Coaching

Coaching and Emotional Intelligence

Our professional goal is to help all our clients create positive change in their lives, and provide empathy, and guidance on how to develop and meet their established short-term and long-term goals.

As a youth coaches, we strive to help clients learn and apply the coaching strategies of dealing with life stressors and to build up their self-confidence, resilience, independence and internal awareness of their own strengths, interests, and values; in real-life contexts and applications. 

How does Youth coaching work?

Occupational Therapy sessions are weekly, hour-long either virtual or in-person. Together we work on determining the areas of their life that are fulfilled and where could things be better.

We coach/mentor youth Adolescence which is the phase of life between childhood and adulthood, from ages 10 to 19. I also coach young adults in their 20's. 

Holistic Occupational Therapy Coaching, where together we start from scratch, discovering the client as a whole and determining where clients are comfortable in life and where they would like to see things improved. Once these areas have been established, we create action plans to the positive improvements and growth to achieve their life goals and wellness in mind, body, and soul. Together, we explore personal values, meaning, strengths, personality mindset, and areas that can benefit improvement. We apply these critical background particulars to create an individualised plan or action for getting through the blocks or simply improve on where they currently are to reach for their personal dreams and vision of success.

Coaching packages include several sessions focusing on issues that teens often may have difficulties with. These include:

Anxiety Coping: During recent years, adolescent anxiety rates have increased significantly. Teens are burdened with social media, academic achievements, social/family relationships, etc. This area of coaching will focus on the areas of establishing critical coping mechanisms in order to learn to navigate different life events with ease and keep self-awareness. 

Academics: After understanding what may be the areas needed for improvement, we can begin to establish academic goals and determine how these specific goals can be both measurable via outcome and are personally meaningful. The meaningful component is important is how we establish motivation to propel the student to work on areas that need improvement and do try to understand what approaches to learning have not been working. This approach helps the student improve by understanding their learning style in order to optimise their learning experiences in and out of the classroom. Gathering from the student’s personal strengths and existing academic resources, together we implement a personalised plan for academic success.

University/ Schools & Vocational Coaching: There are many adolescents and young adults who feel unsure about their vocational directions. This is both healthy and normal thus, should not be frowned upon. Not one single person has it all figured out! We work with students, parents, and teachers in supporting each client to closer identify their strengths and areas of interest in effort to coach them to work towards achieving their goals and taking the next steps. Together we explore career options and look into all the educational options that can support strengths and vocational interests.

Personal Life Exploration & Coaching: This area of life coaching is unique for clients who would benefit from the external support of a qualified professional who can help the client to understand/explore who they are, what they are interested in, what they can see themselves doing professionally, to help each client determine what may be their purpose in life, and what brings the most meaning and passion. We identify skills, aptitudes, and abilities. We also determine areas that may be considered a weakness, and much more. Using a combination of standardised and non-standardised assessments and holistic coaching strategies to strengthen the client's self-exploration, appreciation, and direction.

Clients will work towards…

• Identifying what are the most desired areas in their lives that they most would like to shift and the steps necessary to make it happen.
• What could be presently thwarting one from achieving their desired goals.
• Strategies provided to overcome things that are hindering one from achieving/setting goals.

How OT Works To Help Build EI

Emotional intelligence in children is a skill that takes practice, understanding, & patience in order for EI to develop. Emotional intelligence is an ongoing important life skill that effects social-emotional skills, relationships, and functioning in life activities of daily living also known as occupations. 

Our skilled Occupational Therapist will aim to help build the necessary skills youth require by working with the child in a private setting either at the child's school, at home, or at our Clinic; so they will be as comfortable as possible and be more receptive to the techniques and strategies delivered during the 1:1 therapy time. 

In our ever-changing world, intelligence quotient or Emotional IQ is no longer the only benchmark for measuring children’s potential and predicting how well they would achieve at school and in life.

The OT will address:

• Being solely book smart to navigate the rather complex rapidly evolving world that they are growing up in will not suffice.
• Emotional Intelligence is a skill necessary for achieving success in the world.
• Provide training/education on the ability to understand and manage your own emotions and to understand the emotions of those around you. 
• The domains of Emotional Intelligence: are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The domains are further broken down into twelve competencies and learnable skills that are relevant to the specific domain.

A wide range of strategies tailored to each child’s particular challenges will be explored and developed together with a client-centered approach. We realize that every child is different therefore no program is ever executed in the same way. Over time we strive for results in social, emotional and academic benefits. This helps to increase confidence and reduce frustration.