Personal Consultancy: A Model for Integrating Counselling and Coaching

Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients. Nash Popovic and Debra Jinks use their experience in the area of integrative practice to demonstrate how this wider approach can be a more comprehensive way of helping clients than coaching or counselling on its own.

The authors explain how a range of techniques and approaches from various one-to-one practices can be brought together under the framework of Personal Consultancy, creating a method that is systematic, ethical and professional but not limited by any particular theoretical bias or preconceptions. With chapters by guest authors who discuss their perspectives on the approach and its application across various contexts, Personal Consultancy demonstrates that it is possible to combine the reparative work normally associated with counselling with the more proactive, goal-oriented approach of coaching. The result is a method that allows clients to have their counselling and their coaching needs met within one relationship and which allows the practitioner more flexibility and freedom than when using a single approach.

Personal Consultancy will be essential reading for practicing coaches and counsellors, especially those already integrating the two approaches or those looking to do so, as well as students and those in training.

Nash Popovic is a director of the Personal Well-Being Centre, a senior lecturer at the University of East London and a Personal Consultant in private practice. He runs the Postgraduate Certificate in Integrative Counselling and Coaching, the first programme of its kind in the UK, and has published and presented extensively on Personal Consultancy.

Debra Jinks has a particular interest in the interface between coaching and therapy and is a pioneer in the promotion of integration of the two disciplines. She is a freelance Personal Consultant, trainer and supervisor at Debra Jinks Consulting and the Personal Well-Being Centre, and is the founding Chair of the Association for Integrative Coach-Therapist Professionals (AICTP).