Life Coaching.
A life coach is a trained professional who aims to help and guide individuals to make, meet and exceed personal and professional goals. They support clients on a journey to rediscover their own strength and abilities: this can include excelling in the workplace, becoming happy and fulfilled at home, exploring your potential, managing health conditions and achieving life ambitions.
By harnessing techniques based on core psychological principles and intuition, coaches empower clients and provide a toolkit of teachings to confidently face challenges and overcome barriers.
A coach won’t tell you what to do, instead, they will use questioning techniques to help you uncover the answers yourself. They'll also provide an objective and empowering environment for you to explore any challenges you're facing.
At the heart of it all lies the idea that clients must be given the power to help themselves. Offering advice, opinions and judgement would undermine some of the basic principles behind life coaching.
Many people seek out life coaches for guidance in navigating a significant life change, such as taking on a new career. In plenty of cases, however, people turn to life coaches simply for help in building a happier, more meaningful life.
There are a number of indications that working with a life coach could be helpful for you. These signs include:
- Frequent irritability
- High levels of Stress and/or Anxiety
- Inability to break bad habits
- Lack of fulfilment in your social life
- Persistent feeling of dissatisfaction at work
- Sense of blocked creativity
In recent years, life coaches have acquired a considerable presence in the mainstream. Indeed, a growing number of creatives, executives, and entrepreneurs are now teaming up with life coaches to attain success in their professional and personal lives.
Some life coaches take a more general, all-encompassing approach, but there are also many that specialise and focus on helping people in specific areas. Some of the different types of life coaches include:
- Health and wellness coaching
- Life skills coaching
- Mental health coaching
- Spirituality coaching
- Addiction and sobriety coaching
- Recovery Coaching
- Business, executive, and leadership coaching
- Career coaching