Creativity Coaching Services

The services that I am currently offering are one to one coaching sessions, and before long, I will be offering group sessions as well. Further down this page, you will find more information on each of these options, including session lengths and where they take place.

​

Coaching is all about change and taking action to make those changes, and my approach is a blend of coaching and counselling, that's sometimes called "therapeutic coaching". Essentially, this means that it can help you figure out what it is that you want to change in your life (if you don't already know), what's causing those problems, as well as helping you work out how to make the changes you need to make. It's a collaborative approach that is intended to be empowering for you.

​

At heart, I'm a counsellor and come into any therapeutic relationship with compassion and a belief that we are equals and the work is team work. I don't have all the answers, but I see my work as helping you find yours.

​

I am client led, meaning that I take my cues from you, as I believe this to be the most effective way of working. I treat everyone as an individual, tailoring the work to you and what your specific needs are. This means that we can be flexible, so if you have an idea about what you'd like and you can't see it here then let's talk about it to see if we can come up with a creative solution for you.

​

Whilst my coaching approach is forward-focussed, as most coaching is, I believe that sometimes, it's our past that can have an effect on our creativity and how we live our lives, so we will work therapeutically with you on that, if needed, and, most importantly, if you want to.

If you've never been to a coach or a therapist before, you might like to have an idea of what happens in a session. Being honest, someone said to me "What am I getting for my money? I don't understand." and it was a fair question. It's not the easiest thing to explain, but hopefully this will be of some help.

​

In answer to "what are you getting for your money?", my question is "what do you want from the work?" Once we've established what you want from it, I'll do my very best, using my many years of experience of facilitating change in my clients, to make that happen. The difficult part is the fact that the only person who can do the changing is you. It might seem an obvious thing to say, but I can't do that for you.

​

A large part of each session is likely to be us talking, but that may be interspersed with different exercises to help you explore what's going on for you, to shine a light on something that you are struggling with or to give you some ideas about possible solutions. Those exercises might be informed by different approaches that I have experience in, such as creative work, movement, somatic therapy (working with the body), neuroscience and the effect that our nervous system has on us, self compassion and mindfulness among others.

​

If using music or art, photography (or whatever your chosen medium is) within our work helps you, then let's do that. Or I might bring in some psycho-education if that feels useful.

​

Equally, if project or time management is a block for you, then we can bring some focus to that too, along with other more practical skills. 

​

And if there are areas that I can't help you with myself, I'll help you to find someone who can.

​

We can work spontaneously in a very free and exploratory way (hopefully, this will be a fun process at times, as well as a serious one!), and/or we can set goals and work in a more structured way, if that appeals to you, and can explore what you can do to make them happen and what might get in the way.

​

Equally, if there's a particular creative project that you'd like to bring, then we can focus on that.

​

For more ideas about the kind of blocks that might be coming up for you, please click here

​

The bottom line is that I will do my absolute best to give you what you need from our work together and if I can't do it, I'll do my best to help you find someone who can.