What are your areas of coaching and why did you choose this specialty?
My areas of training include counselling on a one-to-one basis or with a couple or small coaching groups. I counsel and train people in surviving personal stress, different emotional styles at work, gender differences, depression and self esteem.
What makes your training unique?
Due to my previous work as a medical social worker I am able to recognise the very real physical illnesses people get because of their emotional problems. What I have incorporated in my training over the years is a medical model. I teach about the brain and how it functions, how it instructs the body to kick off stress response when it is under pressure or under threat. Once people identify this in a training session, they learn to manage their emotions.
I explain to people that they will have many initial stress responses to many things, and they can then use the cortex part of the brain to override that. For example, if a sensitive person feels they have just been criticised by their boss, they can use the thinking part of the brain and say, “The boss was just trying to make me a better worker and he does value me.”
How much does a session cost?
My standard training fee is S$360 per hour for each individual. But some corporations do buy a plan for six hours upfront for $300. The costs are usually recoverable through personal insurance.
How will your training benefit your participants?
They will take away knowledge about psychosocial data that they can identify with and they leave my seminars knowing how to manage their feelings better.
What companies have you worked with?
I have worked with DBS, Visa and Intercontinental Hotel Group.
How long have you been a trainer for?
I have been in counselling for more than 30 years now, but I became an official trainer about seven years ago.
What was your profession before you started as a trainer?
I was teaching medical social work as a subject for National University of Singapore.
What made you decide to be a trainer?
Over the years I realised I was doing individual counselling and I was repeating myself again and again and teaching the same thing to people in the counselling room. It made me realise that people were finding this information valuable and that I should be broadcasting to more people.
What school did you graduate from?
I graduated from the University of South Australia and Adelaide University with a Bachelor in Social Work and a Masters in Public Health.
How can people contact you?
You can reach by my websites www.goslings.net and www.emotionalwealthacademy.com or call me at 6281 5157.
Karen Gosling
Counselling director
Gosling International
