Individual Coaching

While both coaching and therapy are designed to help you live to your fullest potential, coaching is unique in that it helps you reach your goals as you define them while inviting you to step in to new challenges and take risks towards growth.

Coaching does not provide mental health assessment, diagnosis or treatment. In coaching, we may talk about what’s worked or not worked for you in the past, but we do not focus on long-term personal or family of origin issues. Coaching does not treat substance abuse, provide crisis intervention or domestic violence counseling.

In the event that I feel you would better benefit from work with a counselor or psychotherapist, I will make every effort to refer you to the appropriate resource.

I am invested in supporting you in bringing your highest and best self into the light as you define it. With coaching, there is never a need to feel shame from the setbacks you’ve faced. We are perfectly imperfect works in progress and it’s awesome!

Too often coaching has the reputation of “kicking you into shape.” I’ll admit I’m not that kind of coach. Two fundamental words that guide my work are – honestly and gently. I am compassionate. I believe in building people up by focusing on what they’re doing well. And I am honest, but not harsh. I know you are smart and savvy and can totally handle being nudged to go big without being made to feel small.

One of the greatest gifts of coaching is the freedom the process offers. Coaching provides you with an incredibly flexible and creative opportunity to bring whatever you want to the table. I’m not here to tell you what to think, to do, or to feel. I’m here to provide a space for you to define what you want out of life and then support you in stepping forward into what you most desire.

I always tell my clients, “The only person creating the definition of your life is you.” This is an especially powerful reminder to expats because we so often feel like our lives are controlled by someone else’s work, timeline or needs. With coaching you’ll learn new ways to maintain balance between the ambiguity of a global lifestyle and developing intentional strategies for creating the life you want to lead. 

A significant portion of my coaching practice is based in helping people live more mindfully. To that end, much of my work is dedicated to helping my clients build a better foundation for understanding their thoughts and emotional patterns, raising awareness of and building insight around those patterns and developing strategies for using that awareness for a more fulfilling daily life. It is change that lasts a lifetime. As one of my clients once said,”It’s the sort of thing you can’t unlearn.”