About Me

Hello and welcome

My name is Carol Millar I am an experienced Life Coach (COMENSA) and qualified High school educator / counsellor and special needs teacher. In addition, I have trained as a NARM therapist.

Working with children and teenagers gave me a greater understanding of how environmental failures impact on the developing child in terms of the adaptive strategies that they have to develop to manage their experience.

As my work expanded into working with young adults / professionals and parents. I began to see these same strategies show up in the here and now. Strategies that were essential to survive childhood experiences but are no longer necessary and impacting on the lives of my clients, so profoundly that they had become limiting, disconnecting and distressing for them. Along with a lingering sense of emptiness, physical exhaustion, and a feeling of being different in some way or damaged, with a profound lack of hope.

I began to look for a therapeutic approach that addressed trauma as a full body experience. One that has a lasting psycho-biological impact on the mind heart and body and how we relate to ourselves and engage with the world. I became aware of the Neuro-affective Relational Model (NARM) developed by Dr Laurence Heller in the US.

I completed a two-year NARM therapist training where I was able to explore and experience a very different approach to addressing the here and now impact of adverse childhood experiences and resolve complex developmental trauma.

Focus areas and experience with:

Career Coaching

Supporting young adults in finding meaning / purpose / direction – and those struggling to launch
Supporting adults with reinventing themselves – change in direction (mid-life)
Supporting adults transition into the legacy / wisdom phase of life (latter years)

Parent coaching

Supporting parents through the adolescent / teenage years
Supporting parents in understanding their relationship with themselves and what it means to be a ‘good enough mother / father’
Supporting parents during the empty nest chapter of their lives.

Addiction

Supporting adults with Substance use disorder (Alcohol / Drugs),Co – dependency Disordered eating.
Supporting family members to navigate their mental health and wellbeing while supporting their person struggling with addiction

Neurodivergence

Supporting teens and adults with ADHD / Autism and other learning difficulties to navigate a neurotypical world with a neurodiverse lens.

Ask Me Anything, Anytime.

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