ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the steps that the Rational Emotive Behavioural (REB) coach is called upon to make when: their coachee is seeking help for an emotional problem (EP) or problems; and the coachee, in any type of Rational Emotive Behavioural Coaching (REBC), experiences emotionally based obstacles to coaching progress. The REB coach prefers to work with one EP at a time, particularly at the beginning of coaching, and if the coachee has more than one problem, they both need to decide which problem they are going to focus on first. The coachee is seeking help for an EP largely because they are experiencing an unhealthy negative emotion (UNE). When the coachee experiences a UNE, they also have a tendency to think in certain ways. These tend to be highly distorted, skewed to the negative and ruminative in nature because they are the cognitive consequences of holding rigid and extreme attitudes (REAs) about adversities.
