Life coaching
Why life coaching?
There are many reasons people come to coaching. Whatever your chosen area of focus or exploration, coaching provides the opportunity to consider where you are in life and what you would like from it, helping you create a vision of where you want to be and a plan to get there.
I can provide guidance in an array of areas, from navigating a significant life change to achieving a happier more meaningful life. Whatever the focus, coaching offers a supportive empowering relationship that aids forward movement by highlighting and making the most of personal strengths and providing strategies to overcome perceived areas of weakness. A motivating journey of self-discovery life coaching can help you life the life you want to live!
What are the benefits?
Coaching helps gain a better understanding of yourself, identify skills and talents and helps create clarity around values, beliefs and goals. A skilled coach helps you consider all areas of life, what you would like to focus on and how you can achieve it. Whatever your reason for coming to coaching, the supportive, non-judgemental and empowering process acts as an effective springboard for forward movement and success.
Coaching is effective in raising levels of self-awareness and recognition of thoughts that can be limiting or create mental blocks that hinder or stop achievement. Employing open, catalytic questions and deep listening skills, I will help you clarify your desires and support you to identify the steps needed to achieve them. Aside from supporting you to reach your goals, coaching builds and enhances essential life skills that can positively impact relationships and life.
A life that makes you happy and allows you achieve your full potential is worth striving for - coaching provides a strategic way to achieving it..
“A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” Elaine MacDonald, Author
Parent coaching
Parenting is one of life's biggest and most important roles..
A role of huge responsibility, it is one we take on without training or a manual, quite literally we learn on the job! It is no surprise that at some stage of their parenting journey most parents encounter times of uncertainty, challenge, or require reassurance. As joyful and fulfilling as family life can be, it can also bring challenges and coaching offers insight and practical guidance to enable families to maximise the highs and minimise the lows.
You do not need to be a new parent to benefit from coaching, each age and stage of development can bring both joy and challenge. Coaching helps identify parenting strengths, to develop a plan to address challenges and is effective in forward planning and preparing for the future. The skills learned during the early years can be built upon and updated to maximise effect when parenting tweens and teens!
How can coaching help?
Parent coaching can help with all aspects of being a parent. Whether focussing on parenting skills or supporting the needs of a child, it facilitates a journey of self-discovery. It offers guidance to help reach parenting goals, to overcome obstacles and to explore techniques to assist in responding to the ever changing demands of family life.
Aiming to provide the knowledge, tools and confidence to enable parents to raise and educate children to the best of their ability, coaching is a gentle, empowering experience, that can be used to create clarity about parenting and family life as a whole.
I take a scaffolded learning approach to provide a range of knowledge and skills that can be used in isolation or together to create a solid foundation for positive parenting and flourishing family life.
Acutely aware that every parent, child, family and situation is unique, I encourage you to request a complimentary call to explore what coaching can offer you and your family.
Coaching can help take the puzzle out of parenting...
Client feedback
Parent Coaching
"Enormous impact that stays in my mind constantly, so many aspects have helped my understanding and therefore our family dynamic."
"Always a pleasure to attend and learn greater parenting skills. Always very informative and always effects change within our family - for the better."
"Speaking to someone neutral helped us communicate more effectively. We were able to focus on overcoming issues rather than arguing about them."
"Learning about parenting styles has helped us understand each other more and we are more united in our parenting."
"I am far more aware of how I parent, my actions and how they affect my child. Similarly I understand them a little better and how to interact, listen, respond etc."
"I feel less alone in my struggle to understand and cope with my son and my husband! I'm on the way to feeling a lot more empowered. Such a useful and stimulating and enlightening course - highly recommended"
"Sally offers such wise counsel. I left sessions feeling lighter, motivated and committed to taking action."
"Life coaching has been life changing!"
Life Coaching
"Wellbeing coaching has been transformational, small changes are having a huge impact."
"The clarity I have gained from coaching helped me in so many ways. I can see the limitations of previous behaviour and thought patterns and feel confident in doing things differently."
"Coaching helped me realise my head and my heart were out of sync and make changes."
"Taking time to explore personal challenges has been life changing. It has helped me gain perspective and focus my energy more positively - thank you."