Coaching is a professional partnership between coach and client that allows the client to discuss areas of their life that they feel need improvement. These areas can include self-care, relationships, career, business, finances, health, and more. When speaking with clients who are also in therapy, they tell me that their therapists don’t usually ask them about their dreams and goals, but rather, work on deep-seated issues or traumas from their past that are affecting their outward behaviors in negative ways. In coaching we discuss the areas in your life that need improvement, your dreams and goals for either the immediate future or long term, identify the blocks and challenges that are in your way, and create a plan of action for achieving those goals. Therapy tends to look backward while coaching looks forward.

Coaching is also not consulting. I will not simply hand you advice based on what I think you should do to solve your problem; this would not be a co-creative partnership. Areas of life that require deep thought and reflection, and serious decision making, require you to make decisions that resonate on a much deeper or, perhaps higher level. Yes, I am talking about your soul, inner knowing and intuitive levels. Trusting your own intuition and “gut” instincts can provide the basis for powerful decisions in your life that will lead to amazing improvements. This doesn’t mean that I won’t offer suggestions, but whatever I suggest is approved and carried out by you. Together we can create an action plan to move you toward success, and you can be confident that you’re always in control of the process. As Eleanor Roosevelt once said “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of thier dreams”