Working with a trusted coach can bring about emotional awareness that we can't always achieve by ourselves. Unlike mentoring or counselling, coaching is a primarily a non-directive experience, where the coach and client together to create a psychologically safe space to allow the leader to stand back from their everyday life and reflect on building insights and seeking meaningful change.
Life Coaching is centred around the formation of a trusting relationship between the client and coach.
Life Coaching can help us challenge our existing mental frameworks and forms of thought in order to encourage deep connections between thinking and feeling. It can help us utilise the actions and learning that arise in the coaching sessions to implement adaptive and versatile new strategies to help us cope and better achieve what we want to in our lives. In life coaching we can look back to the past to help us work to future goals , but it is very distinct from therapy or counselling., where people seek to heal deep emotional wounds.
As a Leadership and Executive coach, I combine my extensive knowledge working with social work teams, patterns of relating, and ‘attachment styles’ with Tavistock’s Consulting’s model of exploring the interplay of an individual’s ‘below the surface’ experiences within the context of their teams, organisational systems and wider working culture.
Our sessions give you time to pause and consider the impact of the emotional, interpersonal and organisational pressures you are dealing with in your current leadership role. This enables better navigation of the complex and sometimes confusing and uncertain processes that often occur in our workplaces today. I work authenticity and with sensitivity, helping you harness your expertise and increase your effectiveness in meeting your leadership tasks and goals and increasing your capacity to influence others.
I bring over thirty years of experience as a chartered research psychologist to offer my psychologically informed life coaching sessions. We can do a one-ff deep dive or book a series of 3 or 6 sessions. We always begin with a 30-45 minute initial free consultation to see if we are a good fit working together.
I work with a wide range of clients to help them thrive. My particular specialisation is working with in 'under the surface' awareness , family and partner relationships and the support systems from friends and family that can bring us resilience under stress.
I always position my clients as people who bring their understanding and knowledge of their everyday context to the coaching. Working together we can allow insights and clarity about what can one holding us back to emerge.
The coach’s role in the working relationship is to create the conditions for reflective learning, allowing the client to gain further insight and perspectives. As a fully qualified and experienced coach I:-