About Christina Harkness

“As a trained retirement coach, my mission is to ensure my clients are ready and prepared to retire and have the tools and personal resources they need to create a satisfying and enriching life in their later years.”

Christina originally qualified as a teacher of French and English before pursuing a twenty year career in sales/marketing in the publishing arena including managing her own publishing company for fourteen years.

For the past ten years she has devoted most of her time to professional coaching activities, focusing on personal, business and high performance development. She has also run personal development workshops.

Christina is a trained Retirement Options® Coach, a Stress Management Practitioner, Time Line Therapy Practitioner, Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a certified NLP Coach.

Aside from coaching, her other passions include the written and spoken word and she undertakes copy-editing and proofreading projects on a diverse range of material including medical and technical publications as well as novels and autobiographies.

Her hobbies include travel, walking, the environment/wildlife and all creative arts. She lives at Rowlands Castle, near Portsmouth on the south coast.

“I know and understand the issues that we need to face in retirement as I am facing them too. I have also been trained to understand all the factors that contribute to a successful retirement and bring focus and clarity to those in this lifestyle transition.”