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Coaching

What Is Coaching?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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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 &/or 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, relationships or health & wellbeing that you are dissatisfied with & exploring ways to strengthen or make improvements in these areas. We offer psychological coaching in the following areas:

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.

Sessions may involve:

  • Identifying or clarifying directions, goals & objectives

  • Identifying & addressing barriers to goal attainment e.g. self-limiting beliefs

  • Facilitating the development of new skills & competencies e.g. interpersonal skills

  • Enhancing or drawing on existing transferable skills, strengths & knowledge 

 

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. Such approaches can also help with effectively managing heightened emotional affect as well as modifying the unhelpful thought processes, patterns & templates that can impede optimal performance & goal achievement.

What Can Psychological Coaching Help With?

  • Navigating the world with neurodiversity 

  • Navigating career or organisational change & transitions

  • Clarifying personal & professional direction

  • Identifying personal & professional goals or objectives

  • Exploring & identifying unhelpful relational or behavioural patterns

  • Interpersonal skills development

  • Improving relationships

  • Relational success

  • Identity exploration

  • Personal development & growth

  • Achieving optimal functioning in the home & workplace

  • Achievement of lifestyle goals & ambitions

  • Health & wellbeing goals & objectives

  • 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:

  • Growing interpersonal connections

  • Improving relationships

  • Developing interpersonal skills 

  • Achieving personal ambitions

  • Progressing in a sport or hobby

  • Identity exploration

  • Lifestyle & role transitions e.g. becoming a parent, retirement

Career Coaching

Career coaching supports individuals at all stages of the employment journey, from career selection to retirement. Career coaching can support with exploring, identifying & applying for suitable roles, fields of work or career pathways, preparing for interviews & developing relevant competencies for the workplace.

 

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:

  • Career progression

  • Career change

  • Interview skills development & support

  • Improving workplace performance

  • Organisational development 

  • Professional growth

  • Workplace skills development

  • Becoming more effective in the workplace

  • Interpersonal & communicational skills development

  • Leadership skills

  • Facilitation skills

  • Presentation skills

  • Navigating organisational change

  • Navigating role changes & transitions e.g. retirement

Neurodiversity Coaching

Neurodiversity coaching supports individuals who have a diagnosis of autism or ADHD (or those without a diagnosis, but who feel they may be neurodiverse) to navigate the world effectively. Sessions typically focus on increasing an understanding of the self, learning coping skills & developing social skills.  

The areas of focus for coaching sessions may include:

  • Navigating a non-neurodiverse world

  • Increasing self-understanding

  • Developing relationship & communication skills

  • Developing organisational skills

  • Developing coping strategies 

  • Identifying life goals​​

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BENEFITS OF COACHING

Increased understanding of the self

Increased sense of direction 

Clarification of goals & objectives

Increased goal attainment

Optimal workplace functioning

Improved interpersonal effectiveness

Improved relationships

Enhanced self-awareness & self-knowledge

Self-management of barriers to success

Enhanced work-life balance

Healthy & values-based living

Workplace & career success

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 & career, both clinically & professionally. 

Sessions typically reflect a combination of supervision & coaching - supporting the professional to identify their ambitions, values, 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. 

Themes we support with: include:

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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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Interview Skills

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:

  • Making & sustaining changes

  • Creating healthy habits

  • Values-based living

  • Setting health-related goals

  • 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. 

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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

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