PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COACHING
Who's it for?
Anyone who wants to become more fulfilled, even if your goal is still unclear. It could be your desire to implement a project, to overcome a current challenge in your life, to deal with an important transition, to increase your self-confidence, to improve your relationships with others. Coaching can provide a boost, an incentive to get yourself moving that you aren’t always able to muster on your own.
It emphasises the “how” and strives for concrete results that can be immediately applied, in small steps. It differs, in this sense, from traditional therapy, as it does not dwell on the past or on the why.
Coaching can be targeted to your personal or professional situation, or both, because the line between them is often blurry. One influences the other, and vice versa.
On what kind of issues ?
- Developing your assertiveness and your ability to say no or to deliver a difficult message
- Transforming negative stress into positive stress and increasing your composure when dealing with events
- Learning how to more effectively manage your time
- Improving your ability to manage employees and your management skills
- Managing conflictual relationships
- Developing authenticity in your relationship with others, and aligning with your values
- Harmonising your family or professional relationships
- Restoring meaning and getting motivated again
- Preventing or dealing with burn out; preparing to return to work after a burn out
- Ensuring a work-life balance
How ?
The coaching approach is based on a concrete goal that I help you identify and establish. Then, it’s a process that can vary in length and involves identifying the obstacles in your way, the options that are available to you, your internal and external resources, and implementing small, practical steps to move towards your goal. We also regularly evaluate where you are and redefine the course, if necessary.
Confidentiality is obviously the backbone of any ethical approach to coaching. I adhere to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Charter of Ethics, of which I am a member and a Certified Accredited Coach (ACC).
Compassion, Trust and Responsibility of the coach and the coachee are key values in my coaching practice.
The number of sessions is not pre-determined. It will be discussed with you based on your needs and your goals. A session lasts about 75 minutes. The first session is a little longer as it serves to establish the framework of the coaching process and to initially identify the goal and its measurement indicators. Whatever the length of the coaching process, which the customer is free to determine himself, I like holding a loopback session in the end in order to celebrate progress and to determine the coachee’s personal follow-up path for the future.
Testimonials
“Many thanks! I feel like I’ve learned a lot about myself and have walked away with the tools to continue to better understand myself. I feel like I have a fresh start in my professional life as well as in my private life. I’ve changed some of my habits and my perception of things. I have rediscovered the joy in some aspects of my work and my family life. I feel more free.”
Virginie S.
"I sought Catherine’s services to discover new resources within myself to help me be more independent in my life choices, both personal and professional, while learning how to let go. Working with her enabled me to be open to new approaches that existed within me for which I was unaware. It was a real pleasure and a milestone on my life path!"
Julien
I arrived at Catherine’s exhausted after a position change. In a few coaching sessions, I have learned to set my limits professionally, to dare asking help to colleagues when necessary and to better communicate with my colleagues and the management. The coaching process enabled me to become aware of my resources, and to identity solutions tailored to my needs when facing a problem. Today, I have found a better work-life balance.
Isabelle
I experienced a coaching process of a few months with Catherine. I really appreciated her openness and sympathy, close and professional at the same time. Our work enabled me to become aware of my resources as well as finding, out of my own experience, solutions to overcome obstacles and constraints. I found her approach very creative and rich in tools, combining support, sharing of experiences with a very concrete analysis of what was causing problem. This coaching was relatively short because I could acquire new methodologies and initiate changes rapidly. What was for me decisive, is that I felt recognized and valued in what I am, and what I wish for my present and future….”
Françoise
I came on my own initiative to find a harmonious solution to a life situation where my daughter’s family had come back home for a while. It was supposed to be short term and ended up eventually to last 2 years…! The coaching process has been highly useful in the sense that it helped me setting my limits not to feel constantly overwhelmed by their presence, and interact more harmoniously with my relatives. The coaching opened my eyes about my personal ‘operating system’ and those of others, it enabled me to adopt a different look at the situation: not undergo it, but become actor of my solutions…This result was made possible thanks to the competences of the coach: her listening skills, her adequate guidance that allows a true ‘maieutic’ process and the solving of intricate situations.”
Bernadette
I have a very positive memory of our coaching sessions. I became more aware of my communication with others, particularly my spouse. I often recall our conversations, and even if my couple remains sometimes difficult to manage, it enables me to take distance with our conflicts. I thank you Catherine and wish you the best.
Claude N.
The coaching sessions allowed me to look up from my professional constraints, feel less alone in these difficulties, and to become aware that I am in a long term process that requires time and patience…. » Katia
Rates
An individual coaching session (personal or professional) is €60/hour. For companies considering professional coaching for an employee, please contact me for pricing.
Discounted rates can be discussed with students and those unemployed.
My offices is in Brussels, 1170 Boitsfort, 106 Ave. Léopold Wiener, not far from the E411 entrance in Brussels and the Cimetière d’Ixelles (Ixelles Cemetary).
I can also travel to your business if necessary.