Marie Therese Bolden

My Story

Marie Therese is a coach and mentor trained in psychotherapy and counselling. She expertly consults with mental health and wellness professionals, as well as business leaders, empowering them to integrate all aspects of life for a balanced and purposeful existence. 

Her remarkable journey began in the face of adversity, having grown up amidst domestic violence and her mother’s codependent relationship with her father, who battled a psychiatric illness. The lingering impact of her mother’s words, “My only way out of this marriage is through death,” informed her work on the power of thinking and fuelled her resilience. Following her mother’s death at nineteen, Marie Therese embarked on a profound journey of self-discovery and exploration of her relationship with herself through psychoanalysis. She discovered her inner strength, learned to trust herself, and cultivated self-respect, inspiring others to respect her in turn. She believes that our relationship with ourselves informs and reflects our relationship with others. By confronting her demons, she transformed her life.

Marie Therese specialises in relationship dynamics and building confidence in her clients. She enables them to overcome their conditioning and unconscious beliefs (you don’t know what you don’t remember) about themselves, allowing them to realise their fullest potential. In her previous senior management and coaching roles, she facilitated the creation and implementation of new initiatives designed to identify and develop key competencies in individual team members, enabling them to reach their maximum potential.

As the creator and host of the YouTube podcast, Food for Therapy, Marie Therese combines her training and specialities with her passion for food, hosting, and culture. She is a trained psychotherapist and counsellor with over 25 years of experience in training, mentoring, coaching, and development. By merging her expertise in coaching and training with her spiritual knowledge, she provides a unique mentoring and coaching experience for her clients. Therese sees each client as an individual, a whole made up of many parts: mind, body, soul, and spirit. Therefore, her mentoring approach encompasses all these attributes.

My Education

Marie Therese obtained her postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy and counselling from the Jansen Newman Institute (Sydney, Australia), receiving training in family, existential, narrative, psychodynamic, group, and grief therapies, along with her dissertation on grief. She also holds an undergraduate degree in gender studies from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). Earlier in her career, she studied writing for film and television at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney.