Online Personal Development
The advantages of working online
Approaches to therapy and personal development are changing rapidly in the 21st century.
The Internet provides you with an opportunity to have access to professional coaching, personal development and therapy services without making a special trip to a consulting room. The advent of Skype and Instant Messenger offers both video and audio consultations as well as a simple system for information exchange.
Over the last 15 years, I have developed a step-by-step system for online personal development. I would invite you to join me in using the finished product. This will save you travel time and travel costs. It means you can attend to your personal development in your own time, at your own pace, and in the comfort of your own home (or the discomfort of a train travelling home!).
By the way, some of the ‘safe experiments’ we will develop together can by passed on to other people as long as you do not charge a fee to them. There is no mystery involved and there is no reason why you cannot help others, at the same time as helping yourself.
When you join our programme you will have immediate access to your own private coach. This programme is, for now, a unique online learning environment. You have access to thousands of hours of experience of like-minded people. You will have the opportunity to learn from the solutions others have discovered. All this learning will be supported by a professionally qualified adult educator and therapist.
How does the programme work?
You pre-enrol on the programme through completion of the simple online application form. You will receive a 45 minute initial consultation over the phone, free of charge, and at a time convenient to you (perhaps not two in the morning!).
If you wish to proceed, you will be asked to complete routine paperwork, giving you membership of the PATS programme. This will be sent by post. Unique identifiers will be allocated during the initial assessment in order to protect your personal details when the postal or email services are used.
Thereafter, a unique and individual programme of activity will be agreed. It will be managed by regular:
* telephone consultations.
* email exchanges.
* provision of individually designed exercises mutually agreed between you and your mentor.
* face to face meetings, if required.
* recommendations about alternative training and development programmes.
How will this be funded?
Fees
These will vary depending on the unique programme we negotiate. You can expect to pay £70-100 per hour for face-to-face advice from a professional psychologist in the London area; maybe less outside the M25. By contrast, our programme will ask you to agree a fixed number of activities, over a fixed period of time, say, between £20-£30 per month. The initial number of activities will be closely defined, say, ten exchanges (email, phone or face to face consultations) over two months. Activity will be reviewed by phone at the end of the programme. You will have the choice to continue, suspend or end your involvement at that time.
This programme offers a more efficient approach to self management and personal development. I would expect the results to be much the same as brief, face-to-face consultations. I see no reason why our results should be any less successful than more expensive traditional educational and therapeutic approaches. Even so, it is a important to point out that nothing is guaranteed in the world of psychology and personal development. You will be deciding the outcomes you want, as part of the programme, and it will be my task to help you attain it.
This is a flexible programme that operates on a realistic budget. It is not a ‘certificate’ or ‘diploma’ programme requiring you to commit hours of your time, and money, to reach a distant target. It is a personal, focussed programme contained within brief time scales. It is not an alternative to long term, ongoing therapy.
To find out more, and to discuss this further, please send me an email to: