About Lisa Dalton

Being the ninth child, raised within a family of eleven children, was an interesting way to begin life. My Father was an angry and controlling man and my Mother was submissive to say the least.

Violence and punishment seemed to be the only words that my Father understood and yet I still loved him. I began life on my own at the age of sixteen and found this journey very daunting and hard to understand at times. I did not realise that I needed to heal and that I needed to be able to forgive, to be able to let go of the anger and resentment which remained locked inside me. After one failed marriage and the feeling of disappointment which arose within myself, I met the man of my dreams and have enjoyed a long and happy marriage with him. The road was rocky at times and yet with his love and patience continually extended toward me, I came to realise that it was necessary for me to finally come to terms with all that was holding me back and all that was standing in the way of my own personal dreams of achievement.

At the age of forty, I embarked on a journey of discovery of myself, the likes of which I had never thought of. My self esteem was at rock bottom and I felt like life was passing me by far too quickly and that I had achieved nothing to be proud of. My husband encouraged me to study counselling and what a journey I was in for. This was to be the changing point for me.

So I became a relationship counsellor after five years of study, soul searching and healing. I began to write and found that this was definitely going to fill the gaps in my own personal journey. Since then I have worked with clients on building their own feelings of worth and created six self help courses and one book, containing all kinds of necessary information for the many behaviours which haunt us from time to time.

The self esteem building course took me five years to write, working with all of my beautiful clients helped to build the information contained within. Next came the parenting course which I then discovered would have been extremely helpful for me to have had when parenting my own children. I need to apologise to my four,now grown up children, that I was devoid of much of the information which would have helped here. Contained within this parenting course is invaluable information for both parents and children. Next came the relationship building course which has helped countless couples get their failing marriages back on track and helped others contemplating marriage to consider all the important areas. Then I discovered information about our unacceptable behaviours which led me to write a shorter, yet jam packed course all about this, pointing out how this unacceptable behaviour not only affects us but our loved ones, our friends, our workmates and more.

Lastly I wrote about the need to heal from our hurts and disappointments and the need for forgiveness to occur for closure to our wounds. My first book, titled All Knotted Up is about to go to print and is a very enlightening and simple to understand book about the way we behave at times. I have also had printed a book of poems, containing very different and emotionally enriching verse.

I certainly hope that anyone who decides to undertake learning from these courses are enriched by this experience. Thank you. Lisa.

Kind regards,
Lisa Dalton

Professional Counselling
Dip. Prof Coun