Life and Career Coaching

Kaska Gozdek-Michaëlis - author, lecturer, psychotherapist

Kaśka Gozdek-Michaëlis is an inter-faith, cross-cultural lecturer, writer, psychotherapist and life-coach with over 25 years experience. She gained a Master Degree in Oriental Studies at the prestigious University of Warsaw, Poland. Her passion has always been education in the widest sense of the word and she is a life-long student and seeker of knowledge and truth herself.

For many years Kaśka Michaëlis has lectured and given workshops at colleges and universities in the U.K. on subjects ranging from counselling and communication skills to accelerated learning techniques, assertiveness training and courses for women returners. She also has facilitated parenting and parents-to-be courses for both parents and educational professionals.

Kaśka Michaëlis is the author of two books in Polish, 'Develop your genius mind' and 'Super-possibilities of your mind' in which she presents a picture of a new style of education that encourages the learner to understand his or her own thought processes and emotional make up. This leads to greater control over the mind, body and spirit and allows the student to be much more effective and a happier person.

Kaśka Michaëlis offers her counselling, psychotherapy and coaching services to clients in either English or Polish.

Kaśka Michaëlis is an accredited and insured full member of the National Association of Counsellors, Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists (NACHP), the only registered charity in the U.K. that represents the interests of the general public and all three professions of clinical psychotherapy.
She is also registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).

Coaching, counselling, psychotherapy or hypnotherapy are all effective ways to tackle relationship issues, emotional upsets, stress, depression, fear, traumas or other issues that stand in the way of leading a happy and fulfilling life.

At most SAS Centres we offer individual and confidential sessions that can rapidly improve your life and give you a new direction in your personal and career life.

Question: What is Life Coaching?

Answer: The life coach helps clients to indentify what they want to achieve in their personal, professional or public life. The coach then supports the client to achieve the identified goals, keeping the client focussed and on track whilst assisting in overcoming any possible challenges and obstacles.

Question: What is Counselling?

Answer: Counselling aims to help people to help themselves by establishing a better understanding of the area of concern through a process of listening, discussion and questioning.

Question: What is Psychotherapy?

Answer: Through psychotherapy people overcome unwanted emotions or behaviour. Psychotherapy often centres around specific issues and is aimed at re-establishing a resourceful state of mind.

Question: What is Hypnotherapy?

Answer: Hypnotherapy is a skilled communication aimed at directing a person’s imagination in a way that helps elicit changes in some perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts and behaviours.
In a typical hypnotherapy session the hypnotherapist and client will discuss the intended alterations or therapeutic goals desired. The hypnotherapist will ask questions about previous medical history, general health and lifestyle to decide on the best approach for the individual. The person mostly only experiences the new required state of mind, often without having to recall or re-experience the unwanted emotions. Clinical hypnosis has little in common with 'Stage Hypnosis' as the person can be aware of all that goes on and has control over the required change.
Hypnotherapy may be found to be helpful for those seeking relief from a range of problems and is used alongside a person’s own willpower and motivation to seek a desired goal. It is often used to help relieve anxiety, aid sleeping, address attitudes to weight, and help clients achieve behavioural change. It may also help with minor skin conditions that are exacerbated by stress and confidence issues, and may also be used to enhance performance in areas such as sport and public speaking.

Question: What are Communication Skills?

Answer: For issues which involve more than one person, the way people interact with each other can contain both the source of discontent as well as the start of a new understanding. Recognising and changing previously un-noticed patterns of communication can lead to a positive change in relationships.

Question: What typical issues do you resolve?

Answer: People come to us for a wide variety of reasons – to resolve issues around personal relationships, anxiety, confidence, study, alcohol, traumas, phobias, depression, stress or just to gain new insight and more choice in the way they think or behave.

Question: What kind of people come for consultation?

Answer: We see people from all walks of life, sometimes with immediate needs; often with less urgent needs, but with the wish to improve their life.

Question: What happens at a consultation?

Answer: We hold our consultations in the comfort of a private office. People are given every opportunity to express their wishes and choose the way they wish to proceed.

Question: How many consultations do people need?

Answer: We aim for rapid and lasting results. Many issues can be resolved in a small number of sessions.

Question: How long do the results last?

Answer: Our goal is to look behind the symptoms and address the real issues at stake. The results are therefore permanent and lasting.

Question: What about confidentiality?

Answer: We strictly adhere to the professional ethics standards of the U.K. based National Association of Counsellors, Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists (NACHP) which guarantees full confidentiality.

Question: Can anything go wrong?

Answer: We use a person-centred approach and work in a non-directive way, allowing the person to choose only what is best for him or her.

Question: Should I see my doctor first?

Answer: You do not need a referral from your doctor. If you are under treatment discuss it at your first consultation.

Question: What is my next step?

Answer: Book an initial consultation with no obligation to proceed. The consultation is just a telephone call away!

In addition to standard issues such as relationships, depression, anxiety, we also specialise in educational coaching and counselling that activate learning potential and bring long lasting improvements to educational performance. We help students, pupils and adults alike with:

• turning lack of motivation into passion for learning;
• building confidence in weakness areas;
• removing blocks to learning that slow education down;
• getting rid of exam nerves and learning how to pass tests;
• achieving educational and life goals;
• strengthening self-acceptance and the ability to see a brighter future;
• smart study skills: how to take notes, how to remember better, how to write and read faster;
• turning “ I can't ” into “ I can and I will ”.