sessions: the detail

To begin, there will be discussion around the nature of your problems, as well as your dreams and ambitions. They may not feel like dreams at this stage, they may simply be a better way to live, or avoiding wanting to hide or die. But at whatever level, this stage will include setting sights on some of the goals, as well as discovering the extent of the problems.

This will move on to the ‘active’ part of coaching: ways to approach problems, ways to think through them, ways to act through them. The process does not end at the end of the session: there will be work for you to do between sessions: practising what you have been taught, facing fears, trying different approaches, examining beliefs and thinking in new ways. Looking at the world from a new perspective.

Your experiences with this work will be brought to the next session, and at each stage, you will be moved forward, until you are either able to move forward on your own, or you have achieved what you wanted to achieve. Work that you need to do may become more task-oriented, for instance, fears that need to be faced will be set as tasks to get through.

Or it may be that you need support in a difficult decision or support through a difficult process: coming out, for instance. By applying my skills, my empathy and my professional objectivity, along with my desire to see people be as happy as they can be (my life philosophy) I can help you become a happier and more fulfilled person, with your problems left behind, your ambitions within your reach.

Support may be used for whatever is getting between you and happiness, health or dreams: stopping smoking, finishing the diploma, overcoming the effects of illness, mental or physical, overcoming the effects of abuse, coming to terms with rape, saving your marriage, ending your marriage, keeping you from obsessive use of porn or Second Life, helping you form healthy adult relationships, releasing your creative self. Just as long as its not corporate or to do with simply earning more money. This isn't my interest or passion. Your happiness and personal fulfilment is.