One Service · Two Disciplines
Mentoring & Life Coaching
The counsel of lived experience and the rigour of professional coaching, brought together in every session
I offer one service, and it is two disciplines practised as one. As a mentor, I bring the counsel of someone who has lived with profound hearing loss since birth and built a full life in the mainstream hearing world — school, university, marriage, and a professional career across six countries. As an ICF-trained coach, with my ICF Level 2 coach education and ACC credential in progress, I bring the discipline of coaching to the International Coaching Federation’s standards: the questions, the listening, and the structure that allow you to reach answers that are genuinely your own.
In each session the two work together. Sometimes a well-placed question is the most valuable thing I can offer; sometimes it is precedent: what I have lived, and what demonstrably worked. This is for hard-of-hearing teenagers (13+), hard-of-hearing adults, and hearing parents of hard-of-hearing children — worldwide, by video, with live captions whenever you want them.
One Session, Two Hats
How Sessions Work
Two Hats, Worn Together
In every session I wear two hats, mentor and life coach, and I wear them together. The conversation goes wherever it needs to go, and the balance between the two is set in the room: by what you need, by what you ask for, and by my judgement of what will serve you best. You may call for either at any moment. When I share my own experience, I offer it without attachment, yours to adopt, adapt, or set aside. This is not two services stapled together; it is one way of working, and it sits at the centre of my coaching process.
Ages 13 and up. For 13 to 17-year-olds, a parent is present or close at hand unless they have signed a Parental Consent Agreement; parents are copied on every message and are welcome in any session.
Go Deeper
What You Gain, And How I Coach
Three Groups, Equal Weight
What You Gain
For teenagers, adults, and hearing parents.
What each of you takes from the work, the situations we work on, and the names for the things you have lived without ever being told they had names.
My Coaching Process
The HEARD Method
Hear · Envision · Analyse · Reframe · Decide.
Five stages in every session, in the same sequence, each holding both disciplines: the coach’s question, and the mentor’s experience where it will serve.