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FAQ - Questions you might want to ask before or as we work together

The purpose of this page is to help answer any questions you may have about how I work with clients on an individual basis.
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What you call what you do, exactly what it is that you do, and how you do it?

I help people to identify and clear the root cause of symptoms or problems that are turning up in their life.

Whether you are experiencing a physical condition, like chronic fatigue, or a mental condition, like depression, I can help you really understand what is causing the real root of the problem, and then together, if you choose, we can work to reduce and clear the problem.

I call what I do ‘health and personal development coaching’ because I am a facilitator of positive change, guiding you back to health.

There are certain laws of health which as a human being we need to follow in order to stay healthy, but unfortunately we are not usually taught these laws as we grow up, and we’re certainly not taught them in school. So I help you understand what those laws are, and then show you how to follow them.

I use a number of methods which have been specifically developed to identify and clear the root cause of symptoms, including Mickel Therapy, ‘Moativational Medicine’, mBraining and Qigong, but really the name of the method is not as important as the tools within that method.

What is important is to firstly understand what is causing the problem, which is what we cover in the first session, and then to know what to do about it, which is what we focus on in ensuing sessions.

So all the work we do together is very much solution-focused, where I show you how to clear symptoms, and you learn tools to maintain your health for the rest of your life.


Why do you call yourself a health and personal development coach?

I call myself a ‘health and personal development coach’ because I facilitate progress to experiencing better health and happiness, and the two are intimately connected.

Just like a person may need a mountain guide to climb a mountain they have never climbed before, most of us need a guide to show us the way back to health.

This is what I am – a guide.

It’s really important to understand that I don’t heal or fix people, because in my experience healing can only happen from within. Because we all have our blind spots, we need help and guidance on the path to health and happiness. We all need help, including myself!

 

Why is it you say emotions play such an important role in health?

20 years ago I wouldn’t have believed it myself! I just thought we got ill and never questioned why.

I have now learned through personal experience, and 25 years of personal practice, that there is a direct correlation between emotions and health, because we cannot separate what goes on in the body mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

I am not here to convince you one way or the other, I just know it’s true for me and for the hundreds of clients who have reversed physical symptoms and other life problems by dealing with the core issues which lie at an emotional and mental level in the body.

 

Why will approaching my health issue from a psycho-emotional stand-point be any more successful than the avenues I have already been down?

I tried many different therapies on my journey to getting well – 160+ to be precise.

What I learned along the way is the tremendous power and impact our thoughts and feelings have on our physical body. This was the turning point for me in my recovery: understanding the impact of emotions and thoughts on health. If we do not take these aspects into account when we are looking for solutions, we are missing a huge piece of the puzzle and in my opinion and experience are unlikely to find complete resolution.

 

How similar is what you do to counselling?

That’s a good question. Of course my answer comes from my personal experience of counselling, which may be different to yours, because there are many different types of counselling.

My experience of counselling is talking to a counsellor about problems and endeavouring to see things from a different or new perspective, and find positive solutions.

The approaches I use are very different to counselling. The typical counselling session model involves talking and revisiting unpleasant events and scenarios with the intention of helping ease and improve how you feel. And that is of course good.

For example, using Moativatonal Medicine or Advanced Clearing Energetics, this involves little or no talking or revisiting the past and is focused instead on remaining present, and dissolving unwanted feelings so they become a distant memory.

The work I do differs quite radically in that we don’t sit and talk about problems every session. I am more focused on offered specific strategies and solutions for a specific issue.

For example, if you are experiencing anxiety, I have a technique specifically targeted to clearing the anxiety at its root. Or if you are experiencing depression, I will explain exactly what causes depression, and we will work out what is causing your symptoms of depression, and then I will give you a technique to clear the depression which you can use ongoingly for the rest of your life.

The overall approach I use is very much about clearing the issue at its core, and giving you tangible techniques and solutions for looking after your own health by yourself.

Another important point to make is that usually counselling addresses what is going on mentally or emotionally, but not physically. The techniques I use address all three levels simultaneously, because they are all intimately connected.

 

How safe is the work you do?

In my experience it is very safe and here is why:

You and I will work together. I will create an environment where your fears and vulnerabilities are taken care of.

We will be dealing with aspects of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing in a way that allows you to choose the pace at which we progress. I am expertly trained in understanding the deeper meaning in physical, mental or emotional symptoms, which means I will always know what is happening at any stage in our work.

There is no medication involved, which means you will not experience any medication side-effects.

One of the things I have learned through personal experience is that the body is infinitely intelligent and it will never give us more than we can deal with mentally or emotionally, even if it feels like it is sometimes. This is good news because it means we have this built-in safety mechanism which will always ensure we stay emotionally safe, and this is really important in order for true healing to occur.

