Meet Amanda
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver
I want you to be happy with my service and I look forward to helping you to find peace and success from stress, anxiety, unresourceful patterns of thinking, communicating and responding, unpleasant relationships or work situations, even physical pain – anything that is blocking you.
It is important to me that you have breakthroughs during our work together; I have spent the whole of my professional life ensuring that the techniques that I use allow my clients to have the deepest, most lasting results.
For those of you who prefer to get straight to the punch line, scroll down to the last section to read the bullet points about what you can address with these coaching sessions and what approaches and techniques I use to help you.
For those of you who want more detail, read on!
Qualifications & Background
I have had over 25 years experience in the personal development and holistic well-being field.
In 1993, I trained as a physiotherapist but wanted go deeper into the causes of illness and pain so I went on to train as a Reiki Master, an NLP practitioner and a Timeline therapist.
In the early 2000’s, I discovered and trained in Emotional Freedom Technique Level 3 and TAT with EFT Master Tania Prince, as well as Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning, which enable clients to resolve issues very deeply whilst allowing them to stay dissociated from any intense emotion.
Since then, I have trained in Strategic Intervention Coaching, which is a powerful system of change that has enabled me to offer my clients some of a highest standard life coaching strategies available, to create the breakthroughs that they desire.
“Your heart is the size of the ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” - Rumi
One of my very first memories as a very young child was being acutely aware that what people said and did was often at odds with what they were really needing and wanting on the inside.
Easiest way that I can describe it was that I could perceive two different radio channels being transmitted from them at the same time – a surface, head channel that was saying and doing one thing and then a core, heart channel that was communicating something completely different.
The head was busy proving itself, or hiding and defending itself, giving its power away or controlling itself and others and it was missing the mark repeatedly in meeting the real needs and expressing the deep truths of itself and others.
The core, heart channel was grounded, rooted, loving, authentic, uncomplicated and quietly communicating the deep truths asking that it be heard and trusted above the outside noise.
I found it confusing and painful that most people focussed on the head and ignored the heart and it made a huge impression on me. This has informed my life long quest to answer the question of how, in an uncertain and challenging world, can we really be our Core Selves, fully and unapologetically, and interact with life and the world authentically and creatively and joyfully.
The coaching I offer addresses a wide range of human situations and obstacles to experiencing the life that you hope for.
Since the age of 15, I have continuously researched, studied and sifted through many methods and teachings to answer these questions.
Thanks to my beautiful mum, in the early 1990’s, I studied with Deepak Chopra. I met with him one-to-one and he gently taught me how to meditate. In his course, I learnt about spirituality and the mind/body connection and it connected me back in with truths that nourished.
Since then I have done much soul-searching and studied many other wonderful teachers. I’ve also been down a few dead ends and discarded unhelpful methods in order to find the best strategies, techniques and truths to effectively help myself and others on their journey of self-discovery to:
Be able to call on helpful emotions rather than stay caught in unpleasant loops,
Be able to shift unwanted patterns of behaviour and thought and tap into more authentic, satisfying ways of being,
Be able to communicate in a way that clearly expresses our needs, our requests and our boundaries and creates harmony, understanding and cooperation,
Disengage from the critical, unhelpful self-talk and upgrade our inner communication to a loving, encouraging one that reflects our worth,
Gently and effectively release the effects of trauma and difficult experiences to be free to move forward in life with confidence and empowerment,
To be present in our lives and find inner certainty when all around is uncertain and ever-changing.
The main techniques and approaches that I use with my coaching clients
Strategic Intervention Coaching - Developed by Anthony Robbins and Chloe Madanes, and taught by Mark and Magali Peysha, it is a system of change that identifies every type of obstacle that may be holding you back and uses creative modalities and strategies to help you put your dreams into action.
Emotional Freedom Technique - Developed by Gary Craig in the 1980’s, it is a gentle yet powerful way to release trauma, stress, limiting beliefs, and connect you back in with the inner self without all the false messages, static and noise that the external world may have programmed you to believe.
Core Self Meditation - Developed by myself to create a stronger connection to and experience of your inner Core Self, your true source of certainty, clarity and power and helps speed up the unplugging from patterns that pull you out of your centre.
Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning - Developed by EFT Master Tania Prince, it is a powerful approach for creating personal transformation and a sense of inner peace. It works in the “present moment” and can gently resolve the true cause of issues without having to talk about or analyse “the problem”.
Within the use of these techniques, the foundation of everything that I do is spiritual. By that I do not mean religious or having a particular belief or practice or ritual. I mean that it addresses and holds the space for a deep understanding of how life works, of how you as a human being work and how you can better understand and meet your deeper needs and embody more and more of who you really are into your daily life.
If this is something that you are ready to experience, I really look forward to connecting with you!