And how does it help practitioners get to the ‘good stuff’ faster?
If you’re a practitioner, you’ve probably had sessions like this:
A client can explain the story in detail…
but they can’t name what they want, what matters most, or why they keep making the same choices.
They might be defensive, avoidant, conflicted, stuck in indecision, or saying all the “right” things, then doing none of it between sessions.
Over time, it creates a familiar grind:
- lots of talking
- stop–start progress
- fragile motivation
- and a client who quietly starts to feel like they’re failing
And the frustrating part for you?
Your expertise is valuable, but it’s on the sidelines, because you’re either
- spending all your time and energy trying to create clarity and direction before your real work can begin, or
- your expertise aren’t landing with your client, because they’re ‘not-ready’ – even though they want what you’ve got…
Why This Happens
Most of the time, it’s not because your client is lazy, resistant, or incapable.
It’s that they’re dealing with a whole host of things including:
- Unclear values (they can’t prioritise what matters)
- Competing values (they want two opposing things at once)
- Unclear identity (they’re unsure, not confident, and aren’t sure what they stand for)
- No plan or framework to turn insight into decisions and behaviour
So the work stays vague, the shift is minimal, and the outcomes are weak.
This shows up in your work like:
- Clients circling the same themes for weeks
- Intellectual insights acknowledged – without the behavioural change
- Agreement in-session, with collapse outside the room
- Low confidence / low self-worth, and wanting to give up due to “lack of progress”
And for you as a practitioner:
- You step up and over-function to keep the momentum – leading to burn out.
- Frustration and time pressure creep in because you’re not getting the results with your client – leading you to question your-self or deal with clients dropping out.
Where the Life Values Method™ fits
The Life Values Method™ gives you a structured way to surface what matters most, and build a foundation for your clients success, so you can focus on what you do best – and be the expert in your niche area.
It’s not values work for the sake of it.
It’s values-based ‘engine’ for:
- Weight loss, well-being and behaviour change
- Career clarity and decisive action
- Boundaries and communication
- Grief, recovery, rebuilding identity after loss
- Relationship repair and responsibility-taking
- Confidence, self-trust, and direction
- Or whatever your area of expertise is – values underpins it all.
Once values are known, visible and prioritised, your clients can stop relying on willpower and sheer determination, and gravitate toward their why. Being pulled in the right direction, rather than pushed.
Their internal compass leads the way…
Life Values Method™ Overview:
The Life Values Method™ is designed to help you deliver sessions in a simple way – no matter what your niche or area of expertise is.
It combines:
- Values based exercises with guided prompts and helpful conversation starters.
- Card-based tools in a Virtual Deck to explore and visualise ‘dynamic and intangible concepts’.
- A simple diagnostic map known as the Life Values Alignment Grid to help clients see what’s going on, and what “being better” looks like.
See one version of the Grid below, with labelled personas that help clients identify where they land.
The Life Values Alignment Grid™
Why values work so well in sessions
Values work helps you in three ways:
- To cut through the noise and BS, to reveal the real priorities at play.
- To help your client understand patterns, especially when things get tough – and what to do about it.
- To have a framework and tools at your fingertips that you can rely on.
Simply, when values become visible, clients stop feeling like they’re “broken” or “at a dead end”. They can see the patterns at play, and have the tools right in front of them to work with, providing much needed hope – ready to engage with you.
What it looks like in practice
You can use the Method in different ways depending on your style and modality.
Common applications include:
- Start sessions strong and get straight to the core fast.
- Help break client patterns. When a client is looping or stuck in indecision.
- Homework with structure that clients actually complete (because it feels meaningful)
- Decision support and confidence for career changes, relationship choices, identity shifts, burnout recovery, etc.
- Values-based boundaries (especially helpful for people-pleasing and over-functioning)
- Goal setting and planning
- Meaning and purpose – your clients why.
What’s included in the Life Values Method™ Practitioner Kit
The Method is designed as a foundational ecosystem you can integrate with your work, in a light way, or go deep with it and make it a central part of the way you work. The choice is yours.
Here is a list of the core components:
- The Life Values Practitioner Guidebook
- Includes 40+ structured exercises for insights, reflection, planning, decision-making, and more.
- Life Values – Virtual Deck
- Includes 214 values cards for discovery, language, conversations, insights, clarity and more
- Guided values sets and “Power Combos” for targeting common themes quickly
- The Life Values Alignment Grid™ (a simple yet powerful diagnostic + realignment map)
- Training Videos (coming soon)
This Method gives you a way to include values-based work in your delivery that’s consistent, repeatable, adaptable and useful.
Who's the Method For Specifically?
The Method is especially useful for practitioners and professionals who work with:
- Clients in transition (identity shifts, career changes, relationship changes)
- Burnout / overwhelm (values conflict, over-responsibility, loss of meaning)
- Confidence and self-trust challenges (second-guessing, people-pleasing, avoidance)
- Clients who are high-functioning but misaligned. They’re successful on paper, but flat inside
- Anyone stuck in a loop. They’re sick of spinning their wheels
If your work involves helping people build self-awareness and to take healthier action, values work tends to slot in naturally. This includes many
- Coaches
- Counsellors
- Therapists
- Professionals
- Leaders
- Teams
- Community Groups
- Businesses / Organisations
Start Using the Life Values Method Today
Here are two popular options to start using the Life Values Method today.
Download the Life Values Alignment Grid
Discover how values and responsibility interact to describe what’s going on for your clients (and ourselves)
Get the Kit
Use the Life Values Method in the way you work. Become a Life Values Method Practitioner
