Coaching

Secure, virtual coaching for individuals across the country

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

―Dalai Lama XIV

If you are experiencing challenging life transitions and need a little push to get “unstuck” from the overwhelm of responsibilities, coaching might be for you. With goal-setting and behavior analysis as my fundamental coaching framework, this approach can assist you in finding a sense of direction when you feel lost. With gentle guidance, you’ll learn how to develop new habits that actually last, and your personal growth will skyrocket.

Together we’ll build a program specifically structured for your needs. With a robust accountability plan alongside tools and practices designed to get you feeling strong and confident once again, we will get you back on your RIGHT path.

This method requires serious action, accountability, and rigorous goal-setting. If you truly want to see change, you must take responsibility for what is actually within your control. With assertiveness training, I can help you! I’ll be assertive, forward, and hold you accountable as I teach you important tools and daily practices. I have the map and scientifically-proven techniques that will positively impact your life. I’ll support you as you work through your interpersonal relationships, help you crack the code of daily obstacles, and train you in creating and maintaining healthy boundaries. Coaching will empower you to finally take those first steps and begin!

What can coaching help with?

Feeling Totally Lost

  • Lack of direction in life, with career, in relationship, with family or friends

    Loss of identity

    Overwhelmed with responsibilities

    Unsure how to find and create time for yourself, or take it without guilt 

    Confused on goals or what you want out of your life

Need a Life Pick-Me-Up

  • Life in a state of flux or transition

    New school, new job, loss of job, moving, new relationship or freshly out of one, new big responsibilities

    Seeking change

    Want to create new habits

    Need help setting and accomplishing personal goals

A Healthier Lifestyle

  • Want to invite exercise into daily life in a realistic way

    Healthier interpersonal relationships - setting/maintaining boundaries

    Making positive choices with free time (being productive, building friendships, creating actionable goals)

    Finding hobbies, seeking more adventure

A drop of ink in a glass of water colors the whole glass.
A drop of oil in that same glass stays centered in its place.

- A BRILLIANT CLIENT OF MINE

It’s the perfect metaphor: your life experience doesn’t need to exaggerate the small things when you’re set up to courageously tackle the bigger stuff. With my coaching framework I’ll show you how to rewire your perspective and positively impact your life.

Let’s change that drop of ink to oil.

MY COACHING APPROACH

I believe you already know what you need to do to improve your own life…together we will find the best solutions to get you where you want to be.

SOLUTION-FOCUSED

- Finding solutions in the present, with quick and pragmatic resolution of one’s problems. 

- Tapping into the inner strength, wisdom, experiences, and overall resilience you already have to create the change you want to see.

- Goal setting, self-actualization, understanding locus of control, and direct behavioral change.

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING

- Resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation needed to change behavior. 

- Practical and empathetic process that takes into consideration how difficult it is to make life changes while increasing your motivation to make the commitment to positive behavioral change. 

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL COACHING

- Focus on present circumstances and emotions in real time. 

- Improve/encourage healthy thinking patterns and behaviors.

- Application of skills learned through assignments and accountability between sessions, such as exercises to observe and recognize thought patterns in real life situations.

- Significant improvement in functioning and overall quality of life.

- Learn what is blocking your ability to start, gain progress, or deservingness of change.

- Adjust your thinking patterns, alter your belief systems about who you are and what you deserve, and ultimately change your behavior in the positive ways you’re seeking.

How is coaching different from therapy?

SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:

Are your challenges significantly impairing your daily life?

Are you experiencing trauma, flashbacks, nightmares, panic or anxiety attacks, hypervigilant behavior, consistent triggering from historical pain?

Do you have an unmanaged diagnosis? 

Are you in a deep depression and unable to get out of bed? 

Are you consumed by such significant anxiety that it’s crippling (impeding on your life and relationships) or keeping you from accomplishing your goals? 

Do you want to move slow, and build a trusting relationship with me over time, less structured and more focused on your emotional stability?

If any of these topics are reflective of what you’re experiencing, you might be a better fit for psychotherapy. You are not alone, and I can help. Let’s talk!

COACHING WILL NOT:

Take a deep dive into your past or process any form of historical/generational traumas or historical conditioning, directly address abuse, or specific disorders/diagnosis.

Address or directly support any pathology specifically (ie: anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, personality disorders, etc).

Move slow. We’re not messing around with pointing the finger nor attacking your partner. We are not blaming or processing pain placed upon you by your family.

However you show up, I am here to support your needs. If you have any questions or would like some clarity, please GET IN TOUCH.

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What our partnership looks like

To read more about my therapy process and what our partnership looks like, visit WORKING WITH ME.

Therapy Services

INDIVIDUALS | COUPLES | FAMILIES | MEN

The services I provide are built through an integrated client-centered humanistic approach with focuses on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Somatic practices, Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, and Gottman. As an advocate for equal rights, I provide care to all people, period. The foundation of my practice is to create a safe space that is supportive of a personalized, equitable experience for exactly who you are and how you show up in this world.

Please note: My coaching services are available to all U.S. residents. My therapy services can only be provided to residents of the state of California. I do not accept insurance at this time.