Dr Mick Darby (CPsychol) is a Doctor of Psychology, a Chartered Psychologist and a recipient of the APS Prize for excellence in Psychology. This page relates to his clinical Counselling Psychology services within the UK (for details of his non-clinical, coaching and training services available for UK and global clients, see here).
About Dr Mick Darby
Dr Mick is a UK-Chartered Coaching Psychologist with a global client base, who helps professionals, executives, business-owners and leaders, to improve emotional agility, mental high performance, and wellbeing.
Dr Mick specialises in offering remote (online) coaching, which helps to address the psychological and behavioural needs of time-poor executives, high-achievers, everyday busy people and teams. He works with all his clients to develop Mental Fitness and sustainable High Performance, using an evidence-based approach grounded in Psychological Flexibility and Lifestyle Medicine. This can help anyone to make progress towards their career and personal life goals, whilst accommodating any behavioural, neurodiversity or mental health challenges that hold them back.
He also delivers mental fitness programmes for senior leadership teams, and presents workshops in person, for teams and organisations, that pull together wellbeing and leadership coaching in meaningful ways that deliver personalised results to his clients. Due to differing legislation around the work relating to protected titles, he refers to all his work with clients outside the UK as Mental Fitness Coaching, and refers to himself simply as a Coach.
When working with clients outside the UK, all his work is defined exclusively as Coaching or Training. Mick also collaborates with a group of coaching, business and organisational psychologists through The Career Psychologist to offer a range of bespoke team training and individual coaching services.
“My approach involves working together; sharing and collaborating in order to find workable options for each individual to move towards a more meaningful life and career”
For more details, or to book a session please contact Mick at: drmickdarby@gmail.com
Transformational Mental Fitness Coaching
Mental Fitness helps people (and teams) to move past the consequences of high-intensity working environments and discover meaning in their work, business and personal lives. Mental Fitness Coaching encourages values-based behaviour change, self-awareness and personal effectiveness.
Mick’s Mental Fitness coaching approach grew out of his expertise in a revolutionary evidence-based behaviour change approach (Acceptance and Commitment Coaching), now growing in popularity.
His approach helps transform psychological blockages into opportunities for self-growth, where individuals uncover hidden values and start behaving more like the person they want to be. This approach can be effective in preventing burnout and is effective for changing unwanted behaviours such as habitual avoidance, perfectionism, procrastination, overworking, anger or controlling behaviours.
This evidence-based coaching approach helps people to move past their unwanted repetitive behaviours, to become an improved version of themselves and achieve the values-based life and career goals they identify in sessions.
“I work sensitively with my clients to explore their psychological and behavioural patterns so that they can find ways to use less energy fighting themselves and spend more time moving towards a happier, richer life.”
For more details or to arrange a consultation please contact us at: drmickdarby@gmail.com
Everyday High-Performance Coaching
Dr Mick uses an evidence-based High Performance Coaching approach that helps with career and life direction, energy and focus. He has worked extensively with high-achievers, including people in the public eye, celebrities, elite sports-people and leaders working in high-intensity environments.
His approach specifically targets the behavioural patterns that get in the way of sustainable high performance, so clients enjoy a meaningful and enjoyable state of living and working, while embracing the inevitable pain and obstacles that come with long-term progress. This has been shown to help many different types of people to overcome stress and improve performance, emotional regulation, relationships and overall wellbeing.
Sustainable work and life performance, wellbeing and happiness is linked to individual purpose and meaning. So, Mick’s approach to high performance encompasses all aspects of life, including health, relationships, values and career.
“I help my clients to modify their unhelpful behaviours into more helpful values-based actions that reconnect them to their sense of purpose, using selected high performance psychology techniques“
For more details or to arrange a consultation please contact: drmickdarby@gmail.com
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