Cancellation Policy:

Stuff happens but whenever possible, a minimum of 24 hours notice must be provided to change an agreed time or to cancel an appointment by contacting Issy on 07939038550 or emailing: issy@vibrantlife.org.uk.  Failure to provide sufficient cancellation notice may result in additional charges or full payment for the booked session.

What is Coaching?

A coach is helping someone to get where they want to get to, faster than they could on their own.

‘A collaborative, solution-focused, results orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee.’  [Association for Coaching]

“Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential” [International Association of Coaching]

• People come to coaching because they recognise that there is a difference between their current situation and their desired situation, between their intention and their behaviour, between what they have and what they want. 
• Reflection, Goal setting and taking action are the core drivers behind success in coaching. 
• Every session will produce some agreed tasks or actions that will move you towards your goals. 
• Coaching is usually online via Zoom /Skype (video phone) as this is time-efficient and effective. Coaching can also be arranged face-to-face if required (additional costs may be accrued)

Coaching provides a non-judgemental, supportive space in which you can explore your choices and options. It is proactive and solution focused with a clear orientation on where you are now and your desired future. Coaching moves someone from functional to exceptional. Live your most vibrant life.

Hypnotherapy is an additional option. It is a technique which utilizes your imaginative powers – the heightened awareness of the hypnotic/trance state and the suspension of the inner critical voice, can help you to focus on a problem much more deeply and resourcefully. It can also reconnect you to your sources of joy, calm and confidence with complete relaxation.

Coaching is not counselling or therapy. Hypnotherapy with Psychotherapy offers a safe, boundaried space and a healing relationship within which emotional and/or behavioural problems or patterns can be acknowledged and resolved, enabling a person to move from dysfunctional or self-sabotaging behaviours to more functional and effective ways of being or doing. Therapy can typically be a longer process. Some clients may wish to engage with coaching after a period of therapy has concluded and in all such cases, a new contract for our work together would first need to be agreed.

Mentoring and coaching may use similar skills and approaches. The difference can be summarised as: “A coach has some great questions for your answers; a mentor has some great answers for your questions.”

Confidentiality:

It is common for clients to be worried about disclosing information, wondering if it is safe to do so. The content of our work together will be treated as confidential and handled in line with Vibrant Life’s privacy statement.

Limits of Confidentiality:

UK law forbids confidentiality if:

• I become aware of information which I either know or believe might help prevent another person carrying out an act of terrorism or might help in bringing a terrorist to justice in the UK, or about specified activities related to money and property used to assist terrorist activities.
• If I observe physical signs that an act of female genital mutilation may have been carried out on a girl under the age of 18 or I am informed by a girl under the age of 18 that she has undergone an act of female genital mutilation.
• The police request information about the driver of a vehicle at the time of an offence it must be disclosed by me as failure to do so would constitute a criminal offence on my part.
• I become aware of drug trafficking or money laundering that may be required to be reported under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, if this happens, I may seek legal advice as to any statutory duty.
• I must disclose information that I am ordered to by a court or by a statutory request for access to personal data made under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

I may break our normal confidentiality if I become aware (or have good reason to suspect) that you have knowledge of:

• A past, present or future serious incident/situation that may be dangerous or harmful to you, another adult or a child and that is not known to the relevant authorities.

• For our purposes a serious incident/situation is:

‘Murder, manslaughter, rape, treason, kidnapping, child abuse or other cases where individuals have suffered serious harm or there is serious harm to the security of the state or to public order and crimes that involve substantial financial gain and loss.’

My commitment to you:

All relationships are based on trust, and the Coaching / Hypno-therapy relationship is no different so I will always do my best to understand you and your issues without making any presumptions. Everyone is different and you are entitled to be you and to hold your views about the world. If I struggle to understand, I will ask. I will not judge you and I will presume good intent. I will also be honest so that you will always know where you stand with me.