Coaching after therapy.
Put insight into practice.
Therapy has helped you understand yourself, but making a different choice in everyday life still feels hard. Bring one boundary, decision or routine you want to put into practice. We can explore a useful next step at your pace – starting with a free conversation or one £85 coaching session. In Southend-on-Sea and online across the UK.
Free no-obligation call · 30 minutes · Online by Google Meet.
Use what you learned, at a pace that fits.
This is an optional form of support after therapy, not a stage you must complete. It may fit when you want help turning self-understanding into a specific choice or action.
Use what you have learned
Bring your self-awareness into everyday choices, relationships, work and routines.
Build forward momentum
Turn broad intentions into realistic experiments and manageable next steps.
Keep the whole person in view
Work practically without losing sight of your values, emotions, history or relationships.
You understand more about your past.
What would you like to choose now?
Therapy may have helped you see the tracks laid by early experiences, relationships and expectations. You might understand why you put others first, avoid disagreement or doubt your own judgement. That understanding can bring relief, while choosing a different response still takes practice.
Coaching gives you space to consider who you want to be now and how you want that to show up in your life. We explore what you want to carry forward, which expectations no longer fit and what a choice of your own could look like. That might mean expressing a preference, setting a boundary, returning to an interest or making a decision about work.
From awareness to lived change
- Choose a direction that reflects your values now.
- Break change into steps you can genuinely begin.
- Test what works without treating setbacks as failure.
- Review progress honestly and adjust the plan.
Give your self-understanding somewhere to go.
Positive Psychology helps us explore the strengths, relationships, interests and sense of purpose you want to develop. We connect that to the understanding you gained in therapy and choose one area to put into practice.
Decisions and direction
Use your values to choose between possibilities and explore what you want now that an old role or expectation no longer fits.
Boundaries and relationships
Practise saying what you need, making a request or sharing responsibility. Notice which strengths help you communicate and when you overextend yourself.
Interest and engagement
Make room for an activity or goal you want to return to. Explore the conditions that help you become interested and involved.
Progress and wellbeing
Choose a manageable action and review its effect on your daily life, energy and relationships. We adjust the pace together.
You understand the pattern. Practise a different response.
You may recognise that you agree to requests because you fear disappointing people. In coaching, we could work on one situation where you want to make a different choice.
Clarify
Explore the relationship and what you want to stand for, including care for the other person and respect for your own capacity.
Practise
Draft and rehearse a response to one request. Choose a manageable opportunity to try it and the support you might need.
Review
Discuss what happened, how it felt and what you would keep or change. This is an example of the process, not a client outcome.
Is practical coaching the right support now?
You do not need to have everything resolved or a perfect plan. We can discuss whether there is enough space to focus on a practical goal, and whether coaching or further therapeutic support would be more useful now.
This may suit you if…
You have already had counselling or therapy and want to apply what you learned.
You have enough room to try practical changes, but feel stuck between insight and action.
You want support that is reflective, practical and accountable without being rigid.
Another service may fit better if…
You mainly need space to process recent trauma, grief, distress or relationship pain.
You want an ADHD diagnostic assessment or medication advice.
If you are unsure which support fits, we can discuss it in the free call. You do not have to make that decision alone.
Putting a boundary into practice.
Suppose therapy helped you recognise a habit of agreeing to requests when you are already stretched. This is an illustration of the work, not a client case or a promised outcome.
We could explore what you want to make room for and choose one situation in which you would like to respond differently.
You might practise asking for time before answering, prepare words that feel like your own and try them in a manageable situation.
We would review what happened, how it affected the relationship and whether the approach respected your needs as well as the other person’s.
Difficult feelings can remain. The aim is to learn from the experience and recognise when the plan – or the kind of support – needs to change.
Start with one session. A programme is optional.
Start with one session: £85 for 60 minutes or £125 for 90. The optional six-session Coaching Programme is £480 for 60-minute sessions or £690 for 90, paid in full. It includes mapping, four working sessions and a review, with your strengths profile, Next Step plans and written review. Introductory rates are held for 12 months from your first paid session.
Begin with a free 30-minute conversation or book one session. If you choose the optional programme, select the first date; the other five follow fortnightly at the same time.
These are the general coaching fees. ADHD coaching and executive coaching have their own scope and fees. We can discuss which support fits, including counselling if that better meets your needs.
Coaching Programme · 60-minute sessions
Mapping session, four working sessions and a review. Includes your strengths profile, the one-page plan and a written review with the before-and-after measure.
Coaching Programme · 90-minute sessions
The same programme with more time in each session for connected priorities or a complex decision.
Single session
A focused session to work on one decision or see how coaching feels before committing to the programme.
Common questions about Life After Therapy coaching.
Clear answers about the difference between coaching and therapy, who this service is for and how to begin.
Do I need to have finished therapy recently?
No. Your therapy may have ended recently or some time ago. What matters is that you have useful self-awareness and want support applying it to life now.
Is this still therapy?
No. We make a separate coaching agreement around present choices and practical experiments. Feelings, history and relationships remain relevant; the distinction is the agreed purpose of the work, not an expectation that you stop having difficult feelings.
What if I realise I need counselling again?
We can talk about what is emerging and whether coaching remains appropriate. If counselling would offer a better fit, I will be clear about that and we can consider the next step.
Do I need a clear goal before the first session?
No. Part of the coaching process can be clarifying what matters, what feels unresolved and which change would be most useful to begin with.
How often would we meet?
Frequency depends on your aims and the pace that helps you use the work between sessions. We can agree a rhythm and review it rather than committing to an open-ended schedule.
Can we work online?
Yes. Life After Therapy coaching is available online across the UK and in person in Southend-on-Sea.
Build on therapy without turning progress into pressure
You may understand a pattern and still find it difficult to act differently when life becomes busy. We can choose one area where you want to use that understanding, try a manageable step and notice what gets in the way. The work can include your relationships, boundaries, values or direction; it does not require you to prove that therapy is finished.
See my counselling and coaching background and how we can meet. If you need to return to emotional processing, we can discuss counselling rather than pressing on with a coaching goal.
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Read the articleBring your question. Find a useful next step.
In a free 30-minute conversation, we can explore what you want help with, discuss how coaching could work and answer your questions.
