Why Coaching?

Coaching focuses generally well-functioning individuals by assisting them to overcome barriers to changes they want, in order to achieve the specific goals, they set. These life changes do not happen automatically they require focus and concentration to take the steps necessary   Not everyone is ready for change when they think about it. Knowing where you are in the process can help you decide how and when to move on.

One model suggests that there are six stages of change:

1.     Pre-contemplation

2.     Contemplation,

3.     Preparation,

4.     Action,

5.     Maintenance,

6.     Termination.

Coaching helps clients explore their own desires, abilities, reasons, and needs for making changes in their lives, and then take action to make and sustain those changes. I work with the skills I have learned over years of coaching clients through challenging parts of their lives, divorce, recovery after the loss of a partner, recovery and the challenges of rehabilitation from surgery, accidents or other physical trauma, getting back self-confidence after job loss, as well as normal transitional periods such as retirement, and refocusing after children have left home. 

Each person is unique, and change is an ongoing process.

My approach is person-centered, and strength-based. That means you are in the driver’s seat making your own decisions about what works and fits you. Having partnership with a guide is invaluable in helping you make the changes you want; and the approach is based on your strengths. Those strengths, skills, and resources are the fuel that support and nurtures the change you want. Achieving one change develops a rich set of skills that can help you in other areas of your life.

One change often has the ripple effect that causes welcome changes in other parts of your life.

What to Expect:

1. An introduction to the basic structure of coaching
2. Getting to know who you are and where you are at currently
3. Taking an inventory of what is working for you and what isn't
4. Looking at goals
5. Considering actions that need to be taken
6. Working together to develop a plan that works for you
7. Creating a basic plan 
8. Home work for you
9. Check-ins and revisions to the plan (no plan is perfect) 

This is a process that requires more contact time in the beginning with short frequent check ins.

followed by less contact time and less frequent but longer check-ins less frequently, unless there are particular challenges

Rates:

My hourly fee is $120 I charge by the hour or in 15 minute increments

I offer a free 30 min consultation or a 60 min exploratory session for $60

Payment is in advance on paypal or square

Where:

Anywhere! I work online so that you can be anywhere and we can connect.

Our first sessions need to be on Skype or FaceTime but after that we can do check-ins by phone.

There is home work involved especially at the beginning getting questionnaires done helps you to more forward by stimulating your  and boarding your thinking.