Coaching

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What Is Professional Coaching?

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching focuses on future visions of success rather than a focus on current or past problems.

You are the expert in your own life and work. You and I design the plan, not just the goals. The process has structure, specific focus and solutions. You are accountable for specific actions and target dates. You will be challenged with powerful and direct questions to challenge your growth.

Success is measured through external indicators of performance (such as a job promotion or a new career) and internal indicators of success (shifts in thinking that create more effective actions and shifts in emotional states that inspire confidence).

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How Is Coaching Different From Counseling And Therapy?

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Board Certified Coach. My coaching certification requires that I first be a mental health professional. My work blends the best of both. I believe that the combination offers the best services and outcomes possible. There are coaches who are unaware that they are practicing therapy without the education or license.

Counseling and therapy focus on healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within a person or in relationships. The goal is to improve emotional functioning in more emotionally healthy ways. Counseling can be about uncovering and recovering while coaching is about discovering.

How Is Coaching Delivered?

I am available to coach clients in three ways: In person, in my office, on the telephone and on computer video. For video coaching I use a secure video platform that ensures confidentiality. I coach individuals, work groups and teams. A specialty of mine is cross-cultural coaching for people who live and work internationally or in multicultural environments.

How Long Does A Coach Work With A Client?

A coaching partnership is for a specific period of time, typically three to six months but may continue intermittently for much longer. There are agreed upon target dates and a coaching agreement. The coaching process begins with a brief assessment to understand if it is the right time and best choice for coaching. Sometimes a client needs counseling first in order to succeed at coaching.

How Are Fees Determined?

I provide coaching services as a package, unlike counseling, which is hourly. This means that we might get together on the phone for a 30-minute coaching session, in person or video for an hour or more or through email exchanges. We might initially get together weekly and as we progress it will be as needed. While health insurance does not cover coaching, many employers will invest in coaching for their employees and leadership.

Work

Work Coaching

Work Coaching

Are you in a frustrating work situation? Are you new to the business world? Are you a millennial trying to understand the Baby Boomer boss? Are you a generation X worker attempting to get a promotion? Have you been promoted to a team lead or manager and no one is mentoring you? Do you have difficulty being assertive?

Too often I find that supervisors receive only superficial training in how to lead. As a result, supervisors and managers lead as ‘parents’:  without realizing it, they model how they were parented so they act as father or mother to their workers. We have all experienced this kind of management. 

Let me coach you  how to manage and not be a parent to your workforce. I can help coach you to resolve these issues! I have many years of experience with an extensive variety of work environments.

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Life

Life Coaching

Life Coaching

I have been coaching men and women for many years to achieve the life they want.

Is your work/life out of balance? Do you find that your career takes all the energy you have? Are you no longer having fun and enjoyment in life? Have your friends moved on in life and you are at a loss as to how to develop new relationships? Have you outgrown the relationships you have? Are you in a life transition? Is change the constant in your life?

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Expatriates

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Expatriate Coaching

I am a repatriate working with multi cultures since 1980. Are you attempting to learn to work in or manage the global workforce? Understanding your own cultural norms, values and beliefs is the first step in succeeding in a multi cultural environment.

I utilize empirically based methods to master skills necessary for the global workplace. 

Do you need to manage the transition to a new culture? Have you experienced culture shock? Are you rearing children in international environment? Have you been surprised by the emotional impact living in another culture?  Are you in a multi cultural marriage?

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Parents

Family

Parent Coaching

Do you parent as you were parented? This may work well for you or it may be a stumbling block considering how the world has changed since you were a child. 

I’ve raised a wonderful, independent, successful, happy daughter. Further, I have coached hundreds of parents since the 1970’s, from many different countries.

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