Vickie talks Mental Health on MH Warrior TV
Vickie chats to Kerry D Warrior Queen from MH WARRIOR TV, a channel featuring discussions with people from all across the world collaborating to end the Stigma surrounding Mental Health and Disability Discrimination.
Vickie talks about her own experiences with mental health and how she has developed her approach of combining Martial Arts with mainstream therapy and some of the positives that have resulted from that.
Vickie Simos is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist who is also a Fourth Degree Black Belt in the Filipino martial art of Doce Pares Eskrima (stick fighting) and a Second Degree Black Belt in Anjukanpo Karate. Vickie is a Silver Medallist World Stickfighting Championships, Pan Pacific Gold Medallist for Stick Fighting, and a qualified Personal Trainer. Vickie is the founder of Thelo Active Therapy, an initiative that combines martial arts and mainstream therapy. In 2017, Vickie published her memoir called The Boxer Within where she reflects on her experiences with depression and anxiety and how martial arts helped her overcome those mental issues.