On this website you will learn about my views on life coaching and its role in enabling people to make important changes and realise their life goals.
There are a variety of pyschotherapys. Life coaching is most like counciling in that it was not about dealing with illness but designed to make help people make informed choices about heir lives.
I give a brief introduction to the main psychotherapies along with my views on their efficacy.
Does life coaching work?
Kate (not her real name) had been feeling low for a long time. I felt certain I could help and suggested she consider being a guinea pig for my new life coaching skills. I told her about coaching. She responded that while she would be pleased to see me for a chat she did not feel up to even thinking about life coaching at the moment.
We did have that chat and I am sorry to say I applied a little covert life coaching. I asked Kate to think about some goals and suggested that she try achieving them before my next visit.
The following week she was visibly better and had achieved the goals she had set herself. "I am feeling much better. Now tell me about life coaching." she said.
Any technique that can achieve results like that without the client even knowing they are being treated must be very powerful indeed.