Also, I do my best to offer the safest possible environment emotionally where you are free - as much as you can - to be yourself and share your deepest truths in a non-judgemental environment. Because I have usually gone through what clients are going through, I come from a perspective of understanding it, from their perspective, which will also help you to feel safe.

 

How do you explain the impact of emotional stress on physical health?

I'll explain briefly how emotions, stress and symptoms are related. I could describe this in many ways, but here is one way I like to explain it:

The way I see it, our body is infinitely intelligent, and is always looking out to make sure we stay happy, healthy and safe. These are of paramount importance as far as the body is concerned, because the body has to do its best to make sure we stay alive. So we have this built-in mechanism for making sure we stay happy, healthy and safe, which feeds back to us to alert us if we are going off track. I should also add, as far as the body is concerned, emotional safety is as important as physical safety.

So our body feeds back to us, but it doesn’t speak English – it speaks ‘body language’, and this communication works in 3 stages:

Stage 1 – it sends us bodily sensations to tell us something doesn’t ‘feel’ right. For example, a gut feeling. Or feeling hungry, that is a body sensation telling us we need to eat.

If we miss this communication, eg a gut feeling, it will ramp it up and start to send emotions, which is stage 2. Emotions are a form of communication from the body to the head to tell us how our body feels about something going on in our life. For example, if your boss is giving you twice the workload you can handle, it will start to send you frustration. At the same time it will start to go into what we call the ‘stress’ response, or sympathetic nervous system response, or what I like to call the ‘SOS’ response. This is an indication that the body is feeling out of balance and overloaded, and something needs to be done to bring it back into balance so it feels calm again.

It’s really important that the body feels emotionally and physically safe, because it can only do its job of running the body properly when it does. And healing only happens properly when our body is not stressed, ie, when it’s in the parasympathetic nervous system response mode. So we must do everything we can to say calm and relaxed, and if we veer off track from this, the body will let us know via stress and emotions.

If we miss stage 2 communication, after some time, and often a long time, it will move into stage 3 communication, which is when it starts sending some form of discomfort, which we label as uncomfortable symptoms of pain, either mental or physical. This is usually a sign the body is screaming at us to change something. In fact, symptoms can be seen as loud emotions.

So there is a very definite correlation between stress, emotions and physical symptoms. If we don’t address our gut feelings or emotions, and learn how to notice them and clear them, they can and will build up to become symptoms of illness. So symptoms are necessary and intelligent communication and the body’s natural way of keeping us happy, healthy and safe. When we can view symptoms in this way they become useful clues to deeper issues, and become our friend rather than our foe.

 

What evidence can you provide that approaching a physical ailment from a psycho-emotional stand-point has validity?

On a regular basis, research is coming to light on the connection between the mind, emotions and body. For example, studies at Harvard University have shown that at least 80% of all disease is attributable to stress.

Whilst initially it might be a stretch to understand how emotions and thoughts can create physical pain, the body is a complete entity and nothing can happen emotionally or mentally and not affect the physical body. It's scientifically impossible!

 

What guarantees do you offer and how many sessions will I need?

I cannot make any guarantees, which would be the same for any medical practitioner, and there are two reasons for this.

Firstly it would be unethical, even illegal, to guarantee results. The other, which is even more important to understand, is that all healing comes from within.

Therefore the best guarantor of the effectiveness of the work we do together will be your willingness, openness and readiness to work together. I have no doubt that the techniques I use work, because I have seen the results over and over again. And I test everything out myself first to make sure it works and so that I have a first-hand experience of the techniques.

So my recommendation to you would be to check in with your heart and gut and see if it feels right to work together, as this will be the best gauge of whether it’s right to go ahead or not, and then to just commit to the first session to begin with.

I always find that by the end of the first session people intuitively know if they wish to continue working together, and in my experience most do.

 

How are you qualified to work in this area of health and wellbeing?

I have 3 levels of training and experience, and they are all equally important and necessary:

Firstly I have been training since 1997 in complementary therapies, and since then have qualified in 20 different methods for addressing illness and recovering health. All these methods focus on addressing the root cause of the problem, which means that once the cause is dealt with, the problem is transformed at its core, creating positive lasting change. I have just completed 5 years of training in ‘Moativational Medicine’, which is one of the methods which really gets to the root core of symptoms.

Secondly, I have gone through the personal experience of getting myself well from debilitating illness, where I was unable to work for over 10 years. So I know exactly what creates illness and what needs to be done to get well. Even though I have spent thousands of dollars and hours on training, there is no way I could be doing what I am doing as a professional if I had not gone through this journey myself.

