Each Healthy Chat is held face-to-face in a Healthy Chat centre – sometime also on phone or by Skype – with a trained, experienced psychotherapist, counsellor, executive coach or life coach.
YOU as a client should have some idea of what you want as an outcome. You’ll have a brief conversation on arrival (or on the phone beforehand) and be matched with an specifically-qualified Healthy Chat practitioner for the results you’re looking for.
WE as practitioners are highly motivated and talented human givens psychotherapists, counsellors and coaches. Each one of us is dedicated to:
• briefness – we want you to come in, be resourced and confidently move forward with life in as few sessions as that takes
• simplicity – in the language we speak, the methods we use and the strategies we teach
• respect and non-judgement – we each believe that there are only good, uplifting, hopeful conversations to be had. We trust that our clients are fully resourced for the changes they want – and that, for now the simple act of borrowing a brain for a session or two is all it takes to create the space and perspective for a successful next life chapter.
Today’s success stories :
Lots of people have healthy chats for lots of different reasons – personal and professional. See what they’re saying.
What I got was incredibly refreshing. I have a sort of glow that I walk round with. I smile all the time. My employees have commented. My wife has certainly noticed. And more than all of that, I notice. I can’t put a figure on what Jennifer’s style of coaching has added. It’s just altogether lighter.”
The concept of ‘forever’ is hugely tied up with a successful relationships. But is that really the case? Or can we put this in a personal choice category along with: quantity of time spent with each other; common interests; matching faiths or philosophies; cultural or socio-economily similar backgrounds. These topics could be highly relevant or not at all – there’s really no right or wrong answer.
Some of the most common assumptions I hear are:
- Yes, they’re happily married – they’ve been together for 30 years
- They have 4 children and one on the way – they’re so committed
- She’s his wife – of course she knows how he feels
- Women are just better at nurturing and raising children
- They must be happy … they never argue
- They got divorced – that’s a failed relationships
This list is inexhaustible because no people who choose to live a chapter of their life together can ever fully know how that’s going to play out over the months, years and decades to come. One of the biggest challenges to a partnership that I see is when a person or couple reference their success against other couples, then register dissatisfaction because their relationship isn’t as supportive, happy, exciting or authentic as the couple they ‘think they know’.
It’s important to note that:
- generally couples don’t disclose or dissect their full experiences with other couples (there perhaps isn’t the time, isn’t the right trust, or there can be a sense of not wanting to be seen to be ‘failing’)
- most couples are happy to share the fun, special or unusual event or experiences of their relationship – and not the routine, painful or challenging bits
- often the people we seek advice from (older family members or friends) are having or have had similar challenges within their relationship. They may still together because they’ve developed tolerance (not a bad thing) but perhaps not always a deep understanding. They’re perhaps not fully equipped (or expert) then to offer you a well-thought-through strategy that will turn your relationship around
Successful relationships have a life cycle – they might well have ups and downs be destined for ‘forever’. They may equally have ups and downs and reach a point were one or both parties no longer see their futures together. Either way it’s the respect, the hope and the ability to communicate that will ultimately define whether successful divorce follows or whether successful togetherness continues.
It’s years of tried-and-tested, life-changing wisdom – all yours in a few short hours worth of page-turning immersion.
Jennifer Broadley, a professional executive and leadership coach, works with directors of medium & large corporates on frontier thinking and sustained high performance.