Integrative Coaching & Therapeutic Counselling
To support your journey to success & fulfillment, book your free 30 mins phone / video call: press the email button below.

To support your journey to success & fulfillment, book your free 30 mins phone / video call: press the email button below.
I am Alan Gibbs. I offer, integrative coaching & therapeutic counselling also called 'Personal Consultancy.' I welcome the opportunity to talk with you so that we can discover how I can best help you on your journey to success and fulfillment.
Worries or concerns or something with which you are
This problem may have been long-term or recent.
Personal Consultancy will be for you, whether you are
Personal Consultancy could be for you if you are
If you are a parent of a teenager (16, 17 years, in England or Wales) who needs help, I shall be pleased to talk with you.
You may want to talk something through with a professional listener, helper
Your purpose could be to
You may have a dilemma: whether
Perhaps you already know that
Perhaps you are concerned for another family member.
Personal Consultancy can help with all of these through providing a time to talk and think together
with a trained, qualified, registered and experienced practitioner with an approach tailored to meet
your needs for support in working towards your chosen outcomes.
You have worries, concerns or feel stuck or blocked. You have talked to the people around you.
You know that now is the time you need to talk to a trustworthy, confidential, non-judgmental, professional listener and resource person.
You are now reviewing your options and seeking a person who you can trust, get along with and you feel understands you.
The Personal Consultancy I offer is for: adults, couples, parents (of teenagers 16 or 17 years old), families, young adults (18 to 24 years of age) and guardians or carers of young people with extra needs.
Personal Consultancy is a commitment to regular contact with a professional practitioner to work with you, confidentially, on your issues, concerns or worries, your aims, goals or ambitions, in order to navigate your route to successful achievement of your chosen outcomes.
How Will We Make Contact & What Will Happen ?
Your Choice: you will make your choice as to whether you want one consultation or a series of four.
Our preliminary discovery call by phone or video, for up to 30 minutes is free.
If you want a single session consultation with no discovery call, this could be scheduled into our diaries, sooner.
Your Consent to my record holding (GDPR): In order that we can work together, my compliance with GDPR (General Data Processing Regulations 2018) requires that I ask you if you consent to my holding your name and contact details and processing information about you.
If you confirm this we can go ahead and arrange our appointments. You will be asked to confirm this by a communication sent you by email.
If you do not give your consent to this I will be unable to work with you as I am required to keep confidentially, records of my contact and communications with my clients.
Email, SMS or phone may be used for information to be exchanged and about appointments being made or changed.
Registration Contact details: will be requested in a form for you to complete and return by email.
Service Agreement and Privacy Policy: will be supplied for you to confirm that you have read and agree these.
To request a Single Session Consultation Video Call ,
Click the Speech Bubble icon at the foot of the page.
Into the Contact Form : put your name, email address, mobile phone number, with a brief description of your reason for making contact, and confirm your choice of a Single Session Video Call Consultation.
If you send this contact form it will be assumed that you consent to my holding your name and contact details in order to contact you.
You will be sent by email some introductory information, which may help you to get more out of our conversations.
Your Registration Contact details will be requested in a form sent to you by email.
You will be supplied with my Service Agreement and Privacy Policy and asked to confirm that you have read and agree these.
I will offer a time for a brief conversation in order to agree a time for our single session consultation of up to fifty minutes.
After the close of our call you will be invited to write your answers to a handful of questions about your thoughts and feelings after the session: a 'message-to-yourself' exercise taking up to ten minutes. You may choose whether you send me a copy.
Fees: see the Fees Table in the website (https://argcoachcounsellor.com/). Fees are paid by BACS; the details of which will be sent to you.
To request a free Video Call Consultation,
Click the Speech Bubble icon at the foot of the page.
Into the Contact Form : put your name, email address, mobile phone number, with a brief description of your reason for making contact, and confirm your choice of a Series of Four Consultations.
If you send this contact form it will be assumed that you consent to my holding your name and contact details in order to contact you.
I will contact you by email to send you some introductory information, which may help you to get more out of our conversations.
I will contact you by email to offer a time for a brief conversation in order to agree a time for our preliminary consultation (up to thirty minutes).
Your Registration Contact details will be requested in a form sent to you by email.
You will be supplied with my Service Agreement and Privacy Policy and asked to confirm that you have read and agree these.
Fees: see the Fees Table in the website (https://argcoachcounsellor.com/). Fees are paid by BACS; the details of which will be sent to you.
Distinctive helping models of therapeutic counselling and coaching inform and are integrated into Personal Consultancy.
Therapeutic Counselling, a therapeutic relationship of trust supports: exploration, stabilisation, recovery of equilibrium, increased confidence and finding ones own voice, for choice-making.
Coaching supports: safe self-expression, self-efficacy, increased awareness, autonomy with skills development toward appropriate inter-dependency, improved emotional well-being & targeted goal achievement work.
Personal Consultancy integrates both of these approaches with a client-centred, choice based approach to achieving client driven aims or goals.
Practice Values – Alan brings a compassionate and non-judgmental approach to understanding his clients' experiences. He takes a developmental perspective, both of people's difficulties and life challenges, and to his commitment to supporting efforts to achieve their chosen goals for improvement.
Similarly, in supportive consultative conversations with carers, be they parents or extended family in kinship care or guardians or professionals in fostering or residential care, Alan holds an empathic, open-minded attitude combined with a belief that in general each one of us is doing the best we can.
Multiple skills and a range of frameworks for understanding and supportive interventions have been the benefits of four decades experience in work in emotional and psychological wellbeing, 27 years of this in NHS multidisciplinary services for children, young people, adults, couples and families.
Collaborative working will have my reliable availability, full presence and commitment to supporting work toward your chosen goals. This work will benefit from a similar commitment from consultee and family or supporting relationships and networks.
This will accelerate your progress and bring speedier gains to you in your health, career, relationships, studies, finances or family life, whichever is your focus.
This service includes detailed, in-depth exploration to assess through identifying strengths, gaps and opportunities, discovering under-used resources, and a focus on your chosen issue or topic.
Ongoing support is offered following the single session or series of four sessions. That this service is of value to you is important to me.
We know that support is vital to facing-up to obstacles and transitions.
Personal Consultancy has a crucial part to play in reviving motivation and accessing underused or unknown inner resources. This assists reviewing direction and choices, before re-setting aims and goals for successful navigation of life-path challenges.
Making the right selection of support is a pivotal step towards the progress you want to make. All sessions are via video call for accessibility.
Call /Email /Message now to book a diary slot for our preliminary contact and conversation(s).
Together we can review the match between my skills and your needs and an understanding and plan for your progress and gains.