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Effective Strategies for Habit Change

Effective habit change involves a combination of understanding behaviour, setting clear goals, and applying targeted strategies to disrupt old patterns and establish new ones. ACT, Solution-Focused Therapy, and the Tiny Habits method provide complementary approaches that address different aspects of habit change. Key strategies include taking action, counter-conditioning, values clarification, mindfulness, starting small, using anchor moments, and managing prompts and motivation.

How a Depression Coach Facilitates Change in Habits, Beliefs, and Behaviours

A depression coach works with clients to help them recover from depression by changing negative habits, cultivating new beliefs, and adopting new behaviours. They use a range of techniques, including goal setting, motivational interviewing, cognitive restructuring, behavioural activation, mindfulness, and positive psychology. By using a collaborative approach, the coach enables clients to feel more empowered and in control of their lives, moving them towards a more positive and fulfilling future. A key element is enabling a client to see that they have the power to direct their own lives and that they are not defined by their depression.

How does coaching reduce stress

Coaching provides a variety of effective techniques for reducing stress, from focusing on solutions, to altering perceptions, to using mindfulness and relaxation. These methods can bring about both immediate and long-lasting benefits. Coaching supports a shift in mindset and an improved capacity for self-regulation and resilience, leading to an enhanced ability to manage stress and an increase in general well-being.

Disorganised To Organised

Names, and details of people and organisations have been changed to maintain their privacy. The case studies below will will go into details of how these transformations occurred. Early on in my practice, many decades ago I saw a client who’d been sent by their employer, a local brewery. They’d been sent because they were… Read More »Disorganised To Organised

Why Willpower Is Not Enough

Consider this very familiar scenario: someone makes a decision to start the New Year by putting a new healthy habit in place. A few weeks later, and it’s been forgotten. Perhaps you are one of those rare people that simply follows through with everything that they commit to? So what goes wrong? Generally, when people… Read More »Why Willpower Is Not Enough