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Transformational Coaching in Upper Ferntree Gully
Navigate your own mind
Transformational Coaching at Empress Acupuncture is one-on-one coaching with Anna Ritter, a Master NLP Practitioner, Enneagram coach and life coach trained in hypnosis. Sessions are available in person at our clinic in Upper Ferntree Gully, serving the Dandenong Ranges and Melbourne’s east, and via telehealth across Australia.
You already know a lot about yourself. You know the patterns that keep showing up, the reactions that feel bigger than the moment, the thing you keep meaning to move past. Transformational Coaching takes you beyond insight, helping you find a way to shift it.
Drawing on NLP, hypnosis and the Enneagram, coaching with Anna helps you understand how your mind works, so you can start choosing your responses instead of being run by them.
Is Transformational Coaching right for you?
Coaching may be a good fit if you want to:
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Feel more freedom and ease in your emotional world
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Break out of old patterns of thinking or behaviour
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Respond to life’s challenges in new, more useful ways
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Feel calmer and more in control when things get stressful
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Make peace with something from your past and move forward
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Feel more confident in your own skin
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Get clear on the next step towards a goal, and take it
What a Coaching session looks like
A transformational coaching session is a structured conversation. We sit down together and talk about what’s going on for you, what you’d like to be different, and what’s been getting in the way.
From there, Anna uses language, reframing and guided techniques to help you see your situation from a new angle. You’ll leave with practical tools to use between sessions, so the work keeps going once you’re back in your everyday life.
Every session is individual. There’s no script and no one-size-fits-all approach. We work with where you are and what’s within your reach right now.
NLP Coaching in Melbourne's East
What is NLP?
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to change that works with the connection between language, thought and behaviour. The way you talk to yourself shapes how you feel and respond to the world. NLP gives you ways to work with that deliberately.
As a Master NLP Practitioner, Anna uses NLP to help you:
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Understand how you learn, communicate and make decisions
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Notice and shift the patterns that keep you stuck
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Approach stressful or difficult situations with more steadiness
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Build a kinder, more useful relationship with yourself
NLP is a gentle approach. You don’t need to relive difficult experiences in detail to work with how they’re affecting you now.
Hypnosis in Upper Ferntree Gully
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a focused, relaxed state of attention, the same state you slip into when you’re absorbed in a good book or driving a familiar road. Forget the stage-show version. You stay aware, present and in control the whole time.
In this state, it can be easier to step back from old reactions and take on new perspectives. Anna uses conversational hypnosis, woven naturally through the session, rather than anything that feels strange or performed.
Enneagram Coaching in Melbourne
What is The Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a personality framework built around nine core types. Each type has its own way of seeing the world, its own motivations and its own patterns under stress and at its best.
What makes it useful is the insight into why you do what you do. The Enneagram helps make sense of the reactions that seem to come out of nowhere, the patterns that repeat across relationships and work, as well as the things that light you up. It can help you truly embrace your unique gifts so you can use them to benefit your life and the lives of those around you.
In coaching, it gives us a shared language for what’s going on for you. Once you can see your patterns clearly, NLP and hypnosis give you the tools to shift them.
Coaching with Anna Ritter
Anna Ritter is a Master NLP Practitioner, Enneagram coach and life coach trained in hypnosis. She brings 16 years of clinical experience in Chinese medicine to her coaching work. At Empress, we see your emotional world and your physical health as deeply connected. Coaching can stand on its own or sit alongside Chinese medicine as part of your care, and it works well as a complement to the support you may already have from a GP, psychologist or counsellor.
Anna works with a small number of coaching clients at any one time, so each person she works with receives her full focus and the depth of attention that real change asks for.
How to begin
Because Anna keeps her coaching places limited, she likes to get to know each person a little before your first session, so the first step is simply to reach out. You can fill in the short form below or give the clinic a call, whichever feels easier.
There are no right or wrong answers and nothing to prepare, just a few words about what’s happening for you and what you’d love to feel differently. Anna will personally be in touch to chat through how she can support you and find a time that suits.
START THE CONVERSATION
1246 Burwood Highway
Upper Ferntree Gully
03 8719 8303