I provide a structure to help you through the process of deciding whether you truly want to make the transition out of your current profession. If you decide to stay in practice, we will find work-life strategies to help you fit your profession into your life rather than your continuing to try to fit your life into your profession.

If, however, you decide you don't wish to stay in your profession any longer, you may or may not know exactly what you want to do. If you do know what you want to do, but not how to go about it, I will help you develop a strategy and keep you on track.

You may be in the position I was in for a long time of knowing I wanted to get out, but not knowing what I wanted to do instead. In this case, I will work with you to help you determine what you really want to do by eliciting your basic values, preferences, and your metaprograms. These are the "mental filters" (often unconscious) that determine which information we take in. They therefore affect our attitudes, motivation, and behaviour.

You may also have several competing "parts" of yourself, all with different claims to your attention. We will work with them to uncover their underlying purpose(s) and align them into the basic "you". This will result in your decision-making process becoming much more cohesive.

Once you have made your decision, I will help you set appropriate goals, and formulate a plan to achieve them. At this stage, we also look at any potential obstacles that might stop you from achieving your goals, and how you might truly commit to them.

I should emphasise that what you commit to and how much you commit to at a given moment is entirely up to you. To the extent, however, that you find it helpful to have someone to help you keep track of how you are doing, and of your successes, I can also perform as your "taskmaster".

Some of the fundamental principles of Solution-Focused Coaching are that you, as the client, are basically "OK" and that you are the expert on your own life. I coach by first listening intently to what you are saying and not saying, and then asking powerful questions, which often cause you to consider matters you have not considered before.

The object of these questions is to help you access what you probably already know deep down, but may not be aware of consciously, and which you have perhaps not acknowledged to anyone before, even yourself. It would not be unusual to find out more about yourself in 6 months of coaching than in all of the previous years of your life to date. Coaching is deceptively simple, elegant and dramatically effective. Give it a try!