About Coaching
Coaching is present and forward focused.
It is appropriate if you have already explored how your past impacts your present or you are working with a therapist to do so while you use coaching to focus on building the future you desire. It is not appropriate if you are seeking to diagnose or treat mental health issues, process trauma, or investigate how your past influences your feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
Coaching helps you explore, identify, and take action towards your goals. It helps you identify and navigate obstacles that prevent you from attaining your goals. One way to think about coaching is that it helps you explore where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.
It also helps you identify and amplify your inner strengths.
It involves taking action, accountability, collaboration, and openness.
Coaching does not offer guarantees.
Issues Coaching Can Address
- Making life transitions go smoothly (such as career changes or entering different phases of life)
- Strengthening your relationships with others (including romantic or business partnerships, family relationships, and friendships)
- Strengthening communication skills (including assertiveness)
- Strengthening your relationship with yourself (including with your body)
- Boosting confidence
- Increasing playfulness and joy
- Creating better work/life balance
My Style of Coaching
The kind of coaching I do focuses on the following:
- Transformation
- Empowerment
- Stress resilience
- Well being
I provide neuroscience-based education to help you understand yourself and others, including information about the mind-body connection. This helps you better recognize and more smoothly move through stress as it occurs and to be better able to communicate with others. This also gives you confidence to advocate for yourself and be assertive.
My holistic lens helps you examine various aspects of your life, if they feel balanced, and what you might need to make them more balanced.
We explore your inner strengths, how they have helped you before, and how they can keep helping you.
We actively identify your goals, any obstacles preventing you from reaching your goals, and steps you can take to make progress towards your goals.
A mix of talking and drama therapy techniques are used, as the experiential nature of drama therapy helps explore the above aspects in a more active way than merely talking alone does.
How Coaching & Therapy Differ
Coaching and therapy both focus on improving the present and future, but only therapy can explore how past experiences impact your present and can help you process traumatic experiences.
Coaching focuses on identifying and actively working towards goals. Therapy focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions. Coaching helps people transform their lives by enhancing optimal functioning. Therapy typically focuses on “fixing” people because the field uses the medical model that pathologizes normal experiences.
While coaching is not therapy, it sometimes uses therapeutic tools. For example, examining negative thoughts and how to combat them might be used in both coaching and therapy.
While coaching and therapy both use neuroscience to help people, coaching focuses on tools to help people thrive or flourish instead of just survive. Coaching focuses on skills, techniques, exercises, strategies, education, and application.
While therapists are obligated to protect confidentiality and coaches are not, I honor my clients’ privacy and abide by confidentiality when in the coaching role.
Contact Me
If you’re ready to create the life you desire, contact me for a free 15 minute consultation.