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Meeting Your Inner Critic
The voice that runs underneath everything. Where it came from, what it is trying to do, and how to meet the inner ally beside it, so you can listen without obeying.
Full courses for women in the second half of life. Clinical depth, practices you can feel and not just understand, and the part that reaches past technique to who you are underneath. Built by a clinical psychologist who has done this work for more than fifteen years, and done it on herself.
I am a clinical psychologist. For more than fifteen years I have done this work with real people - in psychiatric hospitals, in private practice, on retreat, and now as Clinical Director of Psychotherapy and Counselling at The School of Positive Psychology in Singapore. Every course is built on the evidence-based approaches I use in the room: schema therapy, ACT, attachment, and polyvagal theory.
And I have not only studied this work. I have lived it. I am in the second half of life myself, and for years I have done my own work - in therapy, in meditation, and in deep experiential and embodied work on retreats across India, Bali, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand. I have gone to my own edges, into the places most of us are trained not to feel. That is deliberate. I know from the inside that understanding is not what changes us - experience is, lived in the body. So there is nowhere I ask a woman to go that I have not gone first.
Clinical depth and lived depth, in the same hands. I have sat in both chairs.
Designing a course is not a new format I am trying on. It is what I have done, in one form or another, for most of my working life.
It began before psychology. In Ukraine, I helped build a new university department and wrote its teaching programmes from the ground up. When I moved into clinical work, I kept building - a twelve-week group programme inside a psychiatric hospital, curricula in private practice, retreats in Bali and Koh Phangan, years of university lecturing. Today I design and oversee the clinical training at a psychotherapy school, and I teach and supervise the therapists coming through it.
So when you take one of these, you are not getting a clinician's first attempt at a course. You are getting the thing I have spent a career learning how to build.
I wanted the tools I use with clients to be available to women who are not in therapy with me, and may never be.
Therapy is one door. It is also expensive, and not everyone wants it, or can reach it. These courses are another door - the same practices I use in the room, in a form you can work with on your own, at a price that does not put them out of reach.
They are not therapy, and I am clear about that. But they are not light either. They carry the real work - not only the cognitive, but the emotional and the body-based practices that actually change something. The kind you do slowly, on yourself, more than once.
Taking what usually sits behind a clinical door, and putting it in your hands.
The inner critic, your emotions, your body, and the strategies that built you. The full courses are in development and opening soon.
The voice that runs underneath everything. Where it came from, what it is trying to do, and how to meet the inner ally beside it, so you can listen without obeying.
The feelings that competence has been masking. How to regulate first, then to meet what is actually there - guilt, shame, fear, and the anger that does not have to destroy anything.
Coming back to a body that has changed, without fighting it. The body as something to inhabit rather than fix, and what it is to live in the one you have now.
The ways you learned to cope, achieve, please, and hold it all together kept you safe once. In midlife they stop working, and start to cost you. This course is about seeing the strategies for what they are, and choosing what to keep.
The full courses are opening soon. Join the list and I will tell you the moment the first one is ready.
Resources, reflections, and updates on the courses and upcoming programmes - for women navigating the second half of life.
Thank you for joining. You'll hear from me the moment the first course opens.