Over the years, Life Coaching has grown to become a very successful form of talk therapy. A life coach can be described as a guide or a mentor who shares the goal to support and empower others in achieving their personal or professional goals.

In my case, our focus is largely on addressing your love life, although this often naturally flows over into other related areas such as enhancing your social skills, building your confidence and self-esteem, and exploring the steps you need to take in order to live a full and meaningful life.

With around 40% of marriages resulting in divorce, more and more people are turning to life coaching services in an attempt to learn the skills necessary to avoid such a fate.

In my work, I have recognised several key insights that can really make a difference when it comes to choosing a life partner and cultivating a passionate, secure and fulfilling intimate relationship. I am invested in this work because I've also seen the ripple effect that comes with each generation. When we engage in dysfunctional relationships, our children absorb unhealthy relationship patterns too. The inverse is also true; when we learn to love our partners better, we naturally pass on healthy relationship skills to the next generation. This is where my passion and drive originates from.

Internal Family Systems℠ is highly regarded as a cutting-edge psychological model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. With its origins in psychotherapy, IFS has proven to be relevant in a range of applications and can be an insightful tool to enhance the coaching process.

Many coaching models tend to ignore or even dismiss the wounded parts of our psyche - particularly the painful emotions that do not seem to be aligned with our aspirations and intended goals. This kind of approach can be damaging to our internal world and often leaves us with unresolved conflict that can prevent us from achieving real and lasting change. In contrast, the IFS-Inspired Coaching method is committed to honouring (rather than marginalising) all parts of our psyche, knowing that their existence is essential for sustainable transformation.

Without this holistic approach, we may continue to feel stuck, disempowered and sabotage our goals as we cannot change what we don’t understand or acknowledge.

For this reason, IFS-inspired coaching offers us a roadmap for practicing self leadership. Through doing this work, we are able to develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and live from a more integrated place of being. Through uncovering the hidden drives of our behaviour we empower ourselves to negotiate any inner conflict with a more wholistic approach to decision making.

Many coaching models tend to ignore or even dismiss the wounded parts of our psyche - particularly the painful emotions that do not seem to be aligned with our aspirations and intended goals. This kind of approach can be damaging to our internal world and often leaves us with unresolved conflict that can prevent us from achieving real and lasting change. In contrast, the IFS-Inspired Coaching method is committed to honouring (rather than marginalising) all parts of our psyche, knowing that their existence is essential for sustainable transformation.

Without this holistic approach, we may continue to feel stuck, disempowered and sabotage our goals as we cannot change what we don’t understand or acknowledge.

For this reason, IFS-inspired coaching offers us a roadmap for practicing self leadership. In doing this work, we are able to develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and live from a more integrated place of being. Through uncovering the hidden drives of our behaviour we empower ourselves to negotiate any inner conflict with a more wholistic approach to decision making.

Neuro Linguistic Programming is essentially a modality designed to help one understand and work with the language of our unconscious. Created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s, NLP is a study of communication excellence and was later developed as an approach to psychotherapy and personal development.

NLP recognises that in order to facilitate long-term behavioural change and break free of old patterns of self-sabotage, a shift needs to happen on both an unconscious and conscious level. This is why we can consciously know something we're doing is not serving us, yet will often continue to play out the pattern until our unconscious mind aligns with the change.

In a nutshell, NLP is a sophisticated approach for learning how to accomplish one's goals with long-term, sustainable results. It provides people with set of techniques and tools that enable us to work with our unconscious mind (instead of against it). This allows us to recover much more of our untapped personal power in the process.

Timeline Therapy is a subtle form of hypnosis that explores an individual's internal organisation of memories. We call this 'your time line'. This modality can be used as a means for accessing and navigating our internal world and working with the unconscious mind.

Timeline Therapy has a variety of applications, including to eliminate unwanted thoughts, heal emotional traumas, release limiting decisions and redirect unwanted behaviours. It also enables the possibility to create our own future by design.

​Best of all, Timeline Therapy can produce effective results in minutes - rather than days, months or years.

Emotional Processing is a technique used to help clear inappropriate and unwarranted residual emotions. It works with the principal that all of our emotions are valid and have a purpose. In fact, they can be great teachers when we take the time to process our emotions and understand their lessons.

The problem is, in this day and age we tend to live our lives very fast with very little time to reflect on and understand our emotions. For example, we might find ourselves suddenly triggered into anger or sadness but don't have time to go into it, so we push it down and get on with our lives instead. Over time, these residual emotions don't disappear. Rather, they get stockpiled on top of each other until the next incident that triggers them. Then we find ourselves feeling 10x angrier at something that we logically know we should care less about. This is because the whole stockpile is activated.

Emotional processing allows us to 'wipe the slate clean' so to speak. In using this therapeutic technique, we can process old emotions and learn from them so that we are not taking them forward into our lives. It also gives us new tools for dealing with our emotions in the future. This allows us to live less from a place of reaction and more from a place of response as we create space for clarity and insight.