Mary Catherine McKenzie

-Appointments available Online now, for: Anxiety, Stress, OCD, Grief & Loss, Trauma, Burnout, Chronic pain, Expat counselling, Eating disorders, Career, Psychosomatic Illnesses, Self-confidence, Personal development, Life coaching, Leadership Coaching, and much more.. -60 minute sessions -Qualifications: MA Developmental Psychopathology; MA ICM; BA- Psych, soc; B Nursing -free 15 min introductory call / introduction available (realistic, sincere & empathic discussion) -Identifying your thoughts, feelings and behaviors, with empathic discovery of your intricacies, uncover hidden strengths, and helping you learn to thrive, are my core concerns for realizing your potential. -Exploring your dilemma/s will be undertaken in a mutual, non-judgemental and respectful way. -Enabling you to tell your story is essential, along with helping you to identify in which ways you need to approach problems, differently. -Our work, in tandem, will help you comprehensively pinpoint unhelpful thinking styles and behaviors, successfully challenge them, and evolve with more adaptive ways of coping. -Goal setting is an integral part of this. Having travelled extensively in Europe, and beyond -lived in Switzerland, Netherlands, and Croatia- then in Germany for over 9 years (Berlin, Kiel, etc) and having travelled to USA, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Poland, NZ, England, Scotland, Rep. Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales; and completion of an additional Masters programme degree in intercultural studies (clinical health focus Thesis), I fully recognise the challenges- both positive and difficult- in functioning in a different country to one's origins. -I will support you well, as an expat. Please kindly note: This is not an emergency counselling service. Emergency service contact numbers for Germany: 112; Telefonseelsorge: 0800 1110111/0800 1110222, and other free contacts (please locate a directory listing eg online) 5 Published academic research articles: 1/Advanced thinking on Trauma: Victims of Crime in the Mental Health Context (Peercite Journal of Mental Health); 2 & 3/The Importance of incorporating Risk Management & assessing... Traits during Job Recruitment Interviews, Performance Appraisals, and Post-critical Incidents (American Journal of Management; Peercite J MH); 4/Aftercare attendance and post- treatment functioning of severely...clients (McKenzie et al..) clinical journal: National Library of Medicine: Pubmed. 5/The Imperative for Identifying Personality Traits..Profiling perspective (American Journal of Applied Psychology).