Thirdly I have worked with over 1000 clients over the past decade helping them recover their health, and their success stories speak for themselves.

 

What sort of successes you have had with clients and can I speak to one of your clients?

I have had many wonderful successes with clients, which is wonderful both for them and me. The type of people that tend to work with me are people who have a chronic illness and have tried many different avenues and not made much progress. Often they have been told by their doctor there is no reason for their problem, or solution, and they are close to giving up, and then they happen upon my website and feel it’s right to explore different a different approach.

Mostly I am working with people with things like chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, anxiety and depression. Usually clients have several sessions, by the end of which they are either completely well or well on their way to being well, and by this stage have the tools to keep furthering their health by themselves. You can see the website for success stories.

As for speaking to a client directly, I don’t usually recommend that as it’s not really professional protocol, which is why I take the time to ask clients for their testimonials and put them on my website; everything that gets put on there is ‘un-doctored’, and often is helpful for people to feel confident in the possibilities they might achieve for themselves.

 

Why isn't your approach isn’t more widely used, understood and talked about by Doctors?

Yes, that’s a great question, and I will give you my opinion as it stands now which is this:

In society in general today there is what I call a general over-riding paradigm in healthcare which we call conventional medicine. This form of medicine is what is taught to doctors in medical schools, and is based on treating symptoms (ie the end result) rather than the cause. It takes a long time for society to embrace change, and whilst there are many practitioners around the world today who practice the cutting-edge techniques I have trained in, this knowledge is still not commonly accepted into our culture or conventional medical system.

Unbeknowns to most people, the fields of psycho-neuro-immunology and energy psychology, which form the basis for the majority of methods I use, are the most widely studied area of medicine in the last 30 years. Unfortunately becuase this work is so cutting-edge, it has not reached the domain of the general public yet. But it will.

As a client recently said to me after her first session "You are light years ahead of everyone else. When this information gets out to the public at large it's going to revolutionize the system"

The good news is, things are starting to change, and there are doctors who are starting to acknowledge and include integrative therapies in their medical centres. Perhaps in another 50 years things will look very different, I certainly hope so, and is why I am so passionate about doing what I do.

 

What is your opinion on the taking of GP-prescribed drugs for my condition?

As a therapist I do not have legal permission to give advice regarding medication, only a doctor can do that.

So I can share what I have observed with clients who are on medication which is this: usually, as we work together, and work on clearing the root cause of the symptoms, as the cause of the problem is cleared the body will have less need to create symptoms.

As this happens clients often find their need for medication lessens naturally by itself. I always recommend clients consult their doctor over anything to do with medication, who will advise how and when to reduce dosage.

Also, what I have noticed is clients often start forgetting to take their medication, and it seems this is the body’s way of saying it no longer needs to take it. So I will leave it between you and your doctor to decide what to do about your medication, but please keep me informed, as it is useful and important information for me and can help to indicate progress.

 

Does the treatment you have provided mean that the problem will not return?

This is a very good question. The interesting thing is, as you now know from the work we have already done together, your body will send you symptoms if it has a message it’s trying to get through to you. Since we started working together we have worked out why your body has been sending you symptoms, and you have started to learn what to do to reduce and clear them.

The reality is, as long as you keep listening to your body, and you do what you need to do to look after yourself mentally, emotionally and physically, your body will stay healthy. But if you fall back into old habits and old ways, it will send you symptoms again to remind you that you may have gone a bit off track. We have to remember that symptoms are a good thing, they are our friend! They are not the enemy. We just have to work out why they are there and do what we need to do to clear them.

And of course we also know that if our body is sending us symptoms, and symptoms are loud emotions, if you are experiencing symptoms again, it would be wise to ask yourself ‘what am I feeling?’ and once you have identified that, dissolve the emotion. This will in turn clear the physical pain.

So the short answer is, as long as you look after yourself, in all the ways we have been doing together, it is likely your body will stay healthy. But if you go off track, it will let you know by sending symptoms, which you now have the tools to deal with. So there is no more need to worry about your body sending symptoms in the future, because if it does, you will know what to do.

 

I don't seem to feel better after my first session, and actually it feels as though things may have got worse. Why is this?

Actually this may be a good sign and I’ll explain why: often as our body is rectifying itself, it needs to clear out the ‘old’ stuff, which means the old energy and information which has been held in the cells which has been creating or contributing to symptoms.

