When the decision is yours alone.
A private, one-to-one passage for founders and leaders moving through crisis — from a point of pressure to a position of clarity, footing and quiet strength.
private practice
never group work
TA associations
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You haven't lost your capability.
You've lost your footing.
Growth, exit, a partnership breaking, a role you've outgrown, a version of yourself that no longer fits — the ground has moved, and the map you trusted no longer matches the territory.
The weight of the decision is still yours. And the people around you need you steady, so there is rarely a place to think out loud, to be uncertain, to see your own blind spots before they become expensive.
This is not weakness. It is the cost of carrying a system on your shoulders. What you need now is not advice, and not another framework — it is an external, unhurried perspective and steady company through the passage itself.
A place to regain clarity, choose deliberately, and move to a position that holds.
Not therapy. Not coaching.
A guided transition.
I don't replace a doctor, a coach or long-term therapy. I accompany you through a passage — from where you are to where you've decided to be — and hold the process so the crossing is deliberate and clear.
What the work gives you
- An external, confidential perspective on the decisions you carry alone
- Clarity where there is noise, and footing where there is drift
- Sight of the blind spots inside how you lead and relate
- A steady, deliberate passage — not a quick fix
What it is not
- A one-off session or an instant recipe
- Mass-market coaching, lifehacks or motivation
- Medical or clinical treatment
- A promise or guarantee of a particular outcome
From where you are
to a position that holds.
A structured, deeply individual accompaniment grounded in six years of practice with leaders and founders — and in the discipline of transactional analysis.
Locate point A — honestly
We name the real position, not the presentable one: where the footing was lost, what the crisis is actually asking of you, and the blind spots in how you're reading it.
Define point B — and the passage
We set the position you've decided to reach, and I accompany you across it as comfortably and deliberately as the situation allows — precise, targeted, unhurried.
Take an "atomic" position
The outcome of the passage is a stable stance that returns your energy and force — the footing to walk your own scenario, and to improve it, on your terms.
What changes across
three months.
Not motivation, and not a plan you'll abandon. A change in the position you make decisions from.
Decisions from footing
You make hard calls from steadiness — not from pressure, urgency or fear of the wrong move.
Clarity on what matters now
The noise drops away. You see the one or two things that actually move your situation — and act on them.
Blind spots in view
The patterns in how you lead and relate become visible — before they quietly become expensive.
A position that holds
You end with your energy back and a stance that stays stable when everything around you keeps moving.
Deliberately, for a few.
This is for you if
- You're a leader or founder at a crisis or turning point
- You've lost clarity, footing or direction
- You carry hard decisions alone and want an outside perspective
- You want depth — not mass-market coaching or quick lifehacks
This is not for you if
- You're looking for a one-off tip or a fast recipe
- You're in an acute clinical or medical state — this is not medicine
- You expect a guaranteed result
- You want to be told what to do rather than to decide clearly
Lena Lutkova
I work with leaders and entrepreneurs in crisis and transition. My practice is built on transactional analysis and on six years of private, one-to-one work with people who make decisions in isolation, where the cost of error is high.
I'm the author of the trinity protocol™ — a structured way of moving a leader from a point of pressure to a stable, "atomic" position. I hold Master's-level study in clinical and rehabilitation psychology (in progress), and I'm a CTA candidate and member of the international transactional-analysis community.
Three steps, no pressure.
Your request
You leave a short, private request below. No detail is required — only enough for me to understand the moment you're in.
A private conversation
We speak one-to-one. We look at whether this passage is right for you, and whether we're right for each other. Nothing is decided under pressure.
The passage
If it's a fit, we begin a private engagement from three months — the deliberate crossing from point A to a position that holds.
What founders say
after the passage.
“Fifteen years running teams, and I’d accounted for everything except the sheer volume of wasted motion we were carrying — or that footing alone could take it out. What I have to admit is how small and out-of-date my own model of it turned out to be.”
“Honestly, I didn’t come for any of this — and then the way we built contact landed somewhere completely new for me. It changed how we are with each other at the company: people got warmer, more honest, more open. I didn’t expect to feel this grateful.”
“I don’t hand out endorsements, and I went in expecting to test this hard. The company grew, then contracted, and how difficult that was to admit had begun to show in my health. What held up under scrutiny was simple: the options are real, and stress can be carried differently — with someone who actually knows the ground.”
“The isolation at the top — and what it was quietly transmitting into the company — was something I’d stepped back from and stopped seeing. I don’t have many words for what shifted. Only that it did, and the distance is gone.”
“We were at a dead-end with the lawyers and the law. What changed the game wasn’t a legal move — it was seeing that the dead-end was an obvious consequence of something else entirely, somewhere I hadn’t been looking. That one read flipped a whole sequence of moves. The case is still live, but I’m playing it from a completely different position now — and that’s already the win.”
Questions leaders ask me.
Neither. This is private, non-clinical guidance through a transition. I don't treat conditions and I don't run a coaching programme — I accompany you across a specific passage, from where you are to a position that holds.
No. I don't replace a doctor, a therapist or a coach, and I won't ask you to leave work that's serving you. This sits alongside it — focused only on the crossing you're in right now.
Engagements begin from three months. A transition isn't a single session or a quick recipe — it needs enough time to move you deliberately from point A to a stable point B, and no longer.
Entirely. Your request is read by me alone, our conversations are private, and nothing you share leaves the work. Discretion is the condition that makes this kind of thinking possible.
A quiet, one-to-one conversation. We look at the moment you're in, whether this passage is right for you, and whether we're right for each other. Nothing is decided under pressure — and the investment is discussed openly there.
Because this is individual work, not a product off a shelf. The right figure depends on the depth and length of the passage — so we discuss it directly on our first call, once we both know it's a fit.
Request a private conversation
Tell me a little about the moment you're in. I read every request personally and reply to arrange a first, confidential call.
Thank you.
Your request has reached me privately. I'll be in touch personally to arrange our first conversation.