I offer coaching with a psychotherapeutic orientation. Psychotherapy is a major influence on life coaching. It understands how people think, feel and react. Life coaches who rely solely on business experience or coaching tools can be ill-equipped to enable deep-rooted change. If life coaching is to be successful, it must engage with unconscious resistance and evoke a depth of personal understanding.
Coaching with a psychodynamic orientation allows people to explore the relationship between their instinctive drives and their goals and recognises the importance of the unconscious in facilitating self-awareness.
Psychodynamic coaching can be useful
when you want to develop political or interpersonal skills
to help you understand other people’s behaviour
to deal with senior managers
to lead and manage team members
to deal with difficult people
when you want to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses
when you want to change self-defeating behaviour
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.”