What's Your Problem Like?
Cards for emotional clarity to help you see things differently and know what to do next.
When you’re caught up in a difficult situation, it can be hard to see what’s happening or what’s keeping you stuck. What’s Your Problem Like? is a practical, illustrated 36-card deck that helps you recognise patterns, understand what you need and find a way forward.
Making A Difficult Experience Visible
When we’re struggling with a problem, we often describe it physically:
“I’m going around in circles.”
“I’m under so much pressure.”
“I’m walking on eggshells.”
“I’m in a dark place.”
These everyday expressions give us a picture of how we’re experiencing the problem.
If someone says they’re “in a dark place”, telling them to “think positively” or “take it one step at a time” can miss something important.
If they can’t see where to put their foot, how do they know which step to take?
What’s Your Problem Like? turns these familiar experiences into visual cards you can physically lay out, explore and change.
See your problem differently. Understand what you need. Find your next move.
What's On Each Card?
Every card is an independent resource, illustrated and written entirely by educator and resource developer Claire Chancellor.
The deck includes 40 illustrated cards, each representing a familiar way of feeling stuck. Each card functions as a structured, guided conversation designed to provide self-empowerment.
- An Original Title and Illustration That Speak to Your Experience
Familiar words and everyday visual metaphors help you immediately recognize what a challenge looks like from the outside. - A Closer Look at What Keeps You Stuck
Turn the card over to explore the specific position you are in and identify the hidden patterns holding you there. - Three Questions to Look Beneath the Surface
Carefully designed inquiries help you explore what you are trying to avoid, what you might be missing, and what you actually need to move forward. - Change Your Position
A practical focus point or a real-world task helps you step out of the pattern and walk toward what matters to you.
When you’re stuck, the right question can change what happens next.
How To Use Your Cards
Start with one simple question:
What’s your problem like?
Choose a card that speaks to you
Look through the illustrations and titles. Choose one or two cards that reflect something about your current experience.
Explore what’s happening
Turn the card over and work through three targeted reflection questions. Explore what’s happening, what matters to you, and what might be quietly influencing the situation.
Know your next move
Each card offers a new perspective, a practical focus, or a clear, real-world task. The aim is to help you understand the problem and identify a next step you can take.
For Coaches, Counsellors & Helping Professionals
Give clients a visual starting point when finding the words is difficult.
Questions like “How do you feel?” aren’t always easy to answer, especially when someone feels overwhelmed or has trouble putting their experience into words.
The cards offer another way in. A client can choose an image or phrase that feels like their experience, giving you something concrete to explore together and taking some of the pressure off having to explain everything straight away.
- Add another tool to your professional toolkit
Bring a practical, visual resource into conversations when words alone aren’t getting you far. - Feel more confident about what to ask next
Each card gives you three structured questions to help explore the situation without having to come up with the perfect question on the spot. - See the bigger picture together
Use the illustrations and questions to step back from the immediate story and notice what may be keeping the person stuck. - Help clients leave with something to consider
Each card finishes with Change Your Position, offering a practical focus or next step the client can take away.
Simple to use, with another layer to explore.
The cards use everyday language and visual metaphor, making them approachable without specialist knowledge. For practitioners, the colour-coded Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn groupings offer another way to explore patterns in how someone responds when they feel under pressure.
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Need To Go Deeper?
Individualised Support with Claire Chancellor
Sometimes a situation, relationship dynamic or familiar pattern keeps coming up, and you’d like more time to explore it.
In our work together, we look at what you’re going through, what may be shaping the situation and what you would like to be different.
I draw on advanced communication approaches, metaphor analysis and pattern recognition to help us explore your situation and consider practical possibilities for change.
Claire Chancellor: Creator | Educator | Author of Essential Scripts for Coaches and Healers
Real Results
Life Changes When You Do
Working with Claire over the past six months has been genuinely life-changing. In that time, I’ve achieved things I had been striving towards for years. I finally bought an investment property after a seven-year journey, received a promotion at work, and I’m feeling noticeably less fatigued day-to-day.
What stands out most is the shift in how I feel within myself. Just last week, I came to Claire feeling stuck, flat, and overwhelmed. I felt like I was drowning in work, battling imposter syndrome, and completely frozen. Fast forward one week, and I can honestly say I’ve done a full 180.
I’ve been out socialising (twice in one weekend!) without it draining me. I feel calm, clear, and purposeful. I’m getting things done efficiently, without the constant stress or overworking. I now have energy at the end of the day to connect with others and prioritise myself. I’ve even booked in to start Pilates.
