Occupational Therapists

Is it your time for action?

• Have you lost your enthusiasm for the job you love.
• Fed up with bureaucracy, piles of paper work and constant cost cutting.
• Frustrated that you know OT works, but you're being pushed into more and more generic work.
• Know practice based commissioning is around the corner, but have no idea how to market yourself.
• Feel misunderstood and undervalued in your MDT.
• Struggle to define your role in a way that clients and colleagues easily understand.
• Long to be able to work in the way you thought you would when you left college/university.

I can help you. Through coaching you can :

•  Rekindle your passion for the job

•  Find strategies to minimise to impact of external pressures on your daily working life

•  Become clear about your unique role and gain the confidence to promote occupation.

•  Gain clarity and self-confidence in marketing and promoting yourself successfully.

•  Recognise your own value and communicating it more assertively.

•  Enhance your communication skills

•  Use your creativity to problem-solve, design and deliver services that meet both clients' and managers' needs and enhances your job satisfaction.

I know coaching can deliver the above. When I started my life coach training I was desperate to find an alternative to working as an OT. With my personal coach, I regained my lost enthusiasm and it dramatically changed how I work. The job I once wanted to escape from, I now enjoy and have no intention of leaving.

For those of you who are facing new challenges such as: setting up new services, starting new groups, supervising students and staff, integrating into new teams; moving MOHO from theory into practice I can offer you mentoring and/or supervision.

I can provide different training packages in coaching skills for your team. The training focuses specifically on motivational listening and questioning skills for client centred outcomes. Please email me your address and I will send out details to you.

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Primary Care

Are you a GP whose patients have a poor quality of life and/or psychological difficulties that do not warrant a referral to mental health services?

Do these patients:

• Present themselves frequently?
• Leave you feeling frustrated that there is no service to refer on to
• Describe difficulty in achieving the every day things in life - organising the home, getting the kids to school, coping at work.
• Suffer from low mood, stress, or anxiety but do not need or want to be referred to the CMHT
• Have issues not suited to counseling
• Have a chronic condition and want to manage this and have a fulfilling life.

As a qualified occupational therapist with 17 years experience of working in the mental health and learning disabilities field "Coach Yourself Better" can provide unique groups for up to 8 patients. The groups can be tailored for specific problems e.g. work stress, poor motivation. The groups will give the responsibility to the patient for setting meaningful goals and moving forward. Achieving everyday goals will promote health and wellbeing.

For more information about how coaching could work for your patients please contact me.