Unleashed – Natalie Brake
A 12-week, 1-on-1 experience

Unleashed

Create 3 breakthrough artworks in 12 weeks.

There's more of you than you've been letting out.

Unleashed is a 1:1, twelve-week coaching and creative experience for people who know there's more of themselves than they've been showing.

Maybe you've been performing a version of yourself that felt safer than the truth. Maybe you used to make things and stopped. However it's shown up, it comes down to the same thing: your creativity, your honesty, your courage have been quietly put away.

Through guided coaching and painting, you'll work with the parts of yourself that have been running the show without your permission. If you don't know how to make art, I'll teach you through Abstract Expressionism. If you already have your own technique, we build from there.

You'll create 3 pieces of art that are honestly, unmistakably yours, work you'll still mean in a year.

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Rolling enrollment · $3,000 CAD + tax · Worldwide

The vision

You come out different.

The goal of Unleashed is a real shift in how you relate to yourself, your creativity, and your life.

Across the twelve weeks, you create 3 pieces of art, each tied to a specific stretch of the work. Each one is honestly, unmistakably yours.

Everything we do, the coaching and the art sessions together, moves you toward that shift, and toward paintings you'll feel deeply connected to. As a bonus, it's work you'll be proud to hang.

Alex, private coaching client

“The journey for me was 100% positive... Natalie’s work is clearly in being more free - the pure output.”

- Alex, graphic designer & illustrator, coaching client

No studio needed
The process

Twelve weeks.
Twelve sessions.
Three finished pieces.

Before we begin, I send you a curated supply list tailored to your technique, professional-grade acrylics if you're new to this, or whatever your medium calls for if you're already working in your own style. One simple order and you're ready. A quiet place to work is all you need, your kitchen table or a corner of a room, as long as you have privacy and space to focus.

  1. 01 We start with an intake conversation before anything else begins.
  2. 02 Twelve sessions over twelve weeks, alternating coaching and art.
  3. 03 Each coaching session identifies a specific part or pattern to work with.
  4. 04 Each art session translates that session's insight onto canvas.
  5. 05 You have ongoing text support between sessions.
  6. 06 You finish with 3 completed artworks, each tied to a specific stretch of the work.
  7. 07 We close with a final integration conversation.
For graduates
Curated art show
For clients who want to take their work into the world. A curated showing of your paintings, privately produced and beautifully presented. Exhibition planning, curation support, and artist statement work included, available after program completion.
Attendees viewing work, Sandra's opening night
Sandra's show, after working with me as a coach
For graduates
Immersive retreat
An intimate multi-day retreat for Unleashed graduates ready to go further with this work. Art, deep work, and total immersion in a beautiful place, small group, invite only. Details coming soon.
Retreat group, Mexico
From a past retreat, Mexico
See Natalie’s current retreat →
What people say

Real transformations.
Real people.

Before working with Natalie, I was feeling creatively blocked - adrift in my own artistic practice and uncertain how to bring deeper meaning to my work. Working with Natalie was a turning point. She brings a calm, grounded presence that immediately made me feel seen and understood. I've completed two new bodies of work I feel deeply proud of - pieces now being shown publicly. More importantly, I've reclaimed a sense of trust in myself as an artist. Natalie Brake isn't just an artist. She is a facilitator of creative transformation.

Sandra Daniel
Victoria, BC · 2025

After 25 years of being a mother and a professional, what I found hidden inside me was incredible. Natalie has mastered the ability to crack people open without it feeling strained at all. I felt challenged but simultaneously relieved. I made amazing art as we went along, felt totally supported in letting things go while expanding my imagination - and everything happened at just the right time. It was something I had been looking for for a long time but didn't actually know it. Give yourself the gift of working with her.

Pam C.
Private coaching student · 2025

My daughter is more calm and present in her daily life now. Even when she gets overwhelmed, she can move through those emotions without spiraling. We're able to process what comes up together, in a healthier way. She's more accepting of her circumstances, and more content with herself.

Jennifer
Parent of a client · 2026
Courtney with her painting

Courtney, during a series of classes with Natalie.

Student work

This is what becomes possible.

Courtney had never painted before working with Natalie. What you see here is not the work of someone who was always artistic. It's the work of someone who finally gave themselves permission.

Who this is for

Wherever you're starting from, this meets you there.

You're already a creative person, or you know it's there inside you. Experienced or no experience, you can feel that art is a pathway for your self-expression.

