My background

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During a twenty year career in the media industry in a range of senior management roles, understanding the psychology of high performance, professional struggle, and personal resilience emerged as my passion. Alongside being a mum to teenagers, I'm now an Integrative Psychotherapist (MA), Executive Coach (PG Cert/ILM Level 7), Accredited Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), certified Systemic Teach Coach, and Coach Supervisor.  I enjoy working with individuals and couples in private practice,  and executives and teams within organisations, to help people identify the lives they truly want to lead and empower them to create the change they need to make. 

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Formerly Chair of the Executive Committee for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's  (BACP) Coaching Division, I am passionate about supporting research that develops evidence-based practice, and enjoy contributing to a variety of media, books, academic publications, and conferences, to advocate for the benefits that psychotherapeutically-informed coaching has for individuals and communities.

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Separate to my private practice, as Founder and CEO of Therapeutic Coaching Consultancy I lead a team of specialists who work within organisations supporting individuals, teams and groups to achieve high performance and enhanced mental health and wellbeing.  

 

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My philosophy and approach

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My solutions-focussed approach with clients is built on a foundation of warmth, trust and respect, and underpinned by the psychotherapeutic principles of increasing self-awareness and self-acceptance to enable long-term psychological and behavioural change to be achieved.  To help people gain the confidence to 'bring your whole self' to work, relationships, and life in general,  I work with the whole unique person, as well as the challenges initially presented. 

 

I bring energy and compassion to my work with individuals, in 'couples coaching' working with two people experiencing difficulties in their relationship, and to groups and teams within organisations.  The depth and breadth of my training and experience enables me to work collaboratively and creatively with each client to develop a uniquely tailored approach that's relevant to their early background and life experiences,  and current personal and professional challenges.  I flexibly adapt how we work together as our relationship progresses, your autonomy grows, and your goals evolve.  

 

 

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