Therapy or Coaching?

Sometimes the pressures of specific environments such as the work place can make it feel like you become a different person. You are one body, but occasionally may feel like you are acting under two minds, you may have a relaxed social dynamic at home or when undertaking a hobby, but find that your ability to ‘perform’ at work or on the field is where things can fall to pieces. Perhaps you have already recognized something that is holding you back from promotion, or find yourself stuck and unmotivated.

When we encounter a certain incident or stimulus, we may at times adopt behaviour that does not lead to a positive outcome. Whether preparing to take a shot at the goal, presenting your companies financial reports, stepping on a plane, or walking in to a pub, if we do so with the limiting belief that we will miss the goal, that we will forget what to say or dry up as we talk, panic as the plane takes off, or that you need to smoke….. the chances are you will!

Once you think you begin to recognize that behaviour - you make it so, and the result you didn’t want, happens.

It doesn’t take long for this to establish as a pattern that seems at first to be completely unchangeable and is self perpetuating. What’s more this behaviour or emotional hijacking may have begun to spread to other situations limiting you even further.

These situations can happen in aspects of your home, love or work life, but the skills that can help see you through them are extremely similar, whatever the context.

Therapy normally refers to counseling that is brief and achieves some definable, immediate aim, such as a phobia, smoking cessation, weight loss, stress and anxiety, etc.

Coaching normally centres on longer term goals and is focused on what you want, how you will achieve it, and equipping you with any skills that you may need along the way in order to achieve it.

The difference between the two can sometimes seem blurred. Often the techniques used are very similar just applied around a different context. What should be clear is that utilising Cognitive Hypnotherapy and NLP techniques, allows me to offer you a powerful way of achieving any short or long term goals you desire, by helping you to challenge those limiting beliefs and validating your goals through positive behaviours and outcomes.