Yvonne Fernando

In a recent mindfulness session, where the theme was "gratitude in difficult times" we were asked to write down someone we felt gratitude towards and why. Straight away I thought of Yvonne as I am so grateful for all her help. She is kind, compassionate, thoughtful and supportive and together with her loving dogs, Harlee and Little Bear, have made such a huge difference to my life to which I am eternally thankful.

I have known Yvonne now for nearly 10 years. I was put in touch with her by my GP when I was going through a number of life changing events. I found Yvonne to be extremely professional. Our sessions felt conversational and natural, but always had a point. Yvonne also introduced me to mindfulness which I still use on a daily basis. I would highly recommend Yvonne to anyone.

I have been seeing Yvonne for over 3 years now. After work related stress which led to anxiety and depression I needed an approach which would truly help me to realign, refocus and rebuild my life. She was recommended via my local GP surgery and I have never looked back. Yvonne’s approach to NLP and life coaching is truly refreshing and inspiring and to top it all off her furry family also form part of the sessions (LuLu, Little Bear and Maus). I couldn’t recommend Yvonne highly enough for her one on one sessions tailored to your needs to her amazing workshops throughout the year including ‘Hello Summer’ and ‘Managing Christmas’. Thankyou Yvonne for your continued support and dedication- you have unlocked the opportunity within me to truly grow as a person.

I have attended a number of Yvonne’s 8 week Mindfulness Meditation courses and found her to be a truly gifted, gentle, open and non judgemental individual.

The skills that she has introduced me to have been transformative in enabling me to overcome previously debilitating depression, anxiety and PTSD and to regain my sense of self and balance in life (which at times, I never envisaged could be possible).
I am now able to be still and calm my own mind and body, to look quietly “within” without fear of anxieties overtaking and have found my original self, my own quiet strength, hope, happiness and the confidence to follow long held dreams and new possibilities.

Yvonne’s classes have enabled me to use the techniques she has taught to draw on my inner resources which have been invaluable in looking after myself and my family during challenging times.
I highly recommend her.

I saw Yvonne at the end of last year, beginning of 2020. I was struggling with anxiety bought about by what I believe to be retirement from a full time job. I was waking in the night with vivid dreams on a host of subjects which, whilst not being significant, were sufficiently intrusive to make me needlessly worried and concerned. Whilst not needing to be I became anxious on historic events in my past and decisions I had made. This influenced my current thinking and brought about undue concerns about my future. Yvonne helped me to adopt Mindfulness as a key part of my way of living and to also practice relaxation and meditation. The sessions with her have changed my life with anxiety playing a second fiddle to my more relaxed way of life. My anxious dreams are now very few and far between. I can not thank Yvonne enough.

I have had the opportunity to refer patients to Yvonne for a number of years now. She has proved tremendously helpful with patients strugging with stress, anxiety, low mood and a loss of purpose/direction. She has led very popular mindfulness/meditative group classes here at the surgery in the past, and hopefully once Covid19 disruptions have subsided, these can resume - they have been very helpful for many people.

i am pleased to be able to endorse her excellent work.

As mentioned in Yvonne’s case study Following an emergency landing I developed a fear of flying. With just 3 or 4 one to one NLP sessions with Yvonne I am able to put my fear of flying to one side and can now fly quite happily. She was very understanding and the NLP sessions were informative, fun and totally cured my fear of flying.

This was the only experience I have had of coaching, and I didn't really know what to expect, all I knew was that I needed some support to help me get through the challenges I had to face if I wanted a better future for me and my daughters. The work that Yvonne and I did together, gave me a sense of direction and was an empowering experience.

Yvonne helped me realise I needed to find my voice after years of not feeling quite good enough in some way. At last, I realised that I had everything I needed inside me to stand in my own power and move forward with confidence.

I know now, a few years on, that the anxiety I was experiencing had a purpose in my life, it served to protect me, but it doing so it held me back. Yvonne helped me see things from a different perspective, and the sessions were the start of new direction, a new chapter for me.

The process that I was guided through opened up a new world of possibilities - it helped me see things more clearly.

I admired the way that Yvonne managed to see through the 'fog' that I presented to her and she managed to clear it to show me the way forward from there. To this day I don't really understand what Yvonne did with me, but I trusted her, from the first session I started to make progress, and it was the start of a journey of self discovery that I'm still on. I'm grateful to Yvonne for helping me to find the best way forward for me.

Thank you

I have seen Yvonne over the past two years, which started with me feeling overwhelmed with feelings of anxiety and negative thinking, being unable to get up and out, interrupting my studies and struggling to do what I wanted, or even know what I wanted. That seems like a different person now. Yvonne was always super supportive, gave me the space and time to talk about difficult things, gave me exercises that suited my visual way of thinking, and was made it easy when I wanted to have more appointments after a few months without. Booking appointments was really flexible, giving me the opportunity to go put in to practice what I'd learnt, or I knew I could phone her and book a sooner appointments if I was struggling (very different and much more helpful than 'once a week for six weeks and you're out' with previous counselors). Even now, going off to uni I know I can contact Yvonne if, for whatever reason, I need to. Her dog was really helpful as well, always picking up if there was something I wasn't saying, or something I had disregarded as silly. With Yvonne's help I have more confidence in what I want to do, how to cope with difficulties, and who I am.