Cara Hooper – Behaviour Change Coaching in Worthing

Even after 19 years of doing this work, I'm still blown away by the power of coaching. I've done over 3,500 sessions over the years, so I've got a good idea of how to work intuitively with people to really help them to understand their difficulties, to actually find their self-awareness, to maybe enhance their skills, and to do so in a way that's bespoke to them.

I've got thousands of hours of experience of coaching leaders and executives one-to-ones and in groups to boost their skills and to develop themselves personally and professionally. Sometimes people come to me with wanting clarity around decision-making, to boost their influence, to boost their team-building skills, to boost their relationship-building skills, to include some balance into their life. and coaching is brilliant for that because it gets to the truth of the matter really quickly and enables you to practice strategies in an experimental way with somebody that's kind of rooting for you in the background.

The reason that somatic work is absolutely essential when it comes to resolving stuck trauma and stuck emotion is because it's stored somatically. It's stored in the fascia, it relates directly to the nervous system, so we cannot think our way out of trauma. When you combine EMDR, which is eye movement desensitisation and reprogramming with somatic work, then it actually allows you to resolve this and allows the body to acknowledge and let go of what's happened in a safe and accessible way.

I've had much success over the years with hundreds of people who've come to me with a sense of overwhelm and even burnout in some situations. What works really well is to actually identify the truth and identify what's authentic because quite often we are putting more pressure on ourselves because of a sense of obligation. Maybe we're allowing our boundaries to be crossed So quite often working on awareness, getting really true about what's going on, maybe working out the limiting beliefs behind some of the assumptions can all really help plus there's some strategies and definitely it involves working with the nervous system rather than against it.

I've gained an awful lot of experience working with people who are in that stuck place where they feel a lack of motivation, maybe they've lost a bit of joy in what they do and lost their sense of purpose. And what can often work is to think about things like core values and strengths and passions and then how they cross over. So coaching is really good for that because it helps shine a light on the truth and shine a light on maybe things that you haven't thought of.