The Coach From Down Under

Tim Edwards, MBBS

When Tim Edwards grew up in Australia, he heard an often-told joke: you could tell the difference between a computer and an Aussie because, “You only have to punch information into a computer once.” If somebody said you were sensitive, he was challenging you to a fight. Tim was sensitive. He had to learn how to manage some very tough situations, without using his fists.

When we formed The Bridge Center, we wanted to make a home for distinctively impactful therapists and coaches—in a word: change-makers. We also knew we wanted to combine depth, and clinical and academic rigor, with practicality. Tim managed a drug treatment program that Dan. We knew that he had been globetrotting for over two decades, training in every coaching and therapeutic intervention he could find. The timing was right–he was about to marry his beautiful French girlfriend, Dona, and they were choosing a place to settle–and he got my vision of what we could build here.  Tim moved permanently to the U.S., got his citizenship, and became a cornerstone of The Bridge Center.

For over 20 years, Tim has coached people on ways to draw upon their strengths, intuition, and common sense to overcome anxiety, depression, trauma and other psychological difficulties. He draws from the techniques of cognitive-behavioral, emotion-focused, humanistic, and depth therapies, as well as relational psychoanalysis. Trained in psychiatry at the University of Western Australia Medical School, Tim graduated with a Medical Degree (MBBS). Fascinated by the psychological impact of medical training, he co-founded the school’s mentoring program and curriculum stream on personal and professional development, which they use to this day. But Tim was increasingly inspired by Australia’s emerging shift to Personal Coaching over traditional psychiatric approaches, and he chose to forgo residency and medical licensure and devoted his life to the burgeoning Australian coaching movement. He has a specialty in coaching physicians and other medical professionals, who, as he learned in medical school, face unique challenges.

 

We were quick to learn in our case conferences that our Director of Coaching’s one-two combination of profound insight and cut-to-the-chase practicality packs quite a wallop… the sensitive kind.

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