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Charlotte is a clinical and translational neuroscientist specialising in neuroendocrinology. She is the sole creator, director, educator and lead neurotherapist of Neurofocused Solutions.
Charlotte’s core values and philosophies revolve around helping people to understand and connect with themselves on a deeper level so that they can create a life in which they feel empowered, enriched, fulfilled, balanced and successful. She has a deep love and passion for understanding the brain on every level. From the genetic, molecular and cellular level, right through to the behavioural, functional and anatomical level. Charlotte’s deepest clinical love is embedded in the relationship between the brain and the body’s smartest adaptive hormone (cortisol). Just knowing about the brain however, still isn’t enough for her if it can’t be applied to help people on a practical level. So creating a space where she could translate her deep love of brain science into a functional and helpful way for people who want to benefit from it, well, for her, that is the jackpot!!
Charlotte loves to learn about the emotional and cognitive perspectives of others, and offer them the knowledge, skills and tools they need to better understand themselves AND feel in control of the process.
Charlotte has always been driven by a love for connecting with people and serving humanity.
She spent many years studying towards becoming a doctor, hoping that this is where she could exercise her love for serving humanity the most. Whilst studying, her career was working on the frontline in a medical emergency responder role as an ambulance officer. The experience, knowledge, wisdom and clinical skills gained from these areas over these years were the start of finding where her love for serving humanity truly lived.
Charlotte’s academic and university background consists of pathology and laboratory medicine which included molecular genetics, cancer research and biomedical science. There was varied and vast learning over many years that helped her learn about the intricacies of the human body and disease processes, but still, it wasn’t quite scratching the itch.
After many years of clinical experience in frontline emergency medicine, she had the opportunity to reflect on where her deepest love for serving humanity truly lived: the relationship between the brain, body and behaviour.
Ironically, this opportunity stemmed from a job as a first responder. Charlotte responded to a job where she contracted a life threatening airborne virus that infected her brain. She was now the patient relying on both her family in green (ambulance) and blue (police), as well as her fellow hospital colleagues to keep her alive. This was the pivotal turning point for her. It took Charlotte six months of grit, hard work and perseverance for her brain to recover enough to get back to work and study. However, when she went back to work, she saw the world, her job, her purpose through a whole new lens. Things were so different, things were broken!
This is when Charlotte decided to gratefully resign from the pursuit of medicine and her active career on the frontline. She grieved as she made the massive, confronting, scary, yet exciting decision to shift her concentration into studying the brain and all of the beautiful layers that make us humans the amazing beings that we are. She dived head first into studying the depths of the brain and completed her degree in Neuroscience at the University of Western Australia.
Charlotte knew immediately that this is where she could make the difference she had always desired. This is where she could combine her love for serving humanity and passion for understanding the brain, body and behaviour. Her drive to understand the brain, combined with her personal and professional experiences in high levels of trauma and stress, made her passion for helping others understand themselves more deeply, a “no brainer”.
Today, Charlotte works as a clinical and translational neuroscientist, specialising in neuroendocrinology, where she coaches people to understand and address trauma, stress, burnout and crisis. She also teaches the neurobiology of trauma, stress and burnout to groups of people in workplace settings, with the hope that it will help people understand how to help themselves through any and all situations. She employs all of her academic, clinical, professional and personal experience to create models, systems, education and neuroplasticity training therapy to help her clients achieve their desired brain training outcomes and aspirations.
That big scary decision she made years ago has led her to a job she is head over heels in love with!
Charlotte later decided to continue to exercise her emergency response clinical skills and combine them with her brain training skills but in a volunteer role as an frontline ambulance officer.
Charlotte’s neuroscience application expands into horses and dogs, where she uses brain science to also help people understand their beloved four legged friends more deeply and enhance their relationships.
Charlotte believes that the purpose of life is all about connection. Connection with ourselves, our fellow humans, our animals, our world and the gift of life itself.
She personally uses every tool she teaches on a daily basis to enhance her own emotional and cognitive balance and performance, as well as maintain a balanced state of well-being in her work, relationships and life.
Charlotte is a firm believer in practicing what you teach!