✓At a life inflection point, a transition, a loss, a life that doesn't quite fit
✓Creative, but lost the thread of your own voice
✓Together on the outside, quietly suffocating on the inside
✓A high-achiever who's optimised everything except your own creative life
✓Feeling life try to move through you, something's in the way
✓An artist who has reached a plateau or creative block
Not for you if: you're in the middle of an acute crisis. This is coaching through art, not a clinical practice.
Questions

Things people ask
before they begin.

Not at all, and beginners often go deeper faster. You haven't learned to control the outcome yet, which means the work has a better chance of being honest. I guide you the entire way.
Absolutely. I've worked with graphic designers, illustrators, abstract painters, oil painters, and figurative painters. Whatever your technique, I help you break through using what you already know, so you reach a level of expression you haven't hit before. This isn't about learning a new style. It's about what's underneath the one you already have.
You don't need one. A quiet place to work is all that's required, your kitchen table or a corner of a room, as long as you have privacy and some space to focus.
Resin is a technical medium requiring in-person instruction to work with safely. The program uses professional-grade acrylics, which are equally capable of producing extraordinary, deeply meaningful work.
It's not required. Unleashed is designed to meet you exactly where you are. No prior experience with me or with art is needed. If you've taken a class with me and found it meaningful, that's a wonderful place to build from, but not a prerequisite.
I'm a professional artist with 14 years of practice, exhibited in Canada, Europe, and Mexico, with work held in private collections across multiple countries. I've been commissioned by leading design firms and the former Head Scientist of the Canadian Space Agency. I've taught art for over a decade. I have years of personal study in parts work, meditation, and belief systems.
No, this is therapeutic art-making, not art therapy. Art therapy is a clinical practice, typically led by a licensed therapist trained to diagnose and treat mental health conditions through art. What we do here is different. It's a coaching process that uses the act of creating art as a tool for insight and expression, powerful and often deeply moving, but not a clinical or diagnostic practice.
No. This is not art therapy, cognitive-based therapy, or clinical trauma treatment. It's healing through the process of creating art, guided by coaching. If you're looking for deep clinical trauma work or are currently in crisis, this isn't the right container for that right now.
Honest answer, parts of it will be uncomfortable. That's not a warning, it's a promise that we're doing real work. But the art sessions completely change the texture of it. Colour and canvas make the hard parts feel held rather than heavy.
Yes, Unleashed is available worldwide. Sessions run on Pacific Standard Time. Your supply list ships directly from Amazon in your country. All you need is a reliable video connection.
Every client completes a short application and a discovery call with me before joining. This isn't about being "good enough." It's about making sure this is genuinely the right fit for you before you invest.
Your guide
Natalie Brake

Natalie Brake

I'm a professional artist, coach, and instructor based between Canada and Mexico. I've spent 14 years building a creative life on my own terms - and helping others find the courage to do the same. I bring both real experience and real frameworks to this - 14 years building a creative practice, showing my work internationally, and doing this work on myself long before I ever guided someone else through it.
-Professional artist for 14 years, exhibited in Canada, Europe and Mexico
-Commissioned by leading design firms and the former Head Scientist of the Canadian Space Agency
-Years of personal study in parts work, somatic awareness, and belief systems
-Long-term coaching practice with documented transformations across multiple countries
-Have taught hundreds of people from all walks of life to create beautiful art - even with no experience (see my classes)
-Coach and artist, not a licensed therapist. This work is creative and transformational, not clinical.
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The guarantee

A guarantee that means something.

Complete all 12 sessions and the between-session practices, and if you don't feel this created real movement in how you see yourself, I'll refund your investment in full.

The investment

The investment.
Start anytime.

Unleashed is a 1:1 container, three months, rolling enrollment. You join when you're ready, not on a fixed start date.

Rolling enrollment · Start anytime
Unleashed
$3,000
CAD + tax · full 12-week program
+6 coaching sessions, 75 minutes each (biweekly)
+6 dedicated art sessions, 75 minutes each (biweekly)
+Personalised text support throughout the program
+Curated supply list, order once, arrive ready
+Personalised resources curated for you throughout
+3 completed artworks, each tied to a specific stretch of the work
+Guarantee: complete the program, and if it didn't create real movement, full refund
Available worldwide. Supplies ship in your region. Sessions in PST. Payment plans available, confirmed at sign-up.

"The journey for me was 100% positive." — Alex, graphic designer & illustrator

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Not sure Unleashed is the right fit?

I offer other coaching experiences too, and one of them might be a better match for where you are right now.

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The most honest version of you is waiting.

Please reach out to Natalie to learn more about if Unleashed is right for you.

natalie@nataliebrake.com

I respond within 1–2 business days · Sessions in PST · Available worldwide