workplace relationships coaching
Workplace relationships coaching gives you a dedicated space to think carefully about the professional relationships shaping your experience of work. Whether you’re managing conflict, a difficult dynamic, or a communication breakdown, coaching helps you step back and think about how you want to respond.
why now
People often come to coaching once a workplace relationship starts taking up more of their attention and energy than they’d like.
You might be dealing with tension with a colleague, difficulty with a manager, a challenging team dynamic, or a conflict between responsibilities. Sometimes it’s less obvious than that: you find yourself repeatedly frustrated or preoccupied by an interaction that’s hard to make sense of.
Workplace relationships shape wellbeing, confidence, and how satisfied you feel at work, but even when you understand the practical side of a situation, it isn’t always easy to know how best to respond.
my approach
Many approaches to workplace conflict focus on communication technique or negotiation tactics. Mine starts with understanding.
I’m a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and an EMCC Senior Practitioner Coach. Across more than 25 years in psychology, psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision, I’ve come to see that relationships are rarely shaped by one person alone. They sit within histories, expectations, organisational culture, and differing perspectives, yours and everyone else’s.
That background lets me work at real depth with the dynamics underneath a difficult relationship, while keeping the focus on you and what you can actually do, not on assigning blame.
the work
Conversations often cover conflict, communication, team dynamics, professional boundaries, and recurring patterns that seem to show up across different relationships.
Sometimes the focus is one specific person or situation. At other times it’s broader: how you generally experience and respond to relationships at work.
The aim isn’t to work out who’s right. It’s to understand the situation clearly enough to decide what conversation needs to happen, what boundary might be needed, and what’s actually within your influence.
a good fit
This suits people who want more than a communication tip or a conflict management technique. Many of the people who come to this kind of coaching are capable professionals who want to understand a difficult situation properly before deciding how to respond.
It’s particularly useful if you recognise that workplace relationships are shaped by more than one person’s behaviour, including your own assumptions and patterns of relating.
Discovery Call
not assigning the blame.
working with people, not job titles
A single Focused Coaching Session often suits one specific relationship or situation. Ongoing Psychologically Informed Coaching suits working through a pattern that keeps recurring. A regular Thinking Space gives you a standing point to reflect as workplace dynamics shift.
All sessions take place online via Zoom, so you can work with me wherever you are, at a time that fits.
Common Questions
What is workplace relationships coaching?
A space to think carefully about professional relationships, interpersonal challenges, and organisational dynamics, useful whenever a workplace relationship is becoming difficult to understand or manage.
Does coaching focus on the other person or on me?
Usually both. Workplace relationships involve other people, but also your own assumptions, expectations, and ways of relating. Coaching looks at the wider relationship, not just one person’s behaviour.
Is this a substitute for HR or formal mediation?
No. This is coaching for how you understand and respond to a relationship, not a mediation process between two employees. If a situation needs a formal HR process, I’ll say so.
What's the difference between coaching and therapy?
Coaching focuses on the relationship in front of you and how you want to respond. Therapy more often addresses psychological distress directly. My work is informed by my background as a psychologist, but coaching stays a distinct service.
Start with a Discovery Call.