"Life Coaching"

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When I first started my company my financial advisor suggested this dude... look at these rates!..

No wonder there is a huge market for it

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Doesn't sound like him - a cursory check of his twitter feed suggests he fully supports lockdown measures.

Don't know about him as a person, but I used to read his stuff years ago and it always felt very measured and professional, to the point of being fairly dull. No reasons to suppose him an arsehole as far as I know.

https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/dr-ben-goldacre/

Dr Ben Goldacre is a Research Fellow of Green Templeton College. He is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow and runs the DataLab at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

Runs data lab at Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-carl-heneghan

Carl Heneghan is Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and a practising GP. A clinical epidemiologist, he studies patients receiving care from clinicians, especially those with common problems, with the aim of improving the evidence base used in clinical practice.

Director of Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Who also was doing this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxm2HZp8c3A

And here he is waxing lyrical with everyones favourite anti-lockdown gob on a stick Julia Hartley-Brewer

https://twitter.com/talkradio/status/1328269202864697344

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When I first started my company my financial advisor suggested this dude... look at these rates!..

No wonder there is a huge market for it

At a fundamental level psychologists and psychotherapists (well good ones) are knowledgeable friends.  They are people that have got the compassion and patience to properly spend the time help someone work through their problems and achieve what makes them happy in life.  On a practice level all the knowledge about brains and minds are directed towards promoting this wellbeing in their clients.

Lots of people that for whatever reason do not have these support structures in life may well find that the company that comes with some life coach blowing smoke up their arse is all they need to get out their and tidy their bedroom.  There are certainly elements of life coaching that are going to be interventional or even inspirational.  Rarely in my experience is it based on any evidence base (though important to remember one of the biggest predictors of successful interventions is therapeutic relationships) and usually these are narcissistic people that are doing this kind of work for the wrong reasons.

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When I first started my company my financial advisor suggested this dude... look at these rates!..

No wonder there is a huge market for it

Attend a free session with him and I bet he knocks a significant amount off to get people on board.