Find private life coaches in Brisbane

Are you feeling out of touch in your career and looking to make a change? Do you need some help getting healthy and staying that way? Or are you just looking for some help to feel free and happy everyday? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then you might benefit from training sessions with a experienced life coach. Online and face to face sessions with a professional life coach can help you set your goals and achieve success in so many areas of life!

What is life coaching?

Many people think that life coaching is just another name for therapy, but while many life coaches have backgrounds in psychology or counselling, it's not quite the same thing. Life coaching is a relatively new profession and had its beginnings in the 1980s. Now it's a booming business and hundreds of life coaches from city to city in Australia have found success. But what do life coaches actually do?  Dr Anthony Grant, director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Sydney told Choice Magazine that "In a nutshell, the role of life coaching is to identify personally meaningful goals, as well as strategies to achieve them." This means that during each session, your coach will approach where you are now and where you want to be, and try to understand what are the obstacles in your way. Once all of these factors have been identified, your coach can help you create a program to follow that you can feel positive about and take time to work on. They'll check in with you as you go, and support you through any issues you might have.

While talking to someone about your goals and dreams can feel like therapy, this is a little different. In counselling, you generally view past situations and the effects they may be having on you as a person today. Life coaching focuses much more on where you are today and what your future goals are. While therapy is based on working through the self and emotions, life coaching is about setting goals and taking practical steps to achieve them.

Is life coaching just about my career?

Many well-known CEOs have sought the advice of a life coach to take their businesses to the next level. From Steve Jobs to Bill Gates, executives have used coaches to help them learn a new approach to managing focus and concentration, address conflict or just to use as a sounding board. Life coaches can support clients through periods of transition and change in their business, or to reach new heights in their careers, working on things from as simple as how to ace an interview to allowing you to consider whole new career paths you had never before considered.

So what else can I work on with a life coach?

There are coaches for almost every area of your life, and Superprof coaches have years of experience and expertise in many different fields. Some coaches work to assist in general well-being and happiness. This type of training can help to identify unproductive or toxic habits that are creating barriers and limits to your happiness. Their goal is to help you identify what makes you happy, and how to take time to integrate that into your everyday life. Health and nutrition is another area where many clients seek out a coach. Sessions with this type of coach can include working on things like a program for your optimal diet, or how to look at health as a holistic endeavour, where you're taking care of your mind and spirit, as well as your body. Many health coaches have medical or nutrition backgrounds and use health science and psychology to help their clients achieve positive results.

If you're experiencing a pattern of issues in your personal relationships with other people, relationship coaching can help you find fulfilment. These sessions can be done individually, in pairs or groups, and will work on creating a vision of what you want the relationship to look like and what problems are stopping you from reaching it.

Other coaches might work on specific skills, like public speaking or goal-setting. Tony Robbins, one of the most well-known life coaches uses a famous 'goal mapping' technique, where you write down your goal, why it's important to you and three actions you can take to achieve it. By giving you tips and strategies like this, that are personalised just for you, your coach can take you from someone who never follows through to a true goal-achieving machine!

What should I expect to get out of my life coaching sessions?

There are so many advantages of working with a life coach. People usually turn to friends and family during tough times or periods of change, but sometimes those people might not want to tell the truth, because they don't want to hurt your feelings. A life coach is an objective, professional person who can speak to you about your life with a clarity and outside view that people in your life just can't. Because they haven't got a personal friendship with you, they are able to see things in a different light, and might even notice things about you that you didn't notice in yourself!

Life coaches are also great at breaking down a huge dream into realistic, achievable goals that will eventually lead to success. One of the other big benefits is the accountability that comes with scheduling a life coaching session. Coaches help build action programs and expect that their clients will take these actions and be moving forward with each session. The last thing you want to do is disappoint them!

Superprof has a great range of professional life coaches based in Brisbane, Queensland and all over Australia. Check out their profiles and contact one today to organise sessions online or face to face and start getting in touch with your true self and make the change you need.