Frequently Asked Questions

☾ What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching draws upon a number of different disciplines, including personal development, positive psychology, career development and sociology. It’s very much focused on assisting people to change their lives and create a life that excites them and that they want to live. It helps you to discover what you really want from life and then assists you to get there. It moves you from feeling stuck or confused to feeling clear and excited about your life.

Life Coaching is a combination of education, accountability, motivation and support. Essentially, a life coach helps you to set inspiring goals and achieve these goals via setting actions and strategies. Encouraging you along the way. A significant element of Life Coaching is the accountability. With your coach in your corner, inspiring, encouraging and meeting with you every 2 weeks, it’s amazing how supportive and motivating this can be.

As a Life Purpose and Spirituality Coach I’m very much committed to supporting you through this process during the coaching series, including between sessions via email.

☾ What’s the difference between Life Coaching and Counselling?

Coaching does not focus on the past. It does not delve into the “why and wherefore”. It’s very much focused on changing an unhelpful and stuck mindset. It’s often focused on helping people find clarity, explore their spirituality, change careers, find a more creative and playful side and very importantly celebrate the wins!

It’s best suited to people who are ready to take action and want to change some things about their lives. Counselling often looks back into the past of a person’s life experience. Exploring past life events and issues may help the client to understand what happened and why it continues to affect their lives. It can also be enlightening, in terms of illuminating a repeat pattern in life and why the client is in their current situation. It can also give space for people to be heard, witness and grieve, which can be of paramount importance.

☾ How do I know Life Purpose & Spirituality Coaching with Liz Keates is right for me?

You are a midlife women, stuck, unclear and tired of the same old same old. You want to gain clarity so that you can embrace the next phase of your life. You are tired of listening to the negative self-talk that says “I’m too old”, “I’m unhappy at work”, “I’m not good enough” and “the best years of my life are in the past”. You want to break free from limiting beliefs and change your mindset! You want to find more purpose in your life. You may dread Monday mornings because you hate your job. You’ve had a wake-up call or life shock that’s made you realise that life is too short to not be in love with every aspect of your life. You want to take action.

If you could have done it on your own you would have already, right? With support of a Life Purpose and Spirituality Coach you will discover your purpose for the next stage of your beautiful life and be well on your way to achieving it! You are ready and have the time to fully engage in the coaching process, take the necessary action and be responsible for your progress, with my support and encouragement of course. You acknowledge that coaching can get you where you want to be, and feel motivated to take action. You want to connect more deeply with yourself and create more meaning to your life. I’m excited for you! I’m here to inspire you to get there!

☾ Perhaps Life Coaching isn’t right for me at this time?

If you are experiencing unresolved trauma, PTSD or other mental health issues that are still very challenging for you, in such a way that they prevent you from moving forward with your life and/or functioning on a daily basis you might not be ready to start life coaching. You may therefore require psychotherapy or counselling to help you resolve this. You don’t feel ready to do the necessary work to carry out your actions moving you towards your goals. A good coach will be fully committed to helping you to reach your goals and facilitate change, but they can’t do it for you. You expect someone else to do the work for you and are not in a place where you can dedicate your time and effort to take action. You have recently experienced a challenging life event such as a bereavement, significant relationship break up or another significant loss and at present are unable to focus and fully commit to the coaching process.

☾ As a qualified Counsellor, do you still offer counselling sessions?

I am a qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellor. However, I no longer work as a counsellor - my offerings are purely Coaching services. Of course my psychotherapy training informs my work, as do my other trainings and life experiences. I worked as a therapist for 10 years and found this work to be very rewarding. It was truly a privilege to work with my clients.

☾ Why do you use Mindfulness in your coaching?

I have been practicing and teaching mindfulness for almost 10 years and it has been extremely beneficial. It has helped me to appreciate the art of living life in each moment. It’s enhanced my ability to be more acutely aware of my negative thoughts and acknowledge them as just thoughts, rather than facts. And so much more!

It has helped many of my clients, who I’ve taught mindfulness to over the years via workshops, courses and green space mindfulness walks in London. Engaging with nature is without a doubt my favourite way to practice and teach mindfulness - it truly nourishes the soul.

In a world where everything can seem high pressured and fast, mindfulness, stillness and paying attention is of paramount importance. Mindfulness helps us to appreciate the small YET important moments of our life. Moments, after all, are what our lives are made up of.

I believe that the answers to our questions lie within, yet we need to be still and quiet enough to hear them and this is why I feel that practicing mindfulness, or any other type of insight practice, is hugely beneficial when clients are focusing on igniting life purpose – discovering what they truly want. For coaching clients who are interested in working in this way I start my sessions with a brief mindfulness “arriving” practice. I also include mindfulness in my sessions to help clients connect more deeply with themselves. I also help clients to learn how to incorporate mindfulness into their daily lives and start and develop a daily practice should they wish.

☾ What is the purpose of a Complimentary Discovery Call?

The Complimentary Discovery Call lasts up to 45 minutes and is arranged at a mutually convenient time, via Zoom. It’s a great opportunity for us to meet and get to know each other. We will discuss your pre-coaching questionnaire and what you want to achieve from the coaching series, including the areas of your life that you want to create change in. We will begin to look at goals you would like to achieve. It’s also an opportunity to get answers to any questions you may have and to see if we click and are a good fit! There is absolutely no obligation at this point to proceed with coaching.

☾ What are your coaching offerings and fees, plus do you offer payment plans?

I currently have an introductory offer on my 21 day 'Heart Ignite' coaching programme. This introductory offer is £125. Discover more about my coaching programs here, or to book this offer please Click Here.