Growing a business can be intoxicating, immersive and rewarding, yet it can also bring many challenges along the way. Success requires hard graft, both practically and psychologically. But having the right guidance and support in place can make all the difference to keep you on track.
At Firestarter, our mission is to create entrepreneurial freedom, offering psychological coaching and psychotherapy is another way I can help make this possible for more people.
Coaching Psychology & Psychotherapy
I provide evidence-based psychological coaching and psychotherapy that is purposeful, collaborative and transparent, and evolves through the process of self-discovery.
We start armed with a balanced assessment of your current situation alongside clear, future-orientated goals and any Then we work together to form strategies and action plans to close the gaps, developing practical, beneficial and lasting solutions.
The process is designed to give you an advanced, transferable skillset and a powerfully effective toolkit that you can apply not just at work but in your personal life too.
All of which means that as you progress and become more self-aware you'll learn how to self-coach to make successful changes that stick! Both now and into the future.
The process in more detail
One to one work can be intensive and demanding, yet it can often produce rapid and meangful results. Research supports that it’s possible to bring about lasting change in a small number of sessions (for the majority of people within five sessions or less).
But if you need more time, we can evolve how we work to support a longer change trajectory. Here’s what you can expect from our time together:
A few selected testimonials
I have worked with a wide variety of clients across a diverse range of professional settings.
While I often work with business leaders and entrepreneurs, I have experience of working with individuals facing complex and demanding personal as well as professional challenges.
Due to my background in childrens' services and my continued work in therpeutic settings, I am able offer support that extends far beyond traditional business or executive coaching.
Chris has approached the work with myself with amazing energy that not only mirrors where I am currently at but demonstrates his skills to tune into my preferred learning and future hopes with sensitivity and structure that resonates with me.
I enjoy Chris' ability to be flexible in the tools and theories he chooses to share to make them relevant to the journey the sessions take. Chris has surprise me with the impact the sessions have had on me... I appreciate the safe space that Chris created which enabled me to let go of my need to control the end result and has surpassed any expectations of positive outcomes.
Chris brought some great structure and grounded theory to my creative thought process, allowing me to enter a productive space that has tangible and measurable results.”
Shelley, Senior Manger, National Charity
Working with Chris helped me recover a part of myself that was missing and helped me understand my own identity.
Once Chris helped me reach a position of stability within myself, we defined the most essential things in my life and how we could regain a healthy balance.
These exercises helped me define new life goals. They provided me with the aspirations I needed to not only get my life back on track, but to also change the trajectory.
I am happy to say that I'm now in a fantastic place with a much better balance in my life. Work-life has also not suffered. In fact, the company we have built has gone from strength to strength and should be receiving significant funding shortly.
Being more comfortable with myself and having newfound confidence has also helped me build my own personal brand in the industry. This has included being a guest and hosting Podcasts as well as producing my own YouTube channel..
John, CTO, eCommmerce Scale-up
Chris helped me manage stress, making me happier, calmer and more productive personally & professionally.
Mindset
Before – crashing through, firefighting, not speaking out/up
After – only able to do what I can do, prioritising work and home life
Thinking
Before – constantly turning over negative thoughts of ftrustation and anger
After – talking through achievements, resolving conflicts, relaxed mental state.
Managing emotions
Before – thoughts of inadequacy, muddled, angry, lost
After – capable, cleared head of negative emotions, not afraid to ask for help,
Behaviour
Before – bull in a china shop, had to get everything done today, working long hours to achieve the impossible.
After – not afraid to physically walk away from work, physical well being improved feeling fresher, more effective, more successful