You can handle anything. That's exactly the problem.
Transformation coaching for people who function on the outside and run on empty inside. Five conversations that change something real — beginning with a free intro call.
Not insights you already had. Six changes visible from the outside.
The decision is made
What you've been postponing is settled, and you hold it when someone questions you.
Stress is no longer your baseline
You have concrete ways to regulate down, and you use them before you're past the edge.
You see the pattern coming
You catch your own reaction early enough to choose something else.
You can say no
Without it costing three days of guilt or a relationship.
You have the language
You can say what you want in a way that survives a real conversation with another person.
You manage without me
You know what to do next time something locks. That's the goal, not a bonus.
The arc
Five conversations, one arc
Not five disconnected hours. A beginning, a turning point and an end — and you know from day one what we're doing.
ONE
The map
The whole situation: what's happening, what you've tried, what you want. We set a goal specific enough to answer yes or no to in three months.
Direction setTWO
The pattern
What holds it in place. Rarely a lack of will — more often a strategy that was once necessary and has never been retired.
Cause visibleTHREE
The turn
The conversation where something gives. We work closer to the body and the feeling, because that's where the old thing sits — not in the arguments.
Something givesFOUR
The new thing
Translation into action. What you do on Monday, what you say and to whom, and how you meet the reaction when it comes.
New behaviourFIVE
The anchor
We make sure it holds without me. You leave with your own method for the next time something locks.
You stand alone
Between the conversations. Two to three weeks apart, because change happens between them rather than inside them. You have email contact throughout. After the fifth we review: another arc, occasional sessions, or nothing at all. Most people don't need to continue straight away.
Sharp, honest analysis of what is actually going on. I'm a thinking partner with no interest in you feeling good in the room at the expense of how you feel in March. If I see something you don't, I say it.
The body
Stress and stuckness live in the nervous system, not in the arguments. So we also work with breathing, tension and regulation. Concrete, undramatic, and never without your yes.
The relationship
Most of what hurts happens between people. We practise holding your own line without turning the other person into an opponent, and staying when the conversation gets uncomfortable.
Fit
This isn't for everyone
An arc asks something of you. Better that we both know now.
Right for you if
you want change, not company
you can take being contradicted by someone on your side
you can give five conversations across roughly three months
you're willing to do something differently in between
Not right if
what you mainly want is agreement
you're in acute crisis — you need medical care, and I'll help you find it
you want a diagnosis or treatment, which is a therapist's or doctor's work
you want quick answers without looking at the cause
About
Petter Larsson
I spent twenty years in environments where judgements carried consequences — in intelligence and security work, on international assignments, and in leadership roles. The task was always the same: understand what is actually going on, rather than what is said to be going on.
It's the same work I do now, one person at a time. I'm a trained coach with a body-oriented approach, and I have little enough need to be liked that I'll say the true thing.
Background
Intelligence and security service, international assignments
Training
Centaur Leadership Coaching — Sandy Cotter, personal mentor
Approach
Transformational Release, TRE, bioenergetics, NLP
Degree
MA in communication science
Books
Sourcery and Better Than Words
Practice
Southern Skåne, Sweden, and online
Pricing
Three ways, one I recommend
Intro call
Free30 minutes, online
Length
30 minutes
Where
Online
We go through where you stand and whether an arc is right for you. You get my read even when the answer is no.
If it isn't right. If after the arc's first conversation you feel this isn't your path, we stop there and you pay only for that one. I don't want clients who stay out of politeness.
Prices include Swedish VAT for individuals. Invoicing available for companies.
Practical
Where I am and how it works
Quick facts
Practice
Discover YourSelf
Coach
Petter Larsson
Focus
Transformation, life coaching, thinking partnership, stress and self-leadership
Location
South coast of Skåne, Sweden, between Höllviken and Trelleborg
Online
Yes — worldwide
Languages
Swedish and English
First step
Free intro call, 30 minutes
Main offer
The Arc — five conversations, 6,250 SEK
Single session
60 minutes, 1,450 SEK
Payment
Invoice, instalments possible
Where clients come from
The practice sits on the south coast of Skåne, between Höllviken and Trelleborg. Under half an hour from Vellinge, the Falsterbo peninsula and Trelleborg, about forty minutes from Malmö, and roughly ninety minutes from Copenhagen.
Living further away changes nothing. About half my clients I never meet in person, and I see no difference in results.
Höllviken
Ljunghusen
Skanör and Falsterbo
Vellinge
Trelleborg
Smygehamn
Malmö
Lund
Copenhagen
Online worldwide
Questions
What people usually ask
Where are you based?
On the south coast of Skåne in southern Sweden, between Höllviken and Trelleborg. Clients come from Vellinge, the Falsterbo peninsula, Trelleborg, Malmö, Lund and Copenhagen — and just as often from elsewhere entirely, since the conversations work equally well online.
How is this different from therapy?
Therapy treats, and often works backwards in time. An arc starts from where you stand now and points forward: what has to change and how you do it. We touch the history where it explains the present, but we don't stay there.
If you need treatment, I'll say so and help you find the right person.
I've tried coaching before and it did nothing
Usually the work stayed inside the conversation. You understood more, but the body and the habit didn't follow, and two weeks later everything was as before.
That's why the turn is built into the arc as its own step, and why we work with the nervous system rather than reasoning alone.
Do I have to book all five at once?
Yes. The arc is designed as a whole and the whole is what makes the difference. But you can stop after the first conversation and pay only for that one.
How quickly will I notice a difference?
Most people notice something after the first conversation — usually relief at the situation becoming legible. Real behaviour change tends to show around the third.
Does it work online?
Yes. I've never met about half my clients in person, and I see no difference in results. The body-based work carries over video.
Can my employer pay?
Often, yes — usually as leadership development. I invoice the company and still report nothing about the content.
I'm not sure my problems are big enough
I hear that most weeks, almost always from someone who has carried something for a long time. There is no lower threshold. Book the intro call and you'll get my honest read.
Start with one conversation
Thirty minutes, free. We go through where you stand, and you get my honest read on whether an arc is right — including when the answer is no.
