Jane is an accredited coach and occupational psychologist.  In practice this matters because she brings a thorough knowledge of psychological and coaching theory to her work with you, adheres to high ethical standards, and is able to work with you in a flexible and integrative way, responding to your particular needs.  As such, Jane avoids a formulaic approach and will tailor your coaching experience to you.
 
Jane combines her professional grounding, her hunger for knowledge, her belief in the power of  personal development, and a strong creative urge, with her own personal experiences:  for example, setting up home in a new country, finding her passion, her voice, and professional identity a little later in life which resulted in several career changes, embracing being a little 'different' to what others might expect, learning how to value and work with her introversion, and dealing with that old chestnut, imposter syndrome (I’d love to say ‘overcoming’ it but that would be a lie!). 

 

Jane is a strong believer that there is 'no right way' and that to take the less trodden or unexpected path may be uncomfortable or unsettling in the short term, but ultimately rewarding.
 
As our work is rooted in psychological principles we draw your attention to the following approaches which may at times inform our work together:

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• Positive psychology – working with your strengths where possible, rather than always focusing on fixing the deficits/weaknesses. Focusing on fixing deficits  is exhausting and demoralising; it’s far more fun to work with what comes most naturally!

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• Gestalt – building self awareness, encouraging experimentation, and drawing out the distinction between what is in your current focus and what may be the real underlying issue. This can be helpful if you find yourself stuck, or endlessly going around in circles.

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• The thinking environment – coaching offers the space for quality thinking, and identifying the assumptions and self limiting beliefs that might be getting in the way. Our language reveals clues about what we are thinking and feeling; by highlighting those in a coaching session, clients  achiever greater clarity and focus.

 

• Cognitive behavioural coaching- appreciating the links between our thinking and our behaviour, and helping to re-tune those links where they are unhelpful. So much of our behaviour stems from how we think about a situation; sometimes  highlighting those links leads to a real break through!

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• Transactional Analysis – understanding the impact of our history, the patterns we have acquired over time, and the stories we tell  ourselves about how we relate to the world and significant others. Sometimes it’s important to recognise that what’s getting in the way is baggage, or a story about ourselves that is unhelpful. Sometimes it’s not even our own story!

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