Yevheniya Shalimova is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her expertise and kindness.
She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC ICF) and the creator of The Shalimova Method, a transformational approach focused on emotional resilience for business leaders and entrepreneurs, built through more than 2,300 coaching hours across 30+ countries.
She integrates neuroscience based tools through her BRAIN method, deep presence, and structured mindset rewiring techniques to help clients move beyond fear, self rejection, and uncertainty into clarity, trust, and aligned action.
She brings a rare depth of lived experience shaped by ministry work, personal rebuilding through war and displacement, and years of guiding people through profound life transitions, allowing her to hold space where real identity level transformation becomes possible. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Yevheniya Shalimova:
Name: Yevheniya Shalimova, PCC (ICF certified)
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind
Who is this coach for: Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and high achieving individuals navigating fear, transition, or emotional overload who want stronger resilience, clarity, and alignment in both personal and professional life.
How they can help: Through her Shalimova Method, combining ICF PCC level coaching, the BRAIN neuroscience framework, deep active listening, and structured mindset rewiring tools to transform fear based patterns into trust, clarity, and sustained emotional resilience.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these “crazy” times?
From the active phase of the war in Ukraine, I took my daughter and we moved to Norway, where we have been living since 3rd March 2022.
I was pleading with my parents to leave Ukraine, and they did in February 2022.
They stayed in Poland from 2022 to 2024, and in 2024 they moved to the USA where my younger brother lives with his family.
I have seen them only on video for the last two years.
My cousin and his family are in Germany, and his mother is in Switzerland.
We are all scattered.
My former mother in law is 80 years old and still lives in Ukraine, in the city of Mykolayiv, where there has been an ongoing problem with the water supply.
She has to go and carry water home in buckets and bottles.
The water from the tap is not safe for laundry, bathing, cooking, or drinking.
She does this with hands twisted by rheumatoid arthritis.
But we all support each other.
From the very first day, 24th February 2022, I became the person who united everyone, comforted, motivated, listened, and prayed.
I have not stopped since.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The pandemic brought rapid and significant growth in the number of my clients.
Their agendas changed deeply.
Many were in transition, searching for meaning and a new sense of direction in a world that had suddenly gone still.
Many were looking to start something new and find their place in changed circumstances.
For me personally, the pandemic had many difficult sides, but I turned many of those into something good.
I concentrated fully on study and client work.
At that time, I had ten sessions every day, five days a week, and I was not exhausted.
I was alive in my calling.
I also brought my parents and brother to live with me, and that season made us especially close before my brother finally received permission to reunite with his wife and their six month old son in the USA.
It was during this season, in November 2021, that I received my PCC credential, the fruit of those thousands of hours of work.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I was born into a military family in the former Soviet Union.
In 1987, my parents were stationed in Ukraine, and Ukraine became home until 2022.
I have over 30 years of experience in Christian ministry, serving as an assistant to senior pastors.
I was first ordained as a pastor, then as a chaplain.
I spent three and a half years standing beside people in their most broken moments.
In 2016, I went through a divorce.
I took my 10 year old daughter and moved to Kyiv with almost nothing.
We were given a former office room in a church building.
It was no more than nine square metres, with one table, one chair, and a single bed where the two of us slept cramped together.
There was no shower in the building.
We had to go outside and cross to another building in the autumn cold.
In that tiny room, stripped of every title and role I had ever performed, something unexpected happened.
Not collapse, but clarity.
I realised I had absolutely nothing to achieve or perform for.
That was when my journey to myself began.
In 2019, I began self development courses, seeking purpose.
I knew I had a calling from the Lord, but I felt it was bigger than I had allowed it to be.
That same year, I worked with a coach for the first time and came away disappointed.
But the disappointment would not leave me alone.
I kept asking myself how that session could have been done differently.
That question opened the door to professional coaching.
I completed my first coach training in 2019 and continued with ICF certified Level 1 and Level 2 programmes at the International Academy of Professional Coaching in Kyiv.
My mentors were the first two MCC certified coaches in Ukraine, Irma Stetsko and Natalia Kushnarenko.
After Level 1, I joined the Academy as an assistant, helping new students become coaches.
