ABOUT
Meet Ellis
Brazilian-born. UK-based. A lifetime spent learning the work she now teaches.
Elisangela 'Ellis' Da Silva, Founder of REBUILD Pathway
THE STORY BEHIND THE METHOD
I lived this work long before I ever taught it.
My story begins in Brazil. I was nineteen, engaged to a man I believed was my forever, when one night something woke me, and within a few hours my entire understanding of love, of myself, and of what I was willing to accept had changed completely.
That night became the foundation of every method I now teach.
By twenty, I was a single mother. By twenty-three, I'd left Brazil for the United Kingdom with no English, no roadmap, no family nearby, and no certainty about what my future would look like. Twelve years later, life took me to Italy, where I had to adapt, rebuild, and recreate myself in a completely different environment. After nine years there, I returned to the United Kingdom and began another chapter of rebuilding.
Every version of myself I've lived had to be rebuilt, and rebuilt again.
Through different countries, cultures, relationships, hard seasons, reinventions, and transitions, I learned that rebuilding is a process. Identity, resilience, adaptation, and rediscovering who you are beneath everything life asks you to carry.
I've studied this work formally: trained in counselling skills and psychoanalytic theory, in Jungian-informed coaching, in years of work with ancient wisdom traditions, and in body and movement as a certified personal trainer. I'm also the author of Rise Up: 40 Days to Remember Your Worth and Rebuild Your Life.
The training matters. What people come to me for is that I've lived the question they're now asking, and I've walked the road back to myself enough times to know where it bends, and where most people get lost along the way.
The REBUILD Pathway is the structured form of that road.
TRAINING & LINEAGE
The work behind the work.
Counselling Skills and Psychoanalytic Theory
Trained in counselling skills and psychoanalytic theory. Every session is built on unconditional positive regard and deep psychological safety.
Jungian-Informed Coaching
Working with shadow, archetypes, the unconscious, and the integration of inner masculine and inner feminine. Identity rebuilding at the deepest psychological level.
Body and Movement
Certified personal trainer. The body holds every story you've ever lived, and it's also the path back to confidence.
Universal Wisdom Traditions
Drawing on wisdom traditions across cultures and centuries. Inclusive, grounded, and psychologically safe, accessible to people of all backgrounds and beliefs.
This is coaching, rather than therapy or clinical treatment. When clinical support is the right call, I'll say so clearly.
HOW PEOPLE ARRIVE
Four doorways. One room.
Nobody wakes up searching for identity reconstruction. You arrive through a pain you can name. That pain is the doorway. Walk through any of them and you end up in the same room: the rebuild of who you are.
Relationships and heartbreak
Rebuild the self that got lost in it. The most magnetic version of you was there the whole time.
Burnout
Rebuild an identity rooted in who you are, rather than what you produce.
Role loss and reinvention
Divorce, empty nest, retirement, redundancy. Rebuild a whole, chosen self.
Midlife and menopause
Rebuild identity and body together. Your most powerful decade.
The body threads through every doorway. I'm the rare coach who rebuilds the body and the identity. That's the difference.
THE INNER DIMENSION
Transformation is psychological, emotional, and for many people, deeply spiritual.
The REBUILD Pathway recognises that real transformation reaches past the psychological and emotional. For many people, it is also deeply personal and spiritual.
This work is influenced by profound experiences of inner transformation, resilience, and a deep connection to something greater than us, whether understood as God, higher consciousness, spirit, or simply inner truth.
Free of religion or dogma, the approach integrates psychology, emotional intelligence, identity work, and universal transformational principles, helping people reconnect with themselves, find deeper meaning, and build a more aligned life from the inside out.
Whatever your beliefs, you are welcome here. The work meets you where you are.
WHO I WORK WITH
Men and women ready to do the deeper work.
My clients are functioning, often impressively well on the outside, while privately carrying the sense that something within has drifted out of alignment.
Some are walking through heartbreak or divorce. Some are burning out inside a career that looks like success. Some are facing a role that ended, an empty nest, a retirement, a redundancy. Some are meeting midlife and a changing body. Some are years past a rupture and still carrying its imprint.
What they share is a willingness to look honestly at who they've become, and a readiness to rise into who they're becoming.
If that sounds like you, the next step is the masterclass.
Announced soon
THE BOOK
Rise Up
40 Days to Remember Your Worth and Rebuild Your Life
A daily companion to the REBUILD work. Short, deep, written to be read alongside the journey of coming home to yourself. Available in print, eBook, and audiobook.
The next step is finding out where you are.
Begin with the Identity Rebuild Assessment. Ten questions that show you, clearly and without flattery, who you're currently operating from.