Unleashed – Natalie Brake
Natalie Brake · A 3-month 1-on-1 experience

Unleashed

Three months. A profound transformation. The most honest version of yourself, finally free.

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

Unleashed is a 3-month 1-on-1 coaching and creative experience for people who know there's a fuller version of themselves waiting.

Maybe you've been hiding, performing a version of yourself that felt safer than the truth. Maybe you used to make things and stopped. Maybe you've never let yourself try. However it's shown up, it comes down to the same thing: your creativity, your honesty, your courage have been quietly put away.

Stay here and you know what happens - you feel a quiet stagnancy in your energy. Something from within you is calling out and you don't know how to answer the call - meanwhile the gap between who you are and who you could be keeps widening.

And what if it didn't have to be that way?

Through coaching and guided painting sessions, we excavate what's in the way and move it. 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. Either way, you break through whatever's been blocking you from expressing yourself authentically.

You'll have real breakthroughs. You'll make real art. And you'll leave with a signature piece that calls you back home to yourself every time you look at it.

That frustration you feel? That's not a problem. That's the signal.

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

The vision

You come out different.

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

Throughout the three months, you create multiple pieces as you go deeper into yourself. At the close, you complete one final piece, your beacon, a piece that represents your highest, truest self.

Everything we do, the coaching, the subconscious work, the art sessions, moves you toward that inner shift, and toward real paintings you'll feel deeply connected to. As a bonus, the art you create will be work you're 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 arc

Three months.
Twelve sessions.
One shift.

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.

Month One
Excavation
We establish the container, deep safety, genuine presence, and begin identifying the parts that have been running things along with the beliefs underneath them. Your first coaching and art sessions begin here. If you're new to this, I'll teach you the fundamentals, using colour, gesture, and flow to open the door. If you already work in your own technique, we build from where you already are.
Month Two
Expression
The inner work deepens and so does the painting. Coaching sessions go further, dedicated art sessions let the work move through your hands. You create multiple pieces as different parts of yourself come forward. This is usually where the real turning point happens.
Month Three
Integration
We anchor who you've been uncovering. Your final art session is devoted entirely to your beacon piece, a deliberate, culminating work that represents your highest, truest self. Our final coaching session closes the container. You share it. I witness it. We honour what shifted.
How it works
6 sessions · Biweekly · 75 minutes each
Coaching sessions
Intimate 1-on-1 work with me. IFS-informed parts work, belief excavation, guided meditation, and various other tools depending on what will work for you. These sessions go into the territory that talking to friends never quite reaches. I check in between sessions and send curated resources tailored to exactly where you are.
6 sessions · Biweekly · 75 minutes each
Art sessions
Dedicated art sessions I guide you through, working in whatever medium suits you and your experience. No experience is needed, only willingness. The process becomes a mirror, and as you create, your imagination, your suppressed parts, and your true potential reveal themselves in ways that words alone can't force. It's fun, deeply rewarding, and often surprisingly revealing. Multiple pieces are created across the three months, culminating in your signature work.
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 · Fall 2026
Immersive retreat
An intimate multi-day retreat in a stunning location for Unleashed graduates. Art, deep work, and total immersion in a beautiful place. Small group, premium experience. Location and applications open in the fall of 2026.
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 aliveness
✓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 need clinical trauma therapy or are in acute crisis. This is coaching through art, not a replacement for licensed mental health care.
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 IFS-informed 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 an acute mental health crisis, please work with a licensed therapist. This container isn't a substitute for that, though it can be a meaningful complement to it.
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 Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed 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.
Read my full bio
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.

After the first four clients, the price increases significantly. Future premium experiences, including an immersive retreat for graduates, open in the fall of 2026.

Rolling enrollment · Start anytime
Unleashed
$3,000
CAD + tax · full 3-month 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
+Multiple pieces of art throughout, culminating in your signature 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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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