Andrew Smith

Available weekdays during school hours for online (video or telephone) appointments or walking therapy.

Are you seeking support and insight to help you identify and achieve your work and life goals? Through coaching I can offer you a positive space and structured process to do your best thinking, with the perspective to focus on solutions and growth.

I am a professional member of the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). Through 2024 I am progressing to accreditation with Senior Practitioner status. Therapy-trained, I am also a member of the coaching division of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). 

In a diverse career I have worked from beginner to board level across business (corporate law), the public sector (NHS, education and fire & rescue) and the voluntary sector (arts & heritage, community and healthcare). 

Among the challenges I work with are:

Handling change

Work/life balance and life changes

Self-confidence/ imposter syndrome

Culture and diversity

Emotional intelligence

Communication and influencing

Handling difficult people/ situations

I also work as a qualified counsellor, where I can provide a safe space to listen to what you really want to say, without judging you for what you do, say, think or feel.

Working with a “person-centred” approach, I accept you, your thoughts, feelings and actions, as you are, without judging you. While I have professional training and life experience, I also take the view that you are the expert on yourself. I seek to bring a warmth and gentleness to my approach, which can help us to face deep and difficult issues together.

I also offer professional supervision for counsellors and therapists.

If you want to get started, email me to set up an initial free half hour introductory session.

I charge £50 per hour for telephone and video therapy and supervision work and £70 per hour for face-to-face appointments including walking therapy. I am charging a discounted rate of £50 per hour for online coaching during 2024 while I acquire my senior practitioner coaching status with the EMCC.

Available weekdays 8.30-2.30 for online (video or telephone) appointments.

Are you seeking support and insight to help you identify and achieve your work and life goals? Through coaching I can offer you a positive space and structured process to do your best thinking, with the perspective to focus on solutions and growth.

I am a professional member of the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). Through 2024 I am progressing to accreditation with Senior Practitioner status. Therapy-trained, I am also a member of the coaching division of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). 

In a diverse career I have worked from beginner to board level across business (corporate law), the public sector (NHS, education and fire & rescue) and the voluntary sector (arts & heritage, community and healthcare). 

Among the challenges I work with are:

Handling change

Work/life balance and life changes

Self-confidence/ imposter syndrome

Culture and diversity

Emotional intelligence

Communication and influencing

Handling difficult people/ situations

I also work as a qualified counsellor, where I can provide a safe space to listen to what you really want to say, without judging you for what you do, say, think or feel.

Working with a “person-centred” approach, I accept you, your thoughts, feelings and actions, as you are, without judging you. While I have professional training and life experience, I also take the view that you are the expert on yourself. I seek to bring a warmth and gentleness to my approach, which can help us to face deep and difficult issues together.

I also offer professional supervision for counsellors and therapists.

If you want to get started, email me to set up an initial free half hour introductory session.

I charge £50 per hour for telephone and video therapy and supervision work and £70 per hour for face-to-face appointments including walking therapy. I am charging a discounted rate of £50 per hour for online coaching during 2024 while I acquire my senior practitioner coaching status with the EMCC.

Available for 1 or 1.5 hour supervision sessions during weekdays school hours

Person-centred approach to working with supervisees. Integration of a range of well-established approaches to supervision in counselling and the helping professions: 7-eyed model of focus (Hawkins & Shohet), 3 tasks of supervision (Inskipp & Proctor), 6 processes (Bennett-Levy & Thwaites) and creative supervision (Lahad).

Working from my person-centred approach to therapeutic work, I seek to offer a warm, emotionally safe, mutually respectful professional relationship in which supervisees can explore fully all aspects of their practice and the impact of their work on self.

In addition to standard models of supervision I include the use of creativity, which can help to unlock "stuck" situations. 

I normally work online, but can offer face-to-face exceptionally (eg to facilitate regulatory and educational requirements for student supervisees). To offset the additional overheads, face to face work is charged at £75.00/ hour.

I offer an initial free 30 minute introductory session for assessment purposes.