WHAT IS COACHING?

Coaching is a relationship that provides support, energy and empowerment, which enables the client to connect with their true self and achieve the goals needed to live the life they desire.

Often times coaching is confused with other related fields, so it is helpful to understand how coaching is different.  Coaching is different than therapy.    In coaching, I believe you are a whole and functioning individual.  The goal of coaching is for me to help you move from a functional state of being to an optimal state of being. Therapy focuses on the client’s past and attempts to heal emotional wounds, or manage mental illness.

            Unlike consulting, coaches rarely give advice.  Coaches ask empowering questions.  And as a coach, I know you have all the answers within you.  My coaching will help you connect with those answers and bring about the clarity you need to make life changes. As your coach, I will help you stick to a personally developed plan for success.

          Lastly, coaching is not the same as mentoring.  A mentor draws on his or her own experiences to help someone.  As your coach, I will be focusing on your life experiences and how they can be used to encourage your growth.

"Coaching is not about the past or figuring out why and how life got so complicated or overwhelming.  It is about moving forward on the things that matter most to you, dissolving barriers and blocks to your own success, and designing a life that you love."

--Sausalito.net, August 2000