Life Coaching

Life coaching is about possibilities and potential. The coaching may address transitions from one life stage to the next such as marriage, divorce, becoming a parent or empty nester, midlife issues or retirement. Personal coaching also may focus on every day issues that are challenging such as parenting, balancing work/life or dating. Some examples of the Life Coaching I offer are:

Transition-coaching often involves the shift from one developmental stage in life to the next. Moving from one phase of life to another, people may lack confidence, feel afraid and feel stuck. Transitioning is a time to re-assess, re-prioritize and rejuvenate. It is also a time to create new goals and visions.


Career-coaching is about gaining clarity about what clients want in their next or current career. The process involves asking discerning questions, challenging the client to investigate limiting beliefs and adapting their vision to reality and what is currently available. Career coaching may also include learning interviewing and negotiating techniques.

Skills-coaching will often focus on one or two specific skills such as time management, organizational, leadership, public speaking or communications. In a sense, a skills coach is also part teacher. The measure of a successful Coach in this area is not how good the Coach is at a particular skill but rather how well the Coach has helped the Client improve.

Coaching Teenagers

Teenagers get stuck. They are not adults and they are not children. It is, at times, an impossible balancing act for both the teenager and the parent. Often, parents know what is right, but the parent/teenager relationship is so sensitive it becomes difficult to coach your own child. A Coach can help.

Some common, and very coachable issues are:

Unwillingness to relate to others
Argumentative
Low motivation/lethargy
Confusion about the future
Fear of change

Coaching sessions are results-oriented and help Clients understand and take responsibility for their behaviors and actions.

Coaching Young Adults (College and older)

College means newly found freedom and an increased workload. Coaching often concentrates on areas of time management, priority setting, organization and self care.

College career coaching can begin early in a student's senior year. Coaching focuses on finding a direction, exploring interests, assessing skills and verbalizing goals. We examine the job market, write a resume, practice interviewing and begin the job search. Coaching may include transitioning skills to help the student learn "living on your own" skills.