In November 2021, after working with more than 200 clients from over 30 countries and accumulating 700 coaching hours, I received my PCC credential from the International Coaching Federation.
Today, I have over 2,300 coaching hours and I am heading toward the MCC, the highest level the ICF awards.
From February 2022, life changed dramatically.
In Norway, I focused on learning Norwegian and finding stable work.
For three and a half years, I worked at a school as a support assistant for young people facing complex challenges.
The calling did not vanish.
It waited.
Eventually, I answered it fully by registering my own coaching firm and beginning to work as a coach full time.
I feel I am living the life I was always meant to live.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
Looking back, the biggest obstacle was never the external circumstances.
Not the divorce.
Not the tiny room.
Not the war.
The biggest obstacle was my own mindset, specifically the fear of failure and the fear of rejection that I had carried for years.
As I began to work with my own brain daily, rewiring my thinking and choosing different responses, I saw more and more clearly who God had actually made me to be.
I made a fundamental decision to be faithful to myself, to stop betraying myself, and to begin living the life the Lord had in His dreams when He formed me.
Starting everything from scratch in a new country where coaching was not yet a recognised profession required courage.
I had to communicate the value I carry and allow myself to shine while helping others see their truest and deepest longings beyond outward success.
That decision changed everything.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned overcoming your greatest obstacle?
The biggest lesson is about truly trusting that God is so good that He wants the very best for me.
Not only believing it in theory, but accepting it and allowing myself to live that truth daily.
That shift from performance to trust is the foundation of everything I now bring to my clients.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
I am on a learning curve all the time.
Right now, I am taking a course at Brain Academy with Gregory Caremans, and I am looking forward to launching a test drive of my BRAIN method.
It is a structured framework built from neuroscience, lived experience, and over 2,300 coaching hours.
The BRAIN method is something I had been applying intuitively with my clients long before I gave it a name.
It emerged from practice, from watching what actually changed people, and then finding the neuroscience that explained why.
I implement everything I learn, converting knowledge into signature coaching instruments that are now part of The Shalimova Method.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
I believe The Shalimova Method is unique because it is built on two things working together.
The first is the space I create.
It is a space of deep trust and active listening where clients feel genuinely heard, often for the first time.
This is not a technique.
It is who I am and how I show up.
Clients come back for this above everything else.
The second is the understanding that people are a trinity of spirit, soul, and body, and that lasting change only happens when all three are in coherence.
The BRAIN method provides the neuroscience framework for rewiring thinking patterns, but it is always in service of helping clients find and follow their inner compass toward a life that is fulfilling from the inside out, not just successful on the outside.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
Many reach a genuine sense of harmony, not as a concept but as a lived daily reality.
Using new thinking patterns, they begin to live their best life, knowing how to support themselves through difficulty and how to sustain fulfilment, not just achieve success.
Many find their mission and the way they want to build their legacy, the contribution that will remain long after they are gone from this earth.
That is what I consider the deepest result of our work together.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
My most important tool is the space of trust and active listening I create from the very first moment with a client.
Everything else, including the signature instruments of The Shalimova Method and the BRAIN framework, is secondary to that.
Presence is where transformation becomes possible.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
Jesus loves you.
All things are possible to those who believe.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson came from four years of living through active war.
Relationships and people, especially family, are the real treasure.
No money, no business success, and no outward achievement will ever replace a real hug, real eye contact, or a whispered, “I love you. I need you. I am so glad you are mine.”
I have not been able to hold my parents in two years.
I know the weight of that sentence in my whole body, and it has made me a different kind of coach.
Your final thoughts?
I am deeply grateful for my journey, every part of it, including the hardest parts.
They made me who I am and gave me what I now give to others.
To every reader, be bold and courageous.
Never give up.
Do not betray yourself.
Do not trade your destiny.
You have a calling.
And you are not alone.
Where Can You Find Yevheniya Shalimova?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to find your life’s mission, achieve a sense of inner harmony, and unlock your best life, see how Coach Yevheniya can help you.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, follow her Facebook and Instagram accounts.
And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message on WhatsApp or her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.