I have sat in a car on a cliff in the rain on the 33rd consecutive day
of crying and wondered if I wanted to go on.
I have lost myself so completely inside a relationship
that I did not recognise the person I had become.
I have given everything to people who took it without question
and privately wondered what was wrong with me.
I couldn’t regulate my emotions around certain people.
I took everything personally. I over-explained, over-apologised,
over-functioned — and still ended up not heard.
Nothing was wrong with me. But something needed to change.
That moment on the cliff was not my ending. It was my turning point.
My childhood was cruel. At 16 I ran away.
I chose homelessness over staying. I was shunned.
I walked out with nothing and built a life anyway.
What I did not know then was that leaving physically
does not mean leaving psychologically.
The unconscious patterns came with me
— the belief that love had to be earned,
that I was only worth something when I was needed,
that being alone meant something was fundamentally wrong with me.
I married a controlling man. I stayed 14 years.
Put myself through university. Built a career.
From the outside it looked like I had it together.
Then I was diagnosed with cancer. Hodgkin’s disease.
Two years of chemotherapy and a full stem cell transplant.
Nine blood transfusions
— the treatment the organisation denied my father.
I accepted every one to stay alive for my daughters.
I'll always remember the moment I gripped the bathroom
sink in UCH Hospital London.
I was so physically weak from undergoing a full stem cell transplant.
With no hair, in a hospital gown, I caught myself in the mirror.
That was my deciding point.
I had to learn to love myself. I ended my marriage.
I had contorted myself around destructive patterns
in the name of love for years.
Now it was my turn to focus on creating a loving relationship within
and what I got is this life full of gentle, kind love and fulfillment.
I understood for the first time how my emotional responses
— the shutting down, the over-reacting, the inability to regulate around certain people
— were not character flaws. They were learned. And they could be unlearned.
I changed my internal narrative.
I built real emotional intelligence — understanding what was driving
every reaction, every choice, every person I kept attracting.
I built genuine self-worth from the ground up.
Today I live on a houseboat on a n English country river
with my golden retriever Honey, my cats, and the ducks that arrive every morning.
I travel in my motorhome to places that matter to me.
I have built a life that is entirely and unapologetically mine.
I am not selling you a concept. I am showing you a life.
26 years of Jungian psychotherapy and counselling.
Degree level training.
And an intuitive ability to see straight through to what is actually
happening underneath what someone is telling me.
As an Emotional Intelligence Mentor I
work across every area of your life
— not just your relationships.
Your emotional responses at work, your self worth,
your internal narrative, your ability to regulate under pressure,
set boundaries without guilt, trust your own decisions,
stop self-sabotaging, and build a genuine relationship with yourself
that changes everything else.
You overthink. You over-function.
You take things personally and can’t always explain why.
You shut down in conflict or over-react past the point you intended.
You keep ending up in the same dynamics
— in relationships, at work, with yourself — and cannot understand why nothing shifts.
You have tried therapy. Something is still not working.
You are not looking for more talking.
You are looking for someone who sees what is actually in the way
and gives you the strategies to change it — permanently.
Ready to stop going in circles.
Ready to understand your unconscious patterns and emotional responses.
Ready to become your own advocate.
You have found the right person.
Many clients tell me this single session gave them more
clarity than years of previous therapy.
No pressure. No sales pitch.
Just an honest conversation with someone who has been exactly
where you are and found the way through.
Whenever you are ready. I am here.
"I’d been feeling stuck for a long time and nothing I tried was helping. In the first session Lisa picked up on something I’d said almost in passing — I don’t even think I noticed I’d said it — and it opened up something I’d been carrying for years without realising. I felt understood in a way I hadn’t expected.”
"The shadow work took some courage if I’m honest. Looking at parts of yourself you’ve spent a long time avoiding isn’t easy. But Lisa held it in a way that felt safe and I never felt judged. Coming out the other side I feel lighter than I have in years. Like something heavy I’d forgotten I was carrying has finally been put down.”
“I thought I’d processed everything after leaving a difficult relationship. What I didn’t realise was how much fear was still quietly driving my decisions. Lisa spotted it straight away and helped me understand where it was coming from. More than that she gave me practical ways to work with it when it showed up. My daily life feels genuinely different now.”
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