Neil Croom

Welcome to my website! The following pages contain information about who I am, what I offer and how I work. If what I have to say resonates with you and you feel like I’m the right person to help you with the challenges in your life at the moment, then please feel free to get in touch.

I offer a variety of different coaching specialties. These include narrative coaching, therapeutic coaching, coaching for family relationships, grief coaching and workplace coaching.

My journey to becoming a life coach began over 30 years ago when I started my training to become a psychiatric nurse. I embarked on a career in nursing motivated by a desire to learn more about myself and others. I was fascinated by questions like ‘What makes people tick?’; ‘How do people come unstuck in their lives?’; ‘How do people get back on track?’; ‘What is it that maintains well-being?’ (‘What is well-being?) and ‘What’s the best way of supporting people?’. For me, these are questions that go to the heart of what it means to live a fulfilled life. They are questions which over the years I have continued to ask of myself, with a compassionate rigour. They are questions that are central to my work as a life coach.

I have explored these questions from a variety of standpoints throughout my life: as a professional ‘helper’, as a leader of groups, as the member of a family and as a partner. I find that when people answer these questions their answers touch on almost universal themes: the need for love and connection; having a belief in one’s own potential and the ability to overcome obstacles; knowing how and when to ask for help; trusting others and having the capacity to be vulnerable. 

My work as a life coach is all about exploring these questions and themes with people and helping them to find a greater sense of ease, clarity, fulfilment and joy in their lives. 

I fundamentally believe that everyone possesses within them the answers to their own questions and dilemmas and that my role as a life coach is to facilitate and nurture this innate self-understanding and wisdom:

“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner”. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” 

Carl Rogers