To support, encourage, inspire, and facilitate you becoming the best person you can be in whatever arena you find yourself in.
Angie will match your commitment.
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Angieis committed to working collaboratively with you to realise your goals and aspirations, in the midst of self-doubt, confusion, helplessness, powerlessness, and sometimes despair. Angie will assist and support you to grow, change, and become the best person you want to, and can be, via self-understanding and self-empathy.
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Angie is a former world silver medallist, and former world record holder in the sport of Powerlifting. She lifted for Australia and New Zealand, attending three world championships, and holding several national titles without using performance enhancing drugs.
Angie has coached a number of beginners, intermediate and advanced powerlifters, facilitating and evaluating their needs for improved performance, including two lifters, of whom neither had held national rankings, the first to the title of 1983 New Zealand National Champion in the 75 kg division, and the second to the title of 1986 Australian National Champion in the 60 kg division.
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Performing at the elite level for more than a decade, Angie recognised that it is the mind that determines how well we perform on any given day, particularly on competition day. Angie began undergraduate training to become a sports psychologist, however failed the end of year statistics exam twice. As this was not the type of psychological approach she had in mind, she chose another major to complete a BA in Arts. Continuing her quest, Angie pursued a post-graduate Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy, which included a compulsory criteria of several hundred hours of personal psychotherapy. She has been working as a psychotherapist in private practice for twenty years.
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Having competed at the elite level, combined with sitting face-to-face working through and understanding the emotional/psychological world and individual life challenges of her clientele, Angie believes she offers a unique service to those who wish to be the best they can be, regardless of the arena they find themselves in, whether it be sports, arts, business, management or professional environments.
Angie is a co-author with Lee, R. R., Rountree, A., and McMahon, S. (2009). Five Kohutian Postulates:Psychotherapy Theory from an Empathic Perspective. New York. Jason Aronson.
