About Anna
Coaching Psychologist | Researcher | Educator | Writer | Speaker
Anna Navin Young is a Coaching Psychologist, Researcher, and Educator specializing in time awareness and temporal wellness. Working across educational, organizational, and community spaces, Anna supports individuals and groups through 1:1 coaching, workshops, trainings, lectures, and keynotes.
She is passionate about helping others understand their time habits (how they think about, value, and spend time) in order to increase their sense of purpose, productivity, and fulfillment in their lives, work, and relationships.
Alongside her private practice, Anna also lectures on the MA in Positive and Coaching Psychology and MA in Work and Organizational Psychology in University College Cork.
Over the last ten years, Anna’s professional experience has centered on psychological research and coaching, leadership mentoring and training, teaching and lecturing, events management, program and retreat facilitation, youth development, community building, and arts programming. Anna has worked across the United States and Europe.
Anna received her master’s in Applied Psychology: Positive and Coaching Psychology from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Currently, she is completing a PhD in Applied Psychology with a focus on evidence-based time awareness coaching. She is a co-founder of the Positive Coaching Lab at UCC and is a professional member of the Association for Coaching.
PhD Research
Do time management interventions actually support employee wellbeing?
How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact our relationship with time?
Can time awareness approaches enhance hybrid workers’ work-time practices and wellbeing?
How can we train helping professionals (such as coaching practitioners) to support their clients’ mental health and personal/professional development using time awareness approaches?
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These are a few of the questions my research is currently investigating as part of my larger interest in how our relationship with time influences and is influenced by our environments, health and wellbeing, and daily decisions and behaviors.
I am completing this research in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland.
Kind words from my clients
Testimonials
The most impactful part of working with Anna is that she brings a presence, an awareness, and a sense of consciousness to her sessions and teachings that allow you to feel both heard and guided.
A.F.
Coaching Client
Her calming presence inspires me to be more intentional with my energy, time, and awareness.
O.W.
Coaching Client
Qualifications and Professional Memberships
Positive Coaching Lab
Enhancing health and wellbeing through translational research, practice, and education in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, and creating community in these fields.
In 2022, I co-founded the Positive Coaching Lab in collaboration with other researchers, educators, and practitioners. Through teaching/training, research, practice, and community building, we aim to improve quality of life and positive mental health for all.
My Coaching Philosophy
As a member of the Association for Coaching, I abide by their ethical standards. My coaching philosophy stems from their definition of coaching as, “a facilitated, dialogic and reflective learning process that aims to grow the individuals’ (or team’s) awareness, responsibility and choice (thinking and behavioural).”
In action, this involves a number of factors.
