After graduating with a degree in applied Youth & Community work, I became an activist for Children & Young People, helping to change policy and legislation, this helped to move power and influence to young people and their communities. I helped those I worked with to gain and develop the tools and skill set to believe in themselves and achieve what they hoped to be and do in life. At the heart of the programmes I delivered was the importance to feel ‘better’ about who you are.

I rolled self-esteem and anger management courses out across schools, charities and youth offending teams, to ‘support change within’ and this influenced positive behaviour and connection with themselves and others. This work led me to run a charity that supported children and young people with their life choices, this included accessing emotional support, their career choices, learning and developing new transferable skills, taking part in new opportunities and accessing positive activities.

I then moved onto manage large youth and community teams who delivered targeted youth work, 1:1 work, open access, tailored bespoke packages of support, all of which were to build resilience and opportunities for children and young people.

During my career I supported entrepreneurs to set up their own business and helped my clients through their business strategy and start up. This process included writing a business plan, the practical steps to set the business up, the vision and tools required to grow the business, including the profit margins required for sound business growth. This transitioned me into working in the public sector, within project management and I managed ‘change and transformational programme’ initiatives to help improve people’s lives for the better.

I then moved in the direction of inspecting the quality of the services for children, young people and adults in specific areas of social care. Within this scope of work, I have commissioned services to improve the sector and supported organisations to have a clear business strategy, vision, ethos and culture that the whole team can be proud of, to improve the quality of services.

I have helped both the corporate and voluntary sector, with a wide range of people with varying complexities. This helped me to see how I could utilise the skills I’ve acquired and train to be a life, career and business coach. I want to ultimately coach people to feel happier in their lives.
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After I qualified, I decided my business name to be ‘Free my thoughts’ Life & Business Coaching, as I know the impact of change that can happen once you free your thinking. I want my clients to be able to ‘free their thoughts’, and this can apply on a number of different levels personal to them. Some of my clients may need to ‘free their thoughts,’ from trauma in their lives that impacts on moving forward and their own self-belief and worth. Other clients may want to unlock their creativity and pursue change but may need to think and feel differently to be able to feel ignited and energised to move in the direction that feels right. I use Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques, to help my clients understand how they organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they want .The process supports self-exploration and change for the individuals I see. Together we build the milestones and goals to get my clients where they want to be.

I decided on the ‘swallow’ as a significant symbol for my business, because the Swallow symbolises so much about the coaching process... new life, fresh starts, renewal, revival, adapting, connection and growth.
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