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Working with a therapist-coach you get the best of both worlds. You get to work on present goals and develop specific plans to move your life forwards. But,  when you get get stuck on the actioning part, which is often the case, you get to do a therapeutic deep-dive into the past.
And you feel safe to do that because you know I’m a trained therapist who has many years of experience working with very traumatised clients.

When adult Nick finds a job he can do well, the little part ties itself to the job. It feels better because it’s performing well. This is how Nick and other high achievers link their entire sense of identity and worth to doing extremely well professionally or in whatever area of life they are achieving highly. 

The problem arises when ….

First published in Elephant Journal You’ve ‘got this’  We are expected to be “on” all the time. On email, on text, on WhatsApp, on the phone. At work, we are “on it”. We feel guilty when we’re not. We feel good when we have delivered a great project and receive applause. We feel driven to […]

First published in Thrive Global “I need a pep talk, girls! I’ve just come out of the worst meeting ever and I’ve got one more to go.  It was full of alpha dominants. I was the only voice of reason. Give me some nuggets of wisdom ASAP.”  The text pings on my phone. I empathise with […]