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Leona McDonnell
‘EVERYTHING I need is already WITHIN me’
This is my ethos, the foundation which my whole life, my passion, my mission and my practice is based upon.
I am deeply passionate about and have an immense love for helping people to become the very best version of themselves possible, to become something that they never thought achievable, while healing themselves through the beautiful natural elements that surround us every day.
Leona McDonnell
Welcome to a transformative journey of self-discovery and well-being with Leona McDonnell, a dedicated therapist and holistic wellness practitioner. With a profound love for nature and a passion for guiding individuals toward holistic healing, Leona combines her expertise in mindfulness, meditation, clinical hypnotherapy, clinical psychotherapy, life coaching, yoga and Tera Mai Reiki II with the healing inspiration of the natural world.
Leona is a compassionate and skilled therapist with a private clinical practice, committed to helping individuals navigate life’s challenges with grace and resilience. With a background in clinical psychotherapy, certification as an IMMA Internationally Accredited Mindfulness Rooted Ecotherapy Practitioner, a 200hr Himalaya Yoga Valley Teacher (trained from the source of Yoga in India) and a Tera Mai Reiki II Practitioner, Leona brings a unique blend of Western psychology, Eastern holistic practices, and nature-based healing to her sessions.
Leona believes in a holistic approach to well-being, acknowledging the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, and nature. Her therapeutic sessions are grounded in empathy, respect, and a commitment to empowering individuals to unlock their full potential.
Leona has dedicated the last 20years of her life to continually learn new skills, train, develop, up-skill and expand her qualifications and experience so that she can be the best version of herself and so that she can reach and help others to heal themselves in their own life journey’s.
Leona has successfully completed and has achieved qualification as:
Leona empowers the children, teens and adults that she works with through mindfulness, meditation, wellness, clinical hypnotherapy & psychotherapy, breathwork and yoga with the belief that they already have all of the resources they need inside themselves to be the best possible version of themselves …. they just need to learn how to connect to and utilise these internal resources.
Leona teachs those she works with how to experience calm, peace and serenity in their everyday lives and she teachs people how to reduce the everyday chatter in their minds.
My Journey
Hi, I’m Leona. Thank you for visiting my website. I hope that you will feel up-lifted, empowered and motivated when you read my background and see how Mindfulness and Wellness tools and techniques have helped to transform and enhance my life for the better!!
Never, ever did I imagine that I would be in such a positive mental, emotional and physical state to meet, work with, help, restore, renew, encourage, empower and motivate so many children and adult lives through Mindfulness, Meditation, Motivational Speaking and Reiki Energy Healing Therapy!!
It’s not that I ever doubted my own ability. You see, some years back my early childhood and early adulthood caught up with me and came crashing down on me with a MASSIVE BANG.
Having always being a very nervous and anxious child and teenager, from being afraid of my own breath, my own heartbeat, my own shadow, from undergoing numerous emergency medical surgeries with complicated recoveries, ICU admission, anxiety, trauma and depression to getting glandular fever in my mid 30’s, with 2 young children at home, working outside the home and also running my own Healing Practice, I fell hard, really hard. I was stuck in a state of ‘Flight’, in a state of continuous panic. I had a broken mind, a broken body and a depleted soul. I didn’t know what to do, where to go, how to fix things. It was the toughest time and recovery of my life….
I then stumbled upon a local Yoga class and I decided to join it to see if I could create some calmness into my invasive mind and thoughts. I can remember not being able to even change my own natural breathing rhythm for the first few weeks, as I was in such a panicked state. As time went on, I grew to love Yoga as it made me reconnect with my body and my breath. It made me learn to trust my breath again.
I then went on and sought out Mindfulness tools and techniques that I could introduce into my daily life. I slowly learned how to become more present in my life. I learned how to stop ruminating in my past and how to stop worrying about my future and just be present and accept the only moment I could change, which is the present moment, the most important moment. I learned how to ‘Train my Brain’ using Mindfulness tools and techniques. Coupled with Gratitude Journaling, Meditation and with a lot of time spent outdoors in nature, I began to feel much better. I began to feel much more centered in myself, more grounded, calmer and more present.
After a number of years of my own daily Mindfulness, Meditation and Yoga practice, I felt amazing and had a zest for life! At this point, I decided that I needed to share with and help as many children and adults as I could with what helped me to transform my life! To date I have completed and hold full qualifications in a Life Coaching Diploma, Creative Mindfulness for Children Practitioner IMMA Accredited Training, Tera Mai Reiki Energy Therapy Practitioner Training, 2:1 Hons Degree in Business Studies with Human Resource Management, currently undergoing a Psychology Diploma and I have also completed numerous other Mindfulness, Wellness and Therapy related courses. So, here I am today, ready to help you to become the very best version of yourself and to achieve your hopes and dreams!
Leona is also a debut author with some very exciting new book projects in publishing!!! Keep an eye out here and on her social media pages for more on these exciting projects over the coming months!
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