LIFE COACHING: Start the process of change today!

"I've heard about life coaching, I know someone who has seen a coach, but I still don't really know what it is or how it could help me".

This is a common experience when it comes to coaching and very understandable when you see how many different types and styles of coaching are now available. On this site I've put some information to help you make sense of what life coaching is, how it works and how it could help you.

Life coaching is a dynamic process designed to help you move your life forward. Working with a coach will support, challenge and motivate you into making significant and positive changes in your life. Whilst there are no guarantees or promises with coaching, most of my clients find that even one session of focused discussion about key areas in your life can open up huge possibilities for change.

If you haven't tried life coaching before, book an initial meeting and see what you think. There is no pressure and no need to make an ongoing commitment, just a chance for you to gain some clarity on your goals, stimulate fresh options and ideas and re-energise some of your motivation for change.

Send me an email or give me a call on 07779 004292 and we can set up an appointment for next week.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Alex Pledger: Life Coach in Birmingham

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WHAT IS LIFE COACHING WITH ALEX PLEDGER?What do you need to help you start making positive changes in your life?

  • A dedicated time and space where you focus on your ambitions and goals
  • Someone to challenge your self-limiting beliefs and negative thoughts
  • Someone to make you stick to doing what you say will do
  • Someone to offer ideas, tips, strategies and guidance
  • Someone to help you write action plans, time lines and goal planners

Coaching is an exciting and dynamic process to help maximise your potential in your personal and working life. My role as your life coach is to provide motivation and support, suggest alternatives or other options to consider and to help you stay on track to complete your action plan. I am not prescriptive as you are the best judge of what is right for you, but coaching will challenge your assumptions about yourself and your capablities and take you out of your comfort zone into new areas of opportunity.

I have worked with people wanting to make changes with:

  • Changing career or setting up a business
  • Creating a sustainable work-life balance
  • Developing business skills or aiming for promotion
  • Buying a house, house renovation projects or relocating
  • Planning a future with a partner or spouse
  • Planning for significant life events like having children, redundancy or retirement
  • Establishing a healthier lifestyle
  • Improving communication skills, assertiveness and openness in key relationships

Each session will include a review of your current situation, including any negative thoughts and beliefs about it that may be creating a fear of change. Then we will look at what you would like to be different and together plan what actions need to happen to amke those changes become a reality.

Coaching is an interactive process, goal and deadline driven, so you will need to be ready to take action between sessions.

ABOUT ALEX PLEDGER Choosing an effective helping professional is not just about a list of qualifications and experience. 
It's about how you feel when you work with that person.

I have a Diploma in Life Coaching as well as Integrative Counselling and have been in private practice since 2005.

My coaching style is integrative so I will use direct questioning, challenging, creative strategies and motivational interviewing. I will never tell you what to do, but will work collaboratively with you to help you find your own options and solutions, My combined experience as a counsellor means that I can listen to you effectively and sensitively whilst helping you to stay committed to achieving your goals.

I offer a warm welcome to all my clients and do not discriminate against any person on the grounds of ethnicity or colour, sexuality, disability, religion or politics. I work at two separate therapy centres which both offer a receptionist, waiting area and a private, comfortable room for us to talk in. I am committed to being available at the times I say I will be and getting back to you as soon as I can.

CONTACT ALEX PLEDGER

You can contact me by email, telephone or text. My phone will be on from Monday to Friday and there is an answerphone service to leave a message outside these times.

Telephone:     07779 004292

I work at two locations in the West Midlands, one in Birmingham City Centre and the other in South Birmingham.

Birmingham City Centre: The Guildhall Practice, Navigation Street, B2 is situated at the back of New Street Station in the heart of the City Centre.

South Birmingham: Central England Holistic Therapies, 240 Alcester Road South, B14 is situated on the main A435 between Kings Heath and Druids Heath, easily accessible to central and South Birmingham, Solihull and Redditch. There is private parking, or the number 50 bus route runs from the city centre and takes about 30 minutes.

Downloads

Please find three questionnaires which I use in my coaching practice to help establish what are your priority goals for change. 

Please free to download them and see if your life could do with some positive change:

Wheel of Life

Your Life Questions

Your Life Summary

Testimonials

Choosing someone to talk to can feel a bit daunting. To help you decide if I am the right person for you, please read some of the comments my clients have made about me and my service. These testimonials are produced with the consent of the individuals who wrote them.

"Thank you so much for all your support and help over the last few months.  It was time to change and that has happened.  I re-did the Wheel of Life since our early sessions and it is now definitely rounder. And I feel myself to be happier, more hopeful, risk-taking and decisive and to have a greater sense of myself and my integrity.  Thank you."
F, (f), 41

"I contacted Alex when I was thinking about making some positive changes in my life and she was exactly what I needed and hoped. She returned my calls and emails promptly and our appointments were always on schedule. More importantly she was professional but warm and has a true gift for listening and asking the right questions. (And not in a cliché 'how does that make you feel?' sort of way).  She heard things I didn't even know I was saying and helped me to see, explore and understand things in a way that I could not have achieved on my own. I feel so much more balanced and at ease since working with her." S, (f), 34

"I decided to take steps towards taking control of my life and doing the things that were important to me. I am delighted to say that since my coaching sessions with Alex I have made significant changes in my life in my relationship, work and social life. It has been a great few months and I have lots to look forward to. I've got a jobs list as long as my arm, but it's worth it!" R, (m), 30