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My experience as a Life Coach and a Personal Development Advisor has been created through the life that I have led.  I have read about it, I have studied it, I have worked in large companies doing it but most importantly I have actually lived it.  I practice what I preach.  My professional qualifications are important but my greatest qualification is my personal survival in the last few years. 

Personally

On 11 September 2001, my husband, Simon, died on the 106th Floor of the World Trade Centre, New York.  I was 7 months pregnant at the time, expecting our first child and William was born in November 2001.  Eighteen months later my mum died of a degenerative illness, Multiple Systems Atrophy that is related to the Parkinson’s disease. 

I found myself in a place where my normal had gone and I had to completely rebuild my life from scratch –I had changed, my life had changed and I had to create a new future and a positive way forward.

Professionally

I have been a Senior HR professional with extensive commercial experience gained within the Finance, Retail and Media industries such as KPMG and Channel 4 Television Limited.  I have demonstrated a high level of competence in all areas of coaching, personal and group development, recruitment and employee relations, with clear examples of change management experience, the delivery of strategic HR solutions, the design and creation of personal development programmes and coaching individuals and teams to achieve improved performance.

I have a BA Honours Degree in English Literature and I am a Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, the International Coaching Federation, the UK Reiki Federation and I am also a qualified Occupational Tester for Level A and B.

I have had to deal with grief, trauma, becoming a mum, being a single parent, individual financial and legal issues, a high level career and intensive media interest. I had enormous life changes and I handled all of this because I was introduced to life coaching, reiki healing and development of intuition, self responsibility and awareness.

I have now coached and developed clients in many areas, including:  bereavement, cancer, career change, divorce, eating disorders, financial issues, mid life crises and redundancy.