Holistic Well-being Coaching

Are you 

• Encountering a life adversity and feeling overwhelmed, such as losing a loved one, having an employment or health issue, having a relationship problem or going through a divorce, looking after someone seriously ill or getting stuck in a challenging legal battle et al? 
• Feeling not able to move forward from previous tragic and traumatic happenings? 
• Feeling that having someone to confide your difficulties or struggles is no longer working? 
• Having psychosomatic symptoms or medically unexplained problems as a result of enduring large amount of stress, psychological and emotional pain? 
• Unable to bear the long waiting time any more to see a NHS psychological professional?  
• Not sure if the therapies received are the most appropriate and effective? 
• Receiving routine NHS or private psychological therapies but finding them not that helpful, and wanting to look into matters differently and creatively? 

Services provided: 

• Listening to your stories and concerns to identify your coaching needs related to health issues 
• Obtaining your opinions on the shortages of routine NHS or private psychological therapies, , which you might be receiving or have received previously, including 
• (1) Counselling 
• (2) Cognitive behavioural therapy
• (3) Drama therapy 
• (4) Therapies offered by clinical psychologist
• Identifying if there exists a need for you to look into the issues from the perspectives of East wisdom
• Guidance on scrutinizing the issues from the perspectives of Eastern philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, Tao Te Ching, Taoism and  Japanese Zen 
• Teaching you a wide range of skills to minimise the level of stress and its impact as well as control the psychosomatic symptoms, such as acupressure, mindfulness, Jingan and Changshou Gong
• Offering various interesting classes to enable you to divert your energy on learning and self improvement, such as calligraphy, dance and language courses et al 

Or you might not be experiencing life hardship currently, but prefer to get yourself prepared to avoid being shocked greatly when any unexpected catastrophic circumstances occur in the future. 

If any of your answers to the above questions is yes, you are in the right place to receive holistic coaching to improve your well-being. 

What makes my coaching irreplaceable? 

I had encountered many devastating life adversities continuously in the past decades, more than those listed on the top of this web-page. Objectively speaking any single one of the traumatic incidents could have easily knocked one down completely or made one develop destructive behaviours or living patterns , but I eventually survived with a positive, healthy and strong mind as well as enthusiasm for a new life.  

After obtaining a Bachelor Degree of Medicine in China I was awarded prestigious international scholarships to complete the studies of Master Degree of Health Science (MSc) and Master of Public Health Program (MPH) in Finland and the UK. I had also worked for the largest NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Centre in London as a Health Promotion Specialist. The centre provides bowel cancer screening to over one million residents in six boroughs. Further I completed various UK based training on psychological well being. I am also a Mental Health First Aider and worked in the field of mental health.

Possessing expertise on Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as well as psychological well-being, I might be in a better position to seek for help from various healthcare professionals, such as those offering psychological therapies listed above. I truly appreciate having opportunities to receive those services, but simultaneously I do sense their limitations. 

I had endeavoured to dig deep and hold myself tightly through searching for new resources to maximise my resilience and problem solving capacities. So had I tried hard to contemplate human life and sufferings from alternative perspectives, such as wisdom embedded in Eastern philosophy, Buddhism and Chinese Taoism. It provides me with more persuasive and fresher angels to gain insights into torments and agony. Secondly the perception of Japanese people on trauma, dilemmas, grievance and death et al completely blew my mind away. It generates compelling reasons to persuade one to accept stress and pain thus to continue living positively. 

Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn developed mindfulness based on his learning from Korean and Vietnamese Buddhist Monks. I have also been practising mindfulness and meditation as part of Jingan and Changshou Gong. It can not only prevent diseases and illness but also promote better psychological well being. So is it effectual to relieve psychosomatic symptoms. 

In summary as a holistic well-being coach, I 

• Possess comprehensive knowledge on health related subjects from the perspectives of East and West
• Specialise in Health Promotion with a trackable educational background and work experiences; 
• Received extensive training on psychological health, and being a certified Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England); 
• Have in depth knowledge on Chinese Buddhism and Taoism; 
• Have a great interest in Japanese and Korean cultures, particularly how life adversities are perceived and handled in their cultures; 
• Have experiences of receiving Western psychological therapies and realising their impediments; 
• Possess lived experiences of surviving from a sequence of long lasting catastrophic incidents; 
• Have an awe-inspiringset of skills ranging from languages, cultural insights, art such as Traditional Chinese Calligraphy, dances of Chinese ethic minorities, Korean Pop dance and Japanese Pop dance, meditation, Jingan and Changshou Gong as well as acupressure 
• Utilised the multidisciplinary resources and tools to survive from the adversities and my own psychosomatic symptoms have been effectively controlled or eradicated