“How healing it can be, being truly listened to and understood”
“In Spring 2023, I had very inspiring 6 coaching sessions with Em. Her coaching style is calm, understanding and truly emphatic.
My three biggest take aways from being coached by Em are; how healing it can be, being truly listened to and understood, accountability with a coach can make a big difference in even small daily objectives and achievements, feeling ‘no judgement’ in communication can make us feel more ‘real us’ and can support to open up and grow.
Following my sessions with Em, I remembered the importance of not delaying to do things, and more importantly, to prioritise at that moment if I really want to achieve something. As an example, I was delaying starting the gym all the time, following my coaching sessions with Em, she helped me to explore the importance of movement and practice in my life. Her coaching skills on supporting me to use my character strengths of self-discipline and self-regulation which I have been leveraging on other achievements in my life (such as my dedication to finish my book by the end of 2022 as promised to myself) helped me significantly to apply same dedication to going gym. I am now regularly practicing in my life.
What I mostly enjoyed working with Em is her amazing ability to listen actively and reflect my thoughts and feelings in a very clear way. She is able to do this so smoothly and gently that everything I shared with her during the sessions opened up a new page, and eventually I shared things that I did not even realise I wanted to share or even think. During the conversations with her, the topics became more clear and the feeling of ‘no judgement’ helped to see things from a different point of view. Overall, talking about every topic in a such a clear way has been eye-opening for me.
I was not expecting to talk about some topics that came up from my inner voice . This was surprising but also relieving for me. The comforting coaching style of Em for sure made me feel great and I wanted to share and explore more with her.
She is also very professional, the way she approaches the sessions with self-discipline starting from the beginning of the sessions, sharing the documents (if any) on time before the meetings, giving clear instructions, and being punctual reflects a very positive feeling on the client and it made me feel like being taken seriously and that I am in safe and experienced hands.”