Life Coach

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I help people solve issues in their relationships, with parenting, anxiety, stress and more

Biggest thing people come to me for is to get over trauma. My technique doesn't require you to relive the past or talk about the details of what happened in order to get over it.

Go for it. I'll try and answer as much as I can.

What trauma technique do you utilise?Are you registered and trained in therapy or counselling eg BACP.
I think life coach is a sketchy and unregulated profession. Anyone can set up a practice, it’s an unregulated title. What do you specifically offer clients?
Do you receive supervision?

What are your qualifications and experience to do this kind of work effectively and who is your professional body?

How much did you earn this year?

What are your specific trauma-focused qualifications?

What are your thoughts on the multiple years-worth of intense and complex training that we mental health practitioners have to undertake in order to safely and responsibly support people navigate trauma?

What clinical supervision do you have?

What governing body are you regulated by?

How much do you charge people for your service to help them with their trauma?

Are your clients aware of the difference between ‘coaching’ and trauma therapy?

What did you do previous to this new career path?

Did you consider training as a mental health nurse / therapist / counsellor but decide to be a life coach? If so, why?

Is your own life good? Everything you'd want it to be?

Did you get your qualification online and is your business Instagram-based?

Do you get paid for “recruiting” new people?

To add:

Would you recommend me leave my current profession (which I trained in for years & have to be regulated by a professional body for) in order to market myself as a life coach, so that I can continue to support people with trauma / anxiety / stress etc but get paid 3 times the amount outside the NHS?

Wiuld the title of ‘life coach’ mean I get to be able to keep my head above the financial parapet as opposed to my highly-qualified but underpaid NHS profession?

Yes what qualifications are required to be a life coach ?

Why do people come to you rather than to a mental health professional? What do you offer that makes your service better for them?

What's the best approach for standing up for yourself?

I'm naturally a pushover. I let it boil up until I get upset.

Is this even something a life coach can help with?

What are your techniques to help people recover from trauma? Do you have a published peer reviewed research paper I can read? Thank you

How do you manage risk & maintain safety when using your trauma technique
Do you maintain notes or documentation you share with the client
During trauma techniques What are your safeguarding protocols if a disclosure is made or safeguarding concern suspected
What training did you undertake? Do you receive supervision?

(Settles in).

The life coach I know is a former colleague (in an entirely different field) who was let go/contract not renewed, who “turned life around” by doing a Zoom course and
is also now a life coach by zoom.

insane

What are your qualifications?

Why do life coaches charge so much?

A few times in my life I've thought a life coach sounds like exactly what I need, but then I weigh up their fees against the vagueness of what they are selling, and I can never be sure if it would be worth the money, if I'd even get what I wanted from it.

They charge what folk will pay. Fees doesn’t equal quality. Fees just reflect market rate

How do you help people with their trauma?
How long do you work with people for?

I don’t think this is going the way the OP thought it would…

I am a facilitator. I run interventions to support people to manage their relationship aggression and have healthier relationships moving forward after they’ve been convicted of domestic abuse. I have had training and deliver an accredited programme that is based on research. Part of that is to revisit past events to identify the triggers in their thoughts, coping strategies and behaviour.

How are you qualified to support people with their life? What strategies do you use if you don’t revisit past events?

What are you thinking of when you describe “trauma”? Can you give us some examples of this trauma work you do? Or are you meaning ‘generic difficulties and indecision’? Do you regularly work with actual trauma?

Not going to lie, these are my initial assumptions when I hear someone is a life coach.

It’s like when I see ‘breastfeeding experts’ or ‘BLW coaches’ on my Facebook reels. I have zero trust that they aren’t just spouting their own thoughts. I’ll pay an actual expert with proven qualifications or I’ll speak to a HCP through my GP/midwife.

Help me understand what do you mean by trauma? What is your definition of trauma-informed practice?

It’s AMA so…

Are you going to come back and actually answer or was this not how you thought this would go?

What are your thoughts on ACE’s? Have the majority of your clients experienced many of these, hence seeing you for your trauma-focussed specialist skills?

What is your second job?