Helping your employees navigate medical challenges

At Voyage Coaching, we understand the profound impact a medical diagnosis can have on an individual, their work and their team.

Our services are designed to help your valued employees navigate these turbulent times, ensuring they receive the support they need to face their medical challenges head-on.

We empower them to grow resilience and coping strategies. You thus provide the best practical and emotional assistance possible in their hour of need.

What is Health & Wellbeing Coaching?

Voyage Health & Wellbeing Coaching, for individuals facing a medical crisis, is tailored for HR managers looking to support their employees through health challenges, from chronic and acute conditions to end-of-life situations.

Health & Wellbeing Coaching empowers employees to build a proactive and resilient mindset.

In doing so, they are better equipped to navigate their way through their medical crisis/challenge, thus reducing stress and anxiety.

Communication with their medical team, friends and family improves, pain reduces and healing accelerates.

Trained as a specialist Medical Coach and accredited by the International Coaching Federation as well as EMCC, Voyage Coaching specialises in helping clients navigate chronic illnesses and end-of-life.

Over 15 years experience transforming health crises into journeys of empowerment.

Is an employee dealing with…?

  • a diagnosis

  • a chronic illness

  • an injury

  • chronic pain

  • pre-surgery anxiety

  • post-operative pain and discomfort

  • a sick partner or child

  • long Covid

  • intensive treatment

  • addiction issues

  • addiction recovery

  • pregnancy difficulties

  • peri-menopause

  • back pain

  • stress and/or burnout

Voyage’s Health & Wellbeing Coaching offers vital support to employees navigating health challenges.

It:

  • empowers them with resilience

  • reduces anxiety

  • provides tools for effective communication with their healthcare team

  • addresses the emotional and mental aspects of health crises, ensuring employees can maintain their professional and personal life balance

This comprehensive support system not only aids the individual's recovery but also contributes to a sense of autonomy when dealing with health professionals, family and practical interventions.

Through the coaching system, the coachee addresses whatever is on their mind that they wish to work through.

  • provide emotional support throughout the process

  • discover mental blockers to recovery

  • navigate medically-induced financial and work stress with confidence

  • get out of a vicious circle of self-destruction

  • empower them in life, beyond diagnosis

  • acquire a toolkit of coping strategies (thinking frameworks, coping strategies, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) exercises, relaxation methods, cognitive behavioural techniques (CBT), pain management methodologies, and more)

  • clear trauma relating to or triggered by the medical crisis

  • manage end-of-life as best as possible; desiring a good death

This could be to:

  • sort through emotions surrounding the medical condition

  • help reduce anxiety about their health challenges

  • work through their relationship to pain and anguish

  • plan for a different future

  • work out how to communicate more effectively with loved ones/medical team/colleagues/friends with regards to their medical condition

  • help them make the best informed decisions in relation to their treatment plan

  • cultivate hope 

  • remind them of their own power and resilience 

  • redesign a more meaningful future

About Katie

In 2001, after a serious car accident in Ghana, I was told I might never walk again due to significant spinal injuries. Defying the odds, I walked out of the hospital just five days post-operation.

This remarkable recovery marked the beginning, not the end, of my journey. Over the years, I've navigated the complex aftermath of my accident, confronting physical limitations and emotional challenges.

More recently I have also come through cancer.

My experiences led me to study Medical Coaching, transforming my ordeal into a mission to support others through their health crises.

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What my clients say about working with me.

  • Helen came for a program of medical coaching in the month leading up to her kidney transplant.

    “I had several medical coaching sessions with Katie and I found them invaluable.

    The sessions significantly improved my confidence to address concerns about my health and prioritise self-care.

    It was useful to reflect on aspects of my own values and attributes to help gain clarity on my life.

    In addition, with Katie’s help, I learnt how to better navigate both my personal and work life.” - Helen

  • Bec was experiencing Burnout.

    “I came to Katie for some support rebuilding my confidence after a period of burnout and before starting a new job.

    Thanks to Katie’s coaching, I was able to show up to my new role as a more self-assured and capable leader.

    I haven’t experienced burnout since.” - Bec

  • Oriana was having unexpected medical surgery.

    “The day before I was having unexpected major surgery I had a medical coaching session with Katie.

