Goodlife Psychology offer excellent quality wellbeing and resilience coaching. Our highly experienced professional psychologist and resilience and wellbeing coach, Kathy Jones, works with directly with individual clients, as well as with schools and other organisations, helping people develop resilience, decrease stress and improve wellbeing so that they can lead happy, successful and  fulfilled lives.

For individuals

1:1 or group coaching for you



For organisations

 1:1 or team coaching for colleagues in your school or organisation

Workshops and speaking

Support for your organisation or group

I am Kathy Jones, a professional psychologist and trained resilience and wellbeing coach. I want to help you achieve a 'good life', one where you can step out of autopilot mode and intentionally choose to parent, work, connect with others, and do the things you love, in the way you want. The way that feels 'right' for you. Where fun, connection, curiosity and success are within your reach. Where you can 'not only survive but thrive'. Where you can live and work with courage and authenticity.

As a highly experienced educational psychologist, coach and trainer I have access to a huge amount of knowledge and experience about human emotions, cognitive processes and behaviour all of which I apply regularly to my coaching with powerful effect. I am a trained emotions coaching practitioner meaning that I am able to dig deep with you to work out how your emotions might be supporting you in reaching your goals and what to do if fear, doubt or anxiety are getting in your way.

I strongly believe that you are the expert on you and coaching is a collaborative process where I bring my knowledge, skills and perspective and you bring your unique insights and understanding. Coaching is a partnership where your dreams, hopes and aspirations are at the centre of the work we do.

Because I am a professional educational psychologist I am chartered by the British Psychological Society and a member of their Division of Coaching Psychology. As well as training as an emotion coaching practitioner I am a trained acceptance and commitment coach and  a full member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology.

What actually happens in coaching?

Over a series of coaching sessions, usually between 8 and 16, I hold a non-judgemental space for you where you can talk, reflect, think deeply, feel and identify actions you want to take. I offer alternative perspectives, gentle challenge, questions and tools that help you dig more deeply into your passions, values, thoughts, emotions and sensations. That help you unhook from self-doubt or self-critical thoughts that might be getting in your way of the life or business you want. Through coaching we can create a courageous and heartfelt path towards your 'good life'.

What coaching approaches do you use?

I use a range of approaches based in my extensive training and understanding of psychological models and human behaviour. The approaches I use most often, because in my experience they are particularly powerful in helping people achieve the changes they want, are acceptance and commitment coaching, emotions coaching and positive psychology coaching.

Who do you coach?

Because I have worked in education for nearly 30 years and understand the unique challenges and pressures of that work I often coach education professionals. However, my coaching extends to people from other walks of life including parents, other psychologists, scientists and entrepreneurs.

I work with individuals but also with schools and business to help them support the wellbeing, resilience and performance of those who work for them. I work 1:1 with many clients but also offer group coaching packages for organisations who want to support groups of staff, for example, 'The Mindful and Effective Educator' is an evidence based group coaching package for teachers.

How do I contact you?

You can book an appointment for a free 30 minute contact call with me so you get an idea of who I am and what you might experience through my coaching (see link at the top of this page). If you prefer to contact me by email you can do that at kathy@goodlifepsychology.co.uk for more information or to book a contact call. You can also contact me via the Contact me page of this website.

What exactly do you offer?

• Individual coaching programmes with three levels of package. Basic (8 sessions over 4 months), enhanced (12 sessions over 8 months) and gold-standard (16 sessions over 12 months). Each session is 75 minutes minutes long.

• Individual coaching programmes purchased by schools or other organisations for their staff and colleagues. These are priced according to the length of programme and the number of programmes purchased at one time. Please contact me for a detailed proposal with pricing.

• Team coaching for teams of people who work together and want to enhance their effectiveness and relationships. Contact me   for details of my evidence based 'Mindful and Effective Employee' (based on work by Flaxman, 2013) team programme proven to enhance team effectiveness and individual well-being.

• Group coaching programmes for people who do not currently work together but have similar aspirations, goals or challenges.

• Face-to-face and online workshops on many aspects of well-being and personal growth, for example: self-care, habits of self-compassion, harnessing inner-strength and unhooking from self-critical thoughts. See our Events page for any current workshops or contact me to discuss bespoke workshops.

• A free 30 minute connection session to help you clarify what you are looking for from coaching and establish whether this fits with my coaching offers.

• Face-to-face coaching  (if you are in my local area) or online sessions.

Where do you work?

Most of my coaching clients work with me online. this is a very effective medium for carrying out coaching and works extremely well for most people. For those who live locally and prefer to meet face-to-face there is the option to meet with me in a clinic space in Botley, Hampshire UK. I can sometimes also offer face-to-face sessions in the New Forest. 

If you are a school or business in my local area then I can provide coaching in your workplace. I am  happy to coach outdoors for people who find this a more conducive environment for personal growth work.

Would this coaching suit me?

I work with clients in many walks of life. My clients have included teachers, small business owners, professional people, other psychologists and parents. They have all wanted to do some courageous personal growth work in service of bringing meaning and fulfilment into their life, and commit to taking the actions that will move them closer to that life. I am a guide, not a director. I will not tell you what to do but help you delve deeply into yourself and find the talents and answers that are already there.

I always have a 30 minute connection call with clients before committing to a programme so that potential clients can experience a little of my coaching and establish whether there is a good fit between my coaching and the development work they are looking for. so if you are not sure then book in a call and we can talk through your thoughts and feelings about coaching. There is no sales pitch. I genuinely only want us to work together if my coaching is right for you.