Dr Louise Hayes

✨ You didn’t get into this work to make yourself smaller. ✨

If you’re a woman in a helping profession, whether you’re a psychologist, counsellor, coach, or social worker, you know what it’s like to support others through change and growth. But how often do you give yourself permission to step into your full potential?

Join us, Dr. Louise Hayes and Rikke Kjelgaard for Take Up Space, a live 2-part online training designed to help you stop holding yourself back, find your voice, and lead with courage and authenticity.
🗓 When: September 11 & September 25
⏰ Time: 8:00–10:00 CEST / 16:00–18:00 AEST (Recordings available for 3 months!)
🎟 Early bird pricing ($249 USD) ends September 1st!
👉 Link in comments. Reserve your spot or PM me for details.

We give so much to our clients and so little to our own professional reflection. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. My newsletter is one of the ways I try to create that space, for myself and for you. Subscribe at my website.

I say this with love: another workshop probably isn't the answer. I know because I've been there. What actually moves the needle is deliberate practice and honest collaboration. I write about what that looks like in my newsletter, head to my website to sign up.

We've been taught to treat discomfort as a stop sign. I'd like to gently suggest it might be an arrow. I write about how to move with discomfort rather than away from it in my newsletter. Visit my website to sign up.

If something feels uncomfortable right now, in your practice, in your learning, in your life, that might be exactly the right feeling. I write about sitting with that signal rather than escaping it. Subscribe to my newsletter at my website.

I love my old slippers as much as anyone. But I've learned that the most interesting things happen when I lace up something new. I write about stepping outside the habit zone in my newsletter, head to my website to subscribe.

remind myself of this often. Growth isn't always loud or visible, but it's always happening. You are not who you were. I write about the quiet, ongoing work of becoming in my newsletter. Subscribe at my website.