professional bio
Marie is a teacher, psychologist, psychotherapist and producer. A practising yogi and stoic, Marie leads a daily morning sangha. Marie is passionate about guiding individuals and groups through transformative experiences. Her work focuses on uncovering the inner narratives that drive our lives. For over a decade, Marie worked as part of an elite team delivering global development programmes under the leadership of Professor Chris Parker of IMD Business School. Marie is a producer of several TedXers and other international events. She works 1:1 with a handful of clients and offers supervision for psychologists, psychotherapists, coaches and other health practioners.
personal
The world always felt too much. I felt too much. From childhood I suffered with anxiety and panic attacks. I trained as a psychologist and bought into the whole discipline of 'talking therapy' and diganoses. Along the way I received many including BPD, ADHD and C-PTSD. And despite years of 'talking therapy' not much shifted. The game changer for me was taking up yoga and mediation and facing myself eaching morning on a yoga mat. I learnt to rise above the kaleidoscope of the mind, reinhabit my body and to focus on what really matters. This year I became an empty nestor and moved closer to nature, near a loch in the Scottish Highlands, my own little bit of heaven.
Philosophy
We are all at a different place in our unique journey and one shoe size does not fit all. As a psychological therapist I appreciate the complexities of this and I will meet you where you are. My approach is informed by my own experience as well as varied expertise. My practise is integrative, foundation experiential. I draw from relational depth in Person centred therapy, personality / psychological types, parts and shadow work from depth psychology (Carl Jung), schema work of rational emotive behavioural therapy (Albert Ellis), and behavoural strengths (Chris Padesky), clinical hypnosis (Milton Erikson), Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell, yogic meditation and stoicism."
Style: Illuminating & Compassionate.
Listening to: Making Sense + Wild
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