Mark Walker

Helath and wellness Coach

Mark creates a space where clients can start to believe in themselves and take the first step towards real health transformation.

Mark believes everyone has the ability to feel happier, healthier and more fulfilled in their lives. They just need to learn how. His greatest passion is helping his clients grow and realise the life they want to live. Mark lives in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the outskirts of Paris with his French wife and a young son. He is a Professional performance coach, who loves helping others to live their lives to the fullest potential.

Mark started out his career as a community Pharmacist in the UK for nearly 20 years. He then made a deliberate career shift 17 years ago to retrain and provide a different kind of support as a personal life coach. He is now using his experience as a coach along with his health care training as a pharmacist to support clients to achieve their health and wellness goals.

COACHING EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

Mark trained as a coach with Coaches Training Institute, one of the world’s leading training organisations. He is also currently training to become a certified coach with the functional medicine coaching academy ADD LINK TO FMCA.He believes coaching is a powerful way to enable people to access their own resources to achieve their health and wellness goals. His role is to provide an unbiased external perspective and a source of support, belief and inspiration, as well as acting as a motivator and challenger during the transformation process. Mark is also a Certified NLP Master Practitioner with 16 years experience in applying these techniques in his coaching practice. Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) offers a set of powerful and effective techniques that help in many areas of creation, change and understanding. NLP is a system for positive personal change, increasing self-awareness, challenging beliefs and enabling greater control.

A FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE APPROACH TO HEALTH & WELLBEING

While working as a pharmacist mark became aware of the limitations of the conventional medical model and with his own health challenges of rheumatoid arthritis and brain fog he looked for alternative ways to heal. When he discovered the functional medicine approach he was sure that he had found a more complete and effective method for treating many of the chronic health issues we face today.

CHANGE TECHNIQUES & COMMUNICATION

NVC (Non Violent Communication) helps people to communicate with empathy, honesty, power and understanding. NVC offers a means of transforming judgements so as to develop mutual respect and understanding, and provides tools for dealing effectively with challenging situations at work, at home and in the wider community. Mark is a Certified Level 3 EFT Meridian Energy Therapist. The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a psychological version of acupressure, incorporating methods from Ancient Chinese Medicine and modern-day Applied Kinesiology. He uses these techniques to reduce the impact of a wide range of physical and emotional issues, including fears and phobias, anxiety and stress, chronic illness – as well as to re-balancing and stabilize the energy meridians of the body. Mark also offer mindfulness awareness techniques for physical and mental relaxation, and personal growth.