Psychotherapist, Mentor, Creative Mindset Coach.
In a nutshell, Marie-Louise loves to guide and support people, like you, into breaking down barriers, changing your state, harnessing, nurturing and creating the changes you need to transform your life. Imagine knowing, with confidence and clarity, what has been stopping you moving forwards in your relationship with yourself or others, and what you can do about it. Imagine knowing the habits, beliefs or behaviours which have been holding you back and what you can do about it.
With over 25 years experience, internationally, in the Mind-Body Connection Field, as a Meditation teacher, Intuitive Mentor, NLP Mindset Coach, Psychotherapist, Emotional Intelligence and Behaviour Strategist, she has worked with challenges such as releasing old beliefs and working through old patterns, to helping people discover and explore emotional resilience at work, re-igniting passion for life with meaning and purpose and embracing better communication in relationships.
Whether you are feeling stuck or are in need of direction, you have the answers within you to transform your life. Sometimes we may need a renewed sense of purpose or need help to see what we may not yet be able to see, in order to create the changes we need. Marie-Louise is passionate about helping you to empower yourself, with guidance and clarity. Through Guided and process lead 1:1 sessions, finding your way of working, whether you are more head, gut or heart focussed she invites you to explore, connect and express your Unique essence in ways you are yet to imagine.
Once identifying your natural way of working in the world, Marie-Louise uses creative ways to guide and collaborate with you, to awaken and rediscover your potential, and purpose and exploring the combination of what you love and what you are good at. This is where the magic happens and you’ll open your eyes to a whole set of new tools to use in your everyday life. She believes the intuitive, compassionate and empathic relationship between Psychotherapist/Coach/Mentor and client is the most healing and heart-centred and uplifting part of working together and so it is important for the client to trust their instinct when choosing a someone to work and connect with.
Marie-Louise finds Neuroplasticity and the Mind Body connection paramount to both healing and creativity. She uses various uplifting and enlightening guided processes with her clients. She sees first hand how tapping into our Creative Brain, we are more focussed, happier and cultivate better relationships at home and work, with ourselves and others and are more able to express ourselves more authentically, which means we connect better as a collective.
Training, qualifications & experience
As an honours graduate in Psychology, Marie-Louise went on to study and become accredited and registered as a Gestalt Psychotherapist, practising for 20 years, in her private clinic. Other areas of study have been Counselling & Psychotherapy, Buddhist Meditation, Training her Pat (Pets As Therapy) dogs, NLP, Psychological Kinesiology & Psychometric Assessing in Business, where she evaluated the behaviour and emotional intelligence of candidates performance skills, knowledge, abilities, personality traits, attitudes and job/academic potential, resulting in overall better communication, awareness and performance on all levels.
She is passionate about helping others to find and understand their unique potential in life and like a river finding its flow, she has an innate way of guiding others to find their direction. After all, we cannot push the river, for it flows by itself. We can however guide it in a direction better suited to its needs.
Having had personal experience with long term stress, including BPPV, tinnitus and balance issues, much soul searching lead Marie-Louise to turn to her training in mindfulness, deep relaxation practice, resetting the nervous system and neuroplasticity to find balance, which in turn released her own creativity. She then decided to start her own YouTube Channel to help others, through free videos so that others may their own ways of healing and exploring a fulfilling and nourishing life too. In turn, this focus enhanced the Coaching work that she enjoys now, each day.
For the past 20 years Marie-Louise has spent and continues to train from 20 - 30 hours per year with continued professional development to maintain and broaden her skills. These wide areas of study include Visualisation, Gestalt Psychotherapy, Anxiety Management, PSYCH-K, Peter Levine Somatic Energy work, Neuroplasticty, Sound Therapy, Meditation, NLP, CBT, Sand Play, Energy Techniques Tai Chi, Mirror Work, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Energy Healing and enhanced Gestalt Chair work.
Marie-Louise developed an equine assisted learning model with a colleague at Chaos Farm, Veryan and used this in some of her Equine Psychotherapy workshops and sessions there. Horses as well as dogs are two of the only animals who obviously mirror the behaviour of humans and as two of her favourite animals, this was a dream come true to work with them in this way. As a point of interest, through working with horses, she held the space while the horses reflect back the behaviours of the client which, in turn enables the individual to recognise their behaviour patterns. Marie-Louise and her ex Royal Navy husband raised £10,000 through a crowdfunded to purchase a yurt and donated this to Chaos Group for their invaluable community work.
Marie-Louise was raised as a Catholic and although not religious, now welcomes all forms of spiritual practice, including connections with nature and so on as central to living a fulfilled life. She lives with her husband and black Labrador in Cornwall where they enjoy spare time with family and friends, sea swimming, singing and surfing along with walking the coastal path and moorland.
