I find it essential to address my client’s goals in a comprehensive and holistic manner. I have my clients fill out a thorough questionnaire that encompasses everything from learning styles, current lifestyle choices, most productive times, along with honing in on their top goals. This allows us to hit the ground running. By taking this approach, together we glean the throughlines in one’s life and from there jumpstart the process which leads to greater success.

Here are some of the benefits my clients have received from working with me:

• Greater follow through on personal and professional goals.
• Improved Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
• Powerfully address negative self-talk and negative people.
• Build productive and healthy habits that lead to greater results.
• The ability to set boundaries and navigate difficult conversations and people.
• Greater energy and vitality, along with weight loss and financial goals.
• Proactively take actions that move you towards your goals.
• Address overwhelm and self-sabotage.
• Greater confidence in communication and relationships
• Confidence to take risks, stretch yourself, and move towards a life that holds more meaning for you.

Move From Criticism to Curiosity

From being the life coach for three national makeover campaigns (SELF, FITNESS and FITBLOG) which to date, three million people registered for, and from coaching close to a thousand people, I’ve learned that when we replace criticism of self with curiosity and compassion, our lives open up in the most extraordinary ways. Rather than beating yourself up by constantly haranguing yourself with “Look what I did! I’m such a blah blah blah,” I help my clients shift their perspective to “What did I learn? How can I grow from what I learned? How can I treat myself with greater kindness, generosity and patience?” And across the board, when they make that shift, that’s when their lives open up.

What is the Difference between Life Coaching and Therapy?

Fifteen years later, this is one of the most frequently asked questions I am asked most…and is important to understand.

To understand this, let’s use the analogy of looking at your life as a garden. You’re ready to make some changes in your “garden,” aka life. You may or may not know what your goals are, but you need support. More likely or not, when you go into therapy, the focus will be on the “rocks, worms and the weeds;” issues like what’s stopping you? What obstacles are getting in the way? All great questions and important to know. Self-awareness is a vital step, but understanding what’s stopping us rarely, if ever, leads to change.

When you work with a life coach, rather than the “rocks, worms and weeds,” being the focus, we explore what “flowers, plants and trees” do you want to see in your garden. We work together to help clarify your vision, goals, interests, values, and passions and look at aligning your beliefs with your behaviors. Will there be stumbling blocks along the way? Of course! But the focus is moving forward toward your personal and professional goals.

Most therapy work is “What’s Wrong?” while coaching is “What’s Next?”