Dedicated one-to-one coaching
allows you to make time and space
for resolving a background worry or concern.
So you can regain your personal energy
and natural love of life again.
Laura's Coaching Approach
Drawing on mindfulness and empowerment models,
my role is to help you untangle any uncertainties you are carrying
- so you can become clear about current dynamics and choice-points.
Time and concentration is hard to find in the outside world, so we stay concentrated on your areas of concern and worry.
I am not a coach who is 'Pollyanna' positive about everything and anything.
My commitment to you is to stay focused on your wishes, to stay mindful of what you have said and aspire to, and to explore with your best interests at-heart.
We will connect the dots on the macro and the micro, the big picture and its details.
Intelligence, awareness, boundaries, accountability and compassion all have a place in my work.
My goal is to be fair to you - based on what you have named as your concerns and hopes.
Coaching is different to the kind of discussion you might have with friends, family, or partner.
Their emotional closeness to you,
(and sometimes their own personal investment
in wanting you to do 'x, y, z' in your life),
can compound your stuckness
- rather than free it up.
When we explore your concerns and wishes,
I will help you methodically and empathically
map out the pieces in the picture,
and work with your values system,
to explore what is the best way forward for you.
What is important in coaching is
not what I think about something,
but what does this situation mean to you.
How and where does coaching take place?
All coaching sessions are one-to-one.
They are held online via a video call using Jitsi*.
(*It is just like Zoom - you'll get a link to join beforehand.)
All coaching sessions are one-to-one.
They are held online via a video call using Jitsi*.
(*It is just like Zoom - you'll get a link to join beforehand.)
All coaching sessions are one-to-one.
They are held online via a video call using Jitsi*.
(*It is just like Zoom - you'll get a link to join beforehand.)
How and where does coaching take place?
All coaching sessions are one-to-one.
They are held online via a video call using Jitsi*.
(*It is just like Zoom - you'll get a link to join beforehand.)
What is the difference between coaching, counselling, psychology, and therapy?
In my own particular offerings, I am happy to bring my knowledge of business, psychology, and therapy into the coaching space - but that is because I am able to.
A key difference between these professional fields is their systems of apprenticeship, government regulation and accountability. Whilst, on a very basic level, all involve talking and discussion, the professional expectations, and controls in place, for each differs vastly.
Psychologists usually have a science based background and so their training is regulated by a professional body that ensures there are firm guidelines and legal responsibilities which psychologists as a profession need to be held accountable to.
Psychotherapists and coaches are not as stringently regulated because their legal responsibilities are positioned differently. Both of the latter focus on talking therapies as one of their main methodologies; although there is wide variety of how this rolls out in a session and between practitioners themselves.
Some psychologists train specifically in counselling and clinical specialisations and therefore have talking therapy as an expertise in their toolkit, whilst others opt to focus on education or research and do not work with clients or 'patients'.
Traditionally people think of coaching as a very goal-oriented conversation - strongly focused on now and the future, In reality there are many psychotherapies and psychology approaches that are also very present-centered and/or future-facing.
The biggest difference between the two has historically been 'who is the conversation for'.
This is because from the 2000s onward, we began to see a trend of coaching being deployed by large HR departments as a way of 'motivating' their staff to meet organisational goals and KPI targets. This extra agenda meant there were often two clients in the room: in the employee AND their employer.
Thankfully, private coaching has held onto its most essential roots. An honest human-centered space for helping people achieve the goals they wish for themselves on a deep personal level;.
Psychotherapy and counselling are, broadly speaking, services that have traditionally accommodated clients who are strongly intrinsically motivated and have freely chosen to explore and discuss. Accordingly, counselling modalities have benefited from a long history of working to create confidential, ethical settings which client choose to go to from a space of freewill.
Cleary, these are very broad stroke distinctions. The idea here, however, is that both counselling and coaching have things in common, but very different histories, tools, contexts, and origin stories.
