Services

A hopeful, future-focused, and goal-driven approach to personal and professional development and wellbeing.  One-to-one coaching sessions are available either in-person in Birmingham city centre, or online via Zoom.  

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Are you: 

• Planning for, or adjusting to changes your personal or professional life?

• Wishing to improve your performance? 

• Developing your career?

• Improving your health and wellbeing?

• Wanting to thrive in a diverse world?

• Protecting yourself from burnout and stress?

• Looking to enrich your relationships?

• Seeking a purposeful and meaningful life?

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Together we will identify the issues you would like to work on, your overall aims, and the goals you want to achieve.  We will explore your options, build resources for overcoming blocks, and agree on committed actions for you to take that align with your values.  We will observe and evaluate your real life changes in practice to ensure meaningful progression towards your goals.     

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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) was originally devised as a therapeutic approach for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Over the years, EMDR has been shown to have much broader applications, including for performance enhancement.  If anxiety, unhelpful beliefs, and self-defeating behaviours are holding you back from giving your best, then EMDR might be for you.  Common aims include:

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• Building confidence in public speaking and presentations

• Harnessing exam and competition nerves

• Overcoming blocks in sporting achievement and the performing arts

• Enhancing focus and presence when undertaking complex, high stakes, high pressure tasks such as medical procedures

• Escaping from cycles of perfectionism, fear of failure, and procrastination.

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If you have a specific event coming up imminently, we can meet for a brief, focused intervention to enhance the chances of you achieving your desired result.  This would involve one or two ninety-minute sessions with email or telephone follow-up. 

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If you have more time to prepare, or a more general development aim then we can arrange a series of sessions with greater breadth and depth, to address the here and now issue and build your resources for the future.

These boots have hiked through mountain forests in Laos, around Andean volcanoes, and among the wonders of the Amazon, and they are always ready for a new adventure closer to home.  Let’s walk together.

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Our modern lives often leave little room to connect with the world around us, whether that be with the intricacies of our urban environments or the earth, seas, and skies beyond. It might surprise you to know that Birmingham is one of the greenest cities in Europe, with hundreds of parks and more than a million trees.  The famously extensive canal system also offers a myriad of opportunities for urban nature walks near water.  Beyond the city, the beauty of the Midlands countryside awaits.    

Exposure to natural light helps to regulate our circadian rhythm, the internal body clock that guides our sleep and waking cycles.  Healthy, restorative sleep and fulfilling, productive waking hours are often the things we struggle to achieve.

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Being in the presence of natural landscapes, amongst trees and other greenery, and near water, boosts our mood with increased serotonin and reduces stress with lowered cortisol levels.  The physical activity triggers the release of endorphins. In this more soothed, present, and connected state we are more able to think clearly, tune in to our bodily states, reflect, focus our attention, solve problems, and engage with our creativity.  

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It's wonderful way to enhance your coaching experience.

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Unsure about whether you are looking for coaching or psychological therapy?  You are not alone.  Perhaps you are concerned about your mental health, have been stuck in unhelpful patterns for some time, or know that there are issues from the past that still affect you in the present.  If so, please visit www.serenbay.com for more details about my Clinical Psychology services, and contact me so we can think together about your needs.