Why Partner With Me?

I became a coach because I love to support other people to live more fulfilling and rewarding lives. I want to ensure that our partnership is as profitable as possible for you and if I don’t think us working together is your best choice then I will say so. 

Coaching sessions are an investment of time and energy for both us. And you get out what you put in. 

I give my clients 110%. If you’re prepared to meet that commitment, then we’re already on the same page. 

How Do I Get Started?

Send me a message with where your at. I offer a free, no-obligation, 90 minute session to get clear on how we might work together. 

In order to make this first meeting powerful, I’ll help to focus your thinking and drill down into the challenges you’re currently facing via email.

Coaching Client Feedback & Testimonials

“I have used life coaching twice in the past and had really good outcomes on career goals. When I started coaching with Sam, I decided to try something different, and work on an aspect of self-confidence that has been niggling at me for a while. I had never shared it with anyone because it felt such a small, silly thing. It took personal courage from me to make it the “thing I wanted to talk about”. Sam gave me a lot of space, through silence, to talk through current and recent events, and to make associations between different experiences. The silences, his questions and his insights helped me join the dots and come up with new ways to think about what happens with me in my low-confidence situations. I am so pleased with where I got to. Even though I started out thinking this was a tiny thing, I feel like I have taken a stone out of my shoe, and I am moving forward with increased confidence and sense of lightness.”

Caroline King (Retired Human Resources Manager)

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“I had worked with a lot of coaches before and not got the results I wanted, which had put me off working with anyone else. I came across Sam and really resonated with his work, so I decided to go for it.

Sam’s approach is very professional, practical, and is very genuine about helping us create the results we set for ourselves. I really enjoyed the sessions and would look forward to having them. It really helps when someone else is on board with you working towards something that’s important to you too.

Sam is also intuitive, which made it easier for me to relax into and trust the process, as well as myself and Sam. He asks really great quality questions which helped me to think beyond myself.

I would highly recommend Sam and wouldn’t hesitate to work with him again. The results speak for themselves and for anyone who has that resonance too I would say go for it. You have everything to gain.”

Lisa Fernandez (Holistic Interior Designer)

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“Having 9 coaching sessions with Sam is accelerating the journey inside myself. I solved one issue within myself that I have been dwelling in for years just after one of the sessions with Sam. I like the way Sam give time for himself to fully listen to me, to think the best questions or sometimes input for me. The best thing from him, is he tried his best to understand the client’s feeling, situation, and everything you said. From his listening skill, and genuine curiosity, emerged good and challenging questions which helped me to grow and reach my goals. Thank you!”

Dhinny El Fazila (Language Learning Facilitator and Coach)

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Frequently-Asked Questions

What Will Coaching Give Me?

New Ideas

We are often too busy living our lives to wonder how they could be different or more in-tune with our purpose. Coaching provides a space to explore what the future could be like.

Peace of Mind

Recurring thoughts are your subconscious mind trying to communicate with you. Coaching can provide a space to bring these subconscious motives to light and explore where they could take you.

Progress

There might be some area of your personal or professional life that isn’t quite how you would like it. Coaching can assist in building new habits, branching out as an entrepreneur, changing jobs or career, and any other big changes in your life.

Accountability

Talking through things is one thing, taking action is another. Coaching gives you the clear plan and the accountability to smash through your goals and create the future you’ve always dreamed of.

What Can I Expect Over The Course Of Our Engagement?

I work with clients for varying periods of time dependent on their needs. To see results, I suggest weekly or fortnightly sessions over a minimum period of 3 months.

As a coach I provide support through strong, unconditional service to your needs and a pool of creative questions and techniques to help you step outside yourself and examine your life as an observer.

My approach balances science and intuition in equal measure and I bring flexibility and compassion to sessions with my clients.

In return, I expect commitment and action on your part. We can search through the maze and find the door together, but it is up to you to walk through it.

How Does Coaching Work And What Makes It So Powerful?

Coaching in its purest form provides a space (also known as a container) to think in an uninhibited way and explore new ways of being. A good coach actively creates this space through the things they are both doing and not doing.

A good coach, listens completely, doesn’t interrupt, helps you discover inconsistencies and brings a tailored selection of techniques that bring clarity and separation to thoughts. In turn, this separation allows the client to focus on one thing at a time.

Overwhelm can be caused by many different things becoming tangled and threaded together sub-optimally in the mind. When this threading is untangled, inconsistencies addressed and new information processed, the mind is no longer hindered. A weight is lifted. Circular thoughts are removed and turned into action. Life resumes.

If you feel hampered and hindered, like something is holding you back, it could be a simple case of inconsistent firing. When an engine fires inconsistently, a car cannot operate at its peak performance. A ‘mind mechanic’ can help you repair your engines and get you back in the driving seat.

Who Can Benefit From Coaching?

It can be hard to imagine what you will receive from coaching, mainly because its beauty lies in bringing things into awareness that currently lie outside of your perception. If that sounds too out there, then coaching may not be for you. If you are curious, the best way to understand what it can do for you is to experience it yourself. 

I offer a free 45-minute discovery session to anyone interested in experiencing coaching.  

My approach as a coach is to create an environment of confidentiality where you can trust that any conversation we have will only ever be between us. 

I bring a calm presence that I have actively cultivated through introspection, yoga and meditation. 

I have 15 years experience sharing knowledge with adults and children in 1-2-1 and group scenarios as a music teacher. 

