Coaching is unlocking and harnessing a person’s potential to be the best version of themselves and to maximise their own performance. It is non-directive and focuses on guiding and supporting someone to explore and realise their own answers and actions, based on their own deep inner knowing.  

Life Coaching, with a focus on helping and supporting a client to feel true to themselves and be showing up in life as their authentic self. In a culture that breezily tells women they can ‘do it all’ but without the systems in place to support them, many are finding themselves overextended, and experiencing a ‘loss-of-self’ in commitment to so many other people and causes. Authenticity coaching helps to regain and restore balance between how someone realises their own needs whilst meeting the obligations that other relationships bring.

Anyone who is keen to set some goals and prepared to be taking positive action towards them over the course of a coaching series. Life Goals are related to how someone is living, and what they want to accomplish in the short term, perhaps towards an overall vision for themselves.

Coaching and therapy serve two distinct purposes, but there is overlap. Coaching is about change and action and focuses on setting and achieving goals. Therapy is a licensed profession with a focus on mental health and emotional healing. Therapists are usually trained to be trauma responsive. Both coaching and therapy however, create a positive and healing environment which is a catalyst for change.

Whilst both are about supporting a client’s learning, choices and right action – the approach and process are quite different. Coaching aims to support people to find their own answers through guided sessions and exploration and consultancy is usually conducted by an expert in a specific area who offers technical and professional advice. A coach will work as your equal, with thoughtful and sincere inquiry, without judgement. They will encourage, support and inspire your self-discovery and personal growth. A consultant will use their knowledge and experience in a certain area to be prescriptive, diagnose a problem and suggest a solution.

Goals can be in any area in your life that you feel you need to work on: health and wellbeing; career; finance; relationships; spiritual; community and self-development.

Usually 2 to 3 goals are set in any of the above areas. The length of coaching series depends on the sorts of goals and this can be determined in an initial discovery call.

It really depends on what you want to achieve through coaching. A one-hour session will help to explore a block or sticking point and will help explore what positive action is needed to move forward. A series of 6 sessions will help guide and support you towards 2 to 3 firm goals that you feel are achievable over the course of 3 months. A series of 12 sessions will help guide and support you with 3 goals that you are likely to achieve within 6 months. A discovery call will help to determine the best coaching timeframe for what you want to achieve.

I trained for 6 months over 14 modules with The Beautiful You Coaching Academy, which included sitting an exam and working with pro bono clients to achieve my Life Coach certification. I also trained in Rational, Emotional Behavioural Therapy (REBT) with Transformation Academy. This is a form of therapy which guides people to take back their power by learning how to direct their own thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

As a Coach who values and actively encompasses diversity, equity and inclusion, I embrace the opportunity to work with people from diverse backgrounds and value the personal learning that comes from that. I work with any person who is keen to set some transformational goals for their self-development – as long as there is a strong connection and we feel we are a good coach-client match!

If you have any further questions or would like to discuss anything further, please connect with me.