Coaching Scenarios

Motivational Interviewing for Allied Health Professionals: Unlocking Client Motivation for Lasting Change

May 20, 2025

“How can I effectively motivate my patients?” This question resonates throughout the healthcare landscape. Whether you’re a physiotherapist guiding patients through rehabilitation exercises or a dietitian encouraging healthier lifestyle choices, eliciting motivation for sustained adherence can be challenging. The essence of effective motivation lies in recognising that intrinsic motivation—motivat... »

Nurturing Positive Self-Esteem in Children: Empowerment Through Counselling

April 29, 2025

Positive self-esteem is crucial for a child’s overall well-being and success throughout their lifetime. It serves as the foundation for healthy relationships, academic achievement, and emotional resilience. However, many children struggle with low self-esteem, which can have long-lasting effects on their mental health and self-confidence. While self-esteem can naturally fluctuate during chil... »

Self-Awareness, Emotional Regulation and Empathy

March 11, 2025

How accurately can you predict how you come across? Are you good at picking up how you are feeling and how this affects those around you? How well do you consciously know and understand yourself including your feelings, wants, goals, desires and motivations? Self-awareness is paramount to Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Regulation (ER) and is commonly defined as the understanding of our ... »

Integrating Your Counselling

March 4, 2025

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Use Self Determination Theory to help counsel clients experiencing issues at work

February 18, 2025

I have previously written about Self Determination theory (SDT) concerning understanding client motivation (Simper, 2023). Here, we consider the potential benefits of applying SDT within counselling interactions and focus primarily on clients with work issues.  Self-determination theory (SDT) is a psychological framework developed by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan that focuses on human mo... »

Coaching Scenario: Negative and Pessimistic Thoughts

March 6, 2013

A client comes to you with a common problem: he cannot find anything positive in his life. “My friends and family complain that my glass is always half empty. My negativity is getting me down. How can I get out of this negative space that seems to occupy my thought, my language and my attitude to everything?” »

Coaching Scenario: Achieving Previously Set Goals

February 22, 2013

A client comes to you for goal setting coaching and after four sessions, you notice a pattern emerging. The client has enthusiasm in setting goals, but during reviews of progress, the client consistently tells you that he has not achieved any process goals because “something always comes up.” Client says he finds himself easily swayed by distractions and his self-motivation waning afte... »

Coaching Scenario: Effectiveness in the Workplace

February 13, 2013

Michael comes to you to assist him in being more effective in the workplace. He has recently started in a new position and finds it difficult to communicate with his manager who does not seem to have time for him. »