Life Coaching

Is there a significant life transition or decision that you’re navigating?

Have you or you and your therapist identified actions that could improve your quality of life but you’re having trouble following through on your commitments?

Are you looking for guidance on how to integrate a meditation or mindfulness practice into your life?

And if you’ve already made some progress on your core relational and mental health issues, are you now ready to focus on what’s next?
Inner work and reflection are probably not new to you—perhaps you have, through time spent in counseling or psychotherapy, already identified and processed some of the challenges that have come your way. Anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship setbacks—these are just a few of the issues you might have addressed in a prior therapeutic relationship. If you are experiencing any of these, counseling is the path that you should pursue. But if you’ve developed some of the insight needed to understand your past, you may be ready to put those insights to use in creating the future you want for yourself. 

Maybe you’ve come up against a new challenge—a divorce, death, diagnosis, or other loss. Or perhaps the progress you made in therapy has stalled or even moved backwards. You may need support in integrating the insights and skills that initially helped you move through life events that initially brought you to therapy. Perhaps there are new, different, or more advanced practices and skills that would be helpful to apply to your current situation.

Life coaching is an effective way to clarify your priorities and goals. By working with a coach who can offer support on your path, you can lay the foundation for a life that deeply aligns with your core values and aspirations.​

But What’s The Difference Between Life Coaching And Therapy?
As a licensed professional counselor in two states (Minnesota and Colorado), I have deep respect for these differences. If we determine that you would benefit from a therapeutic relationship vs a coaching engagement, and you do not reside in Minnesota or Colorado, I will recommend that you seek the services of a healthcare professional licensed to provide therapy in your state prior to our engaging in a coaching relationship.

Oftentimes, when facing personal and professional disappointments in life, we look to therapists and mental health counselors to help us make sense of our pain. These supportive figures can be extremely effective in identifying core traumas and stressors that lead to mental health symptoms (including anxiety, depressed thinking, irritability, agitation, and hopelessness) and other challenges. Many therapeutic approaches encourage us to take a step back to see exactly how we got where we are. A clinical diagnosis often guides the therapeutic process and allows insurance to cover a portion of the costs involved.
But what if you have already been on that journey? You are no longer depressed or anxious but just stalled in your progress? Coaching embraces your strengths and hard-earned self-awareness focusing on practical steps you can take to maximize a sense of confidence and empowerment. No longer focusing on uncovering the emotional and psychological wounds of your past, coaching bridges the gap between your present and your future. 

​As a life coach with an extensive background in mental health counseling, I can offer you the best of both worlds. While all of your experiences will be honored in coaching sessions, I will structure sessions to help you navigate current hurdles. In helping you feel free to authentically communicate your innermost desires, holistic life and empowerment coaching can open up your world to a new level of affirming and plentiful possibilities.

Life And Empowerment Coaching Through My Practice

I aim to make our time together as productive as possible, working immediately to identify barriers and develop concrete solutions. We will begin by assessing whether life coaching is right for your current situation.

​Because life coaches are not limited to state-by-state licensures, online coaching sessions are available to residents throughout the country. With your input, I will customize sessions to align with your unique goals and objectives.  

What To Expect

If coaching is right for you, we will begin our work together by identifying the changes you are hoping to achieve through this process. If you have been in previous therapeutic or coaching relationships, we may explore what aspects of those interactions were helpful or not helpful. We’ll assess your current strengths and challenges. Using this information, we will confirm your main objective and begin our work together. How that work will look is largely dependent on what we discover during our initial sessions. 

Mindfulness is one of the tools we may use to introduce you to the idea that you can experience a sense of well-being regardless of what is arising in the present moment. While there are many proven benefits of establishing a mindfulness practice, if this approach is not right for you, there are many other paths to achieving your goal. 

We may also explore lifestyle changes that can help you improve your mood and ability to more frequently thoughtfully respond to situations vs react to them. In addition to practices that will help you spend less time spinning (often called “thinking”), we may explore diet, intermittent fasting or time-restricted feeding, exercise, and time in nature as ways to support you in achieving your goals.  

​Coaching offers life-changing potential. Through our work together, you can develop skills to help you increase your self-awareness, honesty, compassion, and acceptance—both of yourself and others. Throughout this process, you will acquire knowledge, skills, and techniques that you will be able to apply not only to your current goal but to future goals as well.


Perhaps You Still Have Questions About How Life And Empowerment Coaching Can Help You…
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I don’t need a life coach—I can get through these hurdles on my own.

While I trust that you are strong and capable of managing tough situations, you may not realize how much the perspective of an objective, trusted coach can help. A coach holds a mirror to your life as it currently stands, allowing you to see the gaps between where you are and where you want to be. As your life coach, I want to help you reach that final destination with clarity, confidence, and empowerment. 

What if coaching doesn’t work?

You will get out of this experience what you put in. Success is not guaranteed with any endeavor in life, but coaching is likely to make a meaningful difference provided you approach the process with commitment, honesty, and vulnerability. ​

Coaching sounds expensive.

It’s true that life coaching is an investment that is not covered by insurance. However, lost dreams and relationships carry a deep personal cost that might result in long-term regret and dissatisfaction. By investing in yourself and your life through coaching, you can maintain deep, honest, and fulfilling connections to yourself and others—and that’s something you can’t put a price on.

Let’s Chart A New Path Together
Coaching can open your life to a sustained sense of resolution and new possibilities for the future. Contact Me to find out more about my approach as a coach and how I can help you achieve the life you want for yourself. And to learn more about the legal differences between Psychotherapy and Coaching, you can read this GoodTherapy article by Connor Jackson, JD.