“Carolyn is one of the best coaches I’ve ever worked with: she provides an excellent space for reflection, supports you to use your strengths and develops your confidence so that you surprise yourself by what you achieve. On top of that, she is an excellent facilitator and an expert in the Thinking Environment, a technique I found invaluable when making our board meetings more purposeful.
I would recommend Carolyn to anyone who is looking for a coach and facilitator who makes you think and stretches your potential, as an individual or a group.”
Verena Hefti, CEO and Founder LeadersPlus
“Coaching with Carolyn helped me identify the underlying factors in my personality that influence how I behave and interact with people in certain circumstances.
As a result of the coaching my personal resilience has strengthened, and I have techniques for managing stress, which is leading to positive outcomes in my professional life.
I found the whole experience extremely useful and learnt a lot about myself that I can call upon to improve my professional performance.”
Director, Investment Banking
“I came to see Carolyn feeling overwhelmed by work pressures and unsure how to take my project forward. Carolyn helped me to evaluate my strengths as a project manager and develop a core ethos to the project.
Her unique combination of empathy, imagination and clear insight were invaluable in enabling me to rediscover my passion for the work I do, and from there, to build my confidence as a leader. Needless to say, the project has since gone from strength to strength. Thank you!”
Leader, Voluntary Sector Project
“Having never sought help from a therapist/coach before I was a little bit sceptical about how it would work and how I would benefit, but I connected with Carolyn immediately. I had great trust in her and really felt that she could help me with my anxiety and stress issues – and she did just that. She was totally non-judgemental, very empathic and clearly extremely experienced. Each 90-minute meeting went very quickly! She introduced me to a world I wasn’t really aware of and provided me with a range of tools for my situation.
I’m pleased to say that things have improved a great deal as a result of working with Carolyn and I am extremely grateful to her. 100 per cent, I would recommend Carolyn to people facing anxiety and stress problems”.
Owner/Director PR Business.
“My sessions with Carolyn have provided much needed clarity, practical and emotional support during an extremely turbulent and stressful year, including redundancy, an unexpected pregnancy and starting a new business. By exploring how I interact with others, using tools suggested by Carolyn and taking time to assess what I really want from each situation, I have emerged feeling empowered and with a work/life balance much better suited to my and my family’s needs.
Carolyn’s approach is warm, empathic and highly insightful while also being analytical and practical – it is geared to helping clients take decisions and move forward with their lives. I can honestly say I am in a much better “place” than I was a year ago and this is due in very large part to the work I undertook with Carolyn.”
Freelance Journalist
“Carolyn was recommended to me at a time when I was facing severe crises in both my professional and personal life. In truth the two were overlapping and negatively reinforcing one another. The combination of counselling and coaching was perfect for me. With both aspects of my life in difficulty, I was unclear from one session to the next what I needed. The ability for me to choose on the day to address a different topic or issue to that which might have been presumed, was simply invaluable.
Carolyn simply adapted seemingly effortlessly and with the utmost professionalism. She forgot nothing I told her. In short, I found Carolyn to be exemplary. Professional, empathetic and tactful to her fingertips. I could not recommend her highly enough“.
Politician
I always look forward to Supervision sessions with Carolyn. The space she creates makes me feel held and safe to explore how I am showing up in the Coaching space with my clients; specific client scenarios I need to unpack and how I'm shaping my Coaching Business. I feel we are working in partnership but she brings a wiser and more experienced presence to the conversation. Her approach is rooted in "Time to Think" philosophy and it does exactly that - the sessions give me much-needed time to think in order to be the best Coach I can be for my clients and operate ethically and with integrity.
Carolyn is also nurturing, empathetic and kind but never colludes - she challenges me when I need it - in order to grow and learn. I have gained a huge amount of confidence since working with Carolyn - it is a fundamental part of my business and I'd recommend her to any Coach.
Lucy Higgins, Executive, Career and Life Coach
Carolyn is an extremely experienced practitioner. This gives her a breadth of experience on which to draw upon to support our supervision work. However, Carolyn always challenges me to reflect further in order to expand my own thinking, before she asks if I would like to hear her view. This ensures I am constantly learning for myself as well as having the opportunity to draw upon her knowledge.
I have been working with Carolyn for five years and she continues to bring a fresh perspective to my work, offering new references for me to explore further. She is a considered and warm practitioner always providing a safe containing space in which I am able to bring all the questions and challenges I have.
I would not hesitate to recommend working with Carolyn be it in the capacity of coach, therapist, supervisor or facilitator.
Judith Plastow Coach, Counsellor, Integrated practitioner, lecturer.
Carolyn's exquisite attention, calm supportive presence and therapeutic approach have enabled me to come to know myself better than I ever have. As a result of our work, I have been able to make significant change in my life, and I feel I have grown exponentially.
The way she works is incredibly ‘whole’: looking back, looking forward, here and now, inside and out to make sense of what matters.
We have worked through literal and metaphorical sunshine and rain both in and outdoors, and I always come away with a pocket full of riches and furnished with tools to tackle and shape myself and my world as I move forward.
Soran David Osteopath