What is Coaching Psychology?

Coaching is a structured, future-focused partnership that helps individuals and organisations to unlock their potential, clarify goals, and take purposeful action toward positive change. Coaching psychology grounds this process in scientifically validated psychological theories and techniques, ensuring that change is both meaningful and sustainable. Rather than simply telling you what to do, a coaching psychologist works alongside you, asking powerful questions, offering psychological insights, and helping to empower you to unlock your own resourcefulness, build self-awareness, and develop skills to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.

Key approaches used within Coaching Psychology

Coaching psychology pulls on a number of models and approaches, either separately or in combination with each other. Some more information about some of those commonly used is outlined below;

• Cognitive Behavioural Coaching helps people to identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours, and to effectively replace them with more practical and constructive ways of thinking and acting. Whether you’re an individual aiming for greater self-confidence or an organisation driving high performance, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching strengthens resilience and supports clear, effective decision-making by addressing barriers to progress.
• Acceptance and Commitment Coaching focuses on accepting challenges whilst committing to actions that are aligned with values. Whether you are an individual seeking more clarity and purpose, or an organisation looking to develop a more adaptable workforce, the Acceptance and Commitment Approach can help increase focus upon what matter most, as well as build long-lasting skills to adapt, thrive and accept challenges outside of our control.
• Solution-Focused Coaching emphasises exploring practical solutions and building on existing skills rather than spending lots of time analysing problems. Solution-Focused coaching is an empowering approach that can help make swift transformations, whether you’re an individual looking to get out of your own way, or an organisation looking to make quick and meaningful progress.
• Positive Psychology Coaching draws on research about wellbeing, strengths, and motivation to help people thrive and unlock potential. Whether you’re an individual looking for better work-life balance or more job satisfaction, or an organisation looking to boost engagement and team morale, positive psychology provides an engaging approach that help focus on building upon what works well.
• Bio-Psycho-Social Model takes a holistic view, recognising that individual (and organisational) health, wellbeing and performance are shaped by biological, psychological, and social factors. It can offer a more grounded holistic perspective that can help ensure solutions take into account nuances of the specific context and that change made and strategies developed are more sustainable in the longer-term.

Who can benefit from Coaching Psychology?

Coaching psychology is a very versatile approach and clients find it beneficial for a range of issues, including career transitions, leadership development, personal growth, and navigating life changes. Through this process, you gain clarity, strengthen confidence, and develop strategies to overcome obstacles. The result not only helps achieving specific goals, but also facilitates changes in mindset and building skills that support people to keep thriving long after the coaching relationship ends.