What is therapeutic coaching? Therapeutic coaching is the integration of reparative counselling with developmental coaching.

'While counselling is reparative in nature, coaching has a developmental focus. Coaching is about change and action. The core purpose of coaching is to increase self-awareness, to make choices explicit, and to close the gap between potential and how things are currently.' 'All coaches who are BACP members are also qualified counsellors, which means they can safely work at depth to tackle the underlying causes of destructive patterns and the reasons you feel stuck.'

(BACP, 2022) https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/coaching/

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How do you work with clients? I work collaboratively with you to deliver a bespoke package of support attuned to your needs. This is achieved through the integration of several established counselling and coaching approaches and techniques.

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What is a Personal Consultant? A Personal Consultant has trained in the Personal Consultancy model of therapeutic coaching. This model enables the strengths of various counselling and coaching approaches to be integrated in a systemic way to address a wide range of needs. Which approaches are used depends on what you would like to achieve from the support and can be discussed at a consultation appointment.

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What approaches do you use and what are their strengths?

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​Person-centered counselling grounds your support in a therapeutic relationship in which you will feel able to be yourself.

Existentialism helps us to face the inevitable existential challenges of life.

Transactional analysis offers a way of thinking about relationships and patterns of relating that may have become problematic.

Gestalt therapy and techniques can help us move through cycles of experience and resolve issues of unfinished business.

Cognitive behavioural therapy enlightens how thoughts, feelings and behaviour link together and how we can change them.

Solution-focused thinking looks at what is currently working for you and how we can make use of this to develop ways forward.

Coaching focuses on your preferred future and provides techniques and structure to help you get there.

Psychology provides a background understanding of the mind, including child development and adolescence.

Human Givens highlights our fundamental human needs and the resources we can use to get those needs met.

Motivational Interviewing elicits the reasons and motivation to make the changes you would like.

The Rewind Technique relieves intrusive recall of traumatic events by enabling the processing of traumatic memories.

Protective Behaviours gives us principles and strategies that can help us live with physical and emotional safety.

Trauma-informed practice means I view behaviour as adaptive to the environment in which it was created and am more likely to explore what has happened to you than thinking there is something wrong with you.

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​Why don't you list the issues and problems you work with? I don't want anyone to feel like they need to fit a list to access support. If any of the above approaches seem to offer what you're looking for then that is enough.   

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What if I don't know what's wrong, what I want or what I'm looking for? That's okay, we can work it out together. Get in touch to ask a question or arrange a telephone call and we can go from there.​