Clear the path for what matters.

Empowering you and your organization to thrive .

Whether you’re a small business owner considering your first coaching experience, an HR professional looking for the right partner for your executive team, or a new manager trying to be effective but completely overwhelmed, Through the Forest Consulting can help you and your organization thrive through personalized coaching offerings. We provide individual and team coaching, assessments and debriefs, and custom coaching programs that deliver measurable impact.

Our mission is to empower people and organizations to thrive across Canada.

We integrate nature-based methods that are proven to increase effectiveness, sustain behaviour change, and support wellbeing, making our coaching more effective and efficient than traditional approaches.

Nature is a powerful partner in the coaching process, whether we’re walking through the woods, sitting in a garden, or using nature-based frameworks indoors, over Zoom. Taking a client-centric approach, nature-based applications look different with different clients, based on their preferences, goals, and practical reality.

About Through the Forest

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I’m Nadia Allacas, founder of Through the Forest Consulting and leadership coach and consultant, with over a decade of leadership and talent development experience.

I work with leaders at all levels, from new managers to C-suite executives, as well as business owners, and artists - across sectors including gaming, government, nonprofit, education, hospitality, real estate, and finance. What all my clients have in common is a desire to achieve meaningful goals and create the conditions to align their actions with their goals. The work can be extremely practical as well as very internal, and I enjoy partnering with my clients in the inner work, the strategic, and the practical.

My coaching style balances warmth with challenge. I create space for reflection and practical action, helping clients shift mindsets, strengthen leadership, and make lasting impact.

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What is

Coaching?

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. ”

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Our Offerings

1:1 Coaching

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Team Development

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Organizational Solutions

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  • Testimonials

    "In my coaching sessions with Nadia, she held the space, listened, and allowed me to explore. She provided resources at opportune times. It’s a testament to her skill as a coach that the next steps I decided on in our sessions felt doable – and I did them! At all times, I felt respected and encouraged. An important professional goal that I imagined to be complicated and difficult to enact has become more clear in my mind, and I am now taking simple steps toward it."

    - Chris, Community Living BC, Canada

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    " I consider myself a highly rational person, and Nadia had the ability to create the safety for me to tap into my emotions in the very first session with her.  This may be normal for others, but it’s unusual for me, and I realized how skillfully Nadia quickly creates a safe space in a session, allowing me to quickly delve into root causes and parts of my life that affect my professional one. Nadia’s patience, quiet presence and gently probing questions help me explore deeper than I could by myself.  

    While focusing on me during a session, Nadia is also a human—and that warmth and relatability comes through in her expressions and presence, helping me to stop judging my own behaviours.  

    I’ve thoroughly enjoyed having Nadia as my coach, as it’s enabled me to push beyond my comfort zone and move forward through some tough challenges.”

    – Erika Behl, Business Owner, Singapore

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    "Working with Nadia felt different from other coaching experiences because the insightful and powerful questions she asked helped me to get straight to the heart of my problem/situation. I was able to get closure on my issue by the end of each session with her, leaving with a clear plan of action and next steps, that I didn't feel the need to revisit that same topic in our next session. This is rare for me - I often leave coaching sessions with great ideas that fizzle out quickly.

    She really tuned into what I needed in the moment, leaving me feeling not only heard but also empowered to address the root cause of what I was working through. I had several a-ha moments in our time together that have stuck with me and continue to help me navigate my situations outside of the sessions. If you're considering coaching to support your professional or personal development, I can't recommend Nadia enough!”

    -DeeDee Ryan, ViRTUS, Canada

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    “I started coaching with a clear aim: to build the leadership skills I needed to advance and contribute where the bigger decisions get made. Nadia has a way of letting the real challenges in my work guide each session, then tying them back to the competencies I am developing, so I always leave with something I can apply right away. Six months in, I have earned the promotion I was working toward, and I am noticeably stronger in how I handle feedback, anticipate what others need, and show up as a leader.”

    - Luigi, Fund Development Professional, Vancouver

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    “I came to this coaching plan by accident, but it filled a gap - someone who was far enough removed from both me and my business that the advice offered can be constructive and objective. As a result of our sessions, our company has an improved HR plan and is more focused on longer term objectives.”

    -Luke, IT Business Owner, Nova Scotia