Creativity Coaching
Are you
- Stepping into a season of personal reinvention?
- Struggling with the practicalities of a big creative project?
Are you searching for
- A thoughtful person to listen and help you discern the way forward?
- A safe confidential place to explore challenges and doubts?
Are you ready to
- Consider provocative questions that gently shift your perspective?
- Begin telling yourself a new story about your life and to take steady manageable steps towards living it?
While I am immersed in my rabbinical studies, I no longer run a full-blown coaching practice, but I continue to hold space for a small number of coaching clients. If after exploring this site, you feel we might work well together I would be delighted to hear from you. We can begin with a free informal conversation via Zoom to explore what you are hoping for and whether I am the right person to support you. Full pricing information can be found below.
Just email me if you are interested to set up that free exploratory call.
How might we work together?
Coaching is a shared act of exploration. We sit together—coach and client—in a quiet, confidential space designed for honest conversation and courageous imagining. It is less about offering quick solutions and more about creating the conditions in which insight can arise.
As my client, you are invited to bring whatever is tugging at you: a project that needs clarity, a life transition, a longing that refuses to be silenced. Coaching works best when you come willing to speak honestly, consider new perspectives, and explore the places where you may feel stuck or uncertain.
As your coach, I bring a particular way of listening—the kind that attends to your words as well as to the spaces between them. My craft lies in asking questions that gently unsettle, nudging your perspective just enough for new possibilities to come into view. I treat you as I believe you truly are: a person created ‘b’tzelem Elohim’—in the image of the Divine—endowed with creativity, wisdom, and an innate capacity for growth. My role is simply to help you uncover what you already know and are.
Together we grapple with the questions you bring. We consider your hopes and hesitations, and we shape goals that feel both meaningful and achievable and identify the steps—small or bold—that will move you forward with intention.
How can coaching help me?
Coaching is a very personal relationship and everyone’s story is different.
However, these stories of clients I worked with might help you understand the impact working with me can have
and the range of situations clients brought to our conversations.
Sophia* wanted to work on deciding what to do next in her art business. She had a long list of possible projects and felt overwhelmed.
We agreed an in depth session of 1 hr 30 minutes to work on her priorities followed by three 45 minute sessions with emails in between as she worked on what was most important to her. We used those sessions to hep her get clear on how she created and could avoid overwhelm and on how to find her voice as an artist. She also took a Gallup Strengths Finder assessment to help her understand better how she thought and operated. She was then confident to build up her studio practice in a way that worked for her.
Bijorn* had worked in several industries and countries and had many skills and even more friendships and connections accumulated over time. Although Based in the UK his connection to his homeland was meaningful to him. He was also a talented etcher, photographer, writer, printmaker and letterpress setter with a distinct style who also struggled with an equally distinct thinking style. He came frustrated that he couldn’t find a way to focus on one medium. or to complete a project. His medical diagnosis had become a barrier, causing him to consider himself ‘not wired properly’. We certainly had some spirited, wide-ranging and creative conversations as he bounced from one idea to the next and I met his specific require for robust coaching, challenging all the negatives thing he said about himself and encouraging him to see the way his brain worked as a unique creative advantage not a problem. By the end of our work he had stopped trying to focus on one idea and one drawn together all his skills connections and cultural experiences and had produced an innovative portfolio book that operated as a calling card for his new quirky and innovative residential courses..
Leo* was a barrister who had known me when I was still working as Judge. He had a big career decision to make that would involve more work, more commuting and more money but less time at home and with family. He was struggling to balance his career with the creative hobby that sustained him and for which he had both passion and talent. One session of 90 minutes with me was enough to help him clarify his priorities and to understand how his personal upbringing was influencing this internal conflict. He decided the cost of the job on his creativity was too great but also understood that it was not necessarily a binary position. He used his negotiation skills and was able to take the job on a four day basis thus giving him the best of both worlds.
Mark* a man in his late sixties, was on the edge. He was stressed in his job and, now that the end his career was in sight, anxious that he leave a legacy and not miss out on doing what he had always wanted to do. We agreed to work together for nine sessions of 90 minutes each, meeting once a month. Each month Mark identified a topic he wanted to work on and we dug deep into what the challenges were and how he would move forward practically. His art project was an illustrated memoir and he asked for some information about self-publishing and art techniques he might use alongside the coaching work we did. some of the work was detailed discussion of what might best go into his book. However, over time he also found that he was the project and the coaching also addressed his need to change his workaholic ways and allow himself to move towards a creative retirement.
Dina* was already a professional creative working full time in an employed position and succeeding. However she felt that she didn’t deserve to be where she was, that she was always going to be found out. She undermined her own successes, dismissing everything and never feeling satisfied. She wondered if she should just give it all up and work in a supermarket instead. her anxiety had been to affect her amity to be creative and she was heading on a downward spiral of panic assuming the she would soon lose her job. We agreed to start with a package of three hours working together and that was enough for her to break through her Imposter Syndrome and change her thinking so that she could not only recognise her existing success but actually set and and start to take on harder and more satisfying work.
Rhianna* was getting divorced and her whole life was in turmoil. She painted, wrote poetry and liked to take drumming classes and had an inkling that the thing that would save her sanity was her creativity. However, she felt blocked by the stress of having to go to court and the uncertainty that was all pervasive in her life. She chose me as a coach because of my dual experiences with both family law and creativity. We agreed nine sessions of an hour each but arranged them on an ad hoc basis over a year, often in the run up to key stages in her divorce case. we divided the sessions into two. A portion was directed to divorce coaching , the larger portion to focusing on her creativity. Together we worked on using her various practices and mediums in innovative ways to help her manage the stress of the legal process, to explore possibilities for her new life. In the latter sessions she was exploring a creative way to take her difficult experience and make it meaningful by using it to help other women going through a divorce.
*These stories are real coaching clients but names and identifying details have been changed. Images are stock images. I do not post testimonials or social proof quotes as coaching is a confidential process and the very fact that we work together remains private, unless you choose to tell people about your experiences.
One client, Sue, did choose to write publicly about our work together – you can read her account on her blog.
How much will I have to pay?
Here is all the information you need
Assuming from our initial email contact it looks like I can help you, we starts with a free no obligation 30 minute call in which we will define what brings you to coaching, what you hope to gained and begin to explore the issue a little. you can then decide if I’m the right person for ou and if you wish to consider working together on a paid basis.
Every client has different needs so I will agree with you a plan for coaching that is within your budget and timescale and which covers you own needs.
I charge £120 per hour for the sessions themselves. This is discounted to £100 per hour for three or more sessions paid for in advance.
We can agree how long the sessions will be and how frequently suits both our schedules. I can facilitate some evening appointments available. You can reserve a set time slot in advance or can arrange them flexibly as we work together. You can pay for a few sessions and add more on if you need them.
Once you are my client you are free to contact me between sessions with extra emails to ask questions, keep yourself accountable and share you wins and successes. I will respond to those as soon as I can, depending on my availability, but I cannot email on Friday evenings or Saturdays. There is no extra charge for these emails.
I do not charge VAT and, as long as you are paying tax on your work as a business and the coaching is art or business related, the payments should be a tax deductible part of your business.
You can pay in advance of sessions either in an upfront payment or pay as you go. I accept payment by direct by BACS. or via Paypal invoice.
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