FAQ
Answering the most common questions...
What is Coaching?
Coaching is quickly becoming one of the leading tools and strategies that successful people are using in order to enhance their lives allowing them to lead extraordinary lives.
The coaching relationship is a partnership, leaving you room to move yet being accountable so that you become the person you desire, to create the life and work that you wish for and to achieve the goals you set.
How is Coaching Different from Counselling or Consulting?
Coaching is not counselling, which tends to focus on the past nor is it consulting which generally involves coming up with expert opinions and answers. However, coaching does use techniques derived from clinical psychology and many coaches have developed expertise in multiple areas including counselling
Coaching is action-oriented and solution-oriented and focuses primarily on both the present and future. The "answers" that you are looking for come about through the work done in joint coaching partnerships; this is the reason most coaches encourage clients to commit to multiple session to maximise results and create accountability.
What is the coaches responsibility at Coaching with Chalisa?
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To clarify and encourage clients to create clarity around what they want, set goals and action plans and take action to move forward
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To ask clients to do more than they have being doing on their own
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To ask clients to create change in order to achieve a different result than what they have been experiencing
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To help clients focus in order to produce outstanding results more quickly
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To provide clients with the tools, solutions, strategies, support and structure to accomplish more in life
How does Chalisa work with clients?
Chalisa will ask questions, encourage, advise, challenge, make requests and listen for the clients "essence" so that they are consistent with who they are in terms of their goals, values and vision. Chalisa will provide tools, solutions and strategies to help maximise clients potential. Chalisa will offer optional Embodiment and healing practices to assist the client where appropriate. Chalisa's focus will be on the client, what they want, what they need and how they can best achieve it.
What types of methods does Chalisa Morrison use?
Chalisa Morrison uses Coaching, Couples Therapy, Embodiment Healing, Counselling, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy, Trauma therapy, Mindfulness, Journey methods and many other tools. Sometimes Chalisa will bring in experts from specific fields to assist her clients move quickly - all support experts are highly trained and accredited.
What is NLP?
NLP is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s. NLP works on the principles that their is a connection between neurological processes (neuro), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed and re-programmed to achieve specific goals in life.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment.
What is Embodiment?
Embodiment refers to the practice of feeling, expressing and healing through the body; Chalisa practices embodying emotions through the body using breath, sound and movement to express and heal supressed emotions.
What qualifications has Chalisa Morrison achieved in Coaching & Therapy?
Chalisa Morrison has a Diploma of Life Coaching (International accreditation) with additional accreditations in NLP, Time Line Therapy, Couples Therapy - including Gottman Training - Journey Practitioner Training, Personal/Business & Relationship Profiling, Business Coaching and Executive Coaching. Chalisa has multiple degrees in Design, Business and Innovation & Entrepreneurship and has studied meditation, yoga, trauma psychology, Embodiment, Tantra and many other complementary areas.
How long does a coaching session go for?
Regular Coaching ,Therapy & Healing sessions run for 60 minutes.
Personal Break through, NLP or strategy intensives run for 60-120 minutes
Couples Therapy sessions run for 60-90 minutes depending on focus and what is booked in.
Can I have a session in person and by phone or online?
Chalisa offers in-person session at her cosy consultancy room in Torquay Victoria - 1/10 Castles Drive - or by phone or Zoom online video link-up. Chalisa asks clients to call her at the scheduled time as part of the client's commitment to taking responsible for their appointment and outcome.
How many sessions will I need?
After the initial meeting - discussing and assessing needs - Chalisa will recommend a package that would most suit the clients needs. Chalisa offers various packages as well as a monthly mentoring program; contact Chalisa to find out more.
What is the cost?
Chalisa offers a free 30 minute no obligation coffee chat to genuine enquiries; this gives the client and therapist the opportunity to assess client needs and discover whether it's a good fit. If Chalisa believes the client wold benefit more from working with one of her colleagues she will refer the client.
What other experts can I access through working with chalisamorrison.com?
Chalisa has a wide network of professionals including healers, therapists, lawyers, financial advisers, brand managers, marketing strategists, copy writers, artists and designers.