Dr Leisa Aitken
Coaching and Clinical Psychologist
Building hope for individuals and organisations
Counselling and coaching on the Northern Beaches of Sydney
Speaking and seminars on practical, research-based strategies to foster wellbeing, especially the empowering experience of hope
My PhD research was on the psychology of hope:
collating the profound reflections on the nature of hope by foundational scholars through history,
Australian data on the helps and hindrances to nurturing hope in our world now,
how to clarify and practice the four elements of the psychological experience of ‘hoping’.
Hope is not to be confused with wishful thinking.
Hope is a strategic and powerful psychological practice for motivation, agency and positive emotions.
In the spirit of conciliation, I honour the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live and work and their connections to land, sea and community. I pay my respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
