What is coaching?

Coaching is a powerful, relationship-based approach to personal growth. Through the coaching relationship, individuals, teams, and couples are capable of achieving extraordinary transformation in all facets of life. Coaches hold space for all that is possible while clients dream boldly of a life that is fulfilling and joyful. Coaching is supported by a powerful, trusting relationship between coach and client.

What makes my approach unique?

My work is intentionally inward and intended to yield powerful transformation. I invite my clients to turn inside to look at themselves with self-compassion and curiosity. We explore how each of us engages in protective behaviors (anger, judgement of self, judgement of others, freezing, retreating, etc) in an effort to get our needs met. We often protect to avoid feelings that feel too big or too hard. This pattern of self-protection can ultimately make our lives feel very hard and our relationships very strained. Trained in Internal Family Systems, I work gently to map the system of protective layers that are trying to help but ultimately causing stress and challenge in our lives. This process is remarkably impactful and with time and patience, leads to profound and long-lasting healing.

What topics are covered in the coaching relationship?

It’s whole life coaching, so you can choose to work on any part of your life that is ripe for examination, growth, and shift. This includes all things professional and career related, relationships (work and personal), self-esteem, wellness, life-work balance, fulfillment, transition, life purpose, and personal growth. It’s all possible! Often clients bring a topic or question to the coaching as a starting place. If not, I have provide exercises to surface topics you want to explore. Once the coaching relationship is formed, the question of what to explore tends to flow with ease.

What about relationship coaching?

Relationship coaching is a powerful method to strengthen a committed relationship between two or more people. Partners who engage in coaching together have the opportunity to focus on the WE with a gaze towards what is possible and with careful, supported attention towards their communication. Many partners engage in coaching from a place of strength and curiosity in the relationship (How can we grow together? What more can we learn about ourselves and one another?). Others come with a specific area of focus to address. Like individual coaching, the dynamic of relationship coaching involves both looking inward towards self-discovery and gazing forward to see all that is possible. The center of the relationship is communication. I am trained in IFIO (Intimacy From the Inside Out) to support partners to learn how to create and sustain a relationship that includes honest, heart-led communication so that the partnership can work through whatever comes its way. With my support, partners find new depths of connection as they learn about one another and together build new practices in communication and understanding.

I’m interested! Now what?

We meet! Much of my coaching is over phone or zoom, so you can live anywhere and join my practice. Our first step is to set up a time to get to know one another and explore the coaching relationship. This session is free of charge and helps us both explore fit and begin to lay a foundation. This link will take you to my scheduling site; or, feel free to reach out directly via my contact information. I look forward to meeting you and joining together in pursuit of your best life.