Life coaching is all about helping you reach your potential – becoming the best version of yourself. The person you always wanted to be, who feels happy, in control and doing the things you want to do across all areas of your life.
In the process of life coaching, you’ll understand yourself better and learn how to create the mindset to achieve goals in any area of your life. Whether you feel like you don’t know what you want from life doesn’t matter. That’s part of the process and we’ll uncover it.
As your coach, I will help you become more focused, self-aware and with the right goals to achieve the life you want.
Life coaching enables you to identify what you want from life and helps you create the goals and actions to achieve it.
It covers all aspects of life, including your career, relationships, health and wellbeing, financial future and other life goals.
Future focussed: we are always working forwards. A opposed to focussing on the past, as you may have experienced with other approaches
Getting ‘unstuck’ – uncovering what’s been stopping you and moving past it.
Making changes to your life faster than doing it alone.
Accountability to keep you on track and maintain momentum.
Someone completely on your side and without bias, as can be the case with well meaning friends and family members.
A safe space to talk about whatever you want and explore it objectively.
Do I Need a Life Coach?
Nowadays many people have life coaches. It’s not just the rich and famous. Life Coaches work with people either on a continual basis or to support them through a particular life event or situation.
Most successful people have support to help them deepen their self understanding and achieve their goals.
How Can Life Coaching Help Me?
Here are some of the ways I can help you as your life coach:
Identifying your life purpose – what you really want to do with your life and career and how to make it happen.
Working out what to do next in your career and putting in place a strategy to achieve it. This may include setting up and growing your own business step-by-step.
Work-life balance: restoring balance to your life, so it’s not dominated by work.
Moving forward positively after (or preparing for) a major life event, such as a milestone birthday, redundancy, returning to work after a child.
Overcoming lack of confidence, low self-esteem, limiting beliefs, social anxiety and other issues holding you back from the things you want to do.
Beating imposter syndrome, procrastination, lack of motivation, burn out and other work-related stress.
Rewiring repetitive behaviour patterns that negatively impact on your health and stop you moving forwards.
Improving your wellbeing, such as becoming more active, eating better and incorporating healthy daily practices to enhance your physical, mental and emotional health.
Resolving relationship problems and building closer bonds with friends and family.
Becoming more resourceful and resilient with dating and finding a new relationship.
My approach to coaching is very practical, forward looking and action focused. We start by looking at where you are right now and what has led you to this point. Then using a variety of tools and exercises, I will help you work out the areas of life that are most important to you and what needs to be happening on order to feel happy and satisfied with your life.
From here, we move forward by addressing the areas where making some positive changes will have a big impact on your life, both now and in the future. You might already have an awareness of the changes you need to make. However, many of my clients don’t know this at the start. They just know something must change and so I help raise their awareness to become conscious of the areas to focus on.
Part of the work we do will be to explore your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. This is a vital part of investing in your future. I will help you explore new regular habits and practices to support you personal development, based on where you are now and what you want to achieve.
The Skills to Help You Succeed
My overall approach offers something different to many other life coaches. I draw together a unique skillset incorporating multiple coaching models and frameworks, NLP, positive psychology and neuroscience.
This means I can help with you beat limiting self beliefs, rewire unhealthy behaviour patterns and overcome other roadblocks that have impeded progress in both your personal and professional lives.
Eventually I worked out the life I wanted to create and developed my career around this. I’m happy and have a fantastic work-life balance where all areas are co-exist in harmony. Whatever your own career goals are, I can help you do the same.
Don’t just take my word for it. Check out some of the many reviews I have received from my life coaching clients. Most of these were first posted by my clients to my LinkedIn profile. The small circle at the bottom of each review links to each client’s LinkedIn profile, where available.
“I feel a lot more confident in myself and my abilities. My approach to career progression has changed”
I found the sessions I had with Chris extremely useful at a time in my life where there was a lot of uncertainty and upheaval. After being made redundant and wanting to make significant changes to the direction of my career, Chris really helped me to identify and focus on individual tasks that would ultimately help to land me a job in the field I wanted and also to make changes I felt I needed in my personal life.
Over the sessions, we worked on identifying my long term goals and then individual goals along the way that would lead me to a place of personal stability.
