So... 

My professional background includes being a Certified Results Coach, an NLP Trainer INLPTA, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, trained in Eriksonian Hypnosis, and with an MA in the field.

I'm also a Founding Member of the Association for Coaching, a Trainer Member of the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming International (ANLP) and Certified by the International NLP Trainers' Association (INLPTA), a Writer, Speaker and Charter Member of the International Positive Psychology Association.

My former career was in marketing in a previous incarnation.  So I also bring stuff from the corporate coal face and executive suite to mix powerfully in with my personal and professional development business.

I've relished working with thousands of women in over 20 successful years running my coaching, training and therapy organisation. And when I say women, I mean from all walks of life, all kinds of cultures, all kinds of educational backgrounds, racial heritages and life experiences.

What impresses me so much, time and time again, is that whatever challenges or problems women face and work on, once we begin to access and use our female energy, skills, abilities, external and internal resources something special happens.

It's as if a crucial piece of a very significant jigsaw fits in. And I'm red hot bloodedly passionate about helping women to reclaim their feminine power, a crucial piece of our significant jigsaw... our birth-right and heritage as females.

I also recognise how much more complex and demanding women's lives have become compared with even just 50 years' ago. More women than ever work both inside and outside the home, juggling at least two jobs in the same 24 hours. And I'm one of them!

So, since the early 90s, I've been applying my wealth of knowledge and experience to guide, coach and train women in developing their own woman resources. I've been applying some of the foremost ideas and techniques in the personal and professional development fields. And then building on them to generate fresh and highly effective approaches specifically for women.

Women of Courage was born!

Plus I've been accomplishing my own Women of Courage growth programme and developing my own WomanWisdom(tm) for 30 years so far... only it didn't have a name when I started out!

And in my life (so far!) I've been a...

... daughter, sister, mother, lover, Nana, actress, poetess, unmarried mother with little/no money, a business woman, married, divorced, home owner, general pain in the backside (I'm pleased to say), respectable suburban house-wife (yeah, I've done that one too)...

...poetess, article writer, author (being re-vitalised as I speak!), Chair of voluntary organisations, contributing on professional bodies, entrepreneur (love that one), conservative anarchist (imagine that!), perennial student, wanna be hippy, argumentatively delicious passionate loving star... etcetera etcetera etcetera.

So, add my professional stuff to the above taste of me and, as your Coach and Trainer, I guarantee you that everything I talk about and show you is absolutely tried and tested. I'm like a travel guide who knows the lay of the land exceptionally well.

A guide who'll show you some excellent short-cuts and how to avoid pitfalls. A guide who can show you how to find the shallowest river crossings and the firmest, most solid foot-holes with which to climb the mountains... and how to sustain yourself through rugged terrain.

And a guide who is also most definitely, absolutely and without a shadow of a doubt 100% Woman!