Am I the Life Coach for you?
I'll let you be the judge of that:
Firstly, I have dedicated myself from a very young age to my own personal development and as a result have engaged in, trained in and learnt from a huge variety of disciplines, from pscyhology to psychotherapy and esoteric disciplines a like, as well as the grounding and practicality I gained from my commercial and business experience.
I am a natural people person and problem solver. I am a leader, I think outside the box and in every area of my life I motivate, energise and encourage people to live up to their full potential and the proof is certainly in the pudding, as anyone on my client list would agree.
As a Coach I am Empathic - Objective - Dynamic - Creative - Strategic - Intuitive - Pragmatic - Commerically aware - Solution-focused - Determined - Fun
Secondly, I am a fully accredited, dedicated and experienced Personal & Executive Coach.
My Diploma in Personal & Executive Coaching accredits my role and awards me use of the letters SAC Dip after my name and adds a level 4 NCFE Award certificate of achievement to my credentials. I successfuly completed my practical training under the supervision of renowned Corporate & Personal Coach Joan O' Shea of My Success Coaching.
I continue bi-monthly supervision with a renowned UK Life Coach to ensure I provide the very best service to my clients and continue developing my skills as a Coach and of course continue my own personal development.
I graduated from Dublin City University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. I worked as a Freelance Journalist for some time during and after my degree in both the local and national Irish press and radio.
After graduating, I then moved on to the corporate world in London, where I served my time in a Corporate Selection & Training firm. It was in this environment I first came into contact with coaching and began training and coaching individuals in a business and executive capacity. I quickly discovered my passion for business and facilitating others in expanding their skills, bettering their performance and finding their niche.
The skills and training I attained as a result of my Business background gives me the depth of understanding, practical know-how and empathy, that only first-hand experience can. As a result of the breadth of experience I gained managing and learning from the challenges that come with work and career, my clients find me a dynamic, empathic and effective Coach for business, career and personal matters.
In addition to the above, I have trained and continue to train in a range of different coaching and counselling methods and any progressive new approaches I come across, including:
Releasing- EFT/The Sedona Method - An incredibly powerful personal development tool to dissolve the energetic power our emotions and memories can have on us. Simple, practical & one of the most effective tools I have come across and use.
CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – this is particularly helpful for dealing with negative thought patterns, stress, depression and anxiety and other emotional issues such as jealousy, anger management or assertiveness.
NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming is highly effective for uncovering our negative and limiting beliefs which are responsible for holding us back from living the lives we really want. These negative beliefs lie deep in the subconscious, usually formed in early childhood and dictate our lives to us. I find NLP fantastic for transforming these into a positive and supportive belief system.
EFT - When we have a negative experience, this creates a negative 'feeling' or an emotional charge in the body and so whenever we remember that incident or a similar incident triggers that memory, it holds us back and ensures that we continue in that negative cycle, preventing us from living as fully as we would like. EFT stands for emotional freedom technique and is highly effective in releasing the residual emotional effects of negative experiences and thus releasing us from the negative or limiting beliefs we hold around that area.
Solution Focused Therapy (also known as Brief Therapy) - helpful in creating positive thinking strategies and a forward thinking frame of mind.
Other core techniques which I use are:
Person centred counselling techniques, such as Gerard Egan and Carl Rogers' models of counselling, allowing you a voice to express your concerns and be listened to.
Transactional Analysis for helping people to act assertively and understand the roles they play in their relationships and why. I have also been trained and studied the following:
- Executive Coaching
- Business Development
- Interview Techniques
- Confident Communication
- Powerful Presentation Techniques
- Meditation
- Creative Visualisation
- Holistic Nutrition
- Stress Management
- Sales Psychology
all of which I draw upon in my work.
As a Coach I am down to earth, determined for my clients success, creative, practical, energetic, empathic, driven, young enough to be in touch and old enough to have the life experience and training to relate to my clients and their respective challenges.
Most importantly, I am 100% committed to my clients succeeding, because that's where I get my fulfilment from.
Due to my own life experience, I have the flexibility to work successfully with clients of all ages, backgrounds and cultures, from board directors to students, to senior management to self-employed to unemployed to civil servants to trainee coaches. My approach focuses on the person, not the circumstances and my clients successes prove time and again, this approach works.
My clients look forward to their next session with me, because in our sessions they are reminded of their innate power to create life as they want to experience it.
Brief History
I have been incredibly passionate about personal-development since I was very young, the idea of realising my full potential was incredibly exciting to me and I dreamt of changing the world through developing myself and others. The idea that I was not limited by my surroundings and could in fact develop myself to achieve more was always the fire burning in my belly. Not suprisingly, I felt compelled to learn more about development on every level and uncover the unlimited potential within myself.
My fascination with development and the realisation of my own naturally led to my interest in nurturing the full potential and life purposes of others. I have always been driven to show people how powerful and amazing they truly are. This passion ensured I studied and researched wherever and whatever I could get my hands on, do courses, workshops, therapies of all varieties and angles. I have long since been driven to learn and keep developing the skills to be the fullest expression of myself that I can be and of course to facilitate others to get there too.
Our ability to create and to realise our awesome innate power, is to me, the most exciting and inspirational facet of being human. We are incredibly powerful creatures and through Coaching my aim is to facilitate those who want to, to realise that power, take ownership of it and as a result, truly take ownership of their lives. It's all for the playing!
*Evelyn is now seeing clients in London. London Bridge & Victoria & Tower Hill, as well as the Workplace Sessions facility in the Greater London area.