01/07/2025
13 Years in Coaching – Part 2
From a one-week coaching training…
to a postgraduate diploma in business coaching…
and eventually to 5 year training in psychotherapy.
By 2015, I’d already experienced how powerful coaching could be.
I felt it was time to go deeper and build a solid base for the kind of work I wanted to keep doing.
So I signed up for a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Coaching at the International Centre for Business Coaching with Sandra Wilson.
It was a long-term training with mentoring, supervision, and plenty of hands-on practice.
One of the things that made this program special was its foundation in Transactional Analysis — a powerful framework for understanding how we relate to ourselves and to others.
It gave me a completely new lens for noticing what happens beneath the surface in conversations and relationships.
This training gave me so much more than techniques.
It taught me how to “dance in the moment” with the client (as Sandra would say) and shaped how I listen, how I ask questions, and how I hold space for real change.
At the time, I couldn’t have known how much these skills would eventually support me in another part of my professional life.
Because just like I once decided, as a teenager, that I wanted to become a coach (without even knowing such a job existed), when I was graduating from university, I said to myself:
“One day, when I’m big, I want to become a therapist.”
And eventually that day has arrived :)
Although coaching and therapy are two different genres of working with people, they’re equally fascinating and meaningful to me.
Both paths keep teaching me that no matter which door we enter—coaching or therapy—the work is always about meeting people where they are, and helping them find their own way forward.
And I feel grateful for each chance to walk beside someone as they discover their way forward.
