FAQ

✅ To reduce our mutual mental loads and to make the organisation easier all around, I always prefer, when possible, to determine a day of the week and a time that can stay the same for the duration. 
This is to be determined together at the start of the coaching. This doesn’t remove any flexibility: life happens and we both need to be able to maneuver around kids, illness, work hours… 
You can make an appointment via:

• My online calendar
• By email
• By phone 0479 67 93 31
• By Messenger, WhatsApp or whichever way you like!

✅ Yes.
Coaching works just as well online as in person. 

The online offer are not everyone’s cup of tea, some dislike the “wall” that is the screen, the lessening of warmth in the relationship but for the economy (as much time, energy and money) gained from not travelling can be important and worth it. In both cases it’s important that you feel good and safe during our sessions. 

Alternating between online and in person is possible according to your availability. It’s not a problem but I do need to know 24h ahead of time at the latest.

When you come to me for coaching you receive printed versions of the worksheets. 
Online I email them to you instead You can use the digital version or print them out yourself. Sometimes you’ll need to send completed sheets to me, but not very often. A photo will do.
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✅ I use Zoom.
In the event of a technical difficulty we could switch to another service but only if it’s really necessary.
Downloading and installing Zoom is free for you.
You can get ahold of it here: https://zoom.us/support/download
If you don’t want to install that too far ahead of time you can wait for the “invitation” to our meeting. The link to the meeting that will arrive in your inbox will walk you through the installation.

✅ Ideally A 2 week rhythm is best.  We can go up to 3 weeks in some cases but the more time we leave between our sessions the more negative impact it has on your motivation and so on your return on investment. This is frustrating for you and for me. 

In the Intuitive Eating coaching I prefer 1 week appart in the beginning while we build a solid and coherent base to the coaching. Then we can move to 2 weeks for a while and onto longer breaks between sessions. 

To reduce our mutual mental loads and to make the organisation easier all around, I always prefer, when possible, to determine a day of the week and a time that can stay the same for the duration. 

✅ A coach does not replace a psychologist. The work I propose brings a practical and concrete dimension to complement the work done with the psychologist.
For it to be beneficial, the foundation must be sound and solid. If you have suffered violence, trauma, harassment, depression, a behavioural disorder, neuro-divergence, etc., and even in the case of burnout, it is advisable to address these issues with a psychologist before my intervention.

✅ It means that the tools work for neurotypical families and families that aren’t. It might just take a little longer for those who have ADHD.
How do I know? Because there are 3 people with ADHD in my home and we use all these tools too. They save us.
The neuropsychologists that have assessed us gave us loads of tips and tricks to use but we were already using them. The advice given by Dr Barghiacchi and Dr Hubert in their book « Il est peut-être hyperactif” are also tools I share in this coaching.

✅An hourly rate is a number that doesn’t mean much. Context is very important.
What would it cost you, in the long term, to not resolve your problem?

It’s true that the hourly rate may seem high at first.

What you pay me is not what ends up in my pocket. Where, in a salary, contributions are already deducted, a self-employed person still has to deduct them.
There’s also my professional insurance, the costs associated with the existence and maintenance of my office, costs such as the accounting service, the fact that my website exists, communication, equipment…

Then what I offer you has value. Even if I don’t have a magic wand, most of the tools I use work long term and even for life.

But before all that, in order to bring them to you, I had to attend a lot of training courses, some of them expensive, on an ongoing basis, do supervisions, prepare the worksheets you receive with their yellow binders. I’ve had to prepare the workshops, practicing it all before “going live”, the new tools have all been tested, everything involved in preparing the workshops, all of which take time.

After all that, I’ll maybe get 40% of what you pay.

• My prefered option is a bank transfer before our appointment on bank account: CBC BE33 7320 5497 9146 BIC/SWIFT CREGBEBB in the name of Isabel Leeson, Rue du Cocher 8 à 7830 Hoves
• Through the bancontact app/Payconiq/QR code at the time of the appointment.
• At the latest, by bank transfer, withing 10 days of receiving the monthly invoice.
• I cannot stop you from paying in cash but I would prefer to not have to deal with the logistics involved with that.

