Personal/Life Coaching is "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." (Anthony Grant, University of Sydney, 2000).
Life Coaching is often a process of determining a Vision of where/how you want to be, defining specific Goals that embody this vision, and then taking Actions that help achieve the goals and thus move the client towards the vision.
My name is Mandy Pontin and I am a UKCP registered Counsellor/Psychotherapist. I help individuals and couples reflect on and resolve short-term issues or longer-term difficulties. I am professional, ethical, constructive, approachable, and supportive and use a variety of approaches including Transactional Analysis (original diploma) and Gestalt. I can also offer creativity in sessions as a way of stimulating deeper work. I keep up to date with developments in practices by attending regular CPD. I offer predominantly evening weekday sessions in person or via Zoom. I have worked in a GP surgery and currently volunteer for an organisation who supports those who perpetrate sexual abuse, but also victims of such abuse. I have extensive experience of working with drug and alcohol dependency, relationship difficulties including domestic abuse and bereavement.
Qualifications
Life Coaching is often a process of determining a Vision of where/how you want to be, defining specific Goals that embody this vision, and then taking Actions that help achieve the goals and thus move the client towards the vision.
My name is Mandy Pontin and I am a UKCP registered Counsellor/Psychotherapist. I help individuals and couples reflect on and resolve short-term issues or longer-term difficulties. I am professional, ethical, constructive, approachable, and supportive and use a variety of approaches including Transactional Analysis (original diploma) and Gestalt. I can also offer creativity in sessions as a way of stimulating deeper work. I keep up to date with developments in practices by attending regular CPD. I offer predominantly evening weekday sessions in person or via Zoom. I have worked in a GP surgery and currently volunteer for an organisation who supports those who perpetrate sexual abuse, but also victims of such abuse. I have extensive experience of working with drug and alcohol dependency, relationship difficulties including domestic abuse and bereavement.
Qualifications
- Middlesex University: Foundation Degree Humanistic Counselling (Transactional Analysis) (2019)
- Newcastle College: Diploma in Life Coaching (2019)
- Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling (2012)
- Certificate in Couples Counselling (2022)
- Certificate in working with addictions (2022)
- Middlesex University: Postgraduate Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (2023)
"Life coaching is a career and an ethical profession. The life coach use the power of commitment to enable their clients to achieve beneficial and measurable results in all areas of their lives. Life coaching is a holistic process that has the power to balance and harmonise life."Curly Martin (2001) The Life Coaching Handbook