As a result of the sessions with Chris, I feel a lot more confident in myself and my abilities. My approach to career progression has changed where I now identify the goal first and then think about what steps I need to make to get there. I’ve already made steps up the “ladder” in my new role because of this.
Chris was an absolute pleasure to work with and has definitely made me see the value in coaching sessions. I will be looking into more sessions in the future.
Phil Adams
Systems Support Manager
Manchester
“If you feel at a crossroads, I absolutely urge you to give Chris’ coaching a go”
I cannot recommend Chris enough! Over the past 6 weeks I have been seeing Chris for life coaching, after a lot of challenges and change in my life. He was so insightful and dynamic in his approach, and tailored things specifically for me.
I cannot begin to describe what a humongous change this has created, both in the way I think and the actions I do. In our first session I had to score how content I was with different areas of life, some only scoring 2/10… But now after just 6 short weeks, we went through rescoring, but with now some achieving 9.5/10s!
Whether it’s life coaching or career coaching you’re after, if you feel at a crossroads, I absolutely urge you to give Chris’ coaching a go.
Edwin Buckley
Senior Producer
Manchester
“Throughout my work with Chris, I had many “light bulb” moments of self discovery”
I decided to look for a life coach because I wanted to do some personal work on myself before I began medical school.
Finding an LGBT friendly life coach was very important to me. In the beginning, Chris and I outlined areas where I would like to focus on the most, including self acceptance, positive habit formation, and setting boundaries.
Throughout my work with Chris, I had many “light bulb” moments of self discovery that led to a better sense of self. What’s even greater is how my positive self identity altered the actions I took and my interactions with others. I wholeheartedly recommend Chris Cooper as a life coach. Regardless of what stage of life you are on and what goals you have, Chris will create a personalized plan with action steps to help you grow into a better you.
Waleed Rachid
Medical Student
San Diego
“Chris was genuinely interested in seeing me succeed. He is so knowledgeable and passionate about his field”
I looked for coaching as I was stressed and anxious at work, doubting my abilities and losing confidence. I wanted help with perspective and guidance on how to move my career forward and reach my potential.
Through coaching I learned exactly how I spend my time each day, how my perspective is biased toward the negative and that I needed to communicate better.
The coaching has given me perspective on my skills and my achievements. It has helped me see the necessity of communicating and advocating for myself at work. It has also taught me the value of thinking strategically about my career and to constantly revaluate how much my current workplace serves my career goals.
Chris was genuinely interested in seeing me succeed and was a compassionate ear as we worked through my challenges. I had complete faith in his suggestions and approach as he is so knowledgeable and passionate about his field. He expects you to do the work and will hold you accountable, but he too will work hard to help you achieve your goals. Work/ life stress can sometimes make you feel alone but you are not alone with Chris!
Ruth Jones
Investigator
London
“I highly recommend Chris. His personable approach and expertise will help navigate you to success!”
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic I found my suddenly self jobless, feeling lost and unsure where to go next. Chris began coaching me through this particularly challenging time both personally and professionally. By breaking down the barriers of my industry he enabled me to see my varied and dynamic skill set which previously appeared to be very niche. Through analysing my personality traits and many discussions I came to realise I had so much more to offer and could apply my skill set to many other avenues. This outcome and actions that followed resulted in job offers within weeks of my last session.
I highly recommend Chris, whether you are looking to further your career or at a loss to where to go next his personable approach and expertise will help navigate you to success!
Lucio Longoni
Management Professional
London
“Everyone who has hit a career wall should book a course of sessions with Chris”
We don’t all follow the career path we think we will, and it’s easy to fall in the trap of ‘plodding on’ in your work life. And that’s where I was before I worked with Chris.
Chris and I worked together over six weeks, in that time I was looking to establish where I was and where I wanted to be. It was great to actually talk to someone as an adult and discuss my direction, concerns and capabilities.
Chris is a great guy, very professional and makes you feel really comfortable, yet challenges you to dig deeper and own your decisions. He offers solid guidance and support to help you achieve a better understanding of what you want to do next. It gave me more insight into what was right for me.
I think everyone who has hit a career wall, whether they know if they want to get over it should book a course of sessions with Chris. He really does help with clarity for your chosen direction.
