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I recently decided to certify as a Design Your Life coach. Why did I do this? I’d been itchy to make changes to my life for a good five years. I stumbled across the book, “Designing Your Life’ by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. I felt more and more excited as I turned the pages. The ‘design thinking’  felt original and new to me. The book was written in a down-to-earth, real way with both writers sharing vulnerable experiences and case studies and I felt energised and inspired.

I’ve become a “Coach for Actors” in addition to being a Gestalt Therapist. Why did I do this? Well, it all started in September ’22 after a failed round of IVF in Athens and a relationship break-up. 

First pubished in Elephant Journal in September 2017 A woman perched on a grey sofa screams at her therapist. The room has a large window that looks out on blue sky and sunshine. “I’ve been coming here all these years and I’m still not ok. You’re the expert with all the training! Why haven’t you […]

First published in Elephant Journal , August 2017 Recently a few of my clients have been contemplating whether it’s time to end therapy. Recently other of my clients have been contemplating whether to end their romantic relationships. Should I stay or should I go and how do I know? Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy […]

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 […]

What is EMDR? EMDR is a way to change unhelpful core beliefs which we develop in our early family environment, such as ‘I’m not good enough, ‘I’m unworthy’ or ‘I’m powerless.’ These unhelpful core beliefs affect our thinking patterns, feelings, behaviour and physiology.   EMDR was invented by psychologist Dr Francine Shapiro. In 1987 as she […]