About Rachel
I am and EMCC EQA Senior Practitioner Coach and I offer coaching for professionals, coach-therapy and life coaching. For testimonials please visit www.coach-therapy.co.uk/testimonials
COACHING FOR PROFESSIONALS
I work with professionals to develop, clarify and extend your thinking. I use psychological skills and knowledge to help you work through your blocks, barriers and blind spots. This kind of relational coaching is unadulterated, dynamic and goal-focused. It works best when the client wants to answer a particular question, explore a single topic or develop an explicit strategy. It has particular potency when it comes to decision-making, improving performance, and tackling role or career transitions.
I have considerable experience in all areas essential to coaching professionals: business, psychology and relationship development. My approach is largely non-directive preferring to use coaching methods, models and psychological concepts to enlarge your self-awareness so that you can be self-directing and authentic.
COACH-THERAPY
This integrated approach works particularly well with young professionals, people with emotionally demanding work roles and professionals who are undertaking a challenging or significant change at work or in their private life.
Similar to coaching, coach-therapy is forward-facing and goal-oriented like coaching but with a therapeutic dimension which deepens the coaching process and enriches the outcome. A key advantage of coach-therapy over coaching is that it can maintain both focus and momentum. As a dual-trained practitioner I work holistically and across the full spectrum of emotion. By working seamlessly I can help you save time, money and emotional upheaval. It’s not for the faint-hearted. It’s psychologically challenging and undoubtedly emotional. The rewards can be vast.
LIFE COACHING
Life coaching takes a holistic approach. It encourages you to pause and reflect on who you are and what you want from your life. When we flounder it’s not uncommon to realise that we have been putting others first too readily and we have forgotten about our own needs. Putting yourself centre-stage is the first step to building a life you will enjoy.
Our work begins with an appraisal of your life so we can identify and prioritise which areas most need our attention. We will explore your difficulties and challenges and come up with possible solutions. We’ll identify your strengths, values and aspirations. Life coaching is about finding clarity, instigating personal change and gaining forward momentum. And you will be so glad that you did.
Experience
I believe in courage, creativity, free will and striving. I believe in inclusivity, authenticity and agency. I believe in the power of becoming more aware of ourselves and making sense of the things that happen to us as means to fulfilling our innate potential. I believe that without exception we are always doing the best we can with what we’ve got even when, perhaps especially when, we feel like we’re messing everything up. I believe that we could all do with a little help when we need to turn things around.
QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
Certificate in Working With Couples (Leeds Centre for Psychological Development)
BACP Certificate of Proficiency (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)
EMCC EQA Senior Practitioner Coach (European Mentoring and Coaching Council/Sheffield Hallam University)
PgCert in Coaching and Mentoring (Sheffield Hallam University)
Foundation Degree in Counselling (CPCAB/The Open University)
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPCAB/Doncaster College)
Certificate in Counselling Skills (CPCAB/Doncaster College)
Graduate Basis for Chartership (British Psychological Society)
Conversion Diploma in Psychology (The Open University)
BA Dual Hons (University of Sheffield)
EXPERIENCE including
Considerable experience as counsellor working with issues arising from abuse, neglect and attachment difficulties such as low self-confidence, stress, generalised anxiety disorder, relationship issues, depression, addiction, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
Experience as life coach working to improve social isolation and personal agency in Disabled people and people with long term health conditions including learning disabilities and mental health issues.
Two decades working in non-clinical roles with people with a learning disability, physical disability, mental ill-health and/or sensory impairment.
Significant experience working with issues arising from acquired disability, diagnosis of ill-health, pre-natal diagnosis, caring responsibilities and being the focus of hate crime.
Counselling agency experience working with women who have experienced domestic violence, abuse and/or rape either as children or adults or both.
Counselling agency experience working with young people with a range of attachment issues and related concerns.
Employment in the third sector from 1995-2015 including multiple collaborations with public sector organisations.
Alongside my coach-therapy practice I run a business offering specialist room hire to other therapists.
Winner of the New Business Innovation award – for Diagonal Mentoring™ awarded in 2017 by the Open University in partnership with Santander.
MEMBERSHIPS
EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council – membership since 2016)
BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – membership since 2014)
BACP Coaching Division (membership since 2014)
BPS (British Psychological Society – membership since 2012)
BPS Division of Counselling Psychology (membership since 2012)
Coaching style
I am an evocative coach rather than a directive coach and work flexibly with recognised coaching tools and techniques for you to get the most out of your session. Being a dual-trained practitioner (qualified in both coaching and counselling) my strength is to work with your underlying emotions and personal meaning to develop your most authentic, flourishing self.