About coaching

Coaching is a dynamic two-way process that helps you to set out what you want to achieve and supports you in getting there. It is non-judgmental, confidential and helps you to achieve your goals. Coaching looks at the present and the future. It helps you to make changes now to achieve the future that you want.

what can coaching help with?

Coaching can help with a wide range of issues. It can help with career-building, work-life balance, managing emotions, time management, stress management and much more! It helps you to explore your goals and set out the steps that will get you there. However, coaching is not psychotherapy or counselling.

what you can expect from me

In a calm and confidential environment, I’ll provide you with the opportunity to explore the areas in your life or work that you want to work on. I will provide a sounding board, helping to support and motivate you. I will listen and ask questions to help clarify your thinking. I will reframe your ideas and challenge you, and give you the time out that you need to review where you are going and decide what changes you want to make. The coach’s job is not to provide you with the answers, but to help you to look at your values, behaviour and goals, and support you in deciding what to do next. I can provide insights and give help with the use of NLP and Cognitive Behaviour tools and techniques, but the plan of action that you decide to take forward will come from yourself.

your part in the process

You’ll need to come to our coaching sessions with an open mind and be happy to talk through what you want to work on. You will come away with an action plan of aspects of your home or work life you have decided you want to do differently. This could be ways of behaving, reacting, or simply trying out new ways of working or living. You need to be committed to this, to want to make a difference. I will offer support and help to motivate during our sessions, but you will need to make the change.

confidentiality

In order to keep the boundaries of the coaching relationship clear, and to provide you with the confidentiality you need to make full use of our coaching sessions, I will keep each conversation between us absolutely confidential, except in the unlikely event that I become concerned about someone’s safety or think something illegal may happen in the future. This will also be true of any other information I learn about you during the course of our work. I usually take some notes during the session and these are also confidential.