Consultant Counselling & Coaching Psychologist
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The ever alluding work-life balance is more challenging in some seasons of our life’s than others. To be happy in my career is not as much about finding “my WHY” but instead finding “my WHEN”. In my searches for balance, it was about discovering a place where I was not being stretched too thin. It …
Early in the summer I facilitated a lovely late-afternoon Lego Serious Play Session after work in the office of a colleague. We had a big clear table, with snacks in the middle, a few bottles of Prosecco and a pile of bricks. The Question we asked was: What would I like my business to look …
“Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun!” – Einstein I was reminded of this quote recently as I started to use Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) to facilitate groups and teams, and personally to help in the imagining of my expanding career. I used to be a particularly creative child, but as a student I soon learned that …
Right now I am an Executive and Leadership Coach. In my previous role as a consultant psychologist, the one element that came up consistently in therapy sessions was loss. Sometimes loss would be the reason for referral such as loss of a loved one. Other times loss would be part of the win such …
The above cartoon is a clear demonstration of miss-communication. Often in business it feels like we are playing the childhood game “Chinese Whispers” where a message is whispered into the ear of the person sat next to you, and often comes out completely wrong by the time it has reached the last person in the …
The advantage of being both a Psychologist and an Executive Coach is that I often come across methodologies that might look very different in the respective fields of mental health versus the business world, but at their core they carry the same value to the client. When I recently trained as a Lego®Seriousplay® Method Facilitator, …