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What is Coaching?

A coach helps clients improve their health, relationships, businesses and so much more.

Coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on the 'here and now' rather than on the distant past or future.

Although some skills may be similar, a coach is not a counsellor, a therapist, a mentor or a consultant.

How does it work?

Coaching is a partnership between coach and client. The coach need not be an expert in their clients’ field of work.

Fundamentally, the coach is helping the individual to improve their own performance by providing insight, awareness, accountability and support.

They achieve this with the use of powerful tools and techniques to help their client uncover their own answers, gain clarity on what they want to achieve and what could be holding them back.

Life and Wellness Coaching

Life coaching is a process in which a trained professional, known as a coach, helps a person identify and achieve personal or professional goals. A coach typically uses a variety of techniques, such as goal-setting, active listening, and problem-solving, to help the person develop the skills and strategies needed to achieve their goals. The coach may also provide support and encouragement to help the person stay motivated and on track. Life coaching can be used to help people improve their relationships, career, health, and overall well-being.

Business and Executive Coaching

In today’s workplaces it is quite common for employees to work with a coach to help them achieve their professional goals. Changes 4 Life works with a number of Reading based companies to providing in-house coaching for employees to maximise their organisation’s performance and output.

Benefits of Business and Executive coaching

Business and executive coaching is a process in which a trained professional, known as a coach, works with business leaders and executives to help them develop the skills and strategies they need to be successful in their roles. The coach typically uses a variety of techniques, such as goal-setting, active listening, and problem-solving, to help the client identify areas of improvement and develop a plan of action. The coach may also provide support and guidance to help the client stay motivated and on track, and also help the client to navigate through challenges and obstacles that may arise during the process of achieving their goals.

Business and executive coaching can be a valuable tool for companies and organizations of all sizes, helping to improve productivity, profitability and overall success.

Business coaching may focus on specific areas such as leadership, management, sales, marketing, communication, and team-building.

Executive coaching, on the other hand, is tailored to the specific needs of the executive and may focus on areas such as strategic planning, decision-making, time management, and personal development.

Business and executive coaching can provide a number of benefits for individuals and organizations, including:

Increased productivity and performance: Business and executive coaching can help individuals identify and overcome obstacles that are preventing them from achieving their goals, which can lead to increased productivity and performance.
Improved communication and leadership skills: Coaching can help individuals develop better communication and leadership skills, which can be beneficial for both personal and professional growth.
Greater creativity and problem-solving abilities: Coaching can help individuals develop new and innovative ways of thinking and problem-solving.
Increased self-awareness and self-confidence: Coaching can help individuals gain a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, which can lead to increased self-awareness and self-confidence.
Better decision making: Coaching can help individuals to develop a more structured and logical approach to decision making, which can be beneficial in business and personal life.
Improved work-life balance: Coaching can help individuals to identify and overcome obstacles that are preventing them from achieving a better balance between their professional and personal lives.
Greater adaptability to change: Business and executive coaching can help individuals and organizations to become more adaptable to change, which is essential in today's fast-paced business environment.
Greater accountability: Coaching can help individuals to take greater responsibility for their actions and decisions, which can be beneficial for both personal and professional growth.

Business and executive coaching is tailored to the specific needs of the individual or organization, and the coach should work closely with the client to set goals, track progress, and make adjustments as needed.

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Sev C.

05:33 22 Oct 24

For those looking for ADHD support, I strongly recommend Vanessa. Through her ADHD coaching practice, she offers a calm, compassionate, and generous presence that naturally invites self-reflection. In this comforting environment, new ideas emerge effortlessly, leading to tangible progress through concrete strategies.

Tom Barnes

13:00 13 May 24

fantastic service really helped me through some challenging times, Vanessa is incredible made me feel very comfortable and really gave me the tools and information I needed to start making some better choices

Nathan Chapman

02:21 14 Apr 24

Working with Vanessa was a really fantastic experience. She is incredibly knowledgeable, understanding and passionate about mental health. She also has excellent knowledge of ADHD and can help those struggling with ADHD to help manager their day-to day-symptoms.She was able to be completely flexible with how she worked, completely giving me freedom in how I wanted therapy to be structured and the topics I wanted to discuss. She was able to easily swap between a therapeutic approach, exploring trauma or relationship issues, or a coaching approach offering practical strategies to help with day to day life.Throughout our time working together, Vanessa was always very compassionate and warm. She was always engaged showing a genuine and caring approach which helped create a safe place where I felt comfortable talking about difficult personal topicsI can't thank her enough for the time we spent together and would thoroughly recommend her to anybody who would like to learn more about themselves, improve their mental health and learn practical strategies to help them with day to day life.

Charlotte Wheeler

21:18 14 Dec 23

A very safe and comfortable environment that’s created and that really goes hand in hand with the support offered.

Paul Brereton

09:55 02 Oct 23

It's hard to express in words how fantastic Vanessa is! Her kindness, understanding and professionalism shone through from the start, all in a very safe and comfortable space. I felt a deep connection from the first time we spoke and undertaking a journey with Vanessa has resulted in significant changes for me - changes for life! I cannot recommend Vanessa highly enough - a truly wonderful person.

Amelie M

14:18 08 Sep 23

I would highly recommend Vanessa for EMDR! After suffering with quite a specific anxiety for a number of years, Vanessa was very understanding, honest and committed to helping me work through this. She created a really safe and comfortable environment and in turn I always looked forwards to my sessions with her. I couldn’t be happier with the changes i’ve seen in myself and the end result of feeling uplifted and positive about my future! Thank you so much Vanessa, I am so glad i came across you and your amazing work 🥰.

Laura Collett

10:04 27 Jan 23

I’ve been seeing Vanessa for a whole host of different and complex mental health reasons for a number of years. Sometimes I go for months and months without needing her support and other times I see her weekly - that’s one of the great things about her, the adaptability to my needs. Vanessa is supportive, professional, and extremely knowledgeable across a wide breadth of issues and treatments / approaches. Without doubt the best therapist I have ever worked with and I couldn’t recommend her more highly.

Christine Taylor

09:23 22 Jan 23

Vanessa was recommended through a close friend and I cannot thank them both enough. Since our sessions began a little under a year ago Vanessa has helped me create a deeper understanding of myself and others and has equipped me with the knowledge to continue to improve my life, I’ll be forever grateful for this! Vanessa is a very warming, professional and highly experienced therapist and I look forward to developing myself more with her help 🙂

LOUISE MOUNTAIN

19:25 28 Sep 22

Vanessa was recommended to me by a friend, earlier this summer and turned out to be exactly what I needed in order to help me sort out my issues.She is very down-to-earth and sensible and after asking questions and really listening to what one has to say, has a lot of insight into what may be troubling you - which she easily translates into ways that show a depth of discernment with understanding and sympathy, combined with practical help based on both theory and practical experience.Within weeks I was able to see a way forward and regain my sense of purpose.I cannot recommend Vanessa highly enough.

Claire Edwards

09:04 08 Feb 22

Vanessa is a very caring, compassionate and experienced counsellor. She makes you feel at ease even when it may feel hard to open up, I found her very easy to talk to. There are no words to completely describe just how much she has helped me and how our sessions have already had such a positive impact on my life. I highly recommend Vanessa and thank her from the bottom of my heart for helping me.