What is Life Coaching?

Coaching is a non-directive, person-centered, growth-oriented support service to help functional clients achieve meaningful goals that matter to them. Coaching promotes self-concordance, pursuing goals aligned with personal values and interests. The coaching relationship serves as a structural support that offers three factors vital to promoting positive outcomes: one-on-one support, competency building, and time intensity.

The coaching approach emphasizes autonomy, voice, and choice.

Clients come to coaching with an interest in self-improvement or measurable progress. Through coaching, clients find insight and direction to identify practical means to reach their goals. The coach guides and supports the client’s planned, intentional, and purposeful action toward achievement from a place of openness, acceptance, and non-judgment.

Coaching clients are ready and willing to do the work inherent in the coaching process. They are committed to optimizing their internal and external resources to achieve the outcomes they seek.

Examples of common focus areas

Positive Identity

Helping you to identify and leverage the internal resources presently available to you to begin moving toward your goals. I facilitate your self-awareness around concepts like identity, strengths, interests, values, and desires to enhance your self-mastery. We get much further by working with what we already have on the way to building new skills than by waiting to become the person we would rather be.

Power to Choose and Act

Enhancing your sense of agency to choose goals that matter to you, pursue those goals, and achieve them. I support you as you prioritize self-regulation and tap into self-determined motivation, meaning, and purpose on your way to achievement.

Social Skills

Building skills for positive social connection. All humans have an inherent need for safe and secure attachments with positive social connections, even if only a few. We can often learn to improve our relationships through skills like healthy communication, prioritizing quality time, boundaries, navigating healthy conflict, or appreciating and leveraging differences.

Mental and Emotional Fitness

Learning to manage our mindsets, thoughts, and emotions to leverage them as the tools they are can be quite empowering work. This work is about tapping into your role as the human having a thought or experiencing an emotion with the space to choose what to do or not do with them rather than simply being carried away by them as if they're in control.

Unsure if coaching is a fit for you or your child? Learn the differences between coaching and therapy here.