“Great leaders aren’t born calm—they learn how to manage themselves. CBT coaching equips them with that self-regulatory skill set.” ~ Dr Carol Kauffman, Founder of the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School

Executive Coaching with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

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Cognitive Behavioural Training (CBT) for executives is a targeted coaching approach that helps high-level professionals identify and change unproductive patterns of thinking and behaviour that may hinder their performance or leadership effectiveness. By fostering self-awareness and teaching practical self-management strategies to challenge and reframe attributional styles and attitudes, CBT equips executives with the skills to manage stress, enhance decision-making, and design emotionally intelligent approaches to issues, to cultivate healthier work habits, ultimately promoting greater professional success and well-being.

Think different. Feel different. Behave different. Get different outcomes…

CBT is proven to empower executives to reach their full potential. My Executive Coaching program, infused with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), offers a unique and effective approach to personal and professional development.

What is Executive Coaching with CBT?

The Executive Coaching CBT sessions are designed to assist leaders in honing their skills, overcoming challenges, and achieving peak performance. Whether you are a seasoned executive looking to enhance your leadership abilities or a rising star aiming to navigate the complexities of the business world, CBT skills will benefit and guide you.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT is a widely recognised psycho-educational approach that focuses on identifying and modifying thinking styles and behaviours. In the context of executive coaching, CBT provides powerful tools to manage stress, enhance decision-making, and improve overall performance and mental well-being.

How Does it Work?

An executive Cognitive Behavioural Training (CBT) coach can assist individuals in various aspects of their professional and personal development. Sessions can be one-to-one by the hour, or in intensive 2 hour or 4 hour session plans – with homework and goals – organically building a toolbox specifically for you. Sessions can take place at my practice in 30 Wicklow Street Dublin 2 – or in your office. Sessions can be targeted for a specific situational issue – or can be general to discuss your overall experience and performance, and desired outcomes.

Get Started Today

Invest in your success and well-being. Contact me today for a quotation and/or to schedule an initial training plan to embark on a transformative journey with a coach who has a strong business background and the ability to work on strategy (including planning, messaging, and communications) – collaboratively and organically designing a tailored Executive Coaching CBT program just for you.

Executive Coaching with CBT:

  • One hour session – from €155
  • Two Hour session – from €285
  • Half Day Session – from €550

Online via zoom or in-person at 30 Wicklow St D2 or at your premises.

All general training/coaching includes ongoing telephone/zoom/email support and customised ‘homework’ provision and assessment. Call for a quotation if you prefer the sessions to be on your premises.

Content/Presentation prep (bespoke content collaboration for speeches, meetings, presentations, or training):

  • One hour session – from €190
  • Two Hour session – from €396
  • Half Day Session – from €750

I have a proven expertise in key idea / visual notes / mind-mapping – so am skilled in helping identify key ideas for great content – sessions in-person at my office in 30 Wicklow St D2, or at your premises with your PC or Laptop and projector and training room. Includes creating handout/workshop materials – organic to adapt to whatever your needs are. Call for a quotation if your preference is to brainstorm and collaborate on content in your office.

Veronica Walsh is a renowned Cognitive Behavioural Training/Therapy specialist, recognised for her top-rated online CBT resources globally.

  • Walsh’s iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com CBT resources site is regularly ranked as a ‘Top 10 CBT Blog in the World’ – and the handouts and worksheets and workbooks are used by mental health professionals all over the world (with over 1.3 million views and hundreds of thousands of downloads).
  • Her expertise extends to providing one-to-one CBT sessions, bespoke one-to-one executive coaching, and delivering group seminars, workshops, and keynote speaker appearances.
  • CBT and Feeling Good Training Programmes and Trainers are approved for the National Register of Trainers.(Reg # 903680.) In full compliance with the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act Ireland 1999.)
  • Walsh has a robust business background – she began as a tech corporate trainer, progressed to training management, ventured into tech sales, and eventually became a managing partner in one of Ireland’s major Applecentres (part of the Horizon Group, MBO to Enterprise).
  • She transitioned into general consultancy, including leading a digital media start-up through Enterprise Ireland (gaining seed capital funding and inclusion on the Mentor Program), and providing executive in-house management to overseas property companies – then gaining a New York realtor licence to represent the New York Residence brokerage in Europe.
  • While working in Manhattan real estate, Walsh re-skilled in CBT and then founded CBT and Feeling Good (BrianSkills Training). For over a decade, she has worked with individuals and groups, emphasising a speciality in low-intensity CBT.
  • So, beyond her CBT focus, your coach will understand what you’re talking about when it comes to business issues and strategies – designing emotionally intelligent approaches with you on a whole host of issues.
  • Walsh has a keen interest in cognitive science, and behavioural economics, and is currently exploring the applications of AI, and can work with you on exploiting AI to enhance your work.
  • As an occasional media contributor and event speaker, she shares her insights in cognitive science and current affairs.
  • Additionally, Walsh is an experienced Mind Mapping trainer (which complements and overlaps with the cognitive science offerings), a keen mind mapping and key ideas and visual notes user herself, Walsh designs and delivers bespoke training and facilitates group workshops on Team Mind Map Brainstorming and Group Strategy and Content Creation days. This gives the added benefit of experience creating great content for anything from pitches, to tricky meetings, to presentations.
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Key steps in getting started with your coaching program:

Assessment: Initial discussion sessions are a comprehensive assessment to understand your strengths, challenges and issues, and goals.

Planning: Collaboratively, we establish clear and achievable goals that align with your personal and professional aspirations.

