Coaching and Osteopathic Practice 

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This approach brings together osteopathic assessment and care with time to explore the wider influences on your health, such as sleep, stress, daily routines, and confidence with movement.

 

We'll begin by understanding your physical concerns and what you hope to achieve, then explore how treatment, movement, education, nutrition and coaching might support you.

 

Together we'll develop a practical, personalised approach that can evolve as your needs and circumstances change.

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Coaching can be a guided process whereby you discover the best about yourself. In sport, it is regularly recognised that resources can lie dormant and unexplored or apparent, yet not fully appreciated or developed to full potential. When dealing with pain, postural challenge, sporting/ training challenges, the aging body, or any level of disability, this concept remains as true as it is in sport.

 

The coaching process illuminates these "resources" to the client and allows the Osteopathic / Health intervention to move from a passive application of Osteopathic Techniques to a patient-specific approach which can create change and an active participation in one's own health outcomes. 

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 Guidance at Reach included daily actions for health called "non-negotiables," moving to being active in my own health . Further education and qualification as a coach have not changed my techniques as an Osteopath, which were learned  30 years ago, and I have mastered through further learning and sharpening of those skills. Reach Approach currently remains a way of " living" - both inside and outside of my professional life, 

 

The efficacy of all treatments lies not just in the work of skilled hands and minds but in communication skills. The General Osteopathic Council (governing body of Osteopathy ) states the importance of understanding expectations and working within the patient's goals. 

 

Training outside of Osteopathy with the Reach Approach fulfils goals of my own personal care, and its function and importance in respect of the human condition. This understanding is well applicable in Osteopathic work.  

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For a client in pain or challenged by stiffness, or postural challenge, a route in treatment can include only bodywork sessions, with no more to explore. However, for some there are changes to make in diet, sleep, exercise, and self-management. This need for a deeper dive needs to be explored if the physical structure is to be maintained; we provide this through longer interactions at a fair price. This is available through request and part of a recovery plan which we will discuss with you during assessment. 

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