The Meaden Clinic
What is coaching?
I'm Chris Meaden, a hypnotherapist at The Meaden Clinic, and a Business & Performance Coach. This is life coaching, high-performance coaching, and coaching for business and personal performance. It sits inside The Meaden Method®, with clinical hypnotherapy.
What it is
Time for what you want next.
Coaching is often more useful after you have let go of the past, of limiting beliefs and of negative emotions, and you are ready for the life you want. You may still not know what you want, where to start, how to start, or how to stay on track.
This is about you, and about what you want. It is time set aside to look at how you live and how you work, and to practise the next step. There is no final goal. If there were, the question would be what happens when you reach it. It is a continuing process: preparing yourself, and building a set of skills for the life you choose.
It is not therapy, and it is not consulting. I will not arrive with a plan and tell you to carry it out. It comes with no promise of a result, and no set number of sessions.
The life you want to live.
Personal change. A career. Relationships, with yourself and with other people. New surroundings, a change in money, or a change in health. Life coaching is a place to think that through. A change in health is not something I treat. Keep your doctor for that.
How you perform.
High-performance coaching is for how you perform, at work, in a business, or in the rest of your life. We look at what gets in the way of the performance you want. I can't tell you that the performance will change.
Work, and the rest of life.
Business and personal performance sit in the same work. I describe it as Business & Performance Coach. It can be about priorities and how you work. It can be about you, away from work. It is not business consulting.
What people bring
The things that are in the way.
People come with something in the way of the life or the work they want. Some come because they feel stuck, including in a habit that helps at the time and costs them later. These are the usual subjects. We work with what you actually bring. I can't tell you how far it will go.
A belief that keeps the step small.
A belief that keeps the next step smaller than you want. We look at how it runs, not only at the story of it.
Knowing what, and where to start.
You may want something and not be sure it is the right thing. Or you know, and you do not know how to begin, or how to stay with it.
When confidence drops.
Confidence that drops at the point you need it, at work or in the rest of life. We look at that response. I can't tell you that the confidence will return.
Purpose, and priorities.
Some people want to look at purpose. What they are here for. How they want to contribute. What they give. Whether the way they spend their time matches that. We can sit with those questions. I will not tell you the answer.
When it matters.
How you perform when it matters, in your own life, in a profession, or in a business. If the question is a sport, that is sports performance coaching.
Career, relationships, circumstances.
A change of career or of relationship. New surroundings. A change in money, or in health. Coaching can be a place to think it through. It does not replace medical care, or anyone else you already rely on.
A distinction
Not therapy. Not consulting.
People ask which they need. They are different pieces of work. With me, coaching still sits inside The Meaden Method®, so clinical hypnotherapy can be part of the same plan when that is what you came for.
What you want next.
Coaching looks at what you want, where to start, and how to stay on track. Goals, confidence, direction, performance. You do the work. I guide the conversation, and the session when we use hypnosis.
The clinical work is hypnotherapy.
Therapy, in the work I do, is clinical hypnotherapy. People come to that for anxiety, panic and trauma, and for patterns that keep firing. If that is what you need, we start there. Coaching is not a substitute for therapy or counselling.
I will not hand you a plan.
A consultant tells you what to do. I don't. We look at what you want, and at what gets in the way, and you practise the next step.
How I work
One plan. The tools I'm qualified in.
The plan is The Meaden Method®. Clinical hypnotherapy is part of it, and so is hypnosis, when that fits what you came for. I use the approaches I am trained in, and I leave out what doesn't fit. Each of these has its own page. If the work is for a sport, that is sports performance coaching.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
NLP looks at how you think, the language you use, and the pattern that follows. In coaching, that is often the thought about a goal, or the words you use with yourself.
Havening Techniques®
Havening Techniques® were created by Dr Ronald Ruden. I am a Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner. I use Havening inside The Meaden Method® when fear or anxiety is part of what you have brought.
Clinical hypnotherapy
Clinical hypnotherapy is a calm, focused state. You stay awake, aware and in control. Hypnosis sits inside The Meaden Method®, alongside the coaching.
Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning
Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® is hypnotic work created by Dr Richard Bandler. It starts with feeling. I use it when you already understand the problem, and the feeling still arrives first.
Design Human Engineering
Design Human Engineering® is Dr Bandler's later work. He describes it as creation, where NLP was replication: designing a strategy or a state, rather than only copying one. I trained in it with him and John La Valle.
A session with me
We talk first.
I want to understand what you want, what is in the way, and what you would like to be different. The work is tailored to you. If we use hypnosis, you stay awake, and we go at your pace.
