Personal and Family Life Coaching

Coaching is an ongoing relationship designed to focus individuals and/or families on taking action toward the realization of their goals, visions or desires. A process of inquiry and discovery is used to strengthen awareness and personal/family responsibility, and clients are provided with appropriate structure, feedback and support. Coaching is extremely useful in reaching family, personal and/or professional goals which might otherwise go unmet, vision which might otherwise go unrealized.

Coaching differs from psychotherapy: it is about vision and the future - the paradigm of possibility. Clients and I are able to be extremely purposeful and direct in co-creating ideas and recommendations all stemming from abiding individual or family strengths. The process is concentrated and efficient. Feedback is given very directly and honestly with a clear eye toward meeting the goals developed by the client or family during this fluid process. Individual clients or family members can expect to feel empowered and supported with sensible, challenging structure and support in light of goals developed together. The emphasis is on sustainable, measurable, practical change, both short and long-term, and people need to understand that they will be supported and held accountable to those innovations to which they commit. The goal is always to engender individual/family self-reliance and a true change in a client’s consciousness or family culture where desired.

Individual Coaching - An opportunity to create a vision for self and design plans to reach that vision, feeling supported and sustained by realistic, powerful and compassionate support.

Family Coaching - A vital strengthening of family goals wherein each member and the family as a whole are able to develop powerful, lasting commitments to change as it bears upon the realization of a family vision or mission.

Teen Coaching - A young person receiving warm, consistent support in creating a plan for discovering his or her passions, talents and strengths and in designing a personal path to actualize that plan.

Business Coaching - Individuals and/or team members working towards the development and realization of exciting, meaningful energizing goals, enjoying innovative, motivating passionate support and feedback.

Coaching services are usually provided on an hourly basis, though changes in that model where appropriate are often useful. Payment is expected at the completion of the session, though arrangements can be made both for pre-payment in the case of extensive coaching contracts or for sliding fee scale models in extenuating circumstances. At the conclusion of the initial meeting, a working contract is signed which includes a beginning description of the issues to be addressed and tentative plans for doing so. It should also be noted that highly effective coaching can take place in person and/or on the telephone, so that distance is not an impediment to the process