A coach’s job is to focus, question, challenge, cheer, support, and ask more of you than you ask of yourself. I will powerfully guide to help discover what’s holding you back so you can push forward to where you want to go. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their understanding, raise their level of consciousness, improve their desired results, and enhance their quality of life.

In each session, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and powerful questions. This interaction creates clarity, action, and shifts the client forward. Coaching moves the client from where they are to where they want to be by focusing on what matters, revealing blind spots and creating awareness of choices not previously available.

What Coaching is Not

There is often confusion between coaching, counseling, consulting and mentoring. It’s important to understand the distinctions between these four unique approaches.

While they all may have some common threads each one addresses a different need.

How is coaching different than counseling or therapy?

Counseling, or therapy, often looks to the past in order to discover, heal and understand. Coaching, on the other hand, looks to the future in order to make a good life even better. In coaching, the starting point is the client’s desire for personal and professional success. Coaching focuses on forwarding the areas of the client’s life they want to enhance or transform. Coaching is less about how you came to be who you are, but rather who you are now, and getting you from today to a future you desire.

Spiritual Coaching has a special focus of remembering who you are.

How is coaching different than consulting?

A consultant is an expert who provides advice and solutions. The consultant holds the agenda, imparts knowledge and offers suggestions to improve effectiveness and increase success.

With my background in accounting, and growing up in a family of medical professionals, I am a problem solver with a keen need for things to make sense logically, and objectively.

My coaching program includes some consulting where I share resources, ideas, and possible solutions, but it’s up to the client to determine whether these are valuable.

Coaching sees the client as creative, resourceful, and whole having answers within themselves, which is revealed through the coaching process. Coaches act on the premise that the definitive expert regarding your life and work is you.

How is coaching different than mentoring?

A mentor often has many more years of experience than the person being supported. Mentoring is akin to role-modeling – the client sees attributes, qualities or abilities in the mentor that he/she wishes to learn or emulate.

Coaching is a partnering of two equals, which focuses on the unique and intrinsic qualities already within the client that may not be recognized or appreciated. The coach helps the client affirm and embrace their own true self.

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