This is a great clarifying question!

While consultants offer advice based on their opinions and counselors focus on healing therapy and diagnosis, coaches focus on the present and future. They use powerful questions, active listening, intuition, and techniques to help clients achieve their goals and move into the future they desire while holding them accountable.

An easy way to think about it is that therapy looks back, and coaching looks forward.

By utilizing these tools, a coach can identify the client’s needs, obstacles, and future aspirations while recognizing the client is a creative, resourceful, and whole person, and holding them as the expert and wisdom of their own life.

This is a big question since there’s still confusion around what a “coach” actually does. Though I can definitely be called a life coach, I prefer personal growth coach because I help clients address all aspects of their lives, not just specific issues. Through coaching, clients discover new directions and opportunities while working towards their goals.

As I’ve grown in my own practice, I’ve found career coaching is my sweet spot and where my clients have found deep value in my support and experience. To that end, we’ll work towards your initial professional goals knowing that, as you explore yourself and address what comes up in our conversations, your desires may evolve.

We’ll take who you are now and who you are growing into becoming into consideration throughout the coaching relationship.

I work primarily with women in mid-career transition. Most of my clients have 10-20 years of work experience and are looking for a new adventure or pivot. Together we get to dream bigger dreams and infuse confidence into their job searches through coaching, homework, and résumé consulting.

Coaching is a collaborative relationship focused solely on getting you to where you have always known you could be. Together, we’ll uncover your professional goals to bring those passions and dreams to light. Then, we create an actionable plan to achieve those goals and journey together in accountability to meet them.

My role in our one-on-one work is to be the cheerleader in your corner focused on discovering the values that make you uniquely you, identifying the voices blocking your growth, and creating an individualized vision for a passionate and compelling future. I help mid-career women just like you move from uncertainty and a scarcity mindset into one a self driven by confidence, transforming "someday" into today.

Now, calling a spade a spade, I know it can be hard opening up to someone new. Vulnerability is a soft space! And it can be very scary to let our guard down. My goal as your coach is to offer a space where you are seen, heard, valued, and championed. And, while our conversations may not always be easy or comfortable - I can actually assure you they will not - each one is in service of the larger goal of getting you to the life truly meant for you.

You can read more about my approach here.

Here’s a question for you: Do you know what you want to get out of coaching? I found in my own experience with my coaches, that I never imagined ending up where I ended up. I had to be open to growing, and allow the process to stretch me, to really step into the life meant for me. The growth was in the journey itself.

Coaching can push us in ways we didn’t know were possible and into new levels of self-awareness and personal understanding. It’s in this new space we can truly see growth, change, and transformation.

My work with each client is nuanced, personalized, and very specific to you as an individual, what you want, and ultimately, where you’re going.

As your coach, I hold confidentiality in the highest regard, and nothing you share will leave our sessions or be transmitted to anyone else.

With that said, a coach-client relationship is not a legally confidential relationship, and I would break confidentiality if there is any concern about a client potentially harming themself or others. This is non-negotiable because your safety is one of my top priorities!

If, after our initial consult, we think partnering together will be a successful match, you can easily book our 50-minute appointments through this site and through your own account. It’s up to you on whether you’d like to meet weekly or biweekly, though I ask we meet at least twice a month to ensure continuity and keep the momentum going!

Each session is scheduled with a personalized Google Meet, and a link will be sent with your appointment confirmation.

Co-Active coaching means “being in movement together”. There’s a heavy emphasis on being and doing, on how we’re showing up and what we’re doing as we show up.  

Co-Active Professional Coach Training is widely recognized as the most rigorous professional coach training and certification program in the industry. The Co-Active coach training model spans over 5 modules (or courses), totaling 104 hours of learning and practice in a classroom environment. Each consecutive course became more elaborate and focused on the 3 foundations: Fulfillment, Balance, and Process. The concepts became concrete, yet fluid as they blended together in Synergy.

Listening is the foundation of my coaching approach.

The most important component of the coaching relationship is you. To that end, every session is led by where the client wants to go at that moment, no matter where the last session left off. Your voice is the most valuable direction-giver. My goal as a coach is to listen to you and provide the resources and accountability to keep us traveling in the right direction.

We focus on what it is you truly want out of your career, reflect and name what blockers are impeding your progress, and refine how we see those obstacles moving forward.