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  Maps in the form of frameworks and tools can help us navigate the coaching process, shedding light on what might be happening internally and within our context.  They can provide guidance through challenging circumstances (we are often not the first to meet them ) and help us identify the paths we might take in [...]

Here is an article that I wrote recently for Coaching Today magazine.  It tells you how I use the personal consultancy framework to integrate both therapeutic and coaching approaches to offer an effective and ethical way of working. I give some examples from my practice of what might be included when we work together in [...]

A “New Years Resolution” is described in the Cambridge dictionary  as “a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year”.  Immediately below this definition  is a list of words relating to “breaking promises” which is often a traditional next step [...]

Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients. Nash Popovic and Debra Jinks use their experience in the area of integrative practice to demonstrate how this wider approach can be a more comprehensive way of helping [...]

The Coaching profession attracts not only therapists who have developed through various routes into coaching but also coaches who have journeyed in the other direction.  In this article featured in BACP Private Practice Journal, Autumn 2013, I talk to seven practitioners who, like me, journey through both territories. Click here to read.

  An article written in 2011 about working at the boundary between counselling and coaching with young people.

I was pleased to be asked by BACP’s Counselling Children and Young people magazine to give an interview about the “working positively with difference” training which Youth Access commissioned me to design.  I currently deliver the training to a range of young people’s counselling services in the community, to Relate counsellors working with young people [...]

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