About your Therapeutic Coach
Madeleine Funnell
I have completed my MSc Thesis and studies in Transpersonal Psychology, Spirituality and Consciousness. My dissertation research topic explored:
The link between Mind and Body – A Heuristic Inquiry exploring the lived experience of adults who have endured medically unexplained and psychosomatic symptoms from a transpersonal perspective.
My professional practicing qualifications include an MSc. in Psychology and expand into the fields of transpersonal psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, client-centred counselling, NLP and EFT.
I have been a Reiki Master since 2009 and integrate this healing practice into my psychotherapeutic coaching sessions. I have a Diploma and Advance Diploma in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy and Counselling and have attended many certificated courses and CPD workshops.
Since a young age, I have been interested in psychology and inner-spirituality, including the deeper meaning of life and its challenges. Through personal subjective experiences, I have discovered a link between trauma, spirituality, growth and transformation. I am constantly delving deeper into this concept and exploring ways of enhancing the therapeutic processes for my clients.
Back in the early 80's, as a curious, sensitive teenager, I read various books that satisfied my curiosity and provided some answers to the questions I was asking at the time about what was normal and what was abusive behaviour. This was the start of my transformative journey of challenging my conditioned core-beliefs about the world and myself. I was transforming into an open - minded spiritual seeker. This transformation was underpinned by reading another life changing book called the Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield in the mid 90's.
I was overcoming childhood trauma and trying to understand those around me and myself. My passion and fascination for psychological behaviours and processes navigated me into the transpersonal field of psychology deepening my inquiry, direction and increasing the depth of my therapeutic coaching work.
I formed REAL Life Therapy in 2004. My professional experience over the past twenty years has been focussed on facilitating a therapeutic process for adults and teenagers, utilising therapeutic coaching skills to change the way individuals think and feel about themselves and their lives. I empower clients and individuals to obtain different perspectives with confidence, using a variety of tools with a multifaceted approach. I work with clients and individuals to improve their lives fostering growth and transformation which navigates a healing process that comes from within to journey through to WHOLENESS, transcending ego defences and an expands their conscious awareness.
Mission Statement
I am passionate about the transformative field of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy. Its depth navigates beyond the reaches of other psychotherapeutic processes and the human experience with an overarching theme of transformation and growth.
REAL Life Therapy has evolved to meet the needs of its clients and will continue to evolve to bridge the gap in the changing world of Science, Medicine and Psychology.
"Combining on-going training, transformation and development that nurtures personal experience. Maintaining a constant motivation and desire to develop a meaningful pathway, working from my heart-centre and emotional mind creating advanced empathy, compassion, value and respect, accelerating the journey of others when asked.”