Coaching
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a supportive space that facilitates self-development, both personally & professionally, aiding optimal performance & the achievement of your full potential. Coaching supports you to identify your aims, objectives & goals in your personal life & in your career, & facilitates an exploration of ways to work effectively towards achieving these.
The focus of coaching is on action & change - identifying areas in your life & career that you are dissatisfied with & exploring ways to strengthen or make improvements in these areas. Sessions may involve:
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Identifying or clarifying life or career directions, goals & objectives
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Identifying & addressing barriers to goal attainment e.g. self-limiting beliefs
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Facilitating the development of new skills & competencies e.g. interpersonal skills
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Enhancing or drawing on existing transferable skills, strengths & knowledge
Psychological Coaching
Psychological coaching offers a supportive, nurturing & reflective space to support personal & professional development & growth, helping you to reach your goals & achieve your full potential. This is achieved through the utilisation of psychological models & theories to understand human functioning & enhance self-awareness, self-knowledge & effective self-management.
The benefit of psychological coaching is that psychologists possess highly specialist knowledge & understanding of the human condition. This enables an elevated exploration & understanding of the psychological barriers to change & goal attainment such as self-limiting beliefs, lowered self-esteem & a negative sense of self. Psychological coaching can aid with enhancing ones self-knowledge & self-awareness; facilitating a deeper understanding of ones self-concept, identity & relational templates that inform & shape relational & behavioural patterns in both your personal & professional life.
Further, psychologists are trained in a variety of approaches to address such factors. These approaches can support the development of many relevant skills, including assertive communication techniques, autonomic relaxation techniques & problem-solving skills. They can also help with effectively modifying the unhelpful thought processes & patterns & heightened emotional affect that may impede optimal performance & achievement of your goals.
What Can Psychological Coaching Help With?
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Navigating career or organisational change & transitions
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Clarifying personal & professional direction
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Identifying personal & professional goals or objectives
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Exploring & identifying unhelpful relational or behavioural patterns
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Interpersonal skills development
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Relational success
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Identity exploration
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Personal development & growth
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Achieving optimal functioning in the home & workplace
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Achievement of lifestyle goals & ambitions
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Health & wellbeing goals & objectives
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Values-based living
Different Types of Coaching
Lifestyle Coaching
Lifestyle coaching focuses on supporting you to identify & clarify personal goals, hopes, aims or objectives & work towards these. Lifestyle coaching typically focuses on personal growth, understanding of the self & identity, interpersonal development & achievement of personal goals e.g. hobbies, sports, relationships, missions etc.
The areas of focus for coaching sessions may include:
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Growing interpersonal connections
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Improving relationships
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Developing interpersonal skills
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Achieving personal ambitions
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Progressing in a sport or hobby
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Identity exploration
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Lifestyle & role transitions e.g. becoming a parent, retirement
Career Coaching
Career coaching focuses on supporting you to perform effectively in your work life. It supports you to thrive in your career or role, focusing on personal & professional growth, skills acquisition, understanding of the self in relation to others & supporting optimal interpersonal effectiveness.
The areas of focus for coaching sessions may include:
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Career progression
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Change in career
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Improving workplace performance
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Organisational development
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Professional growth
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Workplace skills development
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Becoming more effective in the workplace
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Interpersonal & communicational skills development
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Leadership skills
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Facilitation skills
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Presentation skills
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Navigating organisational change
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Navigating role changes & transitions e.g. retirement
BENEFITS OF COACHING
Increased sense of direction
Clarification of goals & objectives
Increased goal attainment
Optimal workplace functioning
Improved interpersonal effectiveness
Enhanced self-awareness & self-knowledge
Self-management of barriers to success
Enhanced work-life balance
Healthy & values-based living
Specialist Coaching for the Psychological Professions
We provide specialist coaching for the psychological professions (qualified, trainee & aspiring counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, CBT therapists), supporting those in the profession to reflect on & develop their own practice, both clinically & professionally.
Sessions typically reflect a combination of supervision & coaching - supporting the professional to identify their ambitions, aims, goals & objectives & work towards achieving these through skills acquisition & addressing internal & external barriers. Sessions often include a reflective & exploratory space, as well as a practical, skills-based learning component.
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Career Transitions
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Organisational Conflict
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Private Practice Development
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Role Development
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Skills Development
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Health & Wellbeing Coaching
Health & wellbeing coaching focuses on supporting you to live a physically & psychologically healthy lifestyle. This type of coaching supports you to explore your health-related goals & engage in nourishing, fulfilling & health-enriching behavioural changes.
The areas of focus for coaching sessions may include:
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Making & sustaining changes
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Creating healthy habits
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Values-based living
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Setting health-related goals
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Developing health-related skills, tools & techniques
How Does Coaching Differ from Therapy?
The most significant way that coaching differs from therapy is the focus of sessions. Therapy tends to focus on resolving a problem, typically a mental health, physical health or relational problem. In coaching, the focus is on self-development, personal growth & skills acquisition. Of course, these things often occur in therapy, however the focus in coaching is more on solution-acquisition rather than problem-resolution. The style of coaching also differs from therapy. Coaching tends to be more non-directive than many of the different therapy approaches. That being said, there is often significant overlap between the two approaches & many therapy techniques are drawn on in coaching & many coaching techniques are drawn on in therapy.
How Does Coaching Differ from Therapy?
Again the central difference is often the focus of sessions & the work. The focus of supervision sessions is often on case & workload management. Another key difference is whether sessions are open-ended or time-limited. Coaching is usually time-limited, with a set number of sessions agreed at the outset. Supervision tends to be an ongoing commitment that is required by a professional body.In psychological coaching this may differ, in that the client may prefer to have an open-ended approach where they can schedule ad-hoc reviews & check-ins. Once again, there is often significant overlap between the two approaches & many aspects of supervision are relevant to coaching such as reflective practice, skills acquisition & professional growth. Indeed the two approaches can compliment each other well & many healthcare professionals often opt for a combination of a coaching & supervision approach, particularly those working in private practice.
Third Wave Coaching provides highly specialist career, lifestyle & health & wellbeing coaching across Bristol, South Gloucestershire & the UK. We provide coaching to organisations & individuals. If you wish to contract coaching for yourself or your organisation or employees please do get in touch for a complimentary consult. To get in touch please call 0117 456 24 79 or complete our contact form here
FEES:
DURATION: 60 minutes
COST: £150.00 per session
DURATION: 90 minutes
COST: £200.00 per session
