Life Coach and Counsellor in Melbourne.

Drawing on my own lived experience

At the age of 23, a serious nervous breakdown left me with global amnesia. This and other symptoms were diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

What followed over decades was a search for the truth: the sense of self, personality and values I’d lost. Throughout the process, I had to find ways to overcome extreme fears and despair, whilst developing a new identity.

Without help, I battled alone for years to reinvent myself. I didn’t realise, at the time, that the techniques I developed in my desperation to help myself would one day help thousands of others to transform their lives.

A quest for spiritual meaning

My quest for meaning and purpose led to a fascination with world faiths, philosophies, myths and metaphysics. This generated an interest that has led to fulfilling and life-long study. As a result, my broad knowledge is enhanced by a deep understanding of universal laws and acute intuitive insights.

It is this rich experience, knowledge and understanding that I bring to my meetings with you.

Early Career

After working in marketing and public relations in England, Belgium, and South Africa, I came to Australia. Here, I was offered a position in human resources.

As a recruiter, I discovered that young people applying for jobs were totally unprepared. Moreover, at the time, secondary-school teachers had no resources or training in school-to-work transition.

I left the corporate world to conduct workshops in schools throughout Melbourne. I wrote the first prescribed school-to-work-transition text, used in schools throughout Australia and New Zealand for over a decade. I am told that school-to-work transition programs thereafter were based on my model.

Shortly afterwards, I was commissioned to write another text, this time for adult career-changers in government-retraining programmes. Suddenly, I was an ‘expert’ in Australia’s career-planning industry.

Finding my vocation

Because schools had no funding available, I developed short courses in adult education centres to pay for my costs. Short courses, at the time, only focused on professional development. I was the first to offer courses on personal topics like confidence-building and assertiveness. Peers refer to me as a catalyst and pioneer in Australia, and consider my courses a benchmark for excellence.

I kept developing resources for more and more topics, each time offering what no one else was yet doing. In this way, Wise Ways was born.

I drew on my varied corporate experiences to become a corporate consultant, trainer and executive coach, and gained a reputation for getting results.

Because of my personal story and my broad professional experience, I was regularly contacted for interviews and to provide expert commentary for Australia’s national press, radio and television.

I produced and presented the Wise Ways weekly talk-back radio show on life, love, work and soul, long before podcasts came into being.

When callers began asking me questions, I realised my heart was in helping people. I retrained as a life coach, counsellor and later, as a Clinical Supervisor, mentoring other therapists to give of their best.

A wise way to transform your life

Embracing personal transformation can lead to profound shifts in one’s life journey. Let me be your life coach or counsellor.

Interviews

Since 1981, Jacquie has been featured in national and regional newspapers, glossy magazines,
on national television and talk-back radio shows. She covered personal, spiritual and professional growth.