Online life coaching Online therapy

Coaching online – all the benefits none of the hassle

I’ve recently seen a growth in enquiries for online life coaching via Skype. It’s appealing to potential clients to be able to participate in a coaching or cognitive hypnotherapy without having to factor in travel and time away from work or the family. I love coaching over Skype, but I can certainly understand why some people might have some concerns about it.

A few years ago I was completely against the idea of coaching online. I was resistant to even trying it. However all that changed when I worked with a coach who came highly recommended to me – but who lived in New York. We dove in though, and two hours later I was converted. There wasn’t a moment on that call when I didn’t feel completely connected with her, or that she wasn’t tuned in to what I was saying.

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Website Issues

Hello!

Please bear with me while I continue to try to update my website following the massive cyber attack that wiped my old one out. I am hoping to put together a new website that reflects the changes I am making in my practice to become a more wholly integrated coach and therapist, so am choosing not to invest too much in fixing this site.

 

Thank you

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“How to not screw up your kids” Victoria Ward, Huffington Post.

I am now a Huffington Post Blogger

Earlier in the week I was invited to blog for the wonderful Huffington Post website. Today, they published my first article: “5 ways to not screw up your kid.”

I hope that you enjoy it, and appreciate any comments or feedback.

Thanks!

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Why I’m a detective

Detective dreams

When I was younger I used to daydream about being a detective. The lone sleuth piecing together the puzzle from the clues she’s unearthed, solving crimes and closing cases, slinking off to sniff out the next story. I’ve always been curious about all manner of things, and been able to be interested in things others might find mundane. I guess that’s partly how I wound up being a journalist, delighting in the questioning and questioning it took to get to the bottom of a story, or to find the jewel of information in among all the dead ends. It’s probably how I found myself in my first editorial position as staff writer for Collect It magazine.  I know my friends wondered how I could be so excited to spend hours talking to people about their ceramic pomander collections, or shelves full of flattened cereal boxes dating back to the 19th Century. But for the time that I spent with those people telling me about the most important things in their lives, for those minutes what was important to them became just important to me.

And so I guess it’s no surprise to me that I have created myself another career within the detective industry. For that’s what my work (and I use that term loosely) is like for me when I’m with a client. For that time that we are together, I am investigating all the information my client gives to me consciously or unconsciously, following threads and looking for clues that might lead to the wheres and the whys of their issues, unravelling their story to get to the bottom of what it is that’s causing the problem, searching for the evidence that their unconscious is using to perpetuate the condition, then piecing it all back together to find the clue that will lead to the ultimate goal: happiness.

Just a happy thought that came to me today as I was helping an inspirational client towards finding the solution herself to a question that’s been puzzling her for her whole life. Being a psychological detective is a fun job!

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