Why have COACHING BY email?
Coaching by email is a very different experience but it can have many benefits and for some people it is the ideal option.
Let’s face it, some people just don’t want to talk! And that’s fine. It can feel more private and less pressured if you don’t feel ready or comfortable to open up to someone new. Talking to someone face to face could feel a bit intrusive or embarrassing, and coaching by email gives you the insight and support without any of this discomfort or hesitation.
You can work at your own pace, no meetings to schedule, offering the ultimate flexibility. You can write down your thoughts as they occur, rather than having to wait until your next session.
Writing is extremely cathartic and can be very healing. It is a different level of processing and can make great strides towards moving on from the places you feel stuck. Email coaching is an amazing opportunity to process, consider, offload and release your thoughts and will certainly help unclutter your mind and give you clarity and focus. It also requires you to be more concise and considered than word of mouth, so this can be a huge advantage.
You are never “on the spot” - you can think everything through, mull it all over as much as you need and at times that are best for you. Coaching by email can be a welcome change from the immediacy of conversation.
You can keep the emails for future reference and to go back to as much as you need - it gives you the ultimate opportunity for reflection and invites you to think deeply and thoroughly about yourself and your life. It also offers the optimum accountability because we have a written record of everything that has been identified and agreed, so it is a really clear and helpful record of the discussions we have and their outcomes. Furthermore, through email, often there is also more space for me to communicate the coaching perspective to you more thoroughly and insightfully than during conversation.
Obviously if you are someone who struggles to be reflective on your own, or who doesn’t much like the written word, then this isn’t the style of coaching for you. The limitations of email coaching can be that sometimes a lot is said without being said - when working with you in person I can pick up on your body language, your emotions, I can interject and reflect back at those critical points, email coaching doesn’t necessarily offer all of this. I can still pick up on the words you use, the hidden beliefs and fears lurking behind your communication, and I would certainly say that if you feel it could be best for you then give it a try. You can always choose to switch to face to face coaching if you decide you want to, and you can feel that you have got it all ‘out on the table’ already if you do make the switch, so that can feel an easier way of doing things for you.
how does it work?
Email coaching involves you writing your feelings, problems or concerns to me, by email, and me responding to you also by email. I will take the time to read and respond to you with a constructive, well-considered, reflective and understanding reply.
Just as with face to face coaching, we will identify and discuss the areas you would like to be coached on. We will determine where you are now in those areas, the impact this is having on you, the possible barriers and obstacles you face in these areas, and where you would like to get to - and of course the steps to take to get there. I will generally attach worksheets and reflective exercises for you to send back to me to really maximise your benefits of coaching and to give us some really concrete examples to work with. I will provide you my support, observations, suggestions and questions.
Fees
Email coaching costs £35 per email that you send me. That is, you send me an email and I will reply by email. The costs of this mutual written exchange is £35.
When I receive your email, I shall send you an invoice within two working days, which is payable prior to my reply. I aim to respond to you within three working days of receipt of payment.
On some occasions, I may need to request further information from you in order to be able to fully and thoroughly respond, for which you will not be charged - any additional communication at my request will not be chargeable to you and I will never retrospectively charge you for any written exchange. If I require further information to give you my response, this can affect the response time, but I would rather it take a little longer to send you a reply that I am happy with and is most beneficial to you.
Get started straight away by sending me your first message by clicking the button below. Clicking the button will open a form, whereby you can be guided by the questions, or write as freely as you wish. This will land in my inbox, and kick start the process straight away!