Creative Coaching and Workshops for Women

Transformational Coaching for Times of Change

I specialise in working with women at times of transition in their personal and professional lives.

I offer creative coaching for women to support

decision making, life choices
navigating change and transitions – e.g. menopause, redundancy, new job or relationship, empty nest, new role
finding your purpose and fulfilling your potential
embracing your inner critic, and overcoming creative block
creating balance and prioritising
storying your life
embracing and developing your personal or professional leadership skills

Perhaps you are no longer sure who you are, or you are ‘between stories’ and you are sorting and deciding who you are becoming.

We would work with a range of approaches, tailored to your needs, to help you identify ways to fulfil your dreams. Working with right-brain logic and left-brain intuitive methods, as well as somatic approaches can help enable sustainable inner and outer change.

Working with you could include:

Connecting to your values and what gives meaning to your life
Visualising desired outcomes and identifying realistic and manageable steps towards achieving them
Helping you define your goals
Building your confidence by identifying current and past strengths and resources
Working somatically with different parts of yourself, using internal family systems and voice dialogue techniques
Exploring possible barriers and how you can find ways around them
Working holistically – includes paying attention to physical sensations, working with thoughts, feelings and the imagination
Exploring and transforming limiting beliefs and patterns of behaviour
Creative techniques to by-pass blocks or rational mind
Using psychological understanding to enable inner and outer change

Personal Empowerment Coaching

I work with women who are looking to lead more self-empowered lives, take their space and build a life and work that reflects their values and dreams.

You may be looking to:

become more confident and stop playing small
find your voice
live and work more creatively
find more balance and harmony in your life
make an important decision
prioritise and organise your life and work so that you have time for you
find your purpose

My approach is to tailor the work to suit your individual needs.

I offer a way of working which is holistic and promotes sustained change through working with the imagination and using tools to embed and alchemise your insights and translate them into tangible outcomes.

The combination of talking with guided image work, creative work, embodiment and energy practices, helps you tap into your intuition, discover things you know but may be haven’t told yourself and find ways to create change in your life.

Some of the things you are struggling with may include:

going round in circles
being pulled in two directions at once
fear of taking the risk to the outcome you desire
seeing others doing what you would like to do and feeling envious and resentful
feeling confused, blocked or frustrated
not believing that you are worth it, or that you can
prioritising others’ needs before your own

I draw on a background in training, advising, facilitating, leadership and working psychologically to support you in this process.

For workshops see here.

Testimonials:

‘Coaching sessions with Catherine were such an enormous help with creation of my book. Not only we were able to devise a step-by-step project plan but also to address all the artistic dilemmas within that project. Catherine’s sensitivity, her artistic flare and wonderful ability of bringing my ideas into focus had really helped me.’

E, Brighton

I found the series of sessions a deeply supportive and positive experience. The whole process has felt powerful and creative but also really gentle and, perhaps most importantly, sustainable. I think that’s because the changes that have happened in me have come from such an integrated place – you made sure that all different parts of me were involved in the coaching sessions so it wasn’t just a cerebral process. I felt completely comfortable with you, and felt able to bring anything that I wanted to the sessions, and as a result we were able to address many areas of my life including work, health and relationships, and big changes have happened in all those areas – it has felt like a really holistic and well-rounded process. I really appreciated your questions which helped me to look at things in completely new ways, and how you held an overview of what was important to me and how various seemingly separate subjects actually fitted together into bigger themes. I also found your reflections and insights really valuable. Over the 3 months I feel like I have expanded into new territory within myself, and I’m leaving with and a greater sense of self-confidence, self-love and strength, and excitement about the future.

Melanie Ward

Shiatsu Practitioner, Shadow Work Coach & Group Facilitator

Mentoring

Catherine offers mentoring to young people in study skills and writing. She offers professional support in the form of mentoring to teachers and therapists.

Thank you for your help. It inspired me to look at what I was teaching with a fresh eye. East Sussex language teacher 2010

My expertise has increased greatly under Catherine’s leadership… Her influence across the county has been effective and widespread. Advanced Skills Teacher

My experience as a therapeutic counsellor means I have developed deep listening skills and can work at depth. I will be able to advise you if what you are bringing might benefit from a different approach. I will be honest if I feel that is the case.