
Your Personal Strategist

My Story

Hello friends and visitors...
I’m so glad you’re here. If you’ve landed on my site, chances are you’re feeling stuck.
I’ve been there, too. Despite what looked to be success on the outside, I struggled with so many things like procrastination, imposter syndrome, self sabotage, perfectionism, disassociation, emotional freeze, people pleasing in both professional and personal life. I truly thought this was just the human experience and accumulated the world's largest 'self help' library. I took pride in claiming to be incredibly self aware but come to find out, I wasn't emotionally aware. I didn't know what I didn't know and like the saying goes "you can't see the label when you're in the jar".
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The shift came when I started working at the subconsious level; it's there, where most of my problems and answers were and likely that's true for you, too.
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what I’ve been through (and what that means for you...)
I started out training as a therapist (MSc. and worked in a practice speciallizing in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and then became a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) working in areas such as labour negotiations, recruitment, mergers and acquisitions, sucession planning etc.. I went on to become a consultant working with family businesses when I fell in love with coaching. As a certified executive/performance coach (EMCC) I worked in corporate settings and became a life coach for private clients.
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In semi-retirement things got interesting; living half the year in Costa Rica I continued to do coaching online and spent the rest of my time golfing, practicing yoga, and indulging in cocktails with friends at sunset. All was good, that is, until I didn't wanna get outta bed.
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I was diagnosed with clinical depression; it baffled me that I could be depressed living my 'best life' in paradise!! Well, it turned out, I suffered from what's called 'perfectly hidden depression'. Nobbody would have guessed, least of all me. I had healing to do at the subconscious level. As they say, we only use 5% of our conscious brain and my issues were deep in that 95% beyond my awareness; controlling a lot more of my life than I thought.
Depression was Mother Nature's way of forcing me to deal with what I should have dealt with decades earlier. So, after spending my entire life with 'self help' trying to use my will power to overcome my struggles I took the last 5 years working with my subconscious and unconscious and finally met the version of myself I didn't even know existed.
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I can help you do the same.
My Credentials
Post Secondary Education, BA, (MSc.)
Certified Coach (EMCC)
Certified Narrative Therapist (Candidate Diploma)
Former Therapist Cognitive Therapy (CBT)
Former Certified Human Resources Professional (CPHR)
Former Certified Consultant (CMC)
