My Coaching Style
Unlike many professions, coaching can be difficult to explain in a single sentence. Your coaching experience will be affected by more than just the individual style and personality of your coach. In the same way there are many specialities in the field of medicine, coaching can look very different—sometimes unrecognizable—depending on the type of coach you are working with. While a performance coach will likely have some areas of overlap with a mindfulness coach, largely the focus, approach, and results that they each guide their clients toward are going to be dramatically different.
My personal style of coaching is an intuitive mixture of strengths-based, mindfulness-centered practices, deep listening, and powerful questions meant to evoke the part of you that just…knows. I approach our time together from a place that is centered on a few unshakeable core beliefs about YOU.
There’s a part of you that knows more about your life and what’s right for you than anyone else ever could.
Your wisdom is always showing up for you—even when it isn’t consciously being seen or heard.
Unearthing your most easeful relationship with your own thoughts, feelings, and body will free you to live the life you are craving.
The deep trust I have in you and your inherent wisdom means black and white, hard-edged, goal-driven accountability is not where my questions and observations will ever be pointing you. It is the why that lies behind it all that interests me. The space where your personal freedom lives and thrives. And it’s in this place you will likely find that you don’t need to be held accountable nearly as much as you thought.
External accountability may even start to take on a slightly different appearance—one that suddenly looks and feels kinda bossy. Like a domineering parent that is actually disrupting your creative expression, flow, and perfect timing.
If you’ve never experienced coaching before, you might think it’s a lot like conventional therapy. While there are certainly some similarities, it’s important to note that coaching is never the first place to turn when you are in acute psychological distress or physical/emotional danger. Coaching can certainly be an additonal help during such times, but only if your mental and physical safety is being addressed directly by your health care provider and the appropriate support systems. Once any extreme situation has settled into something more manageable, coaching is a great place to assess where you’re standing, what you’ve been through, and what’s next…at the pace that feels right to you.
As You Are Coaching is:
A place to explore old stories that are getting in the way in your life.
A way to discover what matters to you—separate from the priorities of dominant culture.
A partnership where you can envision, grow, and learn how to sustain your ideal life.
A process for understanding your social self, while aligning more and more with your Essential Self.
A container to learn more about your unique intuitive guidance and how you came here to partner with it.
A free and safe space for you—to honor your past and learn to live with greater intention.
As You Are Coaching is Not:
A substitute for medical intervention, or medication.
A way to avoid needed therapy and the associated exploration.
A way to get answers from someone else, such as an advisor or consultant.
A shortcut to a life without the pain of your feelings and challenges.
A place to focus on the list of changes other people need to make.
A support only available to those living in financial abundance.
The place for you if you hate change and are uninterested in the why behind your choices.
