Hello and Welcome
If you want to find a way to live more fully engaged with your life, or if you’d like to feel like you have more choice and agency, and want to feel happier, healthier and more fulfilled, I am so glad that you’ve found your way here. Whether you’re in crisis and feeling totally overwhelmed, or if you’re looking to really level-up and make meaningful and sustainable changes [or if you’re somewhere in between], you’re welcome here.
Through every stage of our lives, we face challenges, and there are times when adjusting and rising to those challenges may require support so that we can identify and access the new resources and skills necessary. That is absolutely normal and being able to reach out and ask for help is a really big step toward being able to grow and develop through the trials we face. So well done for taking this initial step, and I look forward to working with you.
What is Mindfulness-Based Therapeutic Coaching?
Mindfulness-Based Therapeutic Coaching is a collaborative therapeutic change process that integrates the principles of mindfulness, positive psychology, and coaching. It is a gentle, but powerful process that will help you identify and change long-standing habits and patterns that may be getting in the way of you being able to adjust and grow – a guided self-exploration process that helps you to create space for new experiences and a new way of being that feels more spacious, more in control and more fulfilled.
“Mindful awareness allows us to lean in to our vulnerability to create a space for therapeutic self-exploration, leading to meaningful change.”
About Susan’s Clients
Susan’s clients come from all walks of life and have chosen to work with her for varied reasons. Some are making a pro-active move to grow and develop, while others are struggling with a life challenge or transition [such as a new job, a new relationship status, a move to a new place, a difficult diagnosis or the death of a loved one] and are feeling stressed or stuck.
Steeped in years of experience working to support health & care practitioners, Susan is also particularly fond of working with women who feel like they’re juggling multiple responsibilities, trying to have a meaningful career, and take care of themselves and everyone else…
“It is so fulfilling to support women and watch them transform. Whether its from an overwhelmed bundle of frazzled nerves, to the calm, confident, compassionate Self that they really are, or watching them grow through career, or academic development. It is such a privilege to be a part of their journey, and such a meaningful part of what I do.” – Dr Susan McGarvie
Susan also works with organisations and teams to build cohesive, compassionate working environments that foster collaboration, creativity and innovation. Collaborative organisational partners she’s worked with include Rhodes University, Knysna-Sedgefield Hospice, HPCA, St Francis Hospice, and the Western Cape Department of Health.
Pillars of Support
1-1 Therapeutic Coaching sessions
Start your personalised change process. Learn to develop skills and resources to help you live a more intentional and fully engaged life. A happier, healthier, more connected life.
Group Workshops & programmes
Workshops & webinars related to mindfulness, compassion and related topics such as resilience, emotional and social intelligence, communication, etc can be tailored to suit your team or company’s needs.
Retreats
Work with us to design mindfulness and compassion-based retreats that are tailored to your group’s needs, or join one of our planned retreats.
Online options available for counselling, coaching and workshops.
Client Reviews
Resources
Befriending the Critical Voice: A Guided IFS Style Meditation
This ten minute guided meditation allows you to engage the critical voice with compassionate curiosity. It is a gentle practice that can have powerful therapeutic effect if practiced regularly and with deep compassion and patience.
Encountering the Body: A Guided Embodied Practice
This ten minute guided practice takes you through the process of tuning into the senses, body sensations, and the lived experience of compassionate curiosity. It also provides an opportunity for grounding and meta.
MindfulnessX: A 6-Dimensional Review
I feel I must premise this MindfulnessX review with the fact that as a mindfulness-based therapist & teacher I am definitely classed in the “converted” category regarding the value of mindfulness for and in therapy as well as in life. I must also caveat that I am...
