Family Matters - Life Skills Coaching.

Beneficiaries: Individuals and families experiencing domestic violence.

This project was the initiating project for Family Matters, which started the organisation in 1995. A specialist support and empowerment service tackling domestic abuse. It provides one-to-one coaching (counselling/education) to victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse to break the cycle abuse and to promote healthier relationships and fulfilled lives.

It takes a great deal of strength to say:
“I have a problem or a challenge which I am struggling with, I cannot work through it alone and I need your help”

Broken……….

What is Life Skills Coaching ?
Life Skills Coaching is a way of working alongside you, very much like a sports coach or a personal trainer, but dealing with life issues, personal challenges, problems, crisis and personal development.  
Life Skills Coaching focuses on equipping and empowering you with key life skills, such as problem solving skills for example. You will learn to take charge of your life and to take responsibility for your personal and interpersonal transformation irrespective of your background, upbringing or life experiences. 
Life Skills Coaching Aim
The aim is to equip you with the life skills and techniques to enable you to:-
Identify and to work through the healing of past hurts, overcome current personal challenges and setbacks and to move forward in your potential to bring about your vision for personal transformation and growth.

Life Skills Coaches
Life Skills Coaching is facilitated by our Life Skills Coaches on a one-to-one basis or in a group setting. 

Who Can Benefit from Life Skills Coaching?

Life Skills Coaching is suitable for anyone wanting to work through an issue or a problem, or simply wanting to maximise their potential.
Some of the issues clients have found help with include: -

  • Past or present experience of domestic violence
  • Depression
  • Sexual abuse
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Childhood abandonment
  • Divorce
  • Rejection
  • Stress
  • Lack of Confidence
  • Self-Harm
  • Sense of failure, Shame & Guilt
  • Work pressures
  • Relationship Difficulties

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No Quick fix Solutions
We know that personal growth and change is possible, but we also appreciate that personal recovery, constructive change and growth is hard work and as such as we do not offer you any quick or easy solutions. 
What we do offer irrespective of your background is an accessible service staffed by committed professionally trained Life Skills Coaches that provide:-

  • Confidentiality and an opportunity to work through your situation, in a supportive relationship with agreed boundaries.
  • An opportunity to acquire new personal life skills and to gain the confidence to make constructive changes in your life.
  • An opportunity to bring out the best in you.
  • A simple sense of hope for the future.


Our Life Skills Coaches from their professional training and experience work from their heart, demonstrating with their lives, their growth, and through their range of emotion and depth of experience, the effective use of the life skills and techniques that they offer their clients.

Supervision and Accountability

Life Skills Coaches work under the supervision of the Centre Director.  Our Life Skills Coaches work to a professional Code of Conduct.

What happens next?

We will make an initial appointment, where you will have an opportunity to decide if Life Skills Coaching will be of help to you, and for us to be sure we have the appropriate skills to meet your need.  As we take a holistic approach to our work we will refer you to your GP to ensure that you have the best all round support, whilst engaged in the coaching process, especially where issues being addressed may have a health impact.
Arrangements will then be made for you to meet with your Life Skills Coach.  The number of sessions will be agreed between you and your Coach.  Each session will normally last for about an hour. 

How much does it cost?
We do feel it is important for everyone to make a
contribution towards their recovery and growth. Fees are
therefore charged on a sliding scale according to income.
However no-one will be denied help through lack of finance.

Pursuing Excellence

Family Matters Luton is committed to excellence in provision of Life Skills Coaching. We value feedback from our clients, other agencies and our partners. This enables us to continue to deliver an effective service.

Life Skills Coaching is not counselling, awareness raising or therapy.  It focuses on acquiring practical life skills. However, there is no denying that Life Skills Coaching can increase ones awareness, and even be
therapeutic.
Our Life Skills Coaching is based on the conviction that life’s challenges and crises can be best met by taking an holistic approach.  For us this means utilising the wisdom of pastoral insights, the knowledge and skills of counselling, education and training in facilitating clients acquiring the skills and competencies to bring about their own transformation and to manage their own lives.

Every client is treated with respect and dignity.