Altea has attracted painters, writers, and musicians for a century, and many of the retirees who settle in its old town are carrying a creative life they deferred for forty years. Coaching here is about identity: who you are when the job title is gone. €150 per session, first conversation complimentary.
In Brief
Holistic life coaching in Altea is a one-hour, one-on-one conversation in English, in your home or online, for €150. The specialty here is retirement identity: Altea's artists' hill and blue-domed old town attract people who deferred a creative or personal life for a career, and coaching is where the question "who am I now" gets worked rather than endured. Six-session Transition Program at €540.
Altea's casco antiguo has been pulling creative people uphill for a hundred years: the whitewashed lanes, the blue-domed church at the summit, the galleries tucked into streets too steep for cars. The expats who settle here chose the town for a reason they often cannot quite name. Then retirement removes the job title, the last structure that answered "who are you," and the unnamed reason surfaces. That is the conversation coaching is for.
Sessions are one hour, one-on-one, in English, in your Altea home or online. €150 per session, or €540 for the six-session Transition Program. First conversation complimentary. Book through the coaching service page or the contact form.
The Identity Gap Retirement Opens
For decades, "what do you do" had a clean answer. Then it did not. The first year of retirement in Altea often goes beautifully: the move, the renovation, the market mornings. The second year is when clients describe a stranger in the mirror, the person who used to be the engineer, the headmistress, the manager, now introduced at dinners as nothing at all. That gap is not depression and it is not ingratitude. It is an identity job, and it is the most common work I do here.
Coaching treats identity as something you build rather than something you find. What did you shelve at twenty-five that still has a pulse? Which parts of the career were actually you, and which were just the uniform? Altea is full of people who were serious painters, musicians, or writers before life invoiced them; the town practically insists you reckon with that.
The Creative Second Act
Not everyone in Altea needs to become an artist. But almost everyone who chose this town over a flat beach resort was voting for depth over convenience, and coaching is where that vote gets cashed. Sometimes the second act is literally creative: the deferred novel, the piano, the easel. Sometimes it is mentoring, study, or building something small and real. The work is identifying which door is actually yours, then walking through it on a schedule that survives contact with lazy mornings. Cobbled lanes and sea light are a fine setting for the attempt; they are not the attempt itself.
Honest Boundaries
Coaching is forward-looking. It is not therapy, and it does not process trauma, grief, or depression; a licensed therapist is the right professional for that, and the two can run in parallel. What a session gives you is structured reflection with someone trained to ask the questions that surface what you already know.
- • One hour, one-on-one, entirely in English
- • Identity and second-act work: who you are past the career
- • Home visits across Altea: casco antiguo, the seafront, the hills
- • €150 per session, or €540 for the six-session Transition Program
- • Online sessions available, same price
- • First conversation complimentary, no obligation
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you offer life coaching in English in Altea?
Yes. Sessions are one hour, entirely in English, in your Altea home or online. The rate is €150, or €540 for the six-session Transition Program, and the first conversation is complimentary.
I retired and genuinely do not know who I am anymore. Is that a coaching topic?
It is the core coaching topic in Altea. Retirement strips the external identity, and rebuilding one deliberately, rather than waiting for it to reappear, is exactly what the sessions are structured for.
Do I need an artistic goal for coaching to make sense here?
No. The creative thread is common in Altea but not required. The work is about what you are for now: contribution, craft, learning, community. The form follows what is actually in you.
How is this different from talking to a therapist?
Therapy processes the past: grief, trauma, mental health. Coaching builds forward: what you want, what is in the way, what you do next week. If your material is clinical, see a therapist. If it is directional, that is coaching.
Altea gives you the hill, the dome, and a hundred years of people who chose depth over convenience. Coaching helps you join them on purpose. Visit the coaching service page or the contact form. In English, home visits across Altea. And for the weeks when the work sits in the body rather than the diary, Reiki in Altea is the received hour: nothing asked of you.
"People do not move to Altea's old town by accident. The hill, the dome, the cobbled streets, the painters' history: it draws people who shelved a version of themselves decades ago. Coaching is where that version gets unpacked."
— Ty Stevenson, Founder, Altea Alchemy
Written by Ty Stevenson
Founder, Altea Alchemy · Reiki Level 1 (2021) · 200hr Yoga Teacher
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