INTRODUCING WINNING ESSENCE

Winning Essence is here to provide you with everything you need to develop your potential whatever your psychological needs. From Music and the Arts, Sport and Mental Health through to the psychological difficulties of Diabetes management. If you feel that you are not showing yourself in the best light, if you are struggling with your mental health (e.g. Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Perfectionism amongst many others) or if you are simply not enjoying yourself as much as you would like, the answer may lie in speaking to our professionally qualified Chartered Psychologist, Gregory Daubney CPsychol.

Here at Winning Essence we provide tailored mental health provision to you based on leading scientific research. Our goal is to help you acquire the necessary skills and understanding of healthy psychological functioning to enable you to enjoy your life and achieve your goals - in whatever domain of life that is.

Mental Health:

Mental health is central to all areas of our functioning but not many people truly understand what a mentally healthy person looks and feels like. Mental health is not simply the absence of mental illness but covers all areas of psychological functioning and allows a thorough and willing engagement with life. The role of mental health has never been so prominent as it is today and there is so much information available that it can be very difficult to know where to start in taking care of your own mental health. That is understandable and even reading this is a great step forward to moving yourself towards your own improved mental health. Life itself is often challenging and produces great highs and deep lows just by the events that happen to us and how we interpret them. Visit our Psychological Therapy page to see how we can help you manage your mental health more effectively.

Diabetes Management:

Living with a chronic condition like diabetes (whether type 1 or type 2) can be very challenging and has lots of psychological challenges that are hard to manage. Our minds are naturally programmed to be judgemental (you probably don't choose to have a lot of your judgemental thoughts!) and there is no harsher critic than our own inner voice. Self-judgements about our abilities, our worth and our competencies are everyday occurrences and trying to regulate blood sugar levels provides our minds with a perfect daily environment in which to make further damaging self-judgements about ourselves and how capable we are to manage our condition. These judgements are reinforced by persistent reminders about the future consequences of poor management that we often read about, hear about or are told about by well-meaning people. Often, managing diabetes can feel very isolating and a futile exercise but speaking to Greg (as a type 1 diabetic since 1988) in a judgement free area will provide you with the opportunity to explore what you are truly feeling and what support you need to continue to live with this life-long condition. Greg has years of experience in living with this condition and fully understands the psychological implications of managing this condition. So, why not visit our Diabetes page to find out more about how we can support you further.

Performing Arts:

There are great benefits to be obtained from pursuing a career in the performing arts. A varied workload, spontaneity, doing what you love and many more. However, the performing arts are require working in a very psychologically challenging environment and specialist help is needed to help manage the significant psychological challenges that this career raises. Having worked in conjunction with BAPAM as a Practitioner Psychologist, Greg has significant experience in helping professionals navigate the psychological landscape around working in the performing arts in music, acting and dance. Visit our Music page to see how we can help you manage the psychological aspects of working in the performing arts industry.

Sport:



The diagram to the right here shows a visual representation of how sportspeople operate at their best when competing. What we see most often is that people focus heavily on three of the four areas of this diagram (Technical; Tactical and Physical) but either don't know how to, or are choosing not to, focus on the mental area that enables all other areas to flourish. This has a big advantage because there are huge gains that can be made in your sporting performance by developing key psychological skills to take your game to the next level. Visit our Sport page to find out more about how we can help you develop your psychological approach to your sport.

As evidence of all of this, just look at what our customers have been saying about us.

So whatever your work, health or performance domain and whatever your goal, Winning Essence can assist you to "become who you want to be."