Luke Menzies: Psychological Coach - specialising in work, business & career issues

My approach to coaching is all about helping you gain clarity about the important things you want from your life and work, and then helping you set about achieving them in a self-aware, sustainable, effective and enjoyable way. It’s also about helping you increase your self-awareness, improve your self-management (e.g. emotions, stress, anxiety, over-working), improve your relationships and generally develop greater psychological flexibility for what the world throws at you.

Most of my clients come to me because they want to improve how they are at work or in their career, but then again there are also always aspects of home life, relationships and perhaps parenting that they want to work on too.
My work doesn’t fit neatly into the traditional categories of ‘executive coach’, ‘business coach’ or ‘life coach’ because each of us comes as a total package. Life and work are intricately bound together, and I always treat you as a whole person.

I use a blend of well-established, highly effective evidence-based professional coaching approaches, including positive psychology, emotional intelligence, ACT (acceptance & commitment therapy), CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), IFS (internal family systems) and stress management techniques.

I have deliberately undertaken a broad range of high-quality training and am always seeking to extend my knowledge and techniques further.

Unusually as a coach, I have a special interest and particular qualifications in stress management and in dealing with patterns of unhelpful negative thinking that are the root cause of all stress.

My clients often have very busy, potentially stressful professional roles, and I help them develop life-long skills for intercepting and reducing their stress responses, allowing them to enjoy more healthy, sustainable and enjoyable lives, both in and out of work.

My coaching approach supports mental well-being and psychological flexibility, allowing you to cope better and more sustainably with all that life throws at you.

Whether or not you have a neurodivergent diagnosis or identify as ND, if you feel that any ND concepts may be relevant to you then I can provide a neuro-affirming space for you to explore your ‘mental wiring’ and how you interact with the world.