I adhere to the highest standards of coaching as set out by the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and the AC (Association of Coaching). I am currently studying for my ICF-accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching with the Animas Centre for Coaching. 

If you would like to know more, please send me a message via the contact form. Or if you are ready to book a free, no-obligation Illumination Session, please click here to see my availability. 

When Is Coaching Most Effective?

I believe that trust and mutual respect are central to a successful coaching relationship. 

My mission is to create a space that is open, safe and confidential for my clients. You are important, you matter and I am here to listen to you unconditionally and without judgement. 

But I am also here to challenge you. I will reflect back what I hear and let you decide whether your thoughts stand up to scrutiny. 

As a client, you will find that the more willing you are to explore your thoughts and feelings, the more readily change will start to flourish. 

The benefits of coaching rely on a certain level of receptivity and action from the client. The more open you are to explore different connections and the more willing you are to be introspective, the faster you will see results. 

What’s the Difference Between Coaching, Training, Mentoring and Consulting?

Coaching has grown to cover what would more traditionally be called training or mentoring. I worked for 16 years as a trainer and mentor with groups and individuals learning to play musical instruments. Pure coaching is more traditionally what is known as leadership, asking questions and creating space so that someone can come to their own conclusions about the best way to move forward. I trained in Pure Coaching in 2021 while building my practice. So you get the best of both worlds: a trainer who can break things down into simple terms, a mentor who can keep you accountable, and a coach who can help you dig deep inside yourself to discover what feels right for you.

The power of pure coaching comes from facilitating a space where you can search deeply for the answers that only you have. 

Coaching is inherently non-directive. A coach does not give advice. To do so would be to limit a client’s options and prevent them from discovering their own best solution. 

This is the difference between coaching and mentoring. Mentors do give advice, guiding others to follow in their footsteps and supporting their own unique journey. A coach can also provide mentoring in areas where they have expertise. 

A consultant gives advice and helps to facilitate solutions. Again, a coach can also offer consulting services in conjunction with their coaching. 

Despite these crossovers, a coach offering such services should be well-versed in wearing different hats to serve the client appropriately. Coaching requires a completely different skillset to consulting and mentoring. A coach helps the client find their own best solution. A consultant or mentor gives the client their best solution. 

What’s the Difference Between Coaching and Counselling/Therapy?

Coaching is designed to take people from functional to exceptional. It explores where you are now and where you want to be in the future. It focusses on solutions and goals. It can be termed as a proactive approach. 

Therapy and counselling deal primarily with dysfunction and deep-seated traits and issues. Although coaching can work in tandem with counselling, it is not a substitute for professional therapy treatment and isn’t designed to be treated as such. 

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What’s the difference you may ask?  Coaching helps you find the answers within yourself. Mentoring is more directive and involves the provision of advice and ideas. 

What is Coaching? 

Coaching is a comprehensive engagement and requires commitment in order to yield results. Anyone can write a list of goals. The coach is the person you go to when you realise your list of goals has been the same for the last 3 years with no progression.

Coaching has traditionally been associated with boosting performance to achieve specific outcomes. It is a goal-focussed engagement in which a coach helps a person uncover their blindspots.

I offer a unique blend of pure coaching and training. The power of pure coaching comes from facilitating a space where you can search deeply for the answers that only you have. 

What Do People Talk About In Coaching Sessions?

Arriving to talk through changing career, might realise that you actually like the job, but that you’d like to show up differently. Want to earn more money. Start to talk about inherited limiting beliefs about money. And how that manifests as a reluctance to ask for a raise. Or communication skills lacking to have more difficult conversations and would benefit from a place to practise those conversations with someone. 

Sometimes we interpret the desire to change one part of our life as the need to change everything about our life. 

Personal or professional. Everything can be discussed in our sessions. Coaching is for everything in your life. A sports coach doesn’t just work with the athlete in the training ground, they work on their mindset, their nutrition, every day. They become a part of their life. A good coach is simply a person who reminds you to live as your best self. 

What is Coaching? – my definition 

Why Do People Partner With A Coach?

Coaching is traditionally associated with sports and high-performance activities. Athletes and high-achievers recognise that they need external support in order to get the best from themselves.

Over the last 30 years, partnering with a coach has become the norm for executives, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to live as their best self.

We rarely have access to the time and presence of another who is dedicated entirely to listening to and supporting us.

The only way to really discover the blind spots that hinder your performance is to partner with someone impartial. 

What Can I Expect Over The Course Or Our Engagement?

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I work with clients for a minimum period of three months. To see results, I suggest weekly or fortnightly sessions over a minimum period of 3 months.

As a coach I provide support through strong, unconditional service to your needs and a pool of creative questions and techniques to help you step outside yourself and examine your life as an observer.

My approach balances science and intuition in equal measure and I bring flexibility and compassion to sessions with my clients.

In return, I expect commitment and action on your part. We can search through the maze and find the door together, but it is up to you to walk through it.

Disclaimer

Coaching is a comprehensive engagement that will create real, lasting change in your life. But it requires commitment in order to yield results and carries a responsibility outside of the sessions.

Coaching has traditionally been associated with boosting performance to achieve specific outcomes. It is a goal-focussed engagement in which a coach helps a person uncover their blindspots.

Coaching is not just about goal-setting. Anyone can write a list of goals on their own. Coaching is about discovering what stands between you and your goals.