The Coach: Dr. Aamer Iqbal
Dr. Aamer Iqbal has helped clients deal with more than health related problems for over twenty years. And he got into this field quite by chance. Having trained in medicine from King Edward Medical College, Lahore and National Heart and Lung Institute with its affiliated Brompton and London Chest Hospitals, he began his career with the aim of practicing chest medicine at the primary care level. However, patients began asking him for help with problems ranging from job stress, career choice, marriages facing a breakdown, depression after retirement, improving health, lifestyle, remaining well at work and losing weight. This was in addition to regular medical practice. Dr. Aamer then realized that his passion was to help people deal with emotional and health challenges, thus allowing them to live their lives fully.
To gain proper expertise in this field, he underwent coach training with Coach Inc., a leading coach training provider, and also trained in neurolinguistic programming (NLP). He is also a member of the International Coach Federation. In this regard, Dr. Aamer holds a unique position, having both medical and coaching training.
His main clinical interest is in helping asthma patients stay out of hospital, i.e. attain better control of asthma.
His articles have been published in the quarterly magazines Ink and Citizen-Wise. He was interviewed for an article for the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas in October 2010: you can read it here http://www.blogworld.com/2010/10/13/the-coaching-doctors-advice-for-blogworld/.