executive coaching
For leaders to become the best version of themselves, it’s essential to continually set inspiring goals that enhance their skills, allow them to lead teams with confidence, improve communication, boost motivation, and drive success for both themselves and their organisations. However, even the most capable leaders may face internal challenges.
I offer Integrated Executive Coaching (also known as therapeutic coaching) to help leaders overcome these internal obstacles, empowering them to thrive both professionally and personally.
More On Integrated Executive Coaching
Integrated executive coaching is a blended approach that combines the future focused, goal-oriented and results-driven aspects of coaching with the restorative, considered theoretical underpinnings of psychotherapy. This integrated method addresses both personal and professional challenges, empowering individuals to achieve their goals while fostering emotional well-being and personal growth.
Our coaching journey is a collaborative partnership, where your needs and aspirations take centre stage. Together, we engage in thoughtful, empowering conversations that are both future-focused and action-oriented. This process helps you to identify and address any professional or personal challenges that may be holding you back, as well as recognise areas of success where you wish to excel further. By unlocking the solutions within you, we pave the way for meaningful and sustainable growth.
In this innovative type of therapeutic coaching, the coach helps clients identify and overcome internal barriers that may hinder their progress. These barriers can include stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, overthinking, past trauma, or self-limiting beliefs. By creating a supportive and non-judgmental environment, the coach facilitates self-exploration and increased self-awareness, enabling clients to understand and address the root causes of their challenges.
My coaching approach, informed by aspects of Existential and CBT therapy, helps leaders to help themselves create lasting change. It is warm, non-judgmental, and empathetic as well as dynamic, challenging and transformative. It also challenges clients to create change by increasing their self-awareness and accessing their inner resourcefulness to overcome personal blocks, increase mastery and confidence, gain clarity and create sustainable change.
By integrating aspects of psychotherapy theory, I’m able to deliver coaching that is concise yet facilitates deeper exploration. It is ideal for those who neither need nor desire therapy, but require a little more depth from their coaching sessions. This also helps coaching clients to establish what is concerning them in the here-and-now. It also empowers clients to establish and connect to their talents and strengths, finding ways to become the best version of themselves as leaders.
Leadership Challenges
My clients include leaders, senior managers, business owners and founders, CEO entrepreneurs, HR professionals, and talk practitioners in leadership roles. They will mostly be from the private sector but also work within the public and charitable sectors.
The leaders I work with include those who have:
- A desire to increase leadership impact and personal effectiveness
- Experienced professional success but with consequences in their personal life
- Been struggling quietly or openly with chronic/acute stress, feelings of overwhelm or burnout
- Have eroded resilience
- Noticed a lack of clarity
- Less mental health and wellbeing than they’d like
- Communication or other relationship challenges with their staff teams and other key stakeholders
- Poor work-life harmony
- Overcoming internal barriers and mindset blocks, e.g., imposter syndrome, unhelpful thinking habits, rumination, etc.
As a fully qualified executive coach with an additional 24 years of psychotherapy, over 4.5 years of coaching experience, and a further 12 years of leadership experience, I am passionate about offering discreet coaching and psychological support that enables high-achieving leaders to further excel, improve personal wellbeing and be the best leaders they can be.