    In less than an hour my anxiety levels were right down and I was at peace with the whole process.

    Feeling grateful to my body, calm, capable and prepared. My mind and spirit were ready and knew how to support my body in healing and recovery. Thank you, Katie, you made all the difference.” - Oriana

  • Arabella came for support when doing chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.

    “Katie coached me while I was doing chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer. It was wonderful to have someone to share my experience with who could listen and understand. She gave me tools to cope with new and challenging situations which helped enormously. Talking also helped me process the often confusing and upsetting emotions that came up without having to worry my family members, for whom this was also a difficult time.

    Katie provided an extremely valuable support system. She helped me navigate a very difficult and challenging period in my life, from which I was able to emerge wiser and more empathetic and she showed me that I am stronger and far more resilient than I thought.” - Arabella Caccia (Artist) www.arabellacaccia.com

We believe that:

  • Everyone deserves a Health & Wellbeing ally in their time of need.

  • No two coachees are the same. Every individual is dealing with a unique set of circumstances and requires their very specific style and pace of coaching.

  • The content of coaching conversations should remain confidential.

  • The coachee is best placed to define for themselves what they want and therefore to be empowered to move towards it.

  • All individuals are naturally creative, accountable, resourceful and whole.

  • Everyone should be aware of their options and choices. Furthermore, they should be actively encouraged to take a participative role in deciding their medical/health journey.

  • The coachee’s medical team is sacred. The Coach works in parallel to the coachee’s medical entourage, supporting them to be optimally resourceful and resilient, as well as to address adherence issues as they progress through treatment and recovery.

  • It’s important to focus on the healing aspect of an illness/medical situation. We consider healing to be a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual process of returning to an authentic, positive and grounded sense of self and become whole (as opposed to feeling fundamentally broken).

Book a FREE Consultation with Katie

and get started with Voyage Coaching today.

 FAQs

  • Health & Wellbeing Coaching at Voyage Coaching is a specialised support service for individuals facing medical crises. It is designed to help employees and their employers navigate the challenges associated with medical diagnoses, chronic illnesses and recovery processes. Health & Wellbeing Coaching empowers individuals with resilience and coping strategies, improving communication with healthcare providers and family, reducing pain, and accelerating healing.

  • Health & Wellbeing Coaching provides essential tools for employees dealing with medical challenges. It helps build a proactive and resilient mindset, reduces anxiety and stress and improves overall communication skills. This support not only enhances employees’ ability to manage their health conditions but also ensures they maintain a balance between their professional and personal lives.

  • Our services are tailored for any employee facing health challenges, including those diagnosed with chronic illnesses, undergoing medical treatments, recovering from operations, suddenly becoming caregivers or moving towards end-of-life. HR managers and team leaders can also utilise our services to support their teams more effectively.

  • Voyage Coaching is led by professionals like Katie, who have personal experiences with severe health crises and are trained specifically in Medical Coaching. Accredited by the International Coaching Federation and EMCC, our coaches use their firsthand knowledge and professional training to provide empathetic, informed support tailored to the needs of each client.

  • Yes, our coaching services can be seamlessly integrated into existing wellness or Employee Assistance Programmes to enhance the support offered to employees. This integration helps create a more comprehensive health management strategy within organisations.

  • Starting with Voyage Coaching involves a simple process: Book a free consultation through our website, in which we’ll discuss your specific company's needs and how our services can be tailored to support your employee(s). Following this, we will outline a customised coaching plan.

  • Starting with Voyage Coaching involves a simple process: Book a free consultation through our website, in which we’ll discuss your specific needs and how our services can be tailored to support your employee(s). Following this, we will outline a personalised coaching plan suited to your requirements.

  • Confidentiality is paramount in our coaching sessions. All information shared by clients is kept strictly confidential, and only general themes or educational insights may be discussed publicly with prior consent. We adhere strictly to the ethical guidelines set by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and EMCC.

  • Engaging with Health & Wellbeing Coaching provides long-term benefits, including sustained employee well-being, enhanced workplace morale and reduced healthcare costs. Employees learn to manage stress and develop resilience, which contributes to improved long-term health outcomes and productivity.