Why Choose Me?
Well, good point. Here's why:
Firstly, I am a fully accredited, dedicated and experienced Life Coach.
My Diploma in Life Coaching accredits my role as Life Coach 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 Life 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 have worked as a Freelance Journalist for some time during and after my degree in both the local and national Irish press and radio, before then moving into the corporate world in London, where I worked as a Business Development and Marketing Manager for much of my twenties.
I have been involved in the personal development field now for over 6 years and have been trained and have experience in, a whole array of disciplines, which I mix together to form Life Coaching by Evelyn, my unique approach.
I have trained in a range of different coaching and counselling methods, of which the ones I find to be most effective are:
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
- Interview Techniques
- Confident Communication
- Powerful Presentation Techniques
- Meditation
- Creative Visualisation
- Holistic Nutrition
- Stress Management
- Sales Psychology
- The Sedona Method for releasing emotional baggage,
all of which I draw upon in my work.
The skills and training I have 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.
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, that I was not limited by my surroundings and could in fact develop myself to achieve more was 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 and other’s full potential and life purpose, ensured I read and researched wherever and whatever I could get my hands on. I have long since been driven to learn and keep developing the skills to not only realise my own potential, but also facilitate others to realise theirs 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 their own awesome power, take ownership of it and as a result, truly take ownership of their lives.