Meet Your Coach: Dr. Michael Hurd
Dr. Hurd brings over 20 years of experience and training to
the practice of solution-focused and cognitive psychotherapy.
Among other books and publications, he is the author of “Effective
Therapy” (Dunhill, New York, 1997), one of the pioneering
works that led to the popularity of solution-focused therapy and,
ultimately, personal coaching.
Long before the concept of Life Coaching became “trendy,”
Dr. Hurd was already practicing the techniques and philosophies
implicit in the coaching process. Now, his approach is part of
the mainstream. Dr. Hurd has no need to make a major theoretical
shift from the psychoanalytic (the old-fashioned “Freudian”)
school of therapy, as is the case with many therapists-turned-coaches.
His years of experience as a solution-focused, cognitive psychotherapist
make him eminently qualified to listen to you and help you achieve
what you want to achieve – employing skills that others
(many of whom are enmeshed in outdated techniques designed to
help the “mentally ill”) might not possess.
The potential areas of your life where a coach can be helpful
are almost limitless. Dr. Hurd’s particular areas of specialty
include:
- career dissatisfaction/career change/managing your time;
- Keeping on track, keeping your goals centered on the “radar
screen” of your life;
- Breaking free of, and moving past, procrastination;
- Learning to follow up your good ideas with action, and not
get stuck in the perpetual dreamland of “I’m gonna
do this one day, and I’m gonna do that one day;”
- Coping with difficult people in the workplace and in your
personal life;
- Attempting to deal rationally with questionable psychiatric
labels, including Attention Deficit Disorder and many others,
placed upon you or a loved one by some mental health professional;
- Excessive Behavior – whether it’s shopping, drugs,
alcohol, time on the computer, or anything else self-defeating
in nature;
- How to talk to people in ways that will cause them to listen;
- Life Changes – whether due to death, divorce, unexpected
or planned changes that don’t go exactly as you wanted;
- Sex and sexuality;
- Money management, budgeting, priority-setting;
- Romantic satisfaction; and
- How to think better and to integrate thought with action.
Feel free to write Dr. Hurd at drhurd@drhurd.com
about his areas of expertise and whether life coaching might be
helpful for you.
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Coaching Index
- What Can a Life Coach Do for You?
- The Basic Premises of Coaching
- What Is the Difference Between
Psychotherapy and Life Coaching?
- Meet Your Coach: Dr. Michael
Hurd <-- You are here.
- Coaching---In a Nutshell
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