As a result of our session, we may have stirred things up, and things are starting to clear. As it clears, this energy literally has to clear out of the cells, and as it does so it can temporarily create or re-create symptoms. Whilst this may feel bad, it’s actually often a really good sign, because it means things are changing at a fundamental level, and true transformation is occuring.

The main thing to remember as you go through any‘healing reactions’, as they are called, is that they are always temporary and pass. They may last a few days, even a week, but healing reactions always pass, and then you will usually find yourself feeling heaps better.

So just see how you go over the next few days, and keep reminding yourself this may be a healing reaction, because when we can see it from that perspective, it helps us to go through it much easier; rather than seeing it as a bad thing, we can say to ourselves “great, I’m having a healing reaction, and even though I feel like crap, it’s actually a really good sign of healing and I’m getting better! And let me know how you feel in a few days.


I have experienced a few sessions with you and I don't feel I have got much yet? Why is this?

What I can share is this: healing is a journey, and everyone will progress at their own perfect pace.

Unfortunately in our society we have been conditioned to think that quick fixes are the norm, which is why so many people take pills to dull pain. I work very differently and our work together is of an altogether different nature: we are working to create lasting positive change, which requires pulling the roots of the problem out, like pulling a weed out of the ground by its roots so it will not grow back, and this can sometimes take time.

The timing of your recovery will be unique to you: some clients can make very fast progress from day one, and others need a little longer and will start to notice the change after a few more sessions. Whatever the pace, I have found it is perfect for each individual. Usually what I find happens is there comes a point when you will notice a significant change, and you will feel like you have turned a corner for good, but we can never know for sure when that turning point will be. But I do know that when people persevere they will see change.

What I have also learnt, both for myself on my own healing journey and as a practitioner, is that the body has its own timing, and as long as it needs to send symptoms and has a message to give us, it will. So a much more useful question for you to ask might be ‘what is it I still need to learn in order for my body to heal?’ rather than focusing so much on ‘why am I not better yet?’ My advice to you is to keep going, keep following the advice and strategies you have learnt, not get despondent, and things will change for the better. You are on a journey which is unique to you.


Can I speak to satisfied clients to verify your effectiveness?

It’s really important we have faith and confidence in our therapist, which is why I have client success stories on my website.

It’s not professional protocol to give clients details out and have clients approached in this way, so I do encourage you to take a look at some of the stories on the website, which are completely real and ‘undoctored’. I also have videos of clients talking about their first-hand experiences. Hopefully this will give you a feel for the work I do and the sort of results you can expect.

I’d also like to add that what I feel is the most important thing for you, or any client, is that it feels right to work together; to go inside and really check in with your heart and gut - which are brains in themselves - does it feel right for us to work together? This is usually a very good gauge of whether we will be a right fit. So I encourage you to trust yourself on this one.


Are you registered with any professonal governing body?

I am a professonal member of, and affiliated with, a number of associations including:

AIMA – the Australasian Integrative Medical Association,

IICT - the International Institute for Complementary Therapists

The Qigong Association of New Zealand

In order to be affiliated with these institutions I have to provide proof of training and have fulfilled a number of strict criteria. In the past I’ve also been a member of the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce and a number of other professional bodies.

I have also been a member of NHPNZ - The Natural Health Practitioners Association of New Zealand, The Auckland Chamber of Commerce and other professional associations. Currently I keep my memberships to what I see as the most essential and useful for my practice at this point in time.

 

What makes you qualified to present yourself as an expert in this field?

My experience with clients, 25 years of research and training in this field, and the results I have achieved for myself and others.

 

Your fees are high, how do I afford them?

If we look at things from a different perspective you might see it differently.

In my experience, in the long-run I actually save people thousands of dollars on seeing many different therapists or medical professionals, or buying a multitude of supplements. Usually people only need to see me for several sessions, by which stage they are exponentially or even completely better, and then they have the tools they have learned to keep themselves well ongoingly for the rest of their life. This is true healthcare

What I offer is an investment in health which will pay dividends for the rest of your life. I believe it’s really priceless information and money well spent.

Also, what I have observed is that when we are questioning the price, it’s because we haven’t yet seen or understood the value of what is on offer, or we may not be valuing ourselves enough to allow ourselves to spend that money on our own health and wellbeing. It can be so easy to spend the same amount of money on other things, and yet when it comes to ourselves we hesitate to value ourselves enough to see ourselves worthy of receiving the help, or of being happy and healthy. In my experience, usually I find that if something feels right and we feel we are going to get value from it, and we really want to do it, somehow we find a way to find the money.

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Finalist New Zealand Woman of the Year 2011 Semi-Finalist Waitemata Health Excellence Award 2012 Nominee Best Kept Secret 2012
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