Havening Techniques®, NLP, Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® and Design Human Engineering® join the same plan when they fit. I can guide the session. I can't do the work for you, and I can't tell you how far it will go.
Sessions are online, or in person in Tunbridge Wells. Online sessions are by video. There is a page on online hypnotherapy.
- We start by talking.
- You stay awake throughout the hypnosis.
- You won't be asked to relive anything you don't need to.
- The Meaden Method® is the plan. Hypnotherapy is part of it.
Who I see
Adults, in life and at work.
I work with adults. Some want this for their own life. Some want it for how they perform at work, or in a business. If the question is a sport, that has its own page.
Direction, and a change.
Direction, relationships, confidence, or a change you have been putting off. Life coaching is that conversation, with The Meaden Method® around it.
Performance, and priorities.
How you perform, and what you give your time to. The same method. A different subject. It is still not consulting.
A separate page.
Sports performance coaching is coaching for the mind, for people who play sport. It is not this page.
Where I trained
Business and performance coach.
I work as a Business & Performance Coach. That is how this site describes the coaching, next to the clinical work. The coaching qualification I record is Cert. Coaching, with Steve Crabb and Tina Taylor, at Aventesi Training.
The same plan uses the rest of my training. I am a clinical hypnotherapist. I trained in clinical hypnotherapy at the Manchester College of Coaching & Hypnotherapy, and I am registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register. I am a Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner. I am a Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP™ and a Licensed Trainer of NLP™, licensed by the Society of NLP™. I trained in Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® and Design Human Engineering® with Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle.
The training, as I record it
- Cert. Coaching, with Steve Crabb and Tina Taylor, at Aventesi Training
- Clinical Hypnotherapy, Manchester College of Coaching & Hypnotherapy
- Registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register
- Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner
- Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP™ and Licensed Trainer of NLP™
The same list, with the rest of my training, is on the qualifications page.
Questions
Questions I get asked.
What is coaching with you?
Coaching with me is life coaching, high-performance coaching, and coaching for how you perform at work and in the rest of your life. It is time to look at what you want, where to start, and how to stay on track. It sits inside The Meaden Method®, with clinical hypnotherapy. It is not therapy, and it is not consulting. It comes with no promise of a result.
What do people bring?
Limiting beliefs. Goals they are not sure how to start. Confidence. Direction, priorities, and what they want their time to be for. Performance at work, in a business, or in the rest of life. A change of career, of relationship, of surroundings, or of money or health. Some people come because they feel stuck. We work with what you actually bring. I can't tell you how far it will go.
How is this different from therapy?
Therapy, in the work I do, is clinical hypnotherapy. People come to that for anxiety, panic and trauma. Coaching looks at what you want next. The two can sit in the same plan, inside The Meaden Method®. Coaching is not a replacement for therapy, counselling, or your doctor. It is also not consulting. I will not arrive with a plan and tell you to carry it out.
Which approaches do you use?
The plan is The Meaden Method®. Clinical hypnotherapy and hypnosis are part of it. I also use Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Havening Techniques®, Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® and Design Human Engineering®. I use what fits, and I leave out what doesn't. Sports performance coaching is a separate page.
Is a session hypnotherapy?
It can be. I am a clinical hypnotherapist, and hypnotherapy sits alongside The Meaden Method®. If we use hypnosis, you stay awake, aware and in control. There is a page on what hypnotherapy is like.
Can sessions be online or in person?
Both. Sessions are online, or in person in Tunbridge Wells. Online sessions are by video. There is a page on online hypnotherapy.
How many sessions will it take?
I can't say until we have talked, and I won't guess. People differ. I can't guarantee a result, or a timescale.
Does this replace therapy, or my doctor?
No. Keep the care you already have. This is coaching, with hypnotherapy inside The Meaden Method® when that fits. It is not a medical treatment, and it is not a cure.
Who do you work with?
Adults. Some want this for their own life. Some want it for how they perform at work, or in a business. If the question is a sport, that is on the sports performance coaching page. If I am not the right person for you, I will say so on the consultation call.
A first conversation
Book a consultation call
We can talk about what you want to change, and whether this kind of coaching is a fit. If I can't help, I will tell you.
The Meaden Method® is the name of how I put this work together. Havening Techniques® was created by Dr Ronald Ruden. Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning®, NHR®, Design Human Engineering® and DHE® are registered trademarks of John La Valle. NLP™ certificates are licensed by the Society of NLP™. Cert. Coaching is the coaching qualification I record from Aventesi Training.