Take a look inside The Treasure Chest

passionate about helping health professionals unlock their potential

The Treasure Chest, run by Lynnie Galloway, is a boutique life and career coaching service based in Palmerston North, Manawatū, helping health professionals and those working in the health industry to navigate life and career changes, deal with challenging professional issues and grow in practice and in person.

Lynnie offers life and career coaching, as well as professional supervision and debriefing for health professionals. 

Although, The Treasure Chest is based in Palmerston North, Manawatū, Lynnie works with people throughout New Zealand. If you are living outside the Manawatū, Lynnie can work with you over Skype or Zoom.

Meet your coach Lynnie Galloway

Hi, my name is Lynnie Galloway, and I’m a life and career coach who is passionate about health professionals discovering their uniqueness, value and worth, which is so often hidden by busyness, work/life balance,  life experiences, or just being stuck and not sure which way to go.

I have been involved in the health industry since the 1970s, working both as a nurse and a midwife, here in New Zealand and overseas in the Middle East. I continue to work as a midwife clinically in a secondary care hospital, as well as offer coaching and professional supervision. 

Professionally, I have worked as a nurse clinically for several years before training as a midwife in the early 1990s. As a midwife, my experience has been in both community and hospital and has covered all aspects of primary, secondary and tertiary care. While in Oman, I worked in both a clinical and managerial capacity.

Over the past few years, I have noticed the time pressures on healthcare staff to tick off the boxes and the times for conversations are often so constrained by the to-do list. After experiencing burnout several years ago, I had to ask myself questions like ‘how did I arrive here?’ and ‘what do I do now?’.

After this experience, I have trained as a life and career coach as I have realised that having time to have conversations with people is what I have enjoyed so much about my work. I have seen both my patients and colleagues ‘get stuck’ and become unsure about what to do.  I’ve also realised that people are lacking confidence to make important decisions about changing careers or just issues to do with living life. 

When I’m not at work, I enjoy catching up with friends, walking, cooking, gardening and travel.

Qualifications:

• Professional Supervision Certificate for Health Professionals at Massey University

• Worklife Solutions Coaching Foundation Skills Certificate

• Debriefing Training

• Masters of Midwifery

• Registered Midwife

• Registered Nurse

What is coaching?

The International Coach Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential. While counselling generally focuses on the past and tends to assume the client has a problem that needs fixing or solving, coaching focuses on the future and assumes the client has the tools and wisdom to get to where they want to go.  Coaching is about solutions.

It is a rich rewarding experience as you begin to see the treasure in your life that has been buried for so long and begin to get a greater clarity as to who you are.