Consultant Counselling & Coaching Psychologist
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Towards the end of February 2024, I had a delightful chat with Jane from @careeringintomotherhood about the importance of Nurturing Joy for working moms. I had prepared copious notes, but as often happens in conversation, I managed to say very little of what I planned, and the discussion took on a life of its own. …
During the Festive Season, there is a narrow margin for the magic to turn to mayhem!
Putting things off can be a working parent’s biggest nightmare! “Putting-a-job-off-until-tomorrow”, or procrastination, is something we all have in common. There are times (and places) in our lives when procrastination causes mere inconvenience. For some of us, it can even be a thrill to beat the deadline at the last minute! But for the working …
On a faded post-it note next to my home-office desk, I have a quote from the formidable Glennon Doyle: “A responsible mother is not one slowly dying for her children, but showing them how to live bravely. I stopped being a martyr and started being a model.” This quote comes from a podcast interview in …
September is here. I used to love the first of September, as it was the first day of spring when I was a child growing up in the southern hemisphere. We got to have a non-uniform day at school, and the promise of summer was in the air. Now, living in the northern hemisphere, I …
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 …
Travelling can be lovely. And with the summer ahead of us I already find a lot of my clients and friends on the move. But behind the alluring blue skies in holiday pictures lies a few hours or even days of preparation and stress, and a multitude of opportunities for things to go wrong. …
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, …
What is the difference, I am often asked, between a coach, mentor and psychologist? Although I can give long-winded theory laden answers, I have recently come across a definition which brought me to conclude the following: Mentors knows the answers to your questions Coaches knows the questions to your answers Psychologists know the questions to …