John Cuturilo

John Cuturilo is Your Listener, based in Australia. John is an empathic and friendly life coach who helps people to overcome challenges and make changes in their lives. They could be related to goal‑setting and achievement, communication, decision‑making, relationship development, or more complex personal organisation or strategic matters.

John has long been cited as having a unique ability to communicate, solve problems, and organise, as well as having a strong passion for and dedication to helping and achieving the best that he can. John also has a history of his own mental illness that brought him close to disaster. Refusing to be deterred, he devoted himself to being self-sufficient and accountable. He operated his own voluntary emotional support service, before becoming a para-professional social worker and therapist, working with people experiencing severe mental illnesses and disadvantage. Those he helped found that he could communicate with them and understand their problems when they felt that nobody else could, even with minimal apparent common experience. As a result of this, John has been cited as having “wisdom where others have knowledge”, and his guidance has been sought by people with considerably more life experience.

John holds a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences. As a basis, his helping approaches draw on evidence-based theories, primarily those of person-centred therapy, evolutionary and developmental theory, schema theory, existential therapy, and reality therapy. However, he has carefully evaluated this theoretical knowledge against his own and clients' experiences to craft his own unique approach, ensuring the results are accessible to each client. He listens, considers feedback, and attempts to adapt to each client's needs.

John actively avoids pop psychology or mantras, expensive "revolutionary" courses or packages, and hyperbolic marketing. Instead, his ultimate goal is to help his clients find the most likely explanation for their own challenges and the most accessible solutions, and help them become more independent problem-solvers. He maintains that there are no secrets in this field, and that there is no one framework or time frame that could apply to every person's goals. He wants to be seen by his clients as a human being just like they are, with his own journey, flaws, and eccentricities — not as a cold, detached, superior "expert".