Who I have been working with recently
September 2006 Filed in: Other
therapies
Melanie Allen has been a life coach for three years,
working with individuals as well as large corporate
businesses. For anyone feeling stuck, in their job or
at home, working with Melanie can help. She can use
various tools and techniques and her wealth of life
experience to help you to make positive choices and
changes that you feel in charge of.
When working with Melanie I’ve been struck by her ability to really hear what I’m saying and to thoughtfully and creatively introduce new ideas about how to live and work whilst firmly grasping and respecting who I am as a person. If you’ve always wondered what coaching is about or you’re in a rut and need a space to rethink call Melanie on 01943 468799 or check out her website melanieallen.co.uk to find out what coaching could offer you.
Melanie says "Caitlin was recommended to me by a client we shared. Sarah (not her real name, though she has given me permission to use parts of her story here) had come to me towards the end of months of debilitating illness brought on by overwork and stress. Caitlin had been treating her from the outset, and had helped her enormously, but as Sarah prepared to return to work, the dread of ending up in the same state grew. She didn’t know how she could face it and the anxiety was making her ill again. She was in knots. This is often where my work as a life or career coach begins - with a knotty tangle. Like many of my clients, Sarah felt she had to present me with one clear ‘issue’. But that’s not how it is – untangling the knots and clarifying the muddle is what we usually start with. In our sessions, I helped Sarah to clarify and work on several distinct but related areas. First, she identified what the problems were. Having done this, she could – with some difficulty - stop blaming herself and beating herself up. Next, she developed techniques to help her manage her work, her health and her emotions in the short-term. Finally, she worked out a longer-term career strategy that suited her better. Of course it wasn’t as clear-cut as that, but that sums it up.
"During Sarah’s sessions, I lost count of the times I heard ‘that’s what Caitlin says’. That got me thinking about the relationship between Caitlin’s work and my own. I’m well aware that some of the benefit that clients derive from complementary therapies and from coaching is the space, time and close attention to their concerns. But there’s more to it than that. On the face of it, Caitlin treats the body and I work with the mind – and the clue is there in the words – the similarity is that neither of us work only ‘on the face of it’. The focus may be different, but the approach is similar: we both work with our clients as whole people: mind, body, emotions and circumstance. We work with the spirit of the person, beneath and beyond the obvious."
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When working with Melanie I’ve been struck by her ability to really hear what I’m saying and to thoughtfully and creatively introduce new ideas about how to live and work whilst firmly grasping and respecting who I am as a person. If you’ve always wondered what coaching is about or you’re in a rut and need a space to rethink call Melanie on 01943 468799 or check out her website melanieallen.co.uk to find out what coaching could offer you.
Melanie says "Caitlin was recommended to me by a client we shared. Sarah (not her real name, though she has given me permission to use parts of her story here) had come to me towards the end of months of debilitating illness brought on by overwork and stress. Caitlin had been treating her from the outset, and had helped her enormously, but as Sarah prepared to return to work, the dread of ending up in the same state grew. She didn’t know how she could face it and the anxiety was making her ill again. She was in knots. This is often where my work as a life or career coach begins - with a knotty tangle. Like many of my clients, Sarah felt she had to present me with one clear ‘issue’. But that’s not how it is – untangling the knots and clarifying the muddle is what we usually start with. In our sessions, I helped Sarah to clarify and work on several distinct but related areas. First, she identified what the problems were. Having done this, she could – with some difficulty - stop blaming herself and beating herself up. Next, she developed techniques to help her manage her work, her health and her emotions in the short-term. Finally, she worked out a longer-term career strategy that suited her better. Of course it wasn’t as clear-cut as that, but that sums it up.
"During Sarah’s sessions, I lost count of the times I heard ‘that’s what Caitlin says’. That got me thinking about the relationship between Caitlin’s work and my own. I’m well aware that some of the benefit that clients derive from complementary therapies and from coaching is the space, time and close attention to their concerns. But there’s more to it than that. On the face of it, Caitlin treats the body and I work with the mind – and the clue is there in the words – the similarity is that neither of us work only ‘on the face of it’. The focus may be different, but the approach is similar: we both work with our clients as whole people: mind, body, emotions and circumstance. We work with the spirit of the person, beneath and beyond the obvious."
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