Who am I?

I have been helping people for over 40 years in varying capacities

Originally a trained general and mental health nurse, I worked in lots of different settings, but mostly in criminal justice and drug & alcohol services

I suffered with strong depression in my early 20's.

I knew that medication may help (eventually), but wanted a way to prevent a reoccurrence going forward- and build a resilience to things (& people!) I would encounter

This led me to learn many approaches, including

  • counselling
  • hypnotherapy
  • psychotherapy
  • healing
  • solution-focused therapy
  • motivational interviewing
  • coaching
  • clean language/ space
  • NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming)
  • IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) 
  • Metaphors of Movement
  • OldPain2Go

NLP really spoke to me and helped me to empower myself and change the way I was feeling, thinking and behaving

I knew I needed to learn more, so have been training NLP since 2005, and have been working with clients using my own integrative approach to help hundreds of people get to where they want to be

 

My approach is totally person-centred - I work in your model of the world, with what you give me verbally and by understanding your unconscious processing via metaphors and the internal ‘representations’ and strategies that have kept the problems occurring.

I use a no-nonsense, direct and occasionally provocative approach that may feel a little unorthodox, especially of you have experienced traditional ‘therapy’ or treatment. I am not meeting you to collude or be a friend - you will have come to see me to make a change in your life, and change means doing it differently - changing something about you

If you always do what you’ve always done - you’ll always get what you’ve always got - Change something - anything

I will help you to understand what is happening for you in thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and where you would like to be in the same. I am not interested in your history, stories or what you think stuff means- nor am I interested in why you are where you are.

I will help you to resource yourself to overcome the issues that bother you, develop new and practical ways to be in the world, so you develop resilience for the future

My intention is to get you to where you want to be as soon as possible, so will typically only need to see me 1-3 times.

Ready to change?

Contact me today to start your journey towards personal growth and achievement.