Frequently asked questions
People come to coaching with many different goals. These may include:
developing confidence, improving performance, making an important decision, changing career or direction, adjusting to a new role or stage of life, managing competing demands, establishing clearer boundaries, developing greater balance and wellbeing, changing an unhelpful pattern, making progress with a meaningful personal goal.
We will clarify what you want from coaching and agree how we will recognise useful progress.
I work with adults from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds. My clients include professionals, business owners, leaders and people moving through periods of change, as well as individuals pursuing personal goals or seeking greater clarity, confidence, balance or fulfilment.
Coaching is available in person in Weston-super-Mare and online throughout the UK.
No. You may begin with a specific outcome in mind, or simply know that something needs to change.
Our initial conversations can help you understand your current situation, clarify what matters and identify a meaningful direction. Your goals may also develop as you gain new insights during coaching.
Coaching psychology applies established psychological theory and research to personal development, wellbeing and performance.
It provides a framework for understanding how thoughts, emotions, behaviour, relationships and circumstances may influence the change you want to make. This allows coaching to be tailored to you rather than relying on a standard set of questions or a single coaching model.
Coaching is not a regulated profession, and coaches enter the field with many different forms and levels of training.
Coaching psychology is grounded specifically in psychological knowledge and evidence. Practitioners usually have formal training in psychology and coaching, use evidence-informed approaches and work within recognised professional and ethical standards.
My approach is informed by postgraduate study in both Psychology and Coaching Psychology, extensive professional experience and ongoing supervision.
Coaching and counselling can both provide thoughtful, confidential conversations, but they are contracted for different purposes.
Coaching focuses on a goal or change you want to make in your personal or professional life. Although we may consider experiences and patterns that help explain your present situation, the work remains directed towards understanding your choices and creating movement now.
Counselling is a separately contracted service concerned with emotional or psychological difficulties and their resolution. If another form of support appears better suited to your needs, we will discuss this openly.
My approach is collaborative, psychologically informed and focused on meaningful change.
You remain in control of your goals and decisions. I take responsibility for guiding the coaching process, listening carefully, asking purposeful questions and introducing relevant psychological ideas, frameworks or exercises.
Together, we may explore what is happening, identify patterns that are maintaining the difficulty, recognise your strengths and resources, and turn what you are learning into practical action.
The number of sessions depends on your goal, circumstances and preferred way of working.
A focused decision or clearly defined situation may benefit from one or three sessions. A six-session programme provides more time to understand established patterns, put new approaches into practice and review their effects.
We will discuss an appropriate starting point during your discovery call. You are not required to continue beyond the sessions you choose to book.
Standard coaching sessions last 60 minutes. This gives us enough time to explore what is important, develop useful insights and agree any next steps without making the session difficult to fit into your day.
Many clients begin with weekly or fortnightly sessions. This provides continuity while allowing time to reflect and put new approaches into practice between meetings.
The frequency can be adapted to your goals, availability and circumstances. We will agree this together and review it as the work progresses.
In-person coaching is available at Pure Offices, St Georges, Weston-super-Mare, BS22 7SB.
Online coaching is available throughout the UK. Online sessions take place through a secure video platform and follow the same collaborative process as in-person coaching.
Yes. What you share in coaching is treated confidentially and your personal information is handled in accordance with data-protection requirements.
There are limited circumstances in which confidentiality may need to be broken – for example, where there is a serious concern about someone’s safety or a legal obligation to disclose information. These limits will be explained clearly before coaching begins.
We may agree an action, experiment or reflective exercise to help you apply what emerged from the session. This will be relevant to your goal and agreed collaboratively rather than assigned automatically.
Change often develops through noticing what happens in everyday life, trying something different and bringing what you learn back to the next conversation. When you start coaching, you will receive access to a secure Client Portal to support your work between sessions.
Standard 60-minute coaching sessions cost £85. Reduced rates are available when booking a package of three or six sessions, and I reserve a limited number of lower-fee coaching places.
Full details can be found on the Coaching Fees page.
Please provide at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel or rearrange an appointment. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice are normally charged at the full fee.
Full payment and cancellation terms will be provided before coaching begins.
The first step is to book a free discovery call. We will discuss what you would like from coaching, consider whether my approach is suitable and decide what the next step might be.
A discovery call is a free, no-obligation conversation lasting approximately 30 minutes and held online.
It gives you an opportunity to tell me what has brought you to coaching, ask questions and learn more about how I work. We will consider what you would like to gain, whether coaching is suitable for your needs and whether we feel comfortable working together.
There is no pressure to make a decision during the call.