Frequently Asked Questions

Coaching is for everyone. It allows you the opportunity, time and space to consider what is important to you both professionally and personally, empowering you to come up with the best ways forward to meet your own challenges and opportunities. It is a thought provoking and creative process designed to guide you to the heart of an issue and inspire you to maximise your potential, sometimes using tools and techniques to help approach things in different ways.

Just like in sports, a good coach doesn’t need to be an expert on the subject they discuss, but through a one-to-one conversation they will support you to find your own solution, discover your strengths and remove your blocks.

The term ’empathetic provocateur’ to describe a coach resonates with me – someone who is supportive and kind, and yet isn’t afraid to also challenge. 

I also believe in ‘transformational’, rather than ‘transactional’ coaching, meaning that I work with coachees at a level that brings about lasting change. This requires us to build a confidential coaching relationship that is based on trust and unconditional positive regard, allowing us to create a powerful and unique thinking environment.

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A good coach will create a safe space where you can be yourself and allow your thoughts and feelings to unfold without judgement. With the right coach, this can turn into a powerful and unique thinking environment. This is why I offer all new and potential clients a free chemistry/introductory call, so that I can understand what brings you to coaching and you can see what kind of coach I am – we can then decide if we will work well together.

I predominantly coach online via video call. I also offer in-person sessions, depending on your location.

It’s sometimes therapeutic to get outdoors, so if you fancy ‘walking and taking’ then we can do that too, in person or on the phone.

Sessions are usually 90 minutes, but there’s flexibility in timings to ensure they suit your needs and other commitments.

Coaching can take place in a one-off session (e.g. interview preparation), over a short term period (e.g. 1 – 6 sessions in order to work through a reasonably specific issue and achieve a reasonably well-defined goal), over a medium term (e.g. up to a year to work through a particular longer term goal, project and/or transition), or over a longer term (e.g. at different stages throughout a career).

Each coaching programme is tailored to your specific needs, so please get in touch to discuss what will work best for you.

The time between sessions is arguably as important as the sessions themselves. I may suggest exercises to do between sessions to help develop your thinking, but whether you choose to do this and the amount of time you choose to spend reflecting on what we discuss in our sessions is completely up to you. We can discuss what you would find most useful and go from there.

Both coaching and therapy focus on helping you better yourself and work on creating long-lasting behaviour changes, and coaching can certainly feel like a therapeutic relationship, but there are some distinct differences. Therapy focuses on the past and healing from it – it can help with personal or family issues, and to treat mental illness. Whereas, coaching focuses primarily on the present and future – on personal growth and professional development.

Yes, coaching can supplement your mental health care plan and help you to be proactive about your wellbeing. I would just want to understand what objectives you are working on with your therapist and why you feel the need to engage an additional helping professional, and I would ask that you speak to them first to ensure there is no conflict.

There are several pricing options based on how often you want to meet and for how long. Once we have had our introductory call, I will send you a bespoke programme that will detail the cost.

I also offer a number of concessionary sessions per month to help make coaching more accessible to people – please send me a message for more information. 

Before we meet, you might find it helpful to reflect on the following questions. There are no right or wrong answers, and it’s perfectly okay if you don’t have an answer to some – it’s more to prompt your thinking and inform our conversation. 

– What prompted you to seek out or take up an offer of coaching support?

– What is your understanding of what coaching is?

– What would you want to get out of having some coaching?

– What would your expectations be of me as a coach?

– What would you contribute to the process?

– What would I need to know about you in order to support you effectively?

– What might stop a coaching relationship between us from being successful? i.e. what might you or I do that would hinder it / what might happen in the wider organisation or your world that would hinder it?

– What are you looking forward to about having coaching?

Yes! My husband randomly took this photo of me whilst on holiday in Jamaica. We later got married, barefoot, on the beach! I love the memory it triggers – such hopefulness, calmness and clarity looking out onto the water…

…hence the name ‘Shoreline’.

(I also don’t care the label in my dress is showing, because some things in life matter and others don’t… and that really doesn’t!)