David Bonham-Carter
Creator of Coach Yourself!
The Coach Yourself website (www.coach-yourself.info) has been created by Life Coach David Bonham-Carter to support anyone who would like to use coaching ideas, programs and materials to help them deal with particular issues or to move forward in their life.
David has helped numerous people to make important changes through life coaching sessions and through the dissemination of practical coaching and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques via his Life Coaching Books.
He has worked successfully as a life coach for a number of years, providing a specialist telephone life coaching service combining traditional life coaching with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy techniques) for clients in the UK and internationally, helping with issues such as stress, self esteem, making life changes or dilemmas in relationships, career and other areas. He also provides business coaching to UK small businesses.
David's professional background prior to becoming a life coach was as a qualified social worker and he worked for many years as a social worker helping vulnerable people to make positive changes in their lives and circumstances before setting up in private practice as a life coach. He has a Masters Degree in social work from the University of Kent, gained with distinction. He is an Affiliate Member of the Association for Coaching and also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy.
David has been trained in a variety of coaching and counselling methods including:
- Motivational Interviewing (effective as a model for helping people to change or break difficult habits)
- CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy particularly helpful in dealing with negative thought patterns, stress, depression and anxiety).
- Person centred therapeutic techniques, such as Gerard Egan's personal centred counselling model and Carl Rogers' person centred counselling model.
- Transactional Analysis
- Brief Therapy (also known as Solution Focused Therapy) - helpful in creating positive thinking strategies.
For more information about the life coaching service that David himself provides, you can visit his personal coaching website at: Life Coaching with CBT.