My coaching with students covers any area of their life that is impacting on their wellbeing/academic performance/ enjoyment of their university experience.

 

In just one or two sessions, coaching empowers you to change your state, understand yourself, manage your situation and find strategies to move forward differently.

 

Maybe you are a student who wants to make the most of their potential and time at university; contribute more to community life; feel better about yourself and your future;  have a sense of purpose, direction and contribution; feel calmer, happier, stable, confident, in control and positive.

 

You perhaps don't feel in a place to be counselled but have underlying concerns that you are living with that coaching  will give you the opportunity to address.

 

Here are some of the common themes students use coaching to tackle. If anything resonates with you please get in touch.

 

Approaches to work 

• reducing anxiety about workload/routine; 

• finding better work habit and patterns - strategies for being efficient, productive, planning and prioritising; meeting deadlines

• focusing and avoiding distractions;

•  getting back on track when the unexpected happens/after holidays; responding to change/resilience; 

• overcoming the feeling you are behind when you've had time out, long or short term;  

• understanding why you procrastinate so you can take action; 

• meeting deadlines without being last minute; 

• focusing on what you are doing rather than what others are doing - being comfortable with where you are;

• overcoming perfectionism so you can get on with work and enjoy the process; 

• making a plan and sticking to it

 

Managing routine to achieve balance

• overcoming the  impact of technology on late nights/lack of sleep; 

• motivation to get out of bed; 

• understanding how you are working , how much time you really have and what time you are wasting; 

• getting priorities and proportions right; 

• saying no; 

• getting the diet/fitness habit you want

 

Confidence 

• overcoming imposter syndrome, the pressure of being at Cambridge/Oxford,  so you can be yourself; *

• speaking up, taking part, contributing (supervisions, clubs, events, conferences, social groups); 

• relaxing in social situations; 

• enjoying presenting and doing it well, whatever that means for you; 

• assertiveness with supervisors, professors, friends; 

 

Motivation

• staying enthusiastic; keeping going

• understanding your drivers; 

• reframing how you perceive the boring bits; 

• re-engaging with what you enjoy about your subject, 

• believing in your ability and the skills you might forget; remembering your past success; 

• finding closure with decisions made;

 

Careers/phd

• exploring and managing the uncertainty of the future path and gaining clarity on it;

• confidence in applying for jobs; dealing with rejection; 

• understanding  and connecting with motivations and what you want; 

• honing the skills of a leader (being more collaborative and assertive in the phd setting; the social skills required); 

• accepting that on a phd you are a student again; 

• feeling confident about the choice to do a phd;

• future life skills such as budgeting; 

• getting more out of networking, being confident speaking up, bothering people; 

• work v career -working out what's important right now, prioritising

• accepting entrepreneurship and uncertainty of that

 

Friendship issues and relationships and family

• overcoming disputes; 

• break ups; moving on;

• regaining trust, 

• standing up for yourself; 

• enjoying going out with the right group; 

• coping with family issues long distance, 

• opening yourself up to relationships in general

 

Body image/self esteem

• lifting your energy and positivity so you can achieve more academically and socially;

• working out what's important to you, finding out who you are and want to be; being comfortable with that

 

Ongoing conditions

•  finding new ways to live with these and combat the impact on studies and life

 

* For those in an Oxbridge setting, my work is informed by my own education at The Queen's College.

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Remember...

A life coach helps people fulfil their potential and get where they want to be more quickly than if they tried by themselves. Coaching is not advice, but a series of questions, which will raise your awareness, and challenge your perceptions, beliefs and habits so that you remember what you are good at, find your own answers for moving forward and in turn grow stronger as an individual. It can be very powerful as long as you are ready to take action

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It can work very quickly and you may only need a few sessions to get the result you want.

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It can help you nip issues in the bud so you can move forward with your life.

It creates a habit of change and self improvement which will stay with you forever.

 

You have the answers, you're just not using them yet  - let coaching help you bring them to the surface!

 

And let NLP help your senses do some of the work for you!

 

How is coaching different to counselling or therapy?

If you are ready for coaching, then you are looking to the future, but are stuck or frustrated in some way. You are ready to take action and assume responsibility for changing whatever is holding you back. 

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If you are more suited to  counselling or therapy right now, you will be feeling like you need to talk things through in a way that looks more to the past and explores reasons why. giving you support and advice for coping and being at peace.