Merilyn has recently added professional coaching to her repertoire. Drawing on her experience and qualification in Social Work and training in Education and Psychology plus over 20 years as a wife and mother, coaching is a natural progression. She is currently completing her Master of Science in Coaching Psychology at Sydney University.
Merilyn adopts an evidence-based, strengths and solution-focused approach to coaching. A supportive space for reflection, insight, clarity, exploring options, planning and making desired shifts is provided. Merilyn brings psychological and practical skill and wisdom to the challenging complexity often involved in relating, learning, making decisions and changing.
Individual Coaching
Combining her training with personal experience Merilyn has informally coached hundreds of people at various life stages in various settings. Her primary focus of professional coaching now includes: relationships and partner choice; marriage transition, support and development; parenthood transition, support and development; work-life and faith-life direction and flourishing.
Organisational Coaching
Merilyn has worked with faith-based, educational and corporate organisations over the past 30 years positioning her to offer skills, performance, remedial and developmental coaching at many levels in these settings. This experience includes:
- National Church Life Survey (300,000 people): researcher, senior presenter, leadership coaching
- Anglicare Regional Community Development Worker: group training, leadership coaching
- Totally Smart School Wellbeing Seminars: founder, researcher, consultant and presenter
- Healthworks Corporate: contract wellbeing researcher and presenter.
This wealth of experience enables Merilyn to offer a range of interlinked organisational enhancement coaching services e.g. psycho-educational seminars; individual and team leadership coaching and positive change management interventions.
Making it Happen
Individual Coaching is usually an hour, 3 to 8 sessions and fortnightly to monthly. There is no Medicare rebate, however fees fall within the range of Psychological Services. Clients needing clinical psychological support will be referred. Organisational Coaching requests will prompt a needs assessment and proposal. The proposal is likely to include interviews, assessment tool usage, training, one-on-one and group coaching. Merilyn has professional indemnity and public liability insurance through her AASW membership and adheres to the ICF Ethical Code and The Standards Australia Coaching in Organisations Handbook. Enquiries can be made here.