A passion for coaching

My passion for coaching stems from my own experience as a student of coaching and as a client. This was life-changing on both a personal and a business level. Coaching showed me how I could stop repeating unhelpful patterns of behaviour, increase my confidence and self-belief, and move myself out of my 'comfort zone' to achieve so much more fulfilment and success. There's no magic - just a commitment to change and to succeed.

I qualified as a counsellor in 2000, and later gained a full diploma in coaching (accredited Middlesex University). I have used my coaching skills to turn a struggling business into a satisfying and successful practice. (If you think counselling would suit you more than coaching, click here.)

I have been trained in a wide range of different coaching and counselling methods, including:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). A hugely effective therapeutic method that addresses the negative thought patterns that usually underlie stress, anxiety and low self-esteem.
• CBT Coaching. A development of CBT that lends itself more to coaching than counselling. The emphasis is on thought processes and actions that we can take to make our lives more effective.
• Confidence Coaching. I am a certified Confidence Coaching graduate with 24-7U.com, part of the 24-7 Group - the internet's leading directory system for the personal and professional development industry.
  
• Stress management. A multi-modal cognitive-behavioural approach to the nature of stress, its management and prevention.
• Assertiveness and Communication Skills. Understanding how we can communicate to maximise our outcomes and maintain our self-respect.
• Solution Focused Therapy. How to create positive thinking strategies – focusing on the solution rather than the problem can often open the door to change.
• Psychodynamic Counselling. A way of understanding the powerful role of the unconscious in our lives, and how we develop defences that can hold us back from achieving our full potential.
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). A model for improving performance, becoming an excellent communicator and undergoing personal change.