Transformation
"Transformation is an evolutionary process that we deeply feel and experience. Once it occurs, we move beyond just understanding it intellectually to fully and sustainably living the change. We embody a rooted version of our authentic self, with acceptance and clarity that transcends our past. This shift is such, that even under pressure or when very relaxed, we do not unconsciously revert to our old ways. Such transformation can occur multiple times in our lives." Lutz Otto
Finding peace within
"The understanding, acceptance and integration of our totality - our life experiences, different traits, knowledge, upbringing, intergenerational content, success, failure, and the parts of us that we shut down, compare to others, are wounded, or fear will exclude us from belonging - is necessary for us to feel grounded and stable in our self-worth.
The more we are able to do this, the more likely we are to feel psychological freedom and inner peace. This does not mean life is suddenly challenge free, it means that we live with greater awareness, make conscious choices, feel less internal conflict, live with greater alignment and psychological well-being.
This is my wish for everyone I am privileged to work with." Lutz Otto
Vulnerability
"Believing that vulnerability is unsafe is at its best a basic defense, and in reality, an illusion. Our psychological and physiological makeup, our humanness, makes each of us vulnerable, whether we would like to believe it or not. The vulnerability and courage of doing the work necessary to find and show our truth far outweighs the lifelong burden of living an inauthentic life." Lutz Otto
“Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” Gabor Mate
Personal Coaching
My practice integrates personal and counselling coaching. As a certified practitioner in both disciplines, my experience with depth work has increasingly shown me that sustainable outcomes are best achieved by holistically incorporating elements of both. I work in person, online, and outdoors across South Africa, Europe, the UK, and the USA. Explore my:
What I work with:
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Self-worth, self-acceptance and personal agency
Building self-worth, self-confidence, self-acceptance and self-compassion. Developing deeper insight into what makes you who you are, and through this, enabling greater personal agency.
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Self-awareness and understanding others
Cultivating deeper self-awareness and awareness of others, including a greater understanding of how our inner worlds shape the way we experience ourselves, others and the world around us.
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Working through difficult emotions and experiences
Working with difficult emotions, beliefs and experiences, including uncertainty, fear, frustration, anger, denial, sadness, anxiety, depression, fragmentation and disconnection that we can feel at different stages in our lives.
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Making sense of your story
Telling your story, saying the things that need saying, and making sense of significant experiences in a way that allows you to grow and move forward with greater meaning.
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Navigating life transitions
Managing transitions with greater intentionality and clarity. Life transitions can be exciting, disorientating or deeply painful. Whatever they bring, we ultimately have to find a way through them.
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Integrating past and present
Navigating new phases of life while integrating your past with where you are now, and developing a more coherent sense of who you are and where you are going.
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Understanding patterns and the shadow side
Working through unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns and developing new ways of being. Exploring our shadow side, bringing greater acceptance to what we discover, and finding ways to integrate this into our lives.
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Self-limiting patterns and self-sabotage
Understanding how self-limiting beliefs, self-sabotage and imposter experiences come alive, and learning to work with them — recognising that meaningful change often requires more than cognitive techniques, willpower or discipline.
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Relationships and attachment
Identifying and working with relational patterns. Understanding how attachment patterns come alive in our romantic, professional and other important relationships, and developing more mature ways of relating, including healthy dependency and interdependency.
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Trauma, grief and loss
Providing a safe space to work through trauma, grief and loss, process their impact, and gradually integrate experiences so that they no longer define or constrain how you live.
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Choice, perspective, meaning and purpose
Making more conscious choices. Clarifying needs, desires and values. Exploring narratives, perspectives and worldviews, alongside the deeper existential questions of meaning, purpose and how we want to live.
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Our sense of self
Exploring how we develop our sense of self — including our autobiographical self — and the questions of identity, who we are and who we are becoming.
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Wellbeing, resilience and integration
Building practices that support wellbeing, resilience and a more harmonious way of living. Integrating insights and experiences gained through personal development, wellbeing, healing, plant medicine or other retreats into everyday life.
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Understanding the interplay of mind, emotion and behaviour
Exploring the dynamic interaction between cognition, affect and behaviour, including the ways in which unconscious processes, emotional patterns, defences, resistances and biases can shape how we experience and respond to life.
Methodology, approach, and experience
Our work begins only after we have established that we can work together, and that you feel that you can trust me enough to reveal your most authentic self and that which you would hesitate to share elsewhere.
My practice is rooted in dedication and respect. I:
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Offer a safe, neutral, confidential, supportive, collaborative, gently challenging, interpretative, informed, and outcomes-focused approach.
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Am adept at working with depth and am comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity and processes where there may not be an immediate or obvious answer.
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Confidentiality and professional association
Confidentiality, ethical practice, professional association and our terms of working together can be explored here.
What is our next step?
If what you read resonates, or you would like to find out more, lets set up a discovery call. To schedule a conversation simply email me here.
