Testimonials

Knowing that you have relationship problems and actually identifying these problems correctly are two different things. I was falling into a lifestyle of just letting outside circumstances and events lead me and I had begun to think that I was no longer really in control of what was happening in my relationship and becoming dissatisfied and angry in some cases as a result.  Joan was excellent in helping me to identify and understand the underlying issues and offered very helpful solutions and helped me to understand myself and my relationships. From each session I was able to take away very clear and effective tools and ideas to help me deal with specific problems in my relationship. There was no judging, good or bad, just understanding and help. My sessions with Joan have helped enormously to realise new potential and look at life and living in a new way that helps to address the stressful times in a better and more positive way. Joan has instilled in me some very powerful ideas and fundamentals that have helped me to realise what I can and can’t control and to help me to look at things more positively and realise that I do have control and the ability to change, and that there is indeed power within.

Joan many thanks for all your help and support, the coaching sessions on skype have made a very positive difference to the way in which I think about and function in my relationship with my husband and in stressful and/or difficult situations with the kids.

I found my coaching experience with you extremely valuable. Your skillful coaching techniques helped me to dig deep on why and how I was struggling to manage my relationships at home and with my extended family and helped me discover so many things about myself that have given me much more confidence in myself. I can now deal much better with challenging situations before they turn into an argument and I can now make sure I take care of my own needs as well as those of my husband and family much more easily. There is no guilt any more!!

 

Joan, thank you SO MUCH for the fantastic session. Talking to you helped more than you can imagine. It made me realise where my insecurity is coming from and, before that, I had no awareness of it! And it gave me the confidence to know I can talk about it with him and a way of talking about it that won’t make me feel “like a crazy person” – which, incidentally, is what my ex used to accuse me of being when I pulled him up on his strange behaviour around other women.

When I’m with him I feel fantastic. It’s when I’m not with him, after a couple of days, I start to doubt his feelings and I don’t know why because he contacts me all the time with lovely messages and lets me know what he’s doing, who he’s with, sends me photos of his parents and baby nephew and so on.

I’ve realised it really IS me, not him. When I saw him the evening after I’d spoken to you, everything was well again (perfect, even) and he hasn’t mentioned the girl he was talking about since!

The next time I feel like I’m not trusting him, I’ll do what you say above, I can see the value in the exercise. Thank you again.

I’ve realised it really IS me, not him. When I saw him the evening after I’d spoken to you, everything was well again (perfect, even) and he hasn’t mentioned the girl he was talking about since!

 

The next time I feel like I’m not trusting him, I’ll do what you say above, I can see the value in the exercise. Thank you again.

 

I’m a confident, middle-aged businesswoman who has been dating a wonderful guy but the uncertainty of whether it’s “going anywhere” has been driving me crazy. I have a history of dating men who suddenly announce they’re “not ready” after I’ve fallen head over heels with them (and so I subsequently get very hurt), so I wasn’t sure if this was my baggage and I was looking for problems with my new man, or if I had a genuine reason to be concerned. And this has been affecting me very negatively, going round and round in my head, affecting my work, and causing me a lot of anxiety. In just 35 minutes on the phone, Joan got right to the root of what was going on with me and helped me to formulate a practical way of figuring out if this was him or me. Just by asking questions and without giving any advice – the mark of a true coach – she helped me to understand him better and have the confidence to explain my needs to him. She helped me figure out what I needed from him in order to stop worrying. The result is that I had a conversation with him the very next day, I explained what I needed from him but without coming across as needy, and his response was reassuring enough that I now feel relaxed about my relationship with him and the anxiety that I’ve had for the past few weeks has gone. I’m astonished. I didn’t even think this was possible. Joan, thanks so much.