Work & Personal Coaching
I provide a space to reflect, reconnect with what motivates you, and explore challenges differently, helping you find clarity and confidence along the way.
Approach
My coaching offers a space to explore the connection between your whole self and the self you bring to work. This includes looking at what really motivates you and what gets lost or hidden. To support this, I offer the opportunity to engage in creative approaches that help you see challenges in a new way. These include object work, writing, story-making, drawing and role play.
My coaching can cover a wide range of issues including:
Surviving Stress & Burnout
My coaching helps you recognise how stress affects both mind and body. By calming physical reactions and reconnecting with small moments of satisfaction, you can regain control, joy and perspective.
Authenticity
Authenticity sits at the heart of my coaching. Together we explore goals that feel meaningful and energising, uncovering what truly drives you and understanding who you want to become.
Work Relationships
Work relationships can be complex and shaped by both personal and organisational dynamics. Coaching can help disentangle these pressures, understand old patterns and practise new ways of relating.
Building Your Skills
Including handling challenging conversations, public speaking, board meetings, strategic planning, developing gravitas
Exploring What’s Important
Begin your journey with a creative exploration session where we use techniques like drawing and story-making to uncover your unique challenges and goals.
Using Creative Approaches
Develop a personalized coaching strategy that incorporates object work and role play to address your specific needs and aspirations.
Meaningful Change
We work with your thought patterns, values and goals to build confidence, reduce stress and develop authentic direction.
Building Your Skills
People often seek coaching to develop skills that will equip them for a new role or to address areas of their current role that they find challenging. Coaching offers a safe space to practice both in the sessions and at home. My approach is to make this playful and fun to reduce the fear and anxiety that often surrounds areas we don’t feel confident in. Breakthroughs often happen through a combination of: addressing the thought patterns that hold you back; building on what you already feel comfortable doing and approaching the problem in a new way.
Surviving Stress and Burn Out
My starting point is helping you to identify how stress is impacting on both your mind and your body. By working with your physical reaction to stress and finding ways to calm your body down I aim to create space for you to think and respond to the situation facing you. People under stress often find they lose a sense of control and a sense of joy. Exercises, which focus on the satisfaction you feel from small things, can be key to recovering a sense of agency and vitality. At the same time, uncovering the bigger picture is also important because it puts current challenges in perspective. Coaching can help you explore what you really value. It can also help you uncover your hidden strengths by looking at those times when you successfully got through a difficult situation.
Authenticity
The idea of authenticity sits at the heart of my approach to coaching. Authenticity is particularly important when setting goals. This is because a goal, which does not feel authentic, is likely to feel draining after a while. On the other hand, an authentic goal tends to energise and is usually connected to the deeper network of things we find meaningful. Often people come into coaching with goals that are focused on how they feel they should be rather than who they really want to become. For example, someone may feel they should be in a more senior managerial role but find that what energises them is a more specialised role. Or, someone may have an image of who they need to be as a leader, which does not fit with who they really are. The early stages of coaching can help uncover the values that drive us and frame our goals in a way which fits with our authentic self. Linked to this is what Gestalt therapy has termed “The Paradox of Change’ that it is only when we accept who we are now that we can change.
Work Relationships
Our work relationships are central to how we develop professionally. However, many work relationships are complex because they have a political dimension. Coaching can help disentangle the personal from the political and the individual from the organisation. This can free up our ability to engage more playfully and spontaneously and forge stronger connections with others.
Much work in organisations takes place within a team, whether this is at an operational level or at board level. Team working can be rewarding but also challenging and many people struggle with past experiences of groups, for example, feelings of not belonging, being marginalised or undermined. These experiences can lead us into stuck positions in which we find we are repeating old patterns. Coaching can help us understand and step outside these patterns by practicing new ways of relating.
In today’s work environment, the ability to influence others has become an increasingly important skill, particularly when working across or organisations or outside traditional line management structures. This kind of working can be dynamic, fluid and exciting but also frustrating, disempowering and full of uncertainty. My coaching aims to help you find a way to steer through this.