I’ve gone from fear, overwhelm and exhaustion to feeling strong, confident, and in control of my life again. It honestly feels like I’m owning my world.
Claire has helped me shift out of survival mode and back into living, and I’m so grateful.
Emma DabbTrainer 
This course changed everything for me. The name really says it all with this course, I feel like I truly elevated my energy and my life following this course and I attracted in so many amazing opportunities and magic which I attribute to the work we did in Elevate and Evolve.
Jesse and Claire are incredible facilitators and people. I'm so grateful for how much they gave in this course, not only knowledge, skills, action steps, information but so much care, curiosity, support and love to everyone in the course and a genuine desire to help them achieve their dreams. It became such a beautiful positive and joyful community to be part of. I came away with the biggest shifts in my knowledge of manifestation and new profound awareness of how to get what I want. Subconscious processes also meant deep healing and release of anything blocking those manifestations from coming to fruition, so you truly leave seeing your life through a new perspective. Thank you so much Claire and Jesse
RachelKinesiologist 
The coaching sessions you offer, and everything you bring into them, are truly unlike any other coach. The way you weave everything together, almost like a tarot reading using colours and symbols, and then reflect it back so clearly, is incredible. You captured the picture directly from me, and the experience felt completely unique. Once I could see the pattern that caused the self-doubt, it was different than just talking it out.
So much has changed. After things being on hold for a long time, everything shifted very quickly. Almost immediately, things started coming through: organisation, motivation, and clear next steps. It felt like pure confirmation. I’m feeling incredible and so deeply appreciative.
Jesse Mindset Coach 
Working with Claire has been one of the most insightful and expansive experiences I have gifted myself. I realized the true meaning of self-love in my sessions with her. I have never really resonated with any other modalities in particular until I worked with Claire. Claire had this wonderfully discreet ability of putting me in the driver’s seat. She empowered me with such inner strength, wisdom and confidence, I was finally able to move forward with clarity towards my manifestations without allowing my past to block my flow. In 10 one on one sessions, I was taken back to my past lives, healed moments and situations that subconsciously blocked me today and worked on healing and nurturing my inner child. Claire taught me how necessary it is to ‘right’ my past in order to free myself of my insecurities and debilitating fear. My work with her is not done. With every level there inevitably is a new devil but leveling up has never felt more exciting! Thank you Claire, for introducing me to the real me. To the me I have always strived to be. Thank you for switching on the light bulb. My world is clear, full of light and inspiration.
DENISE 
I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you for creating such a beautiful container of (re)learning and of course, & to Claire for bringing us all together. Never have I felt so accepted and understood in all my life being around like-minded women. Yesterday’s incredible session capped off an EPIC week in life for me.
Absolute BEST decision of my life to learn this with you, Claire! It has changed the way I operate in life and business and has catapulted me to a level I was only dreaming of a couple of years ago! Thank you all for your vulnerabilities and love and I’m SO looking forward to the next couple of months with you all! My heart is so full!
DR KChIropractor 
Hi Claire, I want to thank you so much for the past 20 weeks for your time, energy, passion, belief and guidance and certificates. I know this has ignited a great deal of positive change within me and for that, I am so grateful. I chose to do the NLP Practitioner course to firstly help myself to shift so I can, in turn, help others move forward and transform into a beautiful state of being so they can own their life instead of being at effect! (Love that part- life is happening for you, not to you). Your course really allowed me to connect with so much insight and a different perspective. Please know, you have had a beautiful impact on my being, my life in general and my future self. Big Hugs, Jacinta.
JACINTAIN FLOW KINESIOLOGY 
Hi Claire .. I just wanted to send you a quick message to thank you for your trainer knowledge, skills and resources throughout my NLP course !! You are such a wealth of knowledge and I thoroughly enjoyed my 4 months studying NLP, Life Coaching and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy with you💗
I have a large number of tools in my toolkit to help me not only in my business but also in my everyday life and the life of my children!
I’m very impressed with all the content you provided us ( it feels like there is always a resource to help us when in need)
Many thanks again..
Sam
SAMWaratah Within 
Claire is an amazing therapeutic practitioner and healer. She is honest and deeply empathetic, empowering, intuitive and very skilled at what she does. I have worked with her for some time to re pattern my childhood traumas that were greatly impacting on my work, my health and my relationships as a mother and partner. Claire has been instrumental in guiding me on my journey to rebuild my sense of self on a spiritual, emotional and physical level and move more in the direction of harnessing my potential. I highly recommend that you seek out Claire if you are feeling stuck or overwhelmed in any aspect of your life.
HELENPLAY THERAPY 
Hi Claire, I want to share my gratitude. Working with you has honestly been the best decision I have ever made.
