I am passionate about neuroscience. I believe that therapists need to be person-centred specialists and psycho-educators.
My love of learning strength is what drives my life's work; if I'm not learning, I'm not living to my full potential. To live to your full potential means understanding who you are and your purpose in life.
I work with people to help them unveil their unique character strengths which are as individual as fingerprints. How you understand your character strengths can change your life. People who become well-equipped to change their unwanted, undesirable behaviours are people who live on purpose. They understand how to use their superpowers - derived from character strengths - for quality-of-life improvements instead of mismanaging them in ways that can have devastating effects on their wellbeing and life trajectory.
Really, when we think of each person's individual goals, we find one broad, universal goal, that is: we all want to be happy and live healthy, long lives. Can you say yes to that? Of course you can, yet the journey towards that outcome is often clouded with life's many, and often unexpected challenges making it not so clear for us to see the best path to take.
However, I strongly believe that the answers to our problems lie within each and every one of us, and that given a safe, non-judgemental environment to explore options, we are able to draw upon our own resources to find solutions. This is true person-centred practice.
It's likely that you may have stumbled at certain times, and slipped back to old unwanted habits, but it is my sincerest hope that you will allow me to help explore the issues that may be holding you back.
You will learn very early on how to grow your resilience muscle. It goes like this: Resilience buys time for adaptability and adaptability buys a desirable future. It's a step-by-step process, yet many are in danger of dropping out before they get a handle on the whole story.
It doesn’t matter what muscle you are strengthening; it takes time, nothing changes over night. Nevertheless, small daily changes can soon show big results. I advise making 'tiny tweaks' to your routine that take you in the direction you want to go instead of taking gigantic steps that may lead you into an abyss.
If you have a tendency to get impatient with progress, or the lack thereof, in your life, perhaps the lesson is to slow down and stay focused. I have found that if I am meant to learn a particular lesson from an experience, unless I consciously make a real effort to recognise that situation as a lesson and stick with it until I learn it, I will be taken round the same mountain time and time again.
