You might have already heard that Flow Founder Lucy is soon to complete her MSc in Integrative Counselling and Coaching at the University of East London. Lucy is now in her final year and has completed the coaching component of her training in full. She is therefore ready to professionally offer transformative and dynamic coaching sessions with you at Flow.
To extend our offer further, we have teamed up with Lucy’s colleague Gordon. Together Lucy and Gordon are now fully trained, qualified and passionate therapists offering clients the opportunity to benefit from bespoke coaching at Flow.
Read on if you want to explore the many benefits of coaching and work towards a more motivated, mindful, and joyful you!
In the yogic texts, we are encouraged to liken our bodies to that of a chariot and our senses to the 5 horses that pull us, our mind is the charioteer and our passenger, the soul.
Coaching is similar to this useful metaphor. In coaching, we honour the universal law of motivation and are ‘coached’ to steer our ship firmly in the direction we choose to go. No longer are we drawn any which way, feeling lost or directionless. Through coaching, we embody the charioteer, and we know clearly which path is right for us to offer meaning, motivation, and maximum fulfilment.
Our offer is for coaching conversations only. Should you feel you need more emotional support or therapeutic counselling then we recommend you contact a trained, and qualified, counsellor or psychotherapist. Let us know if you need some advice or signposting to useful contacts for this. However, come July 2023, both Lucy and Gordon will be fully qualified to integrate both counselling and coaching into their sessions and will be accredited by the BACP.
Lucy started her exploration into yoga, movement, and the mind 32 years ago, at the tender age of 18. Since then, she’s experienced many highs and lows of existence and works steadily to maintain her own equilibrium whatever life may bring. After two very painful and poignant bereavements and two awesome and inspiring births, Lucy decided to leap into her hobby and become a yoga teacher. 15 years later she’s established two yoga studios, Pantiles Yoga and currently Flow Tunbridge Wells. Having taught yoga and meditation to hundreds of clients in group or 1-2-1 settings Lucy decided to add to her toolbox and take a deeper dive into human psychology. Her integrative counselling and coaching course at the University of East London is offering just the exciting and fascinating journey into the psyche she was looking for. Together with her firmly established somatic understanding she hopes to create a whole new way to support and empower clients through both their psyche as well as soma.
When he received a life-changing diagnosis over 18 years ago, Gordon can recall watching the men, who supported him in coming to terms with the incurable nature of his illness and thinking, “I want to learn how to do what they do”. Both men were therapists and trained to deliver a programme of group work designed specifically for men with the same condition. Within a year Gordon had trained to deliver the NHS Expert Patient’s Programme and within two years, was appointed the National Groupwork Service Lead at the Terrence Higgins Trust: the national HIV and sexual health charity where he created, piloted and rolled out internationally recognised group work programmes for people living with long-term health conditions like HIV and Hepatitis C. Gordon is a passionate activist, mentor and advocate for people living with various conditions and he is a member of the Policy and Communications Patient Panel at Cancer Research UK. When he was made redundant from his role at GSK just as the pandemic hit, he decided that it was finally time to embark on the training that would allow him to do what those men had done all those years ago: combining their skills as therapists with those of the coach and his expertise as a groupworker.
Thank you so much for your interest in this awesome piece of self-reflection and discovery. We can’t wait to be there to see you flourish.
