I am a qualified Senior Practitioner Coach and an Integrative Psychotherapist and an accredited member of both the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I work with adults and young people integrating both my coaching and counselling models that support a humanistic practice in which I believe that you, the client, are your own best expert The focus of our work will be on ensuring we have a solid relationship in which to explore the goals you wish for your future, setting action steps in which to do this as well as exploring any blocks from the past that may be holding you back. We make sense of our world, and our place within it, through the relationships we have and how we relate to others; understanding this helps shape the beliefs we hold about ourselves. Awareness of how we relate to others can help us to live a more real and authentic life.
I often work creatively using tried and tested tools and techniques to gain deeper self-awareness, sometimes using mindfulness and CB T practices to challenge and explore thought patterns and beliefs, helping you to live an authentic life by taking responsibility for the choices you make and the goals you aim for on your life's journey.
Working with you to build a relationship that is totally bespoke to your needs I provide an environment in which you can explore, learn and understand yourself in greater depth to enhance and enrich your life and relationships and fulfil your future ambitions.
I often work creatively using tried and tested tools and techniques to gain deeper self-awareness, sometimes using mindfulness and CB T practices to challenge and explore thought patterns and beliefs, helping you to live an authentic life by taking responsibility for the choices you make and the goals you aim for on your life's journey.
Working with you to build a relationship that is totally bespoke to your needs I provide an environment in which you can explore, learn and understand yourself in greater depth to enhance and enrich your life and relationships and fulfil your future ambitions.
"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself" Deepak Chopra
What is Coaching?
A Coach offers you the opportunity to explore where you are today and helps you identify ways to reach the goals you feel you require in order to reach your potential. Coaching is goal focussed and action oriented and helps you explore your thinking processes in the present. Coaches may acknowledge past experiences but usually in the context of how this may impact achieving your goal. Coaching is usually monthly or fortnightly and is for a fixed number of agreed sessions.
What is Counselling?
Counsellors help individuals to identify and explore concerns in order to raise self-awareness. They offer a safe and supportive space to explore whatever issues arise and offer a support system to help you gain the strength and clarity to cope and move forward in your life. Counsellors often explore how you feel and how your feelings and past experiences may impact where you find yourself today. Counselling is usually weekly and can be either short-term or long-term.
How are Coaches and Counsellors similar?
Coaches and Counsellors both want to help you identify and create a life you feel better about by creating an environment that is non-judgmental, confidential, supportive and based on mutual trust. Both Coaches and Counsellors do this by helping you identify what is holding you back, this is done through exploration, active listening and empathic support.
Coaches and Counsellors encourage you to find your own answers, become more resilient and embark on a voyage of self-discovery. They do this by acknowledging all aspects of your life (past, present and future) and helping individuals move forward in their life either through gaining deeper self-awareness or through the setting of goals. This is because both Counsellors and Coaches, in their own way, help individuals identify and challenge core beliefs and adapt perspectives to help you reach your full potential.
How do I know which is best for me?
If you are generally coping ok with day to day life and only wish to focus on the here and now and take set action steps in order to achieve certain goals then coaching may be the choice you decide to make.
If you wish to understand or break patterns of behaviour that are impacting your life and are ok with exploring past experiences to gain deeper self-awareness to help you move forward in your life, then counselling may be the choice for you.
A Coach offers you the opportunity to explore where you are today and helps you identify ways to reach the goals you feel you require in order to reach your potential. Coaching is goal focussed and action oriented and helps you explore your thinking processes in the present. Coaches may acknowledge past experiences but usually in the context of how this may impact achieving your goal. Coaching is usually monthly or fortnightly and is for a fixed number of agreed sessions.
What is Counselling?
Counsellors help individuals to identify and explore concerns in order to raise self-awareness. They offer a safe and supportive space to explore whatever issues arise and offer a support system to help you gain the strength and clarity to cope and move forward in your life. Counsellors often explore how you feel and how your feelings and past experiences may impact where you find yourself today. Counselling is usually weekly and can be either short-term or long-term.
How are Coaches and Counsellors similar?
Coaches and Counsellors both want to help you identify and create a life you feel better about by creating an environment that is non-judgmental, confidential, supportive and based on mutual trust. Both Coaches and Counsellors do this by helping you identify what is holding you back, this is done through exploration, active listening and empathic support.
Coaches and Counsellors encourage you to find your own answers, become more resilient and embark on a voyage of self-discovery. They do this by acknowledging all aspects of your life (past, present and future) and helping individuals move forward in their life either through gaining deeper self-awareness or through the setting of goals. This is because both Counsellors and Coaches, in their own way, help individuals identify and challenge core beliefs and adapt perspectives to help you reach your full potential.
How do I know which is best for me?
If you are generally coping ok with day to day life and only wish to focus on the here and now and take set action steps in order to achieve certain goals then coaching may be the choice you decide to make.
If you wish to understand or break patterns of behaviour that are impacting your life and are ok with exploring past experiences to gain deeper self-awareness to help you move forward in your life, then counselling may be the choice for you.
