Are you ready for CHANGE?

Talking with professional helpers can really be useful if you are worried about something, cannot understand why you feel a certain way, cannot get motivated to achieve your desired goals or if you have strong unwanted feelings about something. There are many, many issues that coaching helps with, and there are some things that we have to go through by sitting with a future focused professional, someone separate who listens effectively, without judging or jumping to conclusions and offers appropriate and helpful feedback, and works on your team to get you where you want to be.

Most people who come to coaching and the therapies want to change something in their lives.

Whilst CBT oriented Coaching is not the same as psychotherapy, the crossovers are many, and when coaching to help gain control over anxiety, low mood, OCD or other such difficulties, Coaching provides the perfect response, as these conditions have formulaic models of working.  Psycho education combined with really helpful techniques to work toward goals with, are key to progress and positive outcomes.  As a coach with over 20 years experience as a Psychotherapist, I can help you overcome the obstacles to change in your life.

OCD and Pure O are horrific disorders to live with and coaching is extremely suited to helping clients overcome them and meeting your anxiety free goals.

Coaching couples for better relationships has many advantages too over couple therapy, where couples usually feel their relationship needs ‘fixing’.  Coaching identifies difficulties and works toward clearer communication and future oriented positive outcomes that matter to you.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) oriented coaching identifies and  helps you change destructive or unhelpful ways of thinking about things. The trouble is, we get used to thinking a certain way, and the habit is not only hard to break, but we don’t even know that we are doing it until someone listens and talks it through with us, offering different insights. So there is a psycho-educational part to coaching, where we sometimes offer techniques and tips - but importantly, do not tell you what to do, more, providing insight into habits and thinking styles that have evolved over long periods, that control what you think you can do or not do.

Sooooo ... the other thing about embracing change is that it is bit like giving up smoking. You have to want change or it just will not happen. Oh... and changing means that things will be different. Obvious I know, but, well, sometimes we forget!

If you really want change, and are prepared to take on what is offered, whilst there are no guarantees of course, very often the goals of coaching that have been identified at the outset can be worked on extremely positively, with noticeable improvements in a short time. Even simply talking about your worries has been proven to be helpful. We are experienced and professional and will always be gentle, empathic, and completely honest with you whilst working together with you - on your team - challenging you sometimes and offering you accountability.

The coaching journey should mostly be a helpful, positive, and supportive experience that will help you see your issues in a different way, and hopefully empower you to make different decisions about things.

Choosing which approach to take to can be a difficult decision indeed (mostly because they have loads of unintelligible letters after their names) so have a good look at our helpful page, 'so how do I choose what to do tho...'. Hopefully it will make much more sense of things.