Services
Life Skills/ Career/ Business Coaching
Are you ready to unlock your full potential, overcome challenges, and lead a more fulfilling life? As a Certified Life Skills Coach, I am here to support you on your journey of self-discovery and self actualization.
What will a coach do for me?
People engage coaches to advance their careers and enhance their personal lives.
What is coaching?
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires a person to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.
When you work with a coach, you set out on a path to greater personal and professional fulfillment.
Mental health & Addictions Counselling
Counselling can be 1-1 individual sessions, couple counselling, group sessions, workshops, pregnancy and conception or postpartum counselling. It involves the co-creation of a therapeutic alliance between counsellor and client where the client is safe to discuss issues that bother them and get tools to help them overcome those issues. It is a confidential process, with the highest level of discretion. Issues brought to counselling can range from things that affect our mental health, peace of mind, emotions such as anxiety/ depression/ anger management/ childhood trauma/ relationship difficulty/trauma/ heartbreak/ separation/ divorce/ violence in the home/ disordered eating/ difficulty with pregnancy, conception, following delivery/ pregnancy loss/ inability to conceive etc. Anything that affects our ability to function optimally!
What are sessions like?
During counselling sessions we follow a client- centered process where we first ensure our client feels safe and secure. We attend to urgent matters that help clients stabilize, using different techniques from mindfulness techniques, calming the activated nervous system, managing anger, emotional pain, untwisting unhelpful thought patterns thereby helping to create safety for clients - in their skin and in the world. We use different forms and styles of talking, feeling, and thinking to sort through issues, to get to the root cause/ underlying core beliefs/ limiting beliefs/ adverse childhood events/ trauma/ emotions that have caused client's pain or dis-regulation and then work through them to help re-establish wholesomeness and resolution , thereby achieving their goals for therapy. Sometimes this happens in one session, sometimes 5,10,20 sessions and occasionally we work together for years- as long as the client needs
Reproductive Trauma Counselling
Have you experienced trauma in any area of life? Are you experiencing reproductive trauma? Trauma is a lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event. It may be a single event or a series of events and can lead to physical, emotional, spiritual or psychological harm. It usually overwhelms a persons ability to cope. Reproductive trauma is that trauma experienced because of/ during the process of reproduction, including sexual assault. This can also include intimate partner violence or abandonment in pregnancy, injury during childbirth, pregnancy loss, shame and guilt from reproductive challenges, postpartum depression, baby with developmental abnormalities, chronic pain from endometriosis or birth trauma and all things that a woman experiences as traumatic because of her feminity. Apart from medical and surgical management, women/couples experiencing trauma/ reproductive health trauma will benefit from counselling to support their mental health and prevent prolonged or lasting psychological &/or emotional pain and suffering.
Trauma Counselling
Have you experienced trauma in any area of life? Trauma is a lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event. It may be a single event or a series of events and can lead to physical, emotional, spiritual or psychological harm. It usually overwhelms a persons ability to cope. After the traumatic event is over the impact of trauma may remain stored in the body and usually shows up as maladjustments in a persons physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It may present like chronic pain, negative emotions of fear, guilt, anger, blame, shame towards self and/or others, memory problems, feelings of detachment from friends and family. Substance use, addiction, self harm, suicidal ideas can also be signs of unresolved trauma. Apart from medical consultation and use of medical therapy, a person experiencing trauma will also benefit from counselling to support their mental health and prevent prolonged or lasting psychological &/or emotional pain and suffering. During counselling with me, the client will be held in unconditional positive regard, will be supported to regain their sense of safety, will experience empathetic support and thereafter will be supported to release the trauma from their body using different counselling modalities like CBT, DBT, EMDR, Somatic therapies, to mention a few.
Reproductive Health, Fertility & Pregnancy Coaching
Are you experiencing challenges in your journey to parenthood? Have you been told you have a high risk pregnancy and feel overwhelmed? Have you experienced pregnancy loss and are now overwhelmed with anxiety or depression? Told you have Postpartum depression? Do you feel unsupported? Have you been trying to achieve conception unsuccessfully? Did you suffer trauma as a result of pregnancy, labour or delivery? Have you been told you can't get pregnant and need assisted conception? Is menopause difficult or scary? We can support you as you go through this difficult season of life. We have both experience and expertise in all matters relating to our sexual and reproductive health.