Wide Awake Solutions

Welcome to Wide Awake Solutions



My Aim
My aim is to help you bring greater awareness into your life, and to find clarity based on your own awareness and inner knowing, to relate to yourself and the world in a more authentic way and to embrace life and make it work for you. By working on all levels – mental, physical, spiritual and emotional – and offering a non-judgmental, safe and confidential environment, I want you to discover a richer, more meaningful way of living.

What is holistic counselling?
Holistic counselling honours the whole person. You may wish to see a counsellor because of one specific problem. By being fully present and allowing the space to bring awareness around that problem, we can begin to peel the layers, explore past issues and discover your core beliefs … and some of them may not be serving you anymore. Subsequently, you not only find a resolution to the immediate contention; you may begin to see yourself and your life differently and make changes in other areas of your life as well. You may begin to relate to yourself and the world in a more authentic way and discover a richer, more meaningful life.

What is life coaching?
While counseling is present and past focused, life coaching is present and future focused. You may be unsure about what it is you want in life, or you may know what it is you want, but don’t know how to go about achieving it. A life coach aims to bring awareness to your core values and based on this, helps you establish what it is you want and how to go about getting it. By providing feedback, insights and guidance from an outside vantage point, and bringing awareness to areas where you feel held back or stuck, a coach can assist you achieve your goals.

Modalities
The Therapeutic Relationship – the relationship between counselor and client is a unique one. Through offering a genuine and caring presence, allowing a client to be totally in the moment and honouring their inner wisdom, we establish a unique co-created partnership.

• Body Focusing – a technique which allows you to get out of your head and into your body. Our bodies store everything that has ever happened to us and are the key to our subconscious.



• Voice Dialogue – an immediate way of accessing the disowned parts of ourselves.



• Reiki – Reiki works on an energetic level and facilitates healing the whole person.

About Me
Like every person on this planet, I am a work in progress. I am constantly updating my skills and knowledge and aim to be the best I can be in every area of my life, in order to be able to give the best to my clients.

I also have much to offer through my own life experience – both triumphs and mistakes – though I hasten to add that there are no mistakes if we choose to learn the lesson from them.

I have two great passions – counselling /coaching and art. Painting fills me with gratitude. By focusing on the subject, I am fully in the moment and immersing myself in the beauty of what I am painting. Counseling is also a practice where one must be fully in the moment. It is a gratifying experience to share another’s journey and to see transformation in another. However, at all times I am aware that it is their journey and their wisdom and their truth that they are drawing on. I am merely an instrument who aids the journey and I feel honoured that they have allowed me this.