Dr. Cate Brown, Coaching Psychologist

The Psychology of Change

I am a personal and executive life coach, based in Dundee. I specialise in bridging the gap between the theory and practice of psychology. I can help you identify and explore how your unique value system influences your choices, what you consider possible, what motivates your actions and where you choose to invest your energy and abilities. I offer a framework within which you can explore new possibilities for living, learning and leading in accordance with your own vision for a worthwhile life.

If you've ever wondered how you could become more confident, more resilient in the face of setbacks and problems, mobilise underused resources, create a vision for your life and establish steps to move forward then this approach is for you. My programme integrates innovative psychological theory into a practical framework that allows you to develop areas of your life so that you experience more fulfilment and can view change as less of a threat to avoid and more as a challenge to embrace.

As a Chartered Psychologist, I have extensive knowledge and expertise in the areas of self motivation, learning and change management.

From my doctoral research I have developed a programme called, Exploring Possibilities which is designed to enable and encourage people to explore their core beliefs and values which can liberate or restrict choices. My research findings strongly suggest that our ability to realise our potential is largely determined by the beliefs and values we hold. These 'core constructs' often exist at a low level of awareness and need to be identified, explored and evaluated. If we liken our self theories to scripts in a movie then it is easier to understand how the script can either constrict the character's options by tightly defining who they are, what they know and what they can do or offer choices for moving forward by construing them as able to learn, acquire new skills and gain the necessary knowledge to engage in new tasks, situations and relationships. Both scripts and self theories define what is considered possible or not and the Exploring Possibilities programme encourages us to become creative script writers who create alternative possibilities for our selves.