I coach people over the phone (I highly recommend getting some good headphones so that you have more freedom when we work) or via Teams but without the video. We can meet over a video call but I find when I am not in the room with clients, working this way is more powerful and more freeing. It is easy to get stuck to the screen otherwise and when I can’t see you, it allows for deeper listening. And, you will have probably ‘heard’ someone smile when you are on the phone with them, well, there is more of that.

For workplace coaching, I can work with you at your work place, depending on geography and/or how many people in your organisation I am working with.

We will start with an hour-long call, at no cost to you, where we will talk about what you need from coaching, what we would both need from the coaching relationship, how I work, fees, sessions etc. We will be able to learn a bit about each other and try out a bit of coaching together so that we can then decide if we will work well together in service of you. If the answer is yes, we’ll book your Discovery Session in! If it’s a no, I will recommend some other coaches for you to contact if you choose to.

The Discovery Session is a 2 hour session. I will send you some questions beforehand for you to fill out and send back to me. There are no right or wrong answers to these and they are deigned to be challenging, get your juices flowing in discovering more about yourself and what you want. It also tells me more about you. In the session we will pull on these questions, clarify your goals and build some tools to work with as we go forwards.

Coaching sessions will then be 55 minutes, usually every other week.

Many of my clients have been looking for a counsellor, had counselling and it wasn’t right for them at this time or had great counselling in the past, but they know it’s not what they need now.

I do coach emotions. If we can do that safely and use that information for you to process what you need to and move forward (not necessarily in the same session, these things often take time), then coaching is probably right for you. If you need to spend a lot more time in that emotion and we are not able to do other work because of it, you probably need therapy at this time. I heard a wonderful metaphor to describe the difference: in coaching we are snorkelling and in therapy we put on an oxygen tank and dive down – so in coaching, we are curious about what we see and find our way with that information but we are not diving deep and unearthing things.

I am a certified Mental Health First Aider so that I can better support people if/when they need more specialist help. It is crucial that we all receive appropriate and safe support with our mental and physical health. I network well with other practitioners in order to support this and deliver the Mental Health First Aid courses to spread the word and to help develop others’ skills in this!