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Why I decided to become a coach

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, or maybe you’ve come across one of my previous posts, then you will know that my coaching journey started back in 2016, and it has been truly transformative. When I first agreed to try coaching it was for two reasons. One was out of curiosity, having only ever been to therapy before. Can coaching help me? What is this trendy thing popping up? And the other was because I thought “maybe I can be a coach! I have to test this for myself”. As I just finished my coaching training with the CTI and am officially a coach, I wanted to take time to reflect on this journey.

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How to find the right coach?

So you’re thinking of starting coaching, but how do you find the right one for you? If you’re a first-timer to coaching this is a very important process, and I’m not going to lie, it’s a bit of a minefield. For the past 20 years (or maybe even more), the coaching industry has grown like crazy and now coaches are a dime a dozen! To make it even more confusing you have different kinds of coaches: life coach, business coach, relationship coach, empowerment coach, career coach, Executive coach… As well as people who proclaim themselves coaches without really being one. Just writing this list makes me chuckle because it goes to show how nebulous the term is. How on earth will you find the right coach in this haystack?

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