Working with students on identifying their Key Strengths to optimise motivation, resourcefulness and wellbeing, is a phenomenal activity to work on in academic coaching! In my online sessions with students, we do the Strengths Questionnaire to find their Natural...

My greatest reward as a psychologist is helping students remove what is standing in their way of performing to their very best and helping them reach their full potential! As a coach, I see a lot of students who experience psychological barriers and frequent...

In coaching, I sometimes work with the ‘good questions’ activity. In this activity we work on areas of gratitude coming from the field of Positive Psychology. It is so inspiring to listen to students’ reflections of aspects of their life which they are grateful...

When I coach students, without exception, almost all of them have never used their inner coach. They have however, become a slave to their inner critic. Why is that? A fear of being too confident? An unhelpful habit of being self-effacing? A superstitious and...

What images to you have when doing something you dread? Can we change these images to improve performance? Visualization is incredibly important as it has a powerful effect on our actual performance. I often use visualization, or imagery, when working with students...

I often find that students I work with have a predominant set of negative and unhelpful thoughts about themselves that is not only lowering their self-belief and wellbeing, but also have a significant negative effect on their academic performance. Simply put,...