What Is Coaching?

Coaching is nonjudgmental space to talk through your goals and challenges in meeting them. It’s space to understand where you’re at now and who you need to become to have the life you want.

Coaching asks you to look at yourself and to decide how to act on the information you gain by doing so.

Coaching is goal-oriented. We’re working to achieve something in your life that you want to be different.

We’ll look at what the goal actually is, why it matters, and possibilities to get there (as relevant), and then we’ll take real steps in that direction.

Regardless of how introspective someone is, they only bring their own perspective. A coach provides outside observations, reflection, and perspectives from a different point of view.

As a coach, I believe in you and encourage you to believe in yourself. We’ll focus on your strengths, capabilities, and what you can achieve.

As a coach, I provide encouragement, support, and reminders of how awesome you are. In some ways, a coach is an external source of confidence, particularly when you’re discouraged.

My expertise focuses on the process by which people create change in their lives. It focuses on how to encourage deeper awareness.

I bring expertise on the coaching process and on how I can support your journey. You bring expertise on your life. We work together to apply the process to your situation.

Each time we meet, we’ll agree on action you’ll take toward your goals prior to our next meeting. Coaching is an excellent source of external accountability when you know you want something, and are struggling to follow through.

I am not a therapist and am not qualified to diagnose or treat mental illness.

Coaching is focused on the present and the future. What’s happening now and what can we do to move forward?
Occasionally, we’ll use past experience to inform those choices, but coaching is not designed to dig into, analyze, or dwell in the past.

Coaching is not about fixing you or healing you.
Coaching starts from an assumption that you’re not broken and you have everything you need to achieve your goals.

Coaching is not about giving advice. It’s certainly not about insisting that you take my advice.
You know yourself and your life better than I do. I find that more often than not, the paths forward that people discover for themselves are more effective than anything I could suggest.

Coaching is not about choosing parts of you to label as “wrong” or “bad” or “problematic.”

You’re perfect, exactly as you are, as a unique, beautiful, worthy human being.

Coaching is effort. It asks the coach and the client both to be actively engaged toward pursuit of the client’s goals.

Self-discovery and gaining awareness is mental effort and creating change in one’s life usually involves intentional work.