I’ve worked with many executives, managers and staff members as a treating psychologist, consultant and colleague. Whether you’re a line manager, a CEO, or even a Board member, when you ‘fall from grace’, ‘hit the wall’, ‘stray from the herd’ or even become the target of someone’s malicious intent, it can get really rough. Surviving such dysfunctional experiences can require that you develop specific, specialised skills and situational awareness very quickly - and at a time when you may feel that you’ve got the least capacity to do so.

If this is your circumstance, I’ll bring to bear my Organisational Survival protocol, a specially designed framework to help you cope and even thrive despite adversity. I have created protocols specifically for Executive Survival, Manager Survival and Employee Survival, each of which recognises the all too common experience of people within organisations facing extreme experiences.

There’s an interesting phenomenon emerging that is helping us to reconnect to some ancient practices in a modern context. While stress levels, anxiety and depression are all on the rise in society, Forest Therapy, also known as Shrinrin-Yoku, refers to the practice of spending time in forested areas (or in the city context- parks) for the purpose of enhancing health, wellness and happiness. This practice is strongly supported by science and has measurable positive health and psychological outcomes.

According to the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, there are an infinite number of healing activities that can be incorporated into a walk in a forest, park or any other natural area. They suggest that an activity is likely to be healing when it makes room for listening, for quiet and accepting presence, and for inquiry through all eight of the sensory modes we possess.

I’m lucky enough to have several wonderful places right by my office that I visit regularly. So, why not give it a go!

I employ state of the art technology to further the effectiveness of the therapeutic work we do together. These include: EEG technology, Heart Rate Variability Technology (HRV-T) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Stress Reduction (MBCT-SR). Each of these approaches and technologies vary in their intent and affect. They range from improved focus, affect regulation, clarity of thinking, emotional and psychological stabilisation right through to a significant reduction in stress levels and a deep soothing of your mind.

Hypnotherapy is a useful tool that I employ in conjunction with other therapeutic methods to induce a trance-like state of focus and concentration. While in this state, I assist clients to turn their attention completely inward to find and utilise their natural resources to consider different approaches to issues, to new information, ways of reducing their anxiety in specific and general settings, and to reduce depression and distress.

Since hypnotherapy is an adjunct form of therapy, there are many applications such as treating anxiety, phobias, reducing undesirable spontaneous behaviour and increasing control. It can be used to help improve sleep, communication and relationship issues. Hypnotherapy can also aid in pain management. I also employ guided visualisation strategies which are basically similar techniques to hypnotherapy but without the specific ‘suggestions’.