Podcast

"Verna and I first met last year in an online business group. Her presence and energy meant that she really stood out from the crowd as a genuinely lovely woman. She radiated warmth and caring so I asked to exchange details and we subsequently chatted and arranged a session to discuss my situation. For the past 2 1/2 years I have been battling with the aftereffects of treatment and surgery for bowel cancer. No longer supported by my ex-partner, I chose to end our relationship and focus on restoring some normality to my health. At the time I met Verna, I was feeling lost, very much alone and in the grips of clinical depression. I was really struggling to see a way forward with my mental and physical wellbeing. Our sessions were all conducted online. I was anxious that this would affect the nature of the work, but my mind was put to rest as soon as we began. Verna has an extraordinarily calm and caring way about her. She listened to my story intently from everything that had been going on in my life over the ‘Cancer Years’ and further back into my childhood and was able to provide me a sense of calm and humanity that I really needed. Verna talked of ‘holding the space’ for me and she truly did that. Her insight, wisdom, direction, and sense of love were invaluable to me at the time, and she gave me some tools to use on a daily basis and a momentum I had not felt in a long time. Above all, Verna showed me that she actually cared and continues to do so. I wasn’t just another ‘case/patient/client’…something which I had felt with many professionals in the field over the years. She conducted our sessions with a great deal of attention and focus and would follow up regularly to ask how I was doing, as would a dear friend. All in all, I think the best way of describing my experience of working with Verna was that, more than anyone else during my recent journey, Verna made me feel truly ‘heard’, genuinely cared for and completely ‘held’. I will always be very grateful to her for that."