Frequently asked questions
What are your coaching philosophies?
What is Self Actualization?
What is life coaching exactly?
What is coaching versus counseling?
What will I get from working with you?
What issues do you help with in coaching?
How long have you been a coach?
What is unique about your coaching?
What do your programs include?
What are your coaching philosophies?
To me coaching is an investment in well-being, growth and prosperity. While I coach around business strategy, executive and entrepreneurial development, almost 100% of the time personal coaching is at the core. This is because coaching involves learning new skills and challenging paradigms that aren't working. It all boils down to life, our internal world, and how we relate our life to the external world.
Coaching, when done right, empowers people to create shortcuts to their personal and professional goals in ways they would not have done on their own. Coaching helps transform people's lives because they self actualize into their potential!
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What is Self Actualization?
Self Actualization occurs as a person develops new skills and paradigms for approaching life and therefore expands their potential on many new levels. When a person actualizes, they become more integrated, self-generating, better adept at dealing with conflict and emotions, more comfortable with communication and able to sustain long term success.
When a person decides to actualize, and meet their potential in life, their entire life experience shifts to align with their goals and vision of success!
Here is an example of how self actualizing shows up in professional productivity:
"Research showed that leaders who focus on self-management and relations produced 390% more." Primal Leadership, Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee
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What is life coaching exactly?
A life coach is hired when a person wants to reach specific goals. The support, perspective, accountability and self actualization that comes from the coach/client relationship lends to fulfillment of the client's vision, purpose and outcomes.
Coaching is a culmination of Socratic questioning, strategy creation, brainstorming and challenge!
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What is coaching versus therapy?
I've outlined the key distinctions HERE (pdf format)
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What will I get from coaching with you?
• personal support
• professional development
• goal attainment
• sense of focused direction
• empowerment
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What issues do you help with in coaching?
People come to me either because they are desire a better way to face a problem, feel stuck and overwhelmed or when they feel empty, as though something is missing in the success of their life.
This can take many forms. Some of these are (not limited to):
• business expansion (navigating the growth curve)
• increased revenue for small business owner
• preparing for promotion
• overwhelm at work or home
• management issues
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How long have you been a coach?
I was first introduced to coaching and group leadership by my personally mentor, Barbara Costello, in 1997. I began as a volunteer facilitating groups for at-risk teens and single parents.
As a result I decided to pursue professional life coaching while I studied to become a therapist. After coach training I knew I had landed. I moved into professional coaching in 2005, ended up completing a 300 hour coaching internship (unheard of in most coaching programs!) and haven't turned back since!
Review my Bio for specifics.
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What is unique about your coaching?
My training is highly unique and diverse! My training is what I'm most
proud of and enables me to address all the problems my clients face with
insight because of my:
emphasis on the Self Actualization process,
Enneagram training & Course in Miracles experience,
spectrum of experience, skills and training.
I am one of the very few coaches that has obtained a regionally accredited degree focused in coaching. In addition to a degree focused in coaching, I am trained and certified by an International Coaching Federation accredited program. I have coach focused training in everything from communications, perception mapping and fear busting to personality assessment and conflict resolution.
One thing my clients love is that they can show up to a session and anything is game! They can talk about and address anything their heart desires personally and professionally.
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What do your programs include?
My programs are designed specifically for people who value reaching intellectual potential with a spiritual and compassionate human edge! My focus is on the whole person and results are equally personal and professional.
I offer everything from single strategy and brainstorming sessions to in-depth Self Actualization programs. All of my coaching programs are one-on-one and 100% confidential (I adhere to the International Coaching Federation's Code of Ethics).
If you are interested in coaching, contact me for a free consultation to review your goals, obstacles, program and payment options. I have programs for a wide variety of needs! Contact me HERE
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