Your questions answered

1. What techniques do you use?

I am an EMCC accredited coach and use many techniques, adapting them to your specific needs. I draw from cognitive behavioural theory (CBT), NLP, neuroplasticity and solution-based approach among others. I have trained in DISC and CBT, and am continuously learning new tools to serve you better.

2. What is your background?

  • Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Linguistics, Educational Psychology, Masters
  • Columbia University, New York, USA
    Economics and Finance, Masters
  • Optimus Coaching Academy, London, UK
    Coach certification
  • AC Association for Coaching- member
  • EMCC Coach accreditation

3. What languages do you work in?

I coach in English, Russian or Spanish.

4. Is attending coaching sessions enough to achive results?

In order to see long-lasting changes, the coachee may need to work in between sessions. Like regular physical excercise, regular mental practice builds new neural pathways, and new habits more efficiently. However, what a client does with what he brought to the session is solely his or her choice.

5.   How does it work?

The first step is an introductory 15 minutes call.

During the call you can ask me questions about my background or coaching. I will ask you questions about your needs. If coaching is the right path for you, we can schedule a coaching session. I work online with clients from all over the world.

6. What is coaching and how is it different?

Coaching provides long-lasting changes that are internal to the client.

Coaching creates a safe and non-judgemental space for the clients to explore their needs. Through inquiry and reflection, coaching brings about a change in a non-directive fashion. Coaching facilitates new thinking and behaviours.  As neural pathways are re-built, these behaviours become habits.

Therapy is meant to diagnose or fix someone. A coach listens and asks questions that help to acknowledge and overcome one’s challenges or to support one’s goals. A coach allows the clients to feel, think and speak, while the coach is there to validate those feelings and facilitate new ways of thinking and feeling.

A mentor sets goals or narratives for the clients and monitors their accomplishment. A coach partners with the clients in articulating his or her own goals and narratives. Clients develop their own insight which a coach as a partner.

Consulting or advising defines solutions for the client and holds him accountable. A coach facilitates the client’s own path and motivations for action. The client is empowered to own his solutions and actions. A coach supports the client’s work towards these goals. What the client does further with what has been discussed, is the client’s exclusive choice.

A coach does not lead the session. A coach facilitates that the client discovers what needs to be done or what holds him back as well as what is needed for moving forward.

7. Anything else?

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