I am a highly specialist counselling psychologist and cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
I have over 15 years of experience working in the NHS (primary and secondary care) and private practice as a psychologist.
My aim in founding Transform Your Mindset was to highlight to others how their thinking style and mindset affect and shape their emotions and behaviour. Mindset means ‘a setting of the mind’, it’s the lens you view the world through, it colours your perceptions.
Thoughts become perception and perception becomes reality, to change our reality we need to change our perception. Helping others to do this and lead a more fulfilling and mindful life has become my passion.
I trained to become a psychologist after 12 years in the beauty and cosmetic industry I realised that no matter how good you look on the outside if you don’t feel good on the inside, the negative impact on your sense of self is immense.
If your self-esteem is low and you suffer from low self-worth you cannot fill that void with dresses, makeup or shoes.
It might give you an immediate high and you feel good momentarily but it is very short-lived. Your negative feelings and inner critic soon become active again and take over.
It is this negative, critical, or passive mindset that is holding you back from being the best version of yourself and colours your perceptions of yourself the world and others.
During my career as a psychologist, I’ve helped many women learn to overcome this negative critical mindset and replace it with a more realistic, adaptive helpful mindset.
I have also struggled in the past with this. I let others walk over me and believed it was up to me to please others and put their needs above my own.
This meant that I wasn’t promoted in the way I perhaps should’ve been, I didn’t push myself forward, I allowed other people to take the lead.
However, I now know that it was my mindset that was holding me back which resulted in me not speaking or standing up for myself.
This caused me a huge amount of anxiety which I struggled with for many years.
Thankfully I have overcome many of my limiting beliefs and anxieties and have replaced them with a more helpful, assertive mindset.
How to be More Assertive is a FREE self-directed online course that will teach you the skills you need to know to take back control of your life and time.
