Virtual Balance Programme
The "typical" consultation (though they're all different!) is in six or more sessions of 50 minutes each: you pay for your sessions one at a time and you will decide how many you have and how frequently.There are three distinct stages in achieving life balance: analysis, development, and review.AnalysisIn the first session, we talk about your life: your work, family, hobbies, health, relationships - everything that makes up your life. Maybe this bit will take more than one session.When I have a full picture of the different areas or "domains" of your life, I ask you to rank them in order of importance to you. I then ask for each domain, how satisfied are you? This is probably something you can think about in between sessions - they would usually be a week apart, but could be whatever frequency is convenient to you. I will then produce a Virtual Balance Chart based on our work so far. It is personal to you and will identify which domains we need to work on. It may well show that key areas are missing completely.DevelopmentThe next sessions will look at one or more domains and see what can be done to improve things. It might be as simple as teaching time-management skills to make your work easier and happier, or it might be more fundamental, helping you to make difficult decisions about your main relationship. You might want to look at just one area of your life, or all of them, or anything in between. We might need to discuss why there are gaps in your chart and how you can put this right.We might decide that I need to refer you on to a more specialist counsellor, business coach or therapist. I will be pleased to recommend someone if you want me to.Review In the final session we will look again at your Virtual Balance Chart and consider what progress has been made, and review the life skills you have learnt. Let's hope you will not need to come back to me, but everybody gets a little overwhelmed from time to time, and you will be welcome if you do return!