Life Coaching

What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is a process / therapy where I find that the client may have reached quite a reasonable point their life, but perhaps lacks direction, as if they have reached a crossroads.   It is a holistic approach in that it may cover different parts of your life, such as relationships, work, career, self-esteem, communication, health, fitness, well-being or spirituality.

It may be a feeling that things are okay but part of you is yearning for some change, something more or different.  Life Coaching can help you to realise your potential and to find out what it is that you would like more of!   Life coaching is about forward-thinking.   We work together as a team to find out ‘where are you are at now, and where in fact, you would like to be’.

How Does Life Coaching work?

We explore the topics and the goals that you would like to achieve and then how to go about achieving them.  We take a look at how things are for you currently in these areas, then we go on to explore what your aims and goals are.  During the Life Coaching process we also use some ‘Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Techniques, as these tend to work well together.  One of the fundamental principles of Life Coaching and CBT is to help to release and ‘Alleviate Self Limiting Beliefs‘.

What Do We Explore?

We then look at your various options, a sort of brainstorm.  The various ways and the steps that you can take to achieve these goals, whilst also identifying the possible pros and cons.  We work to find out your perceived strengths, weaknesses and values that you have, and then plan the initial small steps that you can take, normally in the form of tasks which are performed between sessions, then returning  back so that we can monitor and review, making adjustments as required.

How Will It Make Me Feel?

Often in life coaching you might find that your goalposts change as the sessions go on and as you start to truly begin to know yourself.  You will develop a new found confidence in your choices.  Yes I said choices!  You really do have them.  This new found confidence and self-assurance will help you gain clarity and to feel more positive about your way forward as you work on planning and achieving your goals and releasing your full potential.

In life coaching you will see that there is no such thing as failure, despite what you may have been led to believe.  You will learn that even the smallest of achievements should be celebrated.  This new found confidence will lead you in good stead for all your future ventures.