Katerina Pavlakis
Kitchen confidence coach for home cooks in North Wales
| Hourly rate range | $75 to $130 an hour |
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| Also coaches | Life coach |
| Based in | Llanrwst, Conwy Valley, North Wales, United Kingdom |
| Credentials | Nutritionist in training |
| Practice | The Intuitive Cook |
Katerina Pavlakis is a kitchen coach who helps home cooks build confidence and cook by intuition instead of by recipe. She runs The Intuitive Cook from North Wales. She grew up in Greece and has cooked family meals since age eight. For the past decade she has run a wholefood shop in Snowdonia, where she talked with thousands of home cooks about their kitchen fears. She teaches through workshops, a blog and a podcast.
What Katerina helps with
Katerina helps home cooks who feel stuck in a rut or anxious about cooking without a recipe. She works on trusting your own senses and making dinner feel easy again.
- Recipe anxiety
- Feeling stuck in a cooking rut
- Cooking without following recipes
- Seasoning and layering flavours
- Spotting the pattern behind any recipe
- Adapting meals to your budget, fridge contents and time
- Making spontaneous meals with what you have
Who Katerina works with
Katerina works with home cooks who have lost confidence in the kitchen. Many feel stuck in a rut, worry they are not a good cook, or find dinner a chore. Her work suits people who want to cook by taste and feel instead of by strict recipes.
How Katerina works
Katerina teaches that cooking intuition comes from doing, not reading. Clients touch, chop and taste as they learn. She uses a framework of 7 meal blueprints to help you cook with what you have. She also teaches how flavour works, how to season and layer flavours, and how to spot the pattern behind any recipe. She runs a free 5 day challenge and a one hour workshop.
Background and qualifications
Katerina grew up in Greece in the 1970s with a Greek father and a German mother. Home cooking was part of daily life, and she made her first three course family meal at age eight. She did not use recipes until her late twenties, after she moved to London. For the past decade she has run a wholefood shop in the foothills of Snowdonia in North Wales. She is training to become a nutritionist. She shares her approach through a blog, workshops and a podcast.
Katerina Pavlakis pricing
Programs and services
- Free 5 day Kitchen Confidence challenge
- One hour flavour workshop
- 7 meal blueprints
- Blog and podcast
Katerina Pavlakis reviews
The CoachVouch take
She teaches cooking by intuition instead of recipes, drawing on a childhood in Greece and a decade running a wholefood shop.
Best for home cooks who feel stuck in a rut and want to cook without recipes.
Common questions
How much does Katerina Pavlakis charge?
Coaching with Katerina runs $75 to $130 an hour. Message Katerina from this page for an exact quote.
What does Katerina Pavlakis help with?
Katerina Pavlakis helps with recipe anxiety, feeling stuck in a cooking rut, cooking without following recipes and seasoning and layering flavours.
Is Katerina Pavlakis certified?
Katerina Pavlakis lists: Nutritionist in training.
Does Katerina Pavlakis teach people to cook from recipes?
No. She teaches you to spot the pattern behind any recipe so you can cook without following one. She focuses on trusting your taste and using what is in your kitchen.
Is Katerina Pavlakis a trained chef?
No. She is a home cook who learned from the food culture she grew up in. She is currently training as a nutritionist.
How do I contact Katerina Pavlakis?
Send Katerina a message from this page. It's free and takes a minute.
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