My Approach
Counselling and coaching can both offer helpful ways of understanding ourselves and making changes in our lives. Although they often have different starting point, in practice, i find they work best when they’re able to inform one another
Counselling
Counselling offers space to explore your thoughts, feelings and the patterns that have shaped your life. Together we might become curious about where some of those patterns developed, what purpose they may once have served, and whether they still fir the situations you find yourself in today.
For me, the aim isn’t simply to explain the past or to replace one story with another, it is to create enough room to see yourself with a little more flexibility and curiosity so that new possibilities can begin to emerge.
Coaching
Coaching provides a space to experiment with those possibilities. Sometimes that means trying something different, approaching a familiar situation in a new way, or discovering through experience what feels right for you, rather than feeling you have to know the answer in advance.
Rather than expecting confidence, motivation or certainty to arrive first, coaching can help you build them gradually through trying things, reflecting on what you notice, and finding approaches that genuinely fit you.
By bringing elements of counselling and coaching together, there’s space both to make sense of your experiences and to begin exploring different ways of responding to them. For many people, understanding and experimentation are not separate stages but part of the same process
If you'd like to get a fuller sense of how I think about therapy, you might enjoy reading some of my reflections. They explore ideas that often emerge in my work with clients, from the hidden grief in change to why self-compassion isn't always the place to begin.