✅ Feel free to let me know if you have any financial difficulties that are stopping you from getting help. You won’t be judged.
I believe that money should not stop anyone from getting help. We can certainly discuss it and work out an arrangement that works for both of us.
I already offer to spread the cost over 12 months and to pay in 2 increments instead of 1. If this is still difficult for you we can discuss this and arrange payment per session. This will have no impact on the length of your commitment.

✅ They are included in a radius of 20km from the center of 7830 Hoves (Silly). Beyond that a supplement of 0,35€/km will be invoiced.

✅ Do not worry. The important part is communicating this to me. Forgetting something happens, “life accidents” that might delay the ability to pay can also happen. Where this becomes an issue for me is when I don’t understand what is going; It makes it hard to be flexible.
The coaching plan includes a module on managing your paperwork so as to set up an easy system that will help avoid these kinds of issues.

✅ You already know that we will be removing a lot of objects from your home. You can request I bring the trailer.
We can do a return trip to:

• Your closest recycling centre.
• Your closest donation centre.
• Your closest sales depot.

This should take no longer than 1 hour and 45€ will be charged for the service.
Any costs or points related to disposing of the objects are your responsibility.

✅ Imagine you come home and someone has decided to go through all your cupboards and got rid of items belonging to you because he/she thought you didn’t need them, without asking your opinion?

You don’t necessarily know which objects have value for the other person, whether it’s sentimental value, an object that you don’t see the point of but that is useful to the other person, an object that diminishes a fear of some sort, a specialised object that’s hard to find, an object inherited from someone that the other person doesn’t know but that has importance for you, just an object that you love but that the other person doesn’t…
I’m willing to bet you’d be angry.

This applies to children from the ages of 3 or 4. They also have their own personalities, needs, tastes and things that reassure them. It’s a great opportunity to teach them to detach themselves from objects and give them to the most needy, to learn about their needs, and to learn how to tidy up.

✅ It’s really simple.

The 2 hands are yours. Online, I teach you the reasoning, the principles, the tips and tricks, then we discuss, based on photos you provide, your needs and difficulties to find solutions and you put all this into practice alone at home.

4 hands involve both yours and mine. I’ll help you declutter and tidy your home.

✅ Step 1: we talk on the phone, email or have a Zoom appointment to see if I’m the right fit for your needs and to determine an approach.

Step 2: the 1st coaching appointment (this does not apply to home organising) we determine your goal and start work.

You will receive either a physical version of the “yellow folder” if you come on site, or a digital version if you prefer online follow-up. This folder is used to store and group together the coaching files.
There are many different types of worksheets, depending on what we’re working on. They can be best-practice exercises to help you with a specific problem, series of questions, lines of thought to complete, a physical note book, a guide to what we choose to work on.
The folder also contains the “my successes” sheet, where you record your successes, big and small. This sheet serves as a sort of ‘before and after’ photo album of your progress.
The coaching journal is a one that serves as a notebook during coaching steps, allowing you to record what we do, your to-do list, your questions or notes on what you’d like to discuss next time etc…

✅ Neuro-linguistic programming is a way of changing someone’s thoughts and behaviors to help achieve desired outcomes for them. It may reduce anxiety and improve overall wellbeing.
The popularity of neuro-linguistic programming or NLP has become widespread since it started in the 1970s. Its uses include treatment of phobias and anxiety disorders and improvement of workplace performance or personal happiness.

This article will explore the theory behind NLP and what evidence there is supporting its practice.

✅ Maybe it will, maybe it won’t.

Intuitive eating is not a weight management program. It’s about your behaviours with food, it’s about rejecting restrictions and not overeating. It’s about the idea of making peace with your body and showing it kindness and respect.
This could have an effect on your weight. It could go either way or stay the same.
If losing weight is your primary goal I could refer you a dietician or nutritionist trained in Intuitive Eating or a program that has similar values.

✅ Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch are American dieticians. Intuitive Eating is revised regularly to reflect the latest scientific advances.
Here is the list of studies on which the principles are based.