"I can't do it for you, but I can support, guide and encourage you along the way."

A life coach can help you make progress in your life and attain greater fulfillment.  As a life coach, I will aid in helping you improve and enhance relationships, your career, and daily life.  I can help you with identifying and clarifying your goals, identify obstacles that are holding you back, and then come up with strategies for overcoming those obstacles.  I will help you identify and build on things that work for you and get away from and change things that aren't working for you!

• Improving work-life balance
• Improve work satisfaction
• Build stronger and better relationships
• Improve creative
• Managing Stress
• Identify core values
• Identify/Clarify Goals
• Make manageable plans to attain goals
• Improve parenting skills

Some say that counseling focuses on the "why" of the problem and coaching focuses on the "how to get out" of the problem.  Both coaching and counseling provide solutions to get you closer to the life you want to be living.  Coaching is likely shorter-term in nature and will focus more on present and future-oriented things.  Counseling may be longer-term and would explore more in depth the underlying challenges, issues, stressors, and origins of obstacles or things that are getting in the way of progress/growth.

Specifically, a counselor is licensed and experienced to treat mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or trauma and will have at least a graduate degree in a mental health-related field.  A counselor will also be required to adhere to ethical codes and health privacy laws.  These same things do not pertain to a life coach.

Parenting Education means any developmentally appropriate information provided to or facilitated with individuals who function in the role of parents or expectant parents.

I am a trained and certified Positive Discipline instructor and value this approach in parenting.  I have taught Positive Discipline classes for groups of parents for several years and also incorporated parenting education and skill development in one-on-one settings as well.  Parenting education and skill development is an example of a specific area to focus on in coaching.

Life coaching is not a billable service through insurance.  A life coach meeting/session will cost $50 for 30-40 minutes when scheduled individually.  There are also "bundle" options.  Please see "Payment/Billing" for more specific information.