Masters degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Welcome, it’s lovely to have you here!
I’m Joy Simony, a professionally trained and credentialed life coach, who is passionate about supporting and empowering women.
The women I work with are usually going through difficult phases in their lives, where they feel alone, overwhelmed, or stuck, and therefore need external emotional support in a safe, caring and non-judgmental space.
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My Personal Background
I am an experienced life coach, who holds an ACC (Associate Certified Coach) credential with the International Coach Federation. I have worked with women from all over the world since I finished my coach training in 2019. I currently live in Dubai, UAE, with my husband and two teens, but I am originally from Denmark.
Before becoming a credentialed coach, I used to be a full time working lawyer back home in Denmark. In 2013 my husband and I decided to uproot and move to Qatar with his job, in the hope that we could create a better work/life balance abroad, and have more time with our children. In Qatar I purposely put my law career on hold, and started a new chapter as a full time stay at home mum. This gave me a well needed pause to reconsider my life choices, dreams and values, and I started to realize that working in a corporate law career wasn’t really making me happy at all.
With this realization I turned inwards through mindfulness, therapy and coaching. I soon learned that I my career choice had been based on the wrong reasons (status, money and outer recognition) in a subconscious attempt to quiet my inner “I’m not good enough” voices, which was the reason I was so deeply unhappy in that career. I realized, that if I was to follow my heart and find more fulfillment, I needed to make a career change towards supporting other women on similar journeys as my own.
In 2016 we moved from Qatar to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and as soon as we had settled there, I decided to start my professional coach training with Empower World. I have now worked as a life coach since 2019, and in 2020 I got my ACC coaching credentials with the International Coach Federation.
My Coaching Style
In my coaching practice I help my clients create lasting transformational change through deep inner work, so I am not your average Instagram “let me quick fix you” coach.
As my client, you will do deep emotional and transformational work to support you to open up to your inner wisdom, and to create awareness about what negative patterns are keeping you stuck.
In my coaching, I will sometimes use somatic exercises, relaxation techniques and visualization exercises to support my clients to better connect the mind and body to allow themselves to access their inner wisdom.
On a personal level, I am very interested in the works of Dr. Gabor Mate around trauma and addiction, the work of Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk around trauma, as well as Dr. Richard Schwartz’ work on Internal Family Systems. I aspire to become a trauma-informed coach, and in time I would like to add psychotherapy skills to my practice as well.
