About Coaching

What is coaching?

Coaching can be for everyone. Through conversations, coaching helps you to look at where you are now with your life, where you want to be and what options you have to get there. Whether your goal is to find the meaning of your life or something more tangible, coaching can help you to map your possibilities and choose the route that is most suitable for you. It can be very effective and powerful when people want to focus on finding a solution for a particular problem, or explore their thoughts and feelings around an issue or if they simply want to get more clarity on something. Coaching enables a journey of self-exploration which can give you greater self-awareness and examine and reshape many areas of your life, work, relationships, health & wellbeing, career and personal development.

Curious to know how I work?

Our coaching relationship starts with a free discovery call. This conversation gives us the space to get to know each other. We will explore the challenges you are experiencing and talk about your expectations and how coaching can help. You will be able to ask any questions about me, my rates and the process. Even If you choose not to work with me you will leave the session with a better idea of what's going on for you and what you can do about it.

My promise to you

I will give you a safe space to be listened to. Coaching with me will bring you clarity about what you want and help you to create your personal action plan to achieve your goal. What I ask from you is that you are committed and ready to do the work. That means being ready to take responsibility for where you are, face your limiting beliefs and take action towards where you want to be. I offer a flexible approach to coaching , integrating passion, humour and discipline, with a full commitment to support you on your journey. 

Packages and the coaching process:

• "Leaf Pakage"        - 3 coaching sessions over 6 weeks. This package is for a specific topic and will give you a taster of what coaching is.  Total cost: £225
• "Branch Package" - 3-month programme, including fortnightly sessions.  Total cost: £540
• "Tree Package"      - 6-month programme, including fortnightly sessions.  Total cost £1320

The sessions are normally 60 minutes long and currently done online, unless we make other arrangements. They are completely confidential  and non-judgemental. I am based in Kent but work with clients all over the world. Coaching can be done in English or Flemish/Dutch.

I am a qualified and insured Coach with a Diploma in Transformational Coaching received through the Animas Centre for Coaching - an accredited programme by the International Coach Federation and the Association for Coaching.

What can't coaching help with?

Coaching is not a 'fix' or a replacement for therapy or counselling which is focussed on understanding the past. Coaching is future focussed, action-oriented and non expertise driven.

My approach / style

I put each client at the centre of the work I do, Using my enthusiasm, psychological insight, business knowledge and life experience to enable personal and professional growth. I’m ambitious for my coaching clients, helping them to see fresh possibilities in their situations and take confident steps forward. My coaching approach combines deep listening, curiosity about the possible, unfolding questions and holding you accountable with equal parts care and can do.  I draw inspiration from both wise and kind people, quotes from all kinds of literature and working creatively with images and metaphors. If occasionally I believe advice from my own life and experience could be of help, I offer it clearly and without obligation. Clients often reflect at the end of a session that they have opened up more, gained deeper self-knowledge or gone further out of their comfort zone than they expected to, almost without having realised it at the time!

Words used to describe me as a coach include grounded, motivating, clarifying, dynamic, kind, insightful, supportive, skilled and authentic. I am someone inclined towards analytical thinking with a curious mind, using a relaxed and natural coaching style with a rational, integrative approach. I do not "fix" my clients. Instead, I help people intuitively to connect with their self. I strongly believe everything clients need is already inside them, I will simply show them how to access it. 

People who know me call me enthusiastic, focussed, driven and professional but also attentive, positive and inspirational. I can be tactfully “pushy” to help clients achieve their goals if that is what they request. I love brainstorming when asked by the client to enable people to see the bigger picture from a different perspective. 

Are you ready for the next step in your personal or professional development?