helped me understand that my tendency to control certain situations was often connected to needs I wasn't expressing directly, and guided me through an exercise that helped me let go of the belief that I couldn't ask for what I needed. The biggest shift was realising I can express my needs without making someone else's response mean anything about my worth."
Not sure where to start?
A free reflective guide with five questions to help you get curious about what's really driving a pattern you keep noticing in yourself.
Meet Tara Isaac
My role is not to tell you what decisions to make or who you need to become. It is to create a space where you can understand what is really happening, see what can be difficult to see on your own and decide what feels right for you.
Before founding Rise & Thrive, I spent more than a decade working in corporate environments including Xero, EY, Goldman Sachs and Ashurst, with much of my career focused on people, growth and development.
Today, I bring that experience together with my training as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), an internationally recognised coaching credential, working with people who are ready to understand what is shaping the way they think, respond and make decisions.
Ready to understand what’s really getting in the way?
You don’t need to know exactly what needs to change before we talk.
We’ll start with what’s been happening, what you’d like to be different, and whether working together feels like the right fit.