What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching is an ongoing partnership that is action-oriented, goal-driven, proactive and measurable, that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Life Coaching is focused around removing barriers to help you achieve what you want in your life. Life Coaching is all about helping you get from where you are in your life to where you want to achieve balance, passion, and joy. If everyone is being honest with himself or herself, I think we could all do with improving an area or two of our lives.

Do you know what direction you want to go or what your life is about and how your values affect you day-to-day? Do you know what goals you have for your future? I will guide you to clarify your purpose, beliefs, values and objectives. No matter what type of life coaching you chose to focus on, all types of coaching have the same purpose in mind. To motivate and move you forward. I will get you back on track by helping you identify limiting beliefs and ineffective habits and find more effective ways of living and enjoying your life.

Do you catch yourself hindering change because it's easier and more comfortable to stay the way you are? Any change you make in your life causes resistance within yourself as well as from other people in your life. I will help you move past that resistance with greater ease and flow.

How is Coaching Different from Therapy and Counseling?

Coaching begins with the present and assists clients in setting defined and particular goals that they want to achieve in the future. While the past may be discussed on occasion, it is approached only in the context of discovering what is blocking the client from moving forward. The focus is always on advancement and taking action, not on insight or comprehension.

Therapy and counseling primarily focus on diagnosing, understanding and healing emotional issues that impede the ability to function in a day-to-day manner. Therapists direct their client to revisit past events to explore and resolve a conflicting issue that have burdened them and help an individual client move from a dysfunctional state to a functional state.

*It is important to know that coaching can be therapeutic in nature, and therapy can focus on the future, but the two are not interchangeable. Remember, if you use the services of either a coach or a therapist/counselor it is always confidential. (Sometimes people have engaged in therapy and life coaching at the same time.)

How does the coaching process work?

A Life Coach can unlock the potential in a client. Rather than actually telling someone the answers, a Life Coach is the catalyst for getting a client to find the answers themselves. Coaching is forward looking and focused on the action you are willing to take to get what you want out of life. Every coaching program is personalized and tailored on a person to person basis in order to meet the client’s needs and wants. Along the way, you and I will work together to re-assess goals and priorities. During the introductory free session, I will ask challenging and thought provoking questions to help you move your way towards your goal.

As your coach, friend, confidant, and accountability partner I am:

• Your advocate during a change.
• Your lighthouse during stormy seas.
• Your wake-up call when you don't hear your own.
• Your motivational support when you take a step back in life.
• Your co-director when creating a mission for your life.
• Your partner in helping you have all of what matters to you.
• Your trainer in communication, spiritual, and life skills.
• Your cheerleader when you feel you have nothing left to give.
• Your prayer covering to believe with you.
• Your drive not to surrender.

When all the different aspects of your life finally feel like you will persevere, you will find yourself in a place where there is encouragement and joy. When you undertand all the things in your life that give you a sense of hope and peace, you can allow your positive attitude, not your circumstances or past failures determine how you view yourself. Is there anything that seems impossible in your life right now? What trials of life has God used to make your true colors shine through?  What new endeavor are you ready to launch? For more information about coaching, please call me at 330-442-8185 or email me so we can get started on this exciting journey to creating the life you have always wanted...and more!

I offer gift packages for coaching. If you have a friend or loved one and would like to surprise them with a gift of life coaching, please contact me for gift package pricing.

Packages include:     

• One-on-one coaching sessions lasting 45-60 minutes conducted 4 times per month by phone or in person.
• Unlimited email correspondence 
• In-between session quick phone calls*
 

*Quick phone calls are typically used if the client needs prayer, a pep talk or to share a victory.

Each client's coaching program is personalized and tailored to meet the client where he or she is. Along the way, my client and I will work together to determine goals and priorities.

After you review the services on the following page and feel free to contact me at any time for pricing.