Transformation
"Transformation is an evolutionary process that we deeply feel and experience. Once it occurs, we move beyond just understanding it intellectually to fully and sustainably living the change. We embody a rooted version of our authentic self, with acceptance and clarity that transcends our past. This shift is such, that even under pressure or when very relaxed, we do not unconsciously revert to our old ways. Such transformation can occur multiple times in our lives." Lutz Otto
Vulnerability
"Believing that vulnerability is unsafe is at its best a basic defense, and in reality, an illusion. Our psychological and physiological makeup, our humanness, makes each of us vulnerable, whether we would like to believe it or not. The vulnerability and courage of doing the work necessary to find and show our truth far outweighs the lifelong burden of living an inauthentic life." Lutz Otto
Self worth and finding peace within
The American Psychological Association defines integration as the coordination or unification of parts into a totality.
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"The integration and acceptance of our totality - our successes, failures, life experiences, traits, behavioural patterns, desires, upbringing, intergenerational content, and the aspects of ourselves that we shut out, compare to others, or fear will exclude us from belonging - is necessary for us to feel grounded in our self-worth.
The more we integrate all aspects of ourselves, the more able we are able to make conscious decisions, reduce internal conflict, and live with greater well-being. This integration improves the quality of our relationships, increases our chances of aligned success, allows us to live in the fullness of who we are, and helps us feel peace within." Lutz Otto
“Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” Gabor Mate
"True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are" Brené Brown
Coaching
My coaching practice combines executive, team, life, and counselling coaching. I work with clients, in-person, online and outdoors, in South Africa, Europe, the UK, and the USA.
Our time together can serve as a catalyst for sustainable change and provide deep insights into understanding your behavior, relationships, and the unique workings of your mind. I practice with dedication and respect. My approach is supportive, engaged, gently honest, intuitive, informed, and outcomes-focused. I am skilled at working with depth, and am comfortable working with challenging processes. Where we can, I bring lightness into our work.
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That which I create a safe and supportive space for my clients includes:
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Building self-worth, self-confidence, self-acceptance and/ or self-compassion. Working through unhelpful thinking patterns and self-limiting beliefs, and subsequently building new ways. Cultivating deeper self and other awareness. Enabling personal agency.
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Executive and leadership coaching focused on developing sustainable, holistic, conscious, deliberate, effective, and authentic leadership capability. Understanding intrinsic motivation, building aligned teams, and accelerating performance. Transitioning into new work roles and managing ourselves in our work contexts.
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How all human drives, are alive to a dynamic interaction between cognition, affect [feelings, emotions and moods], and behaviour. This includes understanding how our emotional processes work, as well as emotion identification, emotional regulation and agility.
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Coming to better understand how self-limiting beliefs, self-sabotage, and imposter syndrome come alive in some of us. Learning to move beyond these, in the acceptance that we need more than cognitive behavioral techniques and discipline.
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Managing transitions with greater intentionality and clarity. Navigating new life phases, whilst integrating your past with where you are now.
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Working through and beyond the dark night of the soul. Moving through the uncertainty, fear, frustration, anger, denial, sadness, anxiety, depression, fragmentation, and disconnection, we can feel during difficult stages of our life. Once more settled in ourselves, we shift our focus to acceptance, new direction and decisions, and the integration of what we have experienced.
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Developing a deeper awareness of how unconscious cognition directly drives us. Shadow exploration, acceptance, and integration.
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Identifying relational patterns, behavioural patterns, defences, resistances, biases, and root causes.​ Coming to accept these, or establishing new ways of being.
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Understanding and identifying attachment styles, and how this comes alive in our romantic, professional and other important relationships.
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Making conscious choices. Defining needs, values, and goals. Reframing perspectives.
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Trauma, grief, and loss counselling. Safely processing and reducing the intrusive impacts of trauma. Integrating and moving beyond trauma.
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Exploring meaning and purpose. Exploring identity or who we are.
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Moving forward with the integration of that which was discovered or learned on a well-being, healing, plant medicine, or personal development retreat.
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Building well-being practices, increasing resilience, and living with deeper harmonious meaning.
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​​​​​Methodology, approach, and experience
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My methodology, experience, and approach can be explored here.
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Confidentiality and professional association
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Confidentiality, ethical practice, professional association and our terms of working together can be explored here.
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What is our next step?
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If what you read resonates, or you would like to find out more, lets set up a discovery call. To schedule a conversation simply email me here.
What do I not work with
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Falling within the scope of a clinical psychology and/ or psychiatry, I do not work with the below:
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Learning disorders. Intellectual disability. Neurocognitive degeneration or neurocognitive disorders. Autism
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Psychosomatic disorders. Sleep wake disorder. Narcolepsy. Bipolar disorder, postpartum, chemical and complex clinical depression. Complex anxiety and mood disorders. Dissociation. Impulse control disorder. Gender dysphoria. Clinical compulsions. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. Cutting. Drug and alcohol addiction. Dissociative disorders. Complex PTSD. Suicide attempt survival and post attempt recovery.
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Maladjusted personalities. Difficulty transitioning to adulthood. Aggression, abuse, and similar behavioural patterns. Personality disorders, psychosis and schizophrenia. Sociopathy, abnormal narcissism, and psychopathy. Perversions. Forensic psychology.