Welcome to my coaching website. Here I explain my services, my coaching philosophy and who I work with. If you’d like to book a free chemistry session with me, please contact me here.
Luke Menzies PCC, CPQC, CertPsychCoach
Executive, Business & Career Coaching
Psychological & Therapeutic Coaching
Reflective Practice Supervision for lawyers and school staff
Business Mentoring
I'm an experienced psychological coach with additional qualifications in counselling, ACT and stress management. I bring these skills together to help people make effective, long-lasting change in areas of their life such as work, career, relationships, family/parenting and general self-improvement.
I combine powerful coaching with a deep understanding and experience of business and professional life (and family life too) to support you in transforming how you operate, both in work and life in general.
I often work with clients who are on the edge of profound change. Sometimes they know what they need to do, other times they don't, but they know that something has to happen. I can help you identify that change and move successfully through it.
I can help you radically improve your self-awareness, clarity, control and coping skills in everything you do – producing really significant, positive shifts that will be with you for the rest of your life - changes that will positively ripple out through your family, friends, colleagues and clients.
Luke Menzies PCC, CPQC, CertPsychCoach
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As an award-winning business owner and professional, who has experienced the good and bad parts of creating a successful business, I know only too well the challenges that successful people operate under. The compromises we feel forced to make, the urge to avoid failure, to maintain strong control, to always be tough and highly capable, to not let people down, etc.
I have learned what it takes to achieve a proper sense of fulfilment and balance in life.
And I have learned the enormous benefits of signficantly increasing my self-awareness and thus my ability to manage myself better, producing a calmer, kinder, more effective, more thoughtful and wiser version of myself. These things were all in there somewhere, but struggling to get out from under all that life piled on top of it.
And these things are what I now aim to bring to my clients through psychological coaching.
I help people maximise their potential – in their work, their mindset, their self-worth, their kindness, their relationships, their well-being and their lives in general. I do this by helping my clients broaden their perspective, their understanding and their ability to cope - to become a more resilient, thoughtful, kind and ‘psychologically flexible’ version of themselves.
I love working with active, creative, committed people who want to take themselves to the next level of success, fulfilment, happiness and personal growth, whatever that means for them at this point in their lives. Sometimes it’s their career, sometimes it’s retirement, or parenting or neurodivergence or self-confidence/anxiety.
I often work with business people, leaders, professionals (including lawyers) and others who are simply seeking self-development and greater self-awareness.
The need to manage the stress and endless juggling of a demanding role and multiple responsibilities is a big theme that my clients often bring to me. I have been here myself and know the landscape very well.
I encourage you to read more about my coaching approach and understand my philosophy around what coaching is.
Contact me to book a free chemistry session, where you can sample my coaching with no obligation to go further.
I also provide a wide range of business mentoring on how to run a small business or organisation (including setting up and running a legal practice).
I am a climate conscious coach, always keen to view coaching issues through a wider ecological lens and help my clients think and develop in ways that align with a truly sustainable way of being, living and acting. I am proud to support the Climate Coaching Alliance.
I am a neurodiverity aware coach, with training in how to work with neurodiverse clients. I have clients and those close to me with autism, ADHD and dyslexia, and I value and welcome the many gifts that neurodivergent minds contribute to society.
I can provide a neuro-affirming space for you to explore your 'mental wiring' and how you interact with the world.
Find out more on my Neurodiversity Coaching page.
I am strongly committed to actively promoting and supporting equality, diversity and inclusion for all, both in society as a whole and in my coaching practice too - particularly for race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality and neurodiversity. In my legal career I won a national award for my postive work on the gender pay gap and equal pay. I regularly provide EDI training to businesses, including the dangers of unconscious bias.
I aim to accept every coaching client exactly as I find them, trying not to make too many assumptions and aiming to always be open to, and curious about, my clients’ perspectives and lived experiences.
Learn how to use the famous Parent-Adult-Child model to better understand difficult interactions you may have with clients, opponents or anyone else! Once understood, never forgotten…
If you’re looking to transform how you feel about, and cope with, your busy workload the expectations of yourself and others, the Positive Intelligence model I use is - very genuinely - the answer.
In this second blog on the Drama Triangle, I talk about how to deal with demanding clients - the ones who may really wind you up, unsettle you or anger you.
Webinar on what workplace stress is, where it comes from, how you can spot it and what both individuals and organisations can do about it
Understanding the Drama Triangle and how you can get caught in it is really helpful for everyone who advises clients
How clients tranfer their emotions to us, and how we can spot this and deal effectively with it. This is a key to resilience and stress reduction in advisory roles.
How does exploration of our feelings and emotions contribute to our success and raise our performance? Here are some very practical examples…
A negative mindset has been shown to be bad for success in all careers except for law. (Any lawyers surprised by that?!) In this blog I outline the Negativity Trap as I see it - something I'll return to in future blogs…