• It is convenient, practical and produces beneficial outcomes
  
• It avoids the need for the client or coach to travel, saving time and expense
  
• Coaching sessions can take place when the client and coach live in different parts of the UK or in different countries
  
• It helps to ensure that appropriate professional boundaries are maintained between the coach and the client
  
• Clients need not worry about the risks at the start of the process of meeting an unknown person
  
• Phone coaching helps to create focus and achieve positive results for you, since external distractions such as might occur in a public meeting place are avoided.
  
• The sessions can concentrate on what they are meant to achieve - helping you to achieve solutions for difficulties or to create and implement positive plans for the future.
  
  For a small number of focused coaching sessions I recommend telephone coaching as the preferred option. Distance is not a barrier to telephone coaching. Sessions are confidential, professional, effective and time-efficient.

2. Email Coaching

Email coaching takes advantage of the new opportunities offered in the modern world for coaching and psychotherapy services to be provided promptly and conveniently by email as an alternative to telephone coaching. I offer an email coaching option if you prefer this form of communication to traditional telephone coaching methods.

Email coaching is particularly helpful for people who find it difficult to schedule in specific times for coaching sessions due to work or other commitments or for those who like the format and convenience of emails. It is especially helpful as a fitness training advantage being able to provide regular updates on training sessions and weekly goals.

Email coaching is also useful for international clients living in different time zones or those who travel a great deal, saving on costs.

Email coaching has the following advantages:

• With email coaching you can communicate at your own convenience and wherever you live, whatever your geographical location.
  
• With email coaching, unlike with telephone coaching or face to face coaching, you have time and space at your own leisure to reflect on what you want to say and how much detail you want to go into
  
• Your coach will give a considered response and can provide you by email with appropriate exercises or considerations to take into account to explore what actions are going to be helpful to you.
  
• You have your own email record of what you have asked and what your coach has responded.
  
• With the email coaching service that I offer there are a range of different fee options covering how often you want to receive support and for how long.