Coaching Services
Coaching is a collaborative, future-focused process that supports reflection, clarity, and purposeful action. The coaching process creates structured space to think critically about goals, constraints, and possibilities. We work through the noise to identify your purpose, values and goals to enable you to make intentional choices that align with your values, context, and professional or personal aspirations in a way that achieves balance and satisfaction in work and life. Coaching can help discover the best version of yourself.
What can coaching help with?
Coaching can help with everything from specific issues that you want to address e.g. applying for a job; to work and career progress as well as everyday life.
I support clients across a number of different areas. From navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, academic or professional identity questions, confidence and decision-making, workload sustainability, and boundary setting. Coaching is particularly useful where complexity, uncertainty, or competing demands require structured thinking rather than prescriptive advice. Whilst I work a lot across Higher Education and Business, this is not the only area I specialise in.
At a wider level, coaching can be useful to plan ways forward, explore options for work and life. In a fast moving world, it can feel like you should have the answers, or know what to do at all times. The reality is sometimes we all feel stuck or overwhelmed; coaching can be helpful in identifying what matters, and how to get there.
What can I expect a coaching session to look like?
Coaching with me involves us working together to an agreed, structured number of sessions (this is flexible and can be subject to change as we work together). Sessions are dialogical and reflective, combining critical questioning with practical planning. My approach is Transformational Coaching; this coaching model aligns with my own personal values and ways of working which centre the client, and build a process that is collaborative, achievable, sustainable, and tailored to your context, priorities, and pace.
How does coaching differ from therapy?
Coaching differs from therapy in being more goal focused. Having structured sessions helps with this. Coaching is more present- and future-oriented, focused on agency, goals, and action. Coaching and therapy are not interchangeable, but they can and do complement each other. In order to maintain boundaries and professionalism I only work with clients as either coach or therapist. A key working difference for me is that whilst I garner feedback and testimonials from coaching clients, I do not ask the same of my therapy clients, as with therapy we don’t usually work to such structured plans.
Fees and further information
For individuals my fees are £125-£170 per hour. For corporate or executive clients my fees start at £150 -£250 per client. I always hold some concession rates and offer special packages and promotions for executive client bookings.
I am interested... what next?
Have a look at the brochure and if you would like to have an informal chat about coaching, please get in touch via my contact page or by emailing me on nilu@nilufarahmed.com