Tricia Fleming-Lynch
Marketing and Brand Ambassador
“I was going nowhere with my career. Working with Chris has been an extremely positive, empowering and motivating experience”
I was in a position whereby I was going nowhere with my career, my workload meant I was working 60-80 hours per week and this was getting me down. I knew I required some advice on change and the possibility of changing employers, and I wanted to know (after so long), how best to go about it. I also wanted to speak with a professional who didn’t know me, someone who could review my work/life balance. I approached Chris to find out more and within ten minutes of speaking to him I knew that he was the coach for me! His words were very comforting and his genuine interest in me was like nothing I’ve experienced before.
Chris looked into my working patterns in detail, reviewed some of the strengths and weaknesses I had in the workplace and how to overcome the weaker areas as well as help strengthen my stronger attributes. I felt from the coaching that I was able to find out more about myself and all the skills I’ve got in the workplace along with remembering all the important things I have in life outside of work. All of the sessions were very positive, and I felt like I could talk to Chris about anything. He also sometimes sets homework (nothing too demanding), so even when you are not having the sessions there is something to focus on for the next session.
I would highly recommend Chris as a life coach for anyone in any circumstance. He made me feel very relaxed, positive about myself, he enabled me to open up and also have a normal conversation about things and is an all-round professional with all subject matters. As a keen long-distance runner, I am hoping to continue to use Chris’s expertise to provide support and coaching in my running, in areas like health, strength and mental wellbeing.
Having had the opportunity to work with Chris has been an extremely positive, empowering and motivating experience. Thanks Chris!
Simon Pearson
Property Manager
Manchester
“I heartily recommend Chris to anyone searching for support in finding their next step forward”
I had experienced life coaching before but found Chris’s approach to be the most effective. He tailors his tools and methods to the individual rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. His guidance and encouragement helped me create an action plan, which was both straightforward and not scary to implement, and had a hugely positive impact on shaping my professional way forward. I heartily recommend Chris to anyone searching for support in finding their next step forward, whether big or small. Chris can help you get there!
Caroline Thompson
Knowledge Management Professional
Ottawa
“I was searching for something but didn’t know quite what. The findings were remarkable”
I was searching for something but didn’t know quite what, I was wanting something but wasn’t quite sure what this could be.
I came across Chris’s professional website and found the navigation across it effortless with some interesting and succinct nuggets of information that were appealing and insightful.
I arranged 6 sessions with Chris, we explored both personal and professional domains of the self. The findings were remarkable all teased out and expertly executed by Chris.
Like driving I’d picked up a number of bad habits over the years, fortunately Chris was able to apply a degree of NLP giving me the opportunity to both look at (and change) my thought processing and behavior, allowing me to be more positive in my decision making, and acted out self-behavior.
I feel I have a few extra strings to my bow for coping with work and life challenges, which have brought about a degree of positivity – remarkable! I cannot recommend Chris anymore highly.
Simon Cadogan
IT Consultant
Stockport
“Chris has a great way of helping you find out the answers yourself from within and challenging you to exciting new goals”
Chris shows great energy and his obvious enthusiasm makes you feel encouraged and excited. He’s compassionate, friendly, supportive and welcoming. Your needs are at the forefront of his mind.
Chris can make you feel at ease very quickly and he clearly knows his stuff. He has a great way of helping you find out the answers yourself from within and challenging you to exciting new goals.
I would really recommend him as a coach.
Gareth Brewerton
Lawyer
London
How It Works – Online Life Coaching
I provide coaching sessions online by telephone or video call from my base in Manchester. Working online means that I work with clients all around the world. So, whether you live in the UK or the USA, Asia or Australia, London or Los Angeles, I can help.
Online coaching enables you to work with the right coach for you, regardless of where you live. This means you can be coached when and wherever you feel most comfortable. For example, at home, your office or while you’re away. Whatever is best for you.
Following an initial consultation, I will design a coaching package based on the outcomes you want to achieve, starting from six sessions. In addition, more immersive packages providing greater access and levels of support are also available. I will help you decide what’s right for you.
Get Started – Book Your Free 30 Minute Telephone Consultation
The best way to get started is to book a free 30 minute coaching discovery telephone call. You can do this instantly, accessing my calendar for a convenient appointment, with no need to call or email in advance.
You can also get in touch with me me by calling me on 07968 851002. Please send me a text message if I am unable to answer and I will get to you. Likewise, you can email me at [email protected]
What are you waiting for? It’s time to change your career and your life now.