Life Coach David Bonham-Carter
I provide telephone life coaching for all areas that involve negative thinking patterns, such as confidence & self esteem, assertiveness, anxiety, and anything causing stress in relationships or work.
My professional background prior to becoming a life coach was as a qualified social worker. I have a Masters Degree in social work from the University of Kent passed with distinction. Before becoming a life coach I practised for a number of years as a social worker and probation officer helping people with mental health difficulties, homeless people, young people and offenders to make significant personal and practical changes in their lives and relationships.
As part of my initial two year full time social work training course and subsequently in practice as a qualified social worker I received training in several different methods of intervention including:
- CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (particularly helpful in dealing with negative thought patterns, stress, depression and anxiety)
- Motivational Interviewing (effective as a model for helping people to change or break difficult habits)
- Person centred therapeutic techniques, such as Gerard Egan's personal centred counselling model and Carl Rogers' person centred counselling model.
- Transactional Analysis
- Brief Therapy (also known as Solution Focused Therapy) - helpful in creating positive thinking strategies.
Since becoming a life coach, I have received additional training in techniques such as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and have adapted my social work skills and expertise to helping private clients through coaching sessions to make productive changes in life and in relationships.
I have written a number of articles on stress management, life coaching techniques and related topics, for the Association for Coaching's quarterly bulletin and other publications.
I also have particular skills in crisis management, which can be relevant to both individuals seeking personal coaching and to business clients, combined with a knowledge of a variety of techniques for facilitating professional and personal development. I have considerable experience in assisting people to respond to stressful or problematic situations and to address a variety of different kinds of life difficulties. I am a calm and supportive individual.
The life coaching sessions that I offer are provided over the telephone and are therefore available to people from all over the United Kingdom and indeed internationally.
My
work with
clients is built around research into effective
methods of facilitating progress and helping people to deal with difficult emotional issues. Its focus is on an individual's personal
values and goals to help them move towards a vision of where they want
to
be and to realise
practical personal development goals.