Service
Coaching
As a psychologist and psychotherapist I also offer coaching. Sometimes it helps simply to be able to talk to a neutral person, in order to move forward.
As a psychologist I am well placed to be a neutral sparring partner, and to help you gain perspective and see things in context. People in leadership positions may need someone to think with. Others may want help finding clarity at a crossroads in life, whether about partnership, work, education or something else.
"Coach" is not a protected title. Coaching is offered by a range of different providers and in a range of forms. There is no general agreement about what it involves. The boundary between many forms of psychotherapy and coaching is therefore unclear. I would say that in coaching the focus is more on the here and now, and we do not search for your deeper unconscious motives or conflicts. Coaching is therefore suited to those who want to work more with motivation and conscious thought processes. People who do not have troubling symptoms or patterns they repeat in their lives.
We will usually define more clearly bounded questions. Here too we need a few introductory conversations before we define what we are to work with. The number and frequency of sessions will vary and is something we agree on at the outset. In general it will involve shorter processes than psychotherapy.