Mission Statement

For most of my life, I've been interested in the relationship between what happens to us, what repeats, and what becomes possible once we understand what's going on behind the scenes. Many people sense more than they can easily explain, and part of my work is helping give language to that experience, so you can decide what it means to you.

Soulchology grew from that interest. It brings together symbolic systems, psychological frameworks, lived experience, and independent thought to help people make sense of their lives without surrendering judgement to someone else's authority. The interpretation stays yours.

Soulchology sits outside spiritual escapism and rigid systems that ask people to abandon their own judgement. It explores symbolic patterns, inherited narratives, and recurring themes that shape identity, choice, and timing throughout life.

Drawing from a smorgasbord of ancient symbolic languages, depth psychology, and evidence-based therapeutic tools, sessions offer different ways to examine what you're experiencing and decide what is useful, practical, and personally meaningful to you.

Because insight matters, but what you do with it matters more.

Background & Approach

As an adopted child of the closed-era 1970s, early attachment and abandonment experiences deepened my sensitivity and emotional awareness. Naturally attuned to subtle energies, I’ve experienced paranormal phenomena and psychic abilities since childhood.

Over time, I learned to work with that sensitivity more discerningly, rather than letting it determine what I believed or how I interpreted what I experienced.

With over fifty years of personal and professional experience and over 10,000 coaching hours, my approach is considered, discerning, grounded, and trauma-aware. Sessions can combine intuitive observations with evidence-based methods including Trauma-Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (TFACT) and somatic awareness.

Deliberately and by choice, I’m not a ‘licensed mental health professional’. My conscious decision was to create a grounded yet fully intuitive practice that ensures care and integrity, draws upon extensive experience, ACT and somatic awareness, with appropriate referral if needed.

My creative and esoteric professional journey has included volunteering as a Youth Mentor with the Graeme Dingle Foundation and participation in Toastmasters International, reflecting my dedication to service, confidence-building, and community contribution. A lifelong learner and researcher, I continue to evolve my practice to better serve others, integrating emerging understanding with lived experience.

Survival Instincts Are Not A Trend

I value formal education; however, I don’t believe the intuitive and holistic arts should be commercialised or confined by academic gatekeeping. ‘Back in the day’, I spent cringe-tastic amounts of money on ‘certificates’ in crystals, energy healing, and similar modalities - learning nothing I hadn’t already gained naturally or from books, all whilst believing I needed to be ‘certified’ to practise.

Pick up a book, listen to your feelings, and learn to trust your own instincts. You should never need a ‘certificate’ to practise these skills - they’re an innate language of the soul, not a credential to be earned. Real wisdom grows through experience, humility, and attentive observation, not through systems that profit from spiritual curiosity.

We live in a world where fear of independent thought has become an epidemic - and, unsurprisingly, it’s often exploited and marketed. Too many people are afraid to trust their own judgement, and that hesitation has become a booming industry. Independent thought is in short supply, and someone is more than happy to sell you a roadmap, package it in a ‘certificate’, or convince you that you can’t practise your own intuition without formal validation.

Soulchology, by contrast, focuses on an independent path and draws from symbolism. Astrology, among other symbolic systems, can help you examine recurring themes, inherited narratives and patterns of response, giving you another perspective from which to decide what still matters and what you want to change.

Academia…

Professional Coaching & ACT

• Level 4 Diploma in Life Coaching with Distinction – Association for Coaching, Blackford Centre, UK

• Internationally Accredited NLP & Neuro-Semantics Practitioner – The Coaching Room, Auckland

• Communication & Coaching Essentials Graduate – The Coaching Room, Auckland

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), ACT for Trauma, ACT for Excessive Compliance (People-Pleasing), and Focused ACT (FACT) Brief Intervention – all with Dr Russ Harris, Australia.

• The Power of Embodied Transformation for Somatic Awareness Coaching – Coaches Rising (ICF Continuing Coach Education)

• DISC Training - London, UK

Trauma & Mindfulness

• Becoming Trauma-Sensitive: Theory and Skills to Make Meditation Safe and Effective – David Treleaven, Auckland

• Online courses in Transpersonal Psychology, CBT, and DBT

Mentoring & Community Work

• Youth Mentoring – Graeme Dingle Foundation, Auckland & Tauranga, New Zealand

Academic & Professional Development

• FdA Degree with Distinction in Graphic and Digital Design – Staffordshire University UK

• Speed Plus Business Mentoring Programme (Grant Awarded) – Staffordshire University UK

• Certified Practitioner in DISC Psychometric Profiling – The Coaching Academy UK

Psychometric & Intuitive Profiling

• My work draws on decades of experience with symbolic and intuitive systems, including Enneagram (love), Human Design (not so much), DISC (professionally trained in London, sometime around 2017), Numerology, Astrology, Lenormand, Tarot (all more or less self-taught from roughly 1988 onwards) and other forms of esoteric analysis.

  I’m fascinated by what these systems reveal when viewed together, including the patterns, contradictions, repetitions and nuanced details that can reflect how a person experiences themselves and the world around them.

• I keep my own personal profiles and full birth details private. Suffice to say, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time being the subject of my own experiments, and my own chart is a credential in its own right.

  What matters more is what I can perceive, interpret and connect when working with yours. I often share personal details and observations from my own vault of experience during sessions when they help someone feel seen, understood or validated.

  We’re often intuitively drawn to those who reflect something we recognise in ourselves, or who have already walked territory we’re trying to understand. And, sometimes recognising that someone else has experienced something similar is part of what can make a pattern easier to recognise in yourself.

… & The Woo Woo Wonderland

I’m a devoted crystal and stone-lover, but I highly recommend you’re discerning about how you learn about them. Some ‘courses’ were considerably more useful at emptying my bank account than expanding my understanding in the area they claimed to.

• Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master, Australia

• Crystology by Melody Levels 1 & 2, Auckland

• Meditation & Mindfulness incorporating Energy Healing with Colour and Art, Australia