What Psychotherapeutic Coaching is, and how it works
What it is:
Psychotherapeutic coaching combines two different approaches:
Coaching: How am I best going to achieve my personal and professional goals?
Psychotherapy: How do I see the world and why? Why is that impacting my mental health and ability to operate at my best? How do I change those beliefs and values?
Its goal is to be an early intervention to help prevent deeper mental illness, and also aid the recovery of those either returning to work or who are working through mental health difficulties now.
Prevention: Aimed at people who are starting to struggle and risk falling into mental illness. Mental health problems, especially in leaders, can have repercussions on the morale of those they lead and on the business. Catching people early can be of great benefit to them and those around them.
Recovery: The focus for people who are returning to work after a period of mental illness and want to re-establish themselves. Part of aiding their recovery involves helping them regain their self-confidence and strengthening their ability to stay mentally healthy.
Prevention:
When’s the best time to go to a physiotherapist? Answer: as soon as we start to feel a niggle. We don’t want the injury to develop and become more serious.
A good physio will not only look at treating the injury, but also what’s causing it, and make recommendations for deeper treatment.
They will also help you with a programme to strengthen and recover from the injury, whilst helping to prevent recurrence. This last part is crucial.
In the same way that timely physiotherapy can prevent the worsening of the issue, so can Psychotherapeutic Coaching. Timely intervention can save lives, families and businesses.
Recovery:
If we have had a catastrophic injury such as a broken limb, torn muscle, or even worse, there will be a period of recovery which goes through a number of stages. We need to let the tissues/bone repair, recover mobility, strengthen the tissues and gradually work our way back to full fitness.
A key part of this is preventing further injury. This can happen by over straining the injury too soon and therefore setting ourselves back and potentially doing deeper damage to the original wound.
Psychotherapeutic Coaching can be hugely advantageous for someone recovering from mental illness. It can help them accelerate their return to work, regain their effectiveness and also make sure they stay well.
Why I created it:
If we have had a catastrophic injury such as a broken limb, torn muscle, or even worse, there will be a period of recovery which goes through a number of stages. We need to let the tissues/bone repair, recover mobility, strengthen the tissues and gradually work our way back to full fitness.
A key part of this is preventing further injury. This can happen by over straining the injury too soon and therefore setting ourselves back and potentially doing deeper damage to the original wound.
Psychotherapeutic Coaching can be hugely advantageous for someone recovering from mental illness. It can help them accelerate their return to work, regain their effectiveness and also make sure they stay well.
How it works:
Psychotherapeutic coaching works in a number of different ways.
First, it helps keep the current pressures, goals, and life in general within what is known as “the window of tolerance”. I want you to feel in control of how you respond to what is going on. This means neither going into hyper states of anxiety or retreating into hypo states of withdrawal.
The next stage, while maintaining this steady state, is for you to gain some understanding of why you’re responding to life in this way right now. What are the drivers, beliefs, and background that are causing the internal responses?
Once we have the understanding, we can explore how to lessen, view differently, and create strategies for dealing with the causes.
Finally,we need to create the new habits and beliefs that will mean that you don’t slide back intoold patterns.