Coaching is a process of accompanying you through the maze of your unique mind to help you achieve what you want. It is respectful of your lived experience, your values and beliefs and it is totally non-judgemental.

As a coach, I ask questions of you and we gradually navigate the pathways of possibility to arrive at your desired outcome. That outcome may be a decision, a plan, a feeling or something else. But crucially, it's guided by you - it's your outcome. And because it's yours, all the work is focussed on you. Because only you can make decisions and select outcomes for you. I'm simply there with you, guiding you along the way by asking you really simple questions that you've probably never asked yourself.

Hidden in plain sight, deep in your subconcious mind is a lifetime of experiences. Things people have said. Sights, sounds, smells, feelings, emotions, values and beliefs are all safely stored away there in your subconcious mind. A complex cocktail of life that is unique to you. It's all stored there ready for instant recall - that smell of the school corridor; that piece of music that was playing when you first fell in love; that comment that pierces you like a needle - but you can't pinpont why. And playing alongside this is your concious mind - often happy and content, yet somehow searching for something else. The question is, what would you like to have happen? And what's stopping you?

Coaching can help you to formulate your plan, to discover what you want or to find an answer to a particular issue that you face. It can lift a weight from your shoulders that you never realised was there, because you'd been taking it for granted. It can bring clarity from a fog of confusion. It can help you to find your path when you're overwhelmed by the possibilities.

It's not therapy

Therapy looks at particular conditions, events or experiences from the past and helps you to avoid or overcome the effects. Therapy works with the past but coaching tends to work with the future.

It's not Mentoring

Mentoring tells you what to do. To achieve x outcome you need to do y. Mentoring isn't based on you or your unique set of experiences, values or beliefs. But it tends to be based on set processes, not on you. Mentoring could tell you that you need to do a particular number of social media posts a day. Coaching would ask you what you want to achieve and what's stopping you.