Cooper – How do You help?
Here I try my best to layout exactly how I have helped so many clients regain or enter into the world of driving. My vast and varied experience gives me a very coloured ability to move and present different perspectives no matter what
the unique client challenges may face. After coming out of the One-Size-Fits-All driver education industry and moving into applied research bringing in laws against cell phone use and then moving into corporate change management,
I have realized that the uniqueness of each and every person’s brain is the key to unlocking your entangled 1500 driving skills. Your brain is the most complex thing ever discovered in the universe. Hence learning everything I
know or anyone knows about driving and stress is often not helpful. YOU must locate the exact pieces of this very complex world, the pieces that HELP you find
YOUR OWN WAY, YOUR OWN STANDARD OF HOW TO MANAGE YOUR DRIVING. That’s where my vast skills and knowledge and experience seeing many different solutions with helping others
grasp the driving task comes into play. I provide no magic and no secrets. I do provide a huge bundle of options, a keen observation ability, coupled with your intuition which allows you to GRAB the piece “AHA THAT REALLY MAKES SENSE” which
will help you unlock your path to safe and calm driving. I have seen it happen hundreds of times since specializing in this population for the last 6+ years. Additionally
I learned a ton about my own anxiety and some of the amazing things my clients have taught me about this challenging area of life. Calm Driving is your path. Start today.
Your lone journey of trying to figure this out on your own has ended. Come and let me share hundreds of possible solutions and success stories.
Driving Therapy
My approach to helping struggling drivers comes from a lifetime of work — listening, communicating, and drawing on deep experience in rehab, seniors, and driving therapy (training with the Road Safety Educator Association’s Driving Therapy program).
The big mistake most drivers make? Thinking “driving is easy.” It’s not. It’s one of the most demanding things we do daily — a massive braid of skills, habits, emotions, risks, and life pressures that most people gloss over. They copy what experienced drivers do, but never build the real, deep understanding a true new driver needs.
My armchair theory: Your core brain — the part that protects your life — has been screaming warnings for years while your decision-making brain ignores it. Eventually, the core says, “Enough.” It shuts you down to keep you safe — like passing out from too much alcohol to stop you from killing yourself. That’s why fear or anxiety hits hard: it’s your survival system taking the wheel.
We work together to listen to that core, deconstruct the braid, and unlock calm driving again. No quick fixes — just real understanding that sticks.
Lifestyle vs Driving Anxiety
Helping hundreds I have learned many common guidelines that really help drivers untangle their entanglement. One is insisting that the two anxiety producing areas be completely separated. Many struggles are symptons of some weakness in your entangled skillsets or knowledge. Trauma often exposes underlying skill weaknesses in your driving. After reading a ton of books on rehad and medical systems helping restore your brain back to the pre crash condition, they surprisingly never deconstruct the crash and help the driver figure out why they got themselves into that situation in the first place! WHY? Is it because driving is easy? But the real truth is it is one of the most complex risky tasks most people do daily! And easy yes, easy to get into trouble! How do you drive with anxiety? ANSWER”. You don’t! You shouldn’t. And if you are, you certainly are not doing a good job of driving. And you know that, which is why clients come find me 🙂
Change is a difficult task especially when it goes up against habit and history. MY years away from Driver Training as CEO responsible for teams, goals and group targets , I saw that many wait for external forces to push themselves to change, yet we can choose to change with internal self leadership. Personally I have experienced several careers and tons of change driven by my internal search for answers and my curiousity to learn and get paid as I learn! Change is difficult for everyone.
At the centre of all of this work is you and your brain which I call the CPU behind everything in driving. I follow the learner. Yes I can lead occasionally but the goal is to follow the learner. Driving requires 100% focus and 100% decision making without interferance from anyone and anything. I see the biggest challenge in driving is the relationship between you and your brain. Totally. This is also why I say your Anxiety is your Super Power.
Cooper’s 4 Step Unlock Plan
1-Drive and Both Reflect
You drive, I watch. You choose the issue to start (e.g. merge fear, rear traffic concern, panic attacks, blackouts.) You say what you’re feeling and thinking from the inside doing it. I tell you what I saw outside observing. Any glitches we see we speak honest and open and try to understand it clearly.
2-Deconstruct the Intertwined Skillsets
We tear apart whatever we saw typically specific movements related to the target issue. Share words viewpoints around what we saw as we build a communication to help explain and discuss further the issue(s) deeper.
3-Test Try Fixes
We brainstorm solutions ideas pulling for your years of lone investigation and intuition, and my vast 500 plus solutions library plus decades of experience and training. Looking for “Oh that’s interesting! Let us try that!”
4-Unlock the Calm
You drive again applying our new reframing. Did it change? If not we dump it repeat and try again. If it worked and often it does without us knowing why, regardless we continue forward, Back to Step 1 and repeat.