When I was feeling lost scrolling through my phone, I asked the universe, “Who can help me through this difficult situation?” then you popped up on Instagram!
I couldn’t have picked anyone better. I tell everyone about you because I think we all need a “Claire” in our lives. I am so grateful to have you on this journey with me.
Thank you for supporting me and helping me through this chapter.
Thank you for sending me all those resources, being available to listen to my challenges, and helping me find peace in my body and mind.
I am looking forward to the next chapter as we navigate the next chapter of my spiritual awakening.
STACEYThe Beauty Muse 
Thank you so much for All that you have taught me these past 5 months in NLP. I realised last night, that I really did not understand how much I would gain from this course, until now. I enrolled in this course, for the purpose of helping my clients, but I came out of this experience understanding more about myself. I now realise how strong our minds are and how we all have the ability to construct a whole new version of ourselves when we have an open heart and desire to change. I have a whole new perspective of myself and the human mind. I am thankful, I now know why I am, who I am. How my AD mind works in this big wide world and how I too, can help others gain this insight within themselves! Thank you so much
ERIKAZEN_N_FLOW 
I AM LOVING NLP. I'm loving learning and focusing on forward momentum in life. It is so fascinating. I have already decided I want to go on to learn further about it and embrace the journey.
I want to take what I have learned, harness my strength to support one another to help heal the world.
CELESTEPSYCHIC MEDIUM 
Be Your Purpose NLP Practitioner class has been an absolute awe-inspiring delight. I believe I speak for the class when I say Claire created a safe space for each of us to come together and create a synergistic magic as we headed on a journey that would forever change the course of our lives.
Claire allowed me to feel seen, heard and understood at all times throughout this course. I often had a hard time learning in school, but this was a very different experience for me.
I have learnt a whole exciting tool kit of modalities to assist in expanding not only the quality of my own life, but also others around me. Claire also guided me to remember the power in which we each hold within ourselves, opening my path up to an endless sea of opportunity and possibility. I feel as though the secretes of the universe have been unlocked within me. Thank you Claire for allowing each of us a safe space to grow and thank you for helping me free myself from the chains of the past. The future feels so bright.
BRITTNI 
Claire is intelligent, motivated, generous and one of the most gifted and intuitive people I've ever come across. What I received was a rapid expansion of consciousness and spiritual development, and an understanding of myself and my quirks on a deeper level than I could ever have imagined. I've shed old wounds, gained clarity, made new friends, learnt NLP and most importantly - had lot of fun! Her talent as a coach is second to none. You can only hope you will be lucky enough to find yourself on her list!
SUSANDOCTOR 
Before I started working with Claire my partner and I were stuck financially and I was struggling with my emotions and sense of purpose after having children. I was introduced to Claire though a friend and I was so curious about her work and how she could help me but I never expected what happened next. Just after a few sessions with Claire exploring what my blocks were and how they were stopping me from achieving what I wanted in life, and then clearing those blocks my life has changed. Business deals started flowing in, we will be debt free in a few months, we bought a new car, booked a family holiday by the end of the year my family will be in a completely different situation and we will be buying our first family home. Aside from all those material things more importantly I have confidence again and I know I can create the life I want and anything is in my reach, thank you so much Claire words cannot describe how grateful I am for your work.
LILYMUM 
I was guided to Claire at a time in my life when I was ready to change and I knew big changes were ahead for me. The results for me in only a few sessions, which was mind blowing! I felt comfortable right from the start with Claire and was able to delve deeply in a short period of time to work through some significant childhood trauma and family issues. With Claire's ongoing support, and endless amazing resources & podcasts, I have been able to not only resolve these issues, but gain more clarity and understanding in myself and who I am. I am finally free of my past. I'm more confident and empowered and am so excited for the next few sessions to see what magic happens next!"
SHELLY 
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What’s Draining Your Energy?
Sometimes it’s difficult to see what’s keeping you caught in the same situation when you’re right in the middle of it. The What’s Draining Your Energy? Quiz gives you another way to look at what’s happening.
The Capable
You carry what belongs to everyone else, and wonder why you’re so depleted.
The Sensitive
You feel what everyone else is feeling, and wonder why you’re exhausted.
The Achiever
You keep pushing because slowing down feels like letting yourself down.
The Insider
You keep giving to people, roles, and relationships long after they give back.
Your Personalised Result Reveals:
✓ Which pattern are you
✓ What’s draining your energy
✓ What it’s costing you
✓ The question that can create change
✓ Practical next steps
Discover what needs your attention to create more energy.
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