Coaching Sessions: Regular one-on-one coaching sessions are organic and bespoke, uniquely tailored to address your specific issues, and to explore strategies, and provide support for growth. They can be one hour per session with homework, or intensive two hour or half days sessions.

CBT Integration: CBT techniques and skills are integrated into the coaching process to promote self-awareness and regulation, emotional intelligence, resilience, strategic reasoning and choices, and positive and measurable behavioural changes.

Monitoring and Adjusting: Progress is regularly monitored and reviewed, and coaching plans are adjusted as needed to ensure continued progress.

Key benefits of Executive Coaching with CBT

Enhanced Leadership Skills: Develop and refine leadership qualities that inspire and motivate your team.

Improved awareness and emotional intelligence in all areas.

Stress Management: Learn to effectively understand and manage stress and progressively improve your work experience and performance.

Improved Decision-Making: Develop a cognitive toolkit for making sound decisions under pressure.

Enhanced Communication: Improve interpersonal skills and communication strategies for more effective leadership.

Personal Growth: Experience holistic personal development that extends beyond the workplace.

CBT & Feeling Good Training Programmes and Trainers are approved for the National Register of Trainers. (Reg # 903680.) In full compliance with the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act Ireland 1999.

  1. Stress Management:
    • Developing coping mechanisms for handling high levels of stress in the workplace.
    • Identifying and challenging negative thought patterns contributing to stress through critical thinking skills.
    • Understanding and regulating your body’s threat response that hinders performance.
  2. Time Management:
    • Setting realistic goals and priorities – chunking issues into clear tasks.
    • Addressing procrastination and improving time utilisation.
  3. Leadership Skills:
    • Building confidence and emotionally intelligent assertiveness in leadership roles.
    • Managing and resolving conflicts within the team.
  4. Communication Skills:
    • Designing effective communication with team members, superiors, and clients.
    • Understanding and overcoming barriers to clear and concise communication.
  5. Decision-Making:
    • Analysing and challenging irrational exaggerated anxieties related to decision-making.
    • Developing a toolbox with structured approaches to making strategic decisions.
  6. Work-Life Balance:
    • Creating strategies to balance professional responsibilities with your personal life.
    • Setting boundaries and learning to be present and to disconnect from unhelpful work-related stress during personal time.
  7. Adaptability and Resilience:
    • Building resilience to navigate through organisational changes through clear thinking and analysis.
    • Developing adaptive strategies to thrive in dynamic work environments (good stress).
  8. Goal Setting and Achievement:
    • Breaking down long-term goals into manageable, achievable steps.
    • Overcoming self-doubt and cultivating a rational positive mindset toward goal attainment.
  9. Performance Anxiety:
    • Addressing and managing anxiety related to performance evaluations and public speaking.
    • Building confidence in evidence based abilities and accomplishments.
  10. Team Building:
    • Improving interpersonal skills and fostering positive relationships within the team proactively.
    • Resolving conflicts and enhancing collaboration among team members without emotional inhibitors.
  11. Career Development:
    • Creating a strategic career plan and navigating career transitions clearly.
    • Understanding and overcoming exaggerated self-limiting beliefs that may hinder professional growth.
  12. Emotional Intelligence:
    • Developing self-awareness and empathy in professional interactions.
    • Understanding and regulating unhelpful emotional reactions in high-pressure situations.
  13. Well-being and Self-Care:
    • Incorporating self-care mindful practices to maintain physical and mental well-being.
    • Recognising signs of nervous system and cognitive burnout and implementing preventive measures.

The goal is to empower individuals to build new skills to navigate challenges, improve performance, and achieve a healthier work-life balance.

Example recent evaluation / testimonial

“Our Unvarnished Impressions of CBT and Feeling Good (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Dublin:

From the moment I stepped into CBT and Feeling Good, it was apparent that Veronica is passionate about her profession. Her infectious energy combined with a truly caring nature immediately put me at ease, allowing us to dive straight into my therapy sessions. I cannot speak highly enough of her expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – she knows exactly what questions to ask, when prompts are needed and how to tailor each session towards achieving optimum results.

Experiencing anxiety can make life feel like such a struggle sometimes but since visiting CBT and Feeling Good, my outlook on life has changed significantly for the better! By focusing on changing negative thinking patterns that were previously holding me back, I found myself feeling significantly more confident day-to-day.

Overall, This business provided exceptional service from start to finish as well as having affordable fees!. Whether you have been battling anxieties or depressions for years or months only- don’t hesitate- go see Veronica without any delay. I guarantee you will not regret taking this brave step forward toward mental well-being because she truly gave me new lease of life!”

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Contact me at info@cbtandfeelinggood.com or 0868113031 or through my Contact Page to make an enquiry for a bespoke program and a training needs assessment uniquely tailored for you.

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CBT Wellbeing Training for the Workplace

Think your workplace would benefit from a dive into the world of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with a twist of fun and engagement? 

Choose from short seminars, or chunky half day or full day workshops, that promise to be both enlightening and enjoyable and team-building. This isn’t your typical dry lectures and training; we’re all about making learning lively and interactive and relevant!

Whether it is to boost self-awareness, or to master self-regulation techniques, or to provide an environment for facilitated group brainstorming for understanding and managing particular workplace stress issues – these flexible module blocks have got you covered. 

With a free training needs assessment, and an option of bespoke programmes, learners will be guided through the essentials, ensuring actionable insights and a fresh perspective with very real practical skills.

Take the opportunity to enhance employee mental tool-kits in a fun and supportive environment of skills learning.

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