Find the easy way to do the hard thing.
Occupational Therapy based coaching for people who want to get somewhere. One hour a week, tangible progress in six weeks, real change in twelve.
- Occupational Therapist
- 18 years experience enabling and empowering people
- Canterbury and online
- Enquire about booking your free initial session today
You have already done the hard part
Knowing what you want is the bit most people never get to. If you are reading this, you are past it. What is left is finding a way in that fits your week, and that is a far smaller problem than it feels from the inside.
- "I keep putting it off." Then the step is too big, not you. We shrink it until it fits a Tuesday evening, and things that fit get done.
- "Everyone else seems to manage." Most people are quietly in the same place. The difference is that you are here, looking for a way through. That is the whole difference.
- "I should have done this years ago." You know far more clearly what you want now than you did then. That is the hardest part of any goal, and you have already done it.
- "I'm just not disciplined enough." Discipline is what you need when the plan does not fit your life. A plan that fits needs almost none. We build the second kind.
Bring what you have. It is enough to start.
Is this right for you?
Seven questions, about a minute. It tells you straight where you are and what would help most from here.
Doing, not dwelling
One hour a week, every week. Something moves inside the first fortnight, you feel tangible progress by six weeks and real change by twelve. Here is the shape of it.
Name it
We get specific about what you actually want. Most people find the real goal is sharper and closer than the one they walked in with.
Shrink it
We cut the next step down until it fits a Tuesday evening. Small enough to start this week, big enough to count.
Do it
An hour a week, every week. You do the doing. I make sure it keeps happening and we adjust as we learn what works.
Hello, I'm Michael
I am an Occupational Therapist based in Canterbury, and I have spent 18 years enabling and empowering people. Occupational Therapy is, at its heart, the science of doing. It is about how people arrange their time, their energy and their surroundings so that the things that matter to them actually happen.
That is the same skill I bring here. Most people do not need more advice. They already know what they want. What they need is a way to do it that fits inside a real life, with a real job and a real lack of spare Tuesdays.
I work with people who want more than they are currently getting. Some are just starting out, some are halfway through, some are beginning again after something ended. What they have in common is ambition and a shortage of time, not the other way round. Together we find the easy way to do the hard thing, then we do it.
- Qualified Occupational Therapist with 18 years experience enabling and empowering people
- Based in Canterbury, working with people across the UK online
- Goal and life coaching, and support for professionals heading towards burnout
- Prices published, first conversation free, no pitch at the end of it
What it costs
Most coaching sites make you fill in a form to find out. Here it is.
Thirty minutes
You tell me what you want. I tell you straight whether I can help and how long it is likely to take. No pitch at the end.
One hour a week
Six weeks is where progress becomes tangible. Not a vague sense of momentum, an actual thing you have done that you had not done before. About £58 an hour.
One hour a week
Twelve weeks is where real change lands and holds. Long enough for the new way of working to stop feeling like effort. About £54 an hour.
Single sessions are £70 if you want to try it first or you have one specific thing to unpick. Sessions run an hour, weekly, online or in person. Pay before each block. Cancel with 48 hours notice and we move it.
The questions people actually ask
Including the awkward ones.
Is this therapy?
No, and the two work brilliantly together. Therapy helps you understand where you have been. Coaching gets you moving towards where you want to go. If something in the way needs the first kind of help, I will say so on the free call and help you find it, and we can run alongside.
What does being an Occupational Therapist have to do with coaching?
Almost everything. Occupational Therapy is the study of how people actually get things done, and how to redesign a task or a routine so that it fits the person rather than the other way round. That is exactly what coaching needs and it is what most coaches are missing. Eighteen years of it means I have seen a great many reasons why a plan does not survive contact with a real week.
Why not just read a book or watch some videos?
For some people that is enough, and if it is, brilliant. The people who end up here have usually already read the book. Knowing what to do was never the problem. Having someone in your corner every week, sizing the next step to your actual life, is what turns knowing into doing.
What if it does not work?
We change the approach, not the goal. Most of the skill here is noticing quickly when something is not landing and trying a different angle. If after two sessions you still think it is going nowhere, say so and we stop.
How long before anything changes?
Something small moves in the first fortnight, because the first job is always finding a step you can take this week. By six weeks the progress is tangible enough to point at. By twelve it has usually stopped feeling like effort and started feeling like how you work now.
What do I have to do between sessions?
One thing, agreed by you, sized to fit the week you have actually got. That is the whole method. A week is short enough that you remember what you said you would do and long enough to do it.
Do I have to commit to a block?
No. Take a single session at £70 and decide afterwards. The blocks are cheaper and they work better, because weekly rhythm is most of what makes this effective, but it is not a condition of talking to me.
Can I do this online?
Yes, and most people do. In person is possible if you are near me in Canterbury. Online tends to be easier to keep up, which matters more than it sounds.
What you can expect
Four things I will commit to before you have spent anything.
- Something moves in the first fortnight. Not a plan, not a feeling. An actual step taken. If the first step is too big to take, it was the wrong step and we make it smaller until it is not.
- You leave every session knowing exactly what happens next. One thing, agreed by you, sized to the week you have actually got. Never a list. Never homework you will resent by Wednesday.
- Tangible progress by six weeks, real change by twelve. Six weeks gets you something you can point at. Twelve gets you a way of working that keeps going after we stop, which is the actual goal.
- Kind and honest, in that order. I am firmly on your side and I will still tell you the truth. That combination is what makes progress possible, and it is why people stay.
And if something bigger is in the way, I will help you find the right support on the free call and we pick up from there. Plenty of people work with a counsellor and a coach at the same time and get the best of both.
What's your hard thing?
Tell me in one sentence. That's the first step done already.