Life coaching offers you one-to-one support to get the most out of yourself. To get psychologically streamlined. To remove barriers of irrationality, self-doubt, or negative expectations and enjoy the resources that you know you have inside.

The convenience of having a life coach to hand is immeasurable, particularly in the corporate arena. Someone on the outside who you can bounce thoughts off, who will challenge your thinking, who can offer perspectives and questions that might turn your perceptions on their head. Your own lifecoach, offering expert psychological support and direction.

• I help you get more out of yourself.
  
• I help you to recognise and control barriers that may be consciously, or unconsciously holding you back.

• I allow you to focus on what you really want, and how to go about achieving it more effectively.
• I challenge your thought processes, and reflect your irrational patterns.
• I direct you to recognise and explore inner conflicts of motivation or fear.
  
• I train you in techniques of self-awareness and self-control, to be more resourceful with your mind.
  
• I intuitively recognise subconscious dynamics.

• I provide a sounding board for you to spill your guts about certain personal concerns, ideas for the future, emotional worries or anything else you care to discuss in a confidential, non-judgemental atmosphere.

As you can tell, this isn’t like talking to a neighbour, or a colleague over coffee. In fact, nor is it like speaking to a majority of traditional life coaches. As your lifecoach, I have an expert awareness of subconscious dynamics, years of experience of behaviour change using contemporary psychology, and a great intuition for human behaviour. As a certified professional hypnotherapist, I’m also equipped with great skills to re-educate your subconscious mind for positive results. But thats not all – as a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, I’m also able to teach conscious techniques for enhanced communication, self-mastery and self-control.

But that doesn’t mean I shout “You can do it!” every five minutes. Personally, I think traditional life coaching is quite westernised – its all about ‘positive thinking’, or becoming blissfully ignorant as a way of coping. Sometimes this can be useful – but sometimes deep inner conflicts then go unnoticed and result in more anxiety further down the line.

What’s unique about my service is that I listen, communicate and work on different levels. My awareness of the subconscious allows me to recognise things you project without realising you’re doing it. I reflect back my perceptions and ideas in a way that you may not have experienced before. Sometimes I’ve had profound breakthroughs with clients in a single session, who have spent years in counselling or psychotherapy.

Why is a life coach necessary?

Because the human mind is flawed. By it’s very nature, the mind is conflicted – your subconscious fears against your conscious ideals. Who you want to be vs who you really are. The trap of only seeing what you want to see. Believing what you want to believe… and as a result seeing reality in a distorted way. To varying degrees, this is the case for literally everyone. Being coached to percieve things in different ways literally opens your reality up – giving more choices, more awareness, and more control.

These differences can have a huge positive impact on your personal life, relationships and business performance.

All too often, people make the mistake of thinking “I don’t need any help – I’m quite alright”. It’s usually the same people who stubbornly cling to false beliefs, sinking slowly into destructive cycles whilst protecting their ego. Life Coaching is not about being told you’re wrong – or being ‘told what to do’ – its about having someone there who can coach you.

A life coach offers special and valuable relationship. Your friends, family and colleagues know you, or worse, they think they know you. They offer precious little confidentiality. Having a skilled life coach who is on the outside of your world, provides a resource that you simply can’t find on the inside.

• Your own Life Coach to encourage, direct and drive better results
• Set clear, powerful subconscious goals that you can’t help but fulfill
• Resolve inner conflicts to get all your energies flowing in the same direction
• Overcome anxieties or self-doubt to be confident and get more out of yourself
• Psychological support and ’soundboarding’ when you need it
• Learn and use contemporary techniques for the mind
• Have your irrational thought patterns recognised and challenged
• Convenient packages available to suit your needs and lifestyle

Having me as your lifecoach provides a great ongoing resource. Alongside the great benefits of coaching and support, you may appreciate having a resourceful psychologist on the outside to ‘bounce off of’ and ’sound things through’. For example, writing a difficult letter, discussing the dynamics of an argument, or asking for information about dealing with ‘covert aggression’ and manipulative bosses in the workplace!

Where does hypnotherapy come in to it?

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are core interests of mine, and areas of professional training and expertise. The significance of hypnosis, hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is that they offer direct routes to the subconscious mind. This deeper part of your mind is hugely powerful – loaded with attitudes, beliefs, memories, associations, emotional baggage. When necessary, you may need to make adjustments and re-educate your subconscious mind. An example might be fear of public speaking – I have coached many people into feeling confident and excited rather than afraid and nervous. Where necessary, this involves hypnotic reprogramming to deal with influential memories or irrational beliefs.

Services and Pricing

I offer various life-coaching packages to suit your needs. You may wish to visit my practice, it may be more convenient for me to visit your place of work, you may want to use the telephone, or simply email communication. All have their merits and are priced accordingly.

Please bear in mind though, I ain’t cheap. If you write to explain your situation and needs, I’ll quote a price.

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I feel content and my marriage is back on track. Life is good and despite knockbacks I am not anxious. Work colleagues and friends/ family are all commenting on my changed outlook and appearance and I recently managed to get a promotion. The edge I had over the other candidate was confidence. Something which I would have never believed could be said about me. Thank you so much for your help and support. I have sung your praises to nine who would listen.” Kirtsy, Rockbeare

I was constantly talking about feeling disaffected and being a spectator to my life – I now realise I felt that way because I was making myself a spectator to my own life by not venturing out and trying new things – just seeing my role in life as being available to my family when and if they should need me. Thanks for that! I spent the last 2 days doing lots of active things with the boys and I’m beginning to feel like my old self again – more in control of my life!.” Maureen, Tiverton

I am still feeling positive… Since my session with you I have found that all sorts of good things are happening in my life – I seem to have turned a corner and even the setbacks are bearable! Can’t thank you enough.” Tim, Exeter

I am so glad I contacted you, I didn’t realise how much of a muddle my head and thinking had got. It feels like my brain was on a spin cycle in a washing machine and now it feels in order and a great sense of calm its such a wonderful feeling. My friends and colleagues have commented that I have got my sparkle back again, I didn’t realise I had lost it, I think things had gradually built up and being stubborn I didn’t acknowledge it thinking I could shake it off but sometimes you need help. I am so grateful to you and thank you again” Hilary, Crediton

Group/Staff Training

I produce interactive training workshops for groups. These utilise various learning modalities, including visuals, listening, and useful interactive exercises. PowerPoint is used as a convenient way to show relevant video clips or animations which have been specially edited for training purposes.

The Clear Thinking workshop can be modified to last anywhere between an hour and two days. It is a comprehensive overview of loopholes in thinking, training an awareness of ‘thinking better’ and being better able to spot irrational thoughts and actions. This could prove incredibly valuable where budget holders and decision makers are concerned! The workshop contains many interactive tests and experiments to illustrate irrational thinking, and offers a memorable and thought provoking experience.

If you are interested in any of these services, please get in touch via the contact form above.