After a number of decades working within many challenging environments from conflict to stressful and toxic corporate situations, all the while doing my best to manage my own mental health issues from a young age, I experienced a significant burnout in late 2000’s. This took me almost 3 years to ‘recover’ from, although it still remains in my awareness to this day, and became the catalyst for a desire to understand what happened at a neuroscientific level and how it might be predicted or even avoided, prompting a number of years of researching other people’s experiences, learning about brain functioning and systems, and ultimately providing global award winning (2021) educational workshops to large well known corporate organisations worldwide on practices to build cognitive resilience.
Whilst this was successful, I was not satisfied I was was doing all I could towards reducing the suffering in others, so I embarked on a five-year journey, training in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling & Psychotherapy, so I could not only try and prevent specific burnout suffering through workshops, but also help those who are already suffering from a wider range of mental health issues, as well as those who find themselves needing some help, after a bereavement or due to trauma both from childhood or more recent.
I am Laurence Nicholson Q.Med.Pa, FPMA, LL.B (Hons).
A Mental Health Resilience Coach, Grief-informed Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Traditional Usui Reiki Ryoho Master Teacher, Shaolin QiGong Coach, CMC Accredited Mediator, Global-Award Winning Mental Health Educator (2021), Event Speaker, NLP Master Practitioner, Behavioural Re-Alignment Therapist and published author.
I have spent over 30 years coaching private and corporate clients in improving performance and how to develop themselves. Typically the primary areas include ways to:
- Build self-confidence
- Overcome blocks to success (both personal and professional)
- Achieve goals
- Improve their quality of life
- Discover and explore optimising energies for wellness
I also offer Personal Counselling & Psychotherapy for when life becomes a struggle and your mental health starts impacting your everyday like, work and relationships.
My time & results proven approach utilises a combination of techniques and tools including, but not limited to, the following:
- Person-Centred, Gestalt, CBT, IFS and Transactional Analysis therapies
- Cognitive Learning sessions to understand how our brain works and how to optimise performance
- Intensive Life Coaching around personal or business projects
- Cognitive Re-alignment to combat self imposed barriers
- Thought Process Assessment and Cognitive Adjustment
- Advanced NLP Strategies
- Energy & Breath work through Shaolin QiGong and Usui Reiki
These techniques help to promote mental resilience, as well as address anxiety, depression, trauma, grief from death loss and non-death loss, addiction, abuse, bereavement care and support, plus crucial elements of peak performance and personal development, such as:
- Optimised cognitive performance and efficiency (better decision making)
- Cognitive Self-Healing and Thought Re-Alignment (ways to learn how to continue your change journey)
- Life Lessons (are you learning from your experiences?)
- Character Realisation (understanding who you are)
- Alternate Thinking (a fresh way to look at your choices)
- Positive Re-enforcement (identifying and re-confirming your strengths to aid confidence)
- Stress Management (are you letting stress direct your moods and choices?)
- Anger Management (techniques for avoiding destructive responses)
- Somatic Self-Care (creation of a personal calm through energy and breath work)
