My Story

Leaving behind a difficult family life, I moved to university, seeking education, hoping that it would provide me independence, safety and a better life. Upon graduating, I headed from New Zealand to Australia.
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After five years of work in the healthcare industry, I followed my urge to travel. Exploring many different cultures and countries along the way, I eventually found solace, peace, and freedom in the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean, pausing my travel to work as a scuba diving instructor.

After two years of living my dream life, a diving incident left me paralysed by the bends. After intensive treatment in a dive recompression chamber, I was very grateful to recover the ability to walk (only 2% of people do!)  Unfortunately I was left with intense headaches and other health issues. My youthful ‘whole life plan’ was disrupted which catapulted me deep into depression and addiction.My brother noticing my life was spiriling downhill enticed me back to New Zealand.

This is when my journey into complementary healing modalities began. (And has never ended.) Recognising the limits of science, which I had so revered in my younger years, I started my search beyond the boundaries of science, initially for my physical, mental, and emotional needs and eventually to offer to others.

I am now living the life of my dreams. I am happily married with three awesome adult children, surrounded by a community of loving friends and extended family, when I’m not enjoying one of my many hobbies I get to spend my time doing the work I love.

Looking back, I can now connect the dots and understand I was on a self-directed healing education. The more I studied, grew, and witnessed the healthy return to wholeness in myself and others that a combination of modalities offered, the more attracted I grew to weave them all together to create my unique offering.

I would love to spend time with you to listen, see and understand what you’re currently experiencing.

From there we will playfully journey, using many different modalities, to reach your desired outcome.
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Warmly,
Cheryl

Bespoke Life Coaching

Taking an integrated approach to well-being, Cheryl's coaching invites you to explore the deeper patterns and root causes behind what you’re experiencing, creating space for long-term healing and growth.
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Lasting Transformation
You will define your life challenges in solvable terms, create a map for overcoming obstacles,  and reach an empowering future.

"My son is where he is now thanks to Cheryl's coaching. I never expected he would ever live such a fullfilling life."

‍Compassionate support
If you or a loved one are going through challenging times Cheryl's coaching will give you a space to be real, raw and deeply nutured. ‍

“The skilled compassionate support Cheryl offered through my husbands chronic illness was invaluable.”

Strategic Intervention Coaching

‍Cheryl guides you to define your life challenges in solvable terms to create a map for overcoming obstacles, co-creating solutions and reaching an empowering future. Using somatic and neuro‑linguistic techniques, she anchors new potentialities within the conscious mind, the senses and the subconscious, creating lasting change.

Mindfulness 

Mindfulness is an evidence-based approach to expanding self awareness. It helps us become aware of the unhelpful patterns in our thinking and remove subconscious blocks, self-sabotaging behaviors and habits.  Access Ovio Mindfulness course videos.

Herbalism

Whether you're experiencing stress, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, or simply feeling out of sync, Cheryl offers gentle, natural support through personalised herbal remedies and infusions. These plant allies can help calm the nervous system, boost resilience, and promote clarity. Herbalism adds a nurturing, earth-based dimension to our sessions, reconnecting you with nature's wisdom and your body’s innate ability to heal and thrive.

The Clarity Process

Cheryl has developed an innovative modality known as The Clarity Process . In these sessions, she invites you to externalise your thoughts by using objects to represent aspects of your life. As you arrange and move the pieces to reflect different perspectives and possibilities, your situation literally takes shape in front of you. This tactile, visual process helps you gain clarity, make empowered decisions and uncover insights that can be difficult to reach through conversation alone. With Cheryl’s gentle guidance, many clients experience breakthrough moments and lasting shifts in awareness.

Bach Flower Essenses

Cheryl creates personalised combinations of Bach Flower Essences to provide gentle emotional support during difficult times. Flower essences are safe, natural plant extracts developed by Dr. Edward Bach to promote emotional health and balance

Systemic Constellations

Sometimes, despite our greatest efforts, we find ourselves struggling to live our lives fully or relate well within our family. Sometimes we need to look beneath the mind and look into the family system we were born into and the patterns running our life. Through the lens of constellations, we may see deeper patterns in ways that allow new pathways of connections, healing and resolution.

Intuition 

‍Intuition is an innate sense present in all humans, yet it’s rarely taught in the Western world. As children, many of us are discouraged from relying on intuition, even though studies show that our “gut feel” is often faster and more accurate than our thoughts. Cheryl guides you in learning to trust your intuition za powerful tool you can use throughout your life.

Energy coaching

‍When we are feeling blocked, stuck, used, conflicted, burnt out, or exhausted we experience this energetically as well as mentally and physically.

Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal psychology Is an evidence-based approach to broadening one’s perspective on life and recognising the connections between human consciousness and the collective consciousness. Powerful images found within the mythic Tarot archetypes take us away from the clutter of our lives to connect with a deeper sense of wholeness. Archetypes are commonalities in the evolution of the human psyche that have existed for humans across different cultures, belief systems and time periods. They help us find our place in humanity and the cosmos, inspiring hope and optimism.