PROFILE TESSA MARSHALL: Tessacropshot

Tessa is co-founder and Director of Health Services Group, head of the Counselling Division and joint head of the Corporate Division. Tessa consults to corporate clients on Executive Coaching, Career Counselling and Communications Training and works privately from the St Ives clinic as a Psychotherapist and Counsellor. Whether it is the health of your business, the health of your relationships, the health of your career or the health of your self-image, Tessa has a unique mix of skills to support you in whichever ways you seek to grow.

Tessa, prior to working in Personal Counselling, Career Coaching and Leadership Development, had her own corporate career spanning sixteen years. She worked with McDonalds and British Airways in sales/marketing, HJB Group, Marric and Mondo Search in executive recruitment and still works with Lifeline and the Domestic Violence Line as a Superviser, Trainer and Board Member. She is also a regular speaker at HR and Leadership Workshops on the prevention and early detection of psychosocial issues in the workplace and on building better leaders.

Some of her achievements have included:

· co-authoring a paper on psychosocial factors linked to back and neck pain (to help patients with pain management).

· Successfully coaching executives and those in career transition with over 70 coaching programs, 200 executive recruitment assignments, 6 interview training programs and 22 Leadership Workshops.

· Supporting clients both through volunteer and clinical work via over 300 hours of face-to-face counselling covering depression, pain management, addictions, anxiety, weight-loss, insomnia, relationships and abuse

· Assisting distressed callers and managing staff through over 500 hours of supervision/telephone counselling encompassing crisis management, domestic violence prevention/management and suicide intervention


Professional Focus and Associations – Tessa enjoys supporting leaders and potentials leaders with individual and team coaching and supporting private clients needing coaching or counselling in their personal lives. A key focus has been on fostering Happiness, Health, Success & Results through relationship counselling, work/life balance, Career Counselling and Leadership Development

 

Tessa has a Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy with a coaching major, Graduate Diploma in Marketing and a Bachelor of Economics with HR and Psych majors.She is completing a Masters In Psychotherapy, is a member of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW and a Board Member of Lifeline. She is also a member of the Career Development Association and Australian Human Resources Institute

Qualifications & Experience

Years in Coaching & Counselling: 14 years   (Lifeline/Domestic Violence Line/Health Services)

Years prior in Industry: 8 years (British Airways, DDB Needham, McDonalds, Human Resources and Executive Coaching)

          · Masters of Psychotherapy, University of Sydney, Current

          · Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy with Coaching Major, Jansen Newman Institute, 2002

          Leadership Development with the MLQ 360 2008                                 

          Coach the Coach Facilitation 2007

        · Career Coaching, Outplacement and Executive Coaching, 2004

        · Gambling Counselling, Wesley Mission 2004

        · Domestic Violence Counselling, Lifeline, 2003

        · Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 2002

        · Lifeline Supervision and Face-to-Face Counselling 2001

        · Lifeline Telephone Counselling 1999

        · Hypnotherapy (for addictions, memory recall & pain management) JNI, 2001

        · Couples Counselling, JNI 2001

        · Graduate Diploma in Marketing majoring in Consumer Behaviour, University of Technology, 1991

        · Bachelor of Economics majoring in Human Resources/Personal Relations, University of Sydney, 1984

         

         

         

        Working Womens' Network Member of the Month Profile

         

        Name: Tessa Marshall

        Industry: Counselling (especially couples and eating disorders), Career coaching, Leadership Coaching

         

        How and why did you get started in this business?

         

        My background was in corporate sales/marketing roles and then I ran my own executive recruitment/outplacement business for ten years. I had some counselling and coaching when I needed support after having the two kids and was struggling with work/life balance issues.

         

        This was so helpful to me that I decided counselling & coaching was a career that could combine my love for helping people grow with my people/corporate background and was something I could better balance with family than my previous work.

         

        What is the most enjoyable aspect of it?

         

        Whether it is the health of the client’s balance sheet at work, the health of their relationships or their own “inner” emotional health and body image, this work enables me to help people find greater success, happiness, confidence and well-being. That is a real buzz…..and I have to practice what I preach so it has helped me with my own work/life balance, my relationships and ensuring I take care of myself!

         

        What has been your biggest challenge?

         

        Sometimes practicing what I preach is easier said than done! Especially when it comes to body image issues and my own relationship with food! Also, sometimes although counsellors and coaches are meant to be good listeners, I fail abysmally with my own kids!!

          

        What has been your greatest success?

         

        Managing to juggle the diversity. I have really leveraged my background of working in large corporations for ten years, then running my own recruitment firm for another ten before getting into counselling through Lifeline and building my own coaching and counselling practice over the last 12 years. I have also used my own life struggles and experiences. This has meant I can turn my hand to career coaching, corporate work and go deep into human behaviour with 1:1 clients. I LOVE that diversity and it is what keeps me sane.

           

        How does your membership of WWN assist you in your working life?

         

        I find meeting and sharing with other like-minded women to be very invigorating. My line of work can be quite isolated and lonely so having that connection is vital to me. I suspect new friendships, potential clients, great new skills learnt at the workshops and business contacts will all be a nice “icing on the cake”!

         

tessa@healthservicesgroup.com.au

PH: 0418 639 379

 
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