Simplicity on the other side of complexity.What, simply, is coaching?“From time to time, most people experience a gap between knowing what they need to do—and doing it. Coaches help us cross that gap. Coaching is a rapidly growing profession that is not about offering advice or providing therapy, but a way for people to be in a supportive relationship that results in a more effective, meaningful lived experience for the client.
Through collaborative inquiry, reflections on strengths, values, and visions, and powerful dialogue, coaches serve as catalysts and witnesses to their clients’ transformations.”
—Meg Jordan, PhD, RN, NBC-HWC, ACC
When is it time for coaching?When things get hard we tend to dig into familiar ways of doing things. This generally works—until it doesn't.
Such times can be important invitations for change—but change of what kind, and how? In the overwhelm it can be hard to know where to begin. I invite to you begin here.
As integrative leadership and health coach, I provide dedicated support for transformative leaders—for your own deep resilience and regeneration.
Rooted at the intersections of functional health, inner development, and your meaningful contribution in the world, I support you as a whole human being.
What to look for in coaching?When you are navigating any change in your life, coaching can significantly uplift your process of journeying from “point A to point B.”
The following attributes contribute to a meaningful coaching experience:
1. Coaching talents: A coach who excels at the practice of coaching is skilled in listening, reflecting back to you your own awareness, supporting you with relevant resources, inquiring to help you connect with new insights, amplifying your discernment, and helping you maintain commitment to your goals while facilitating your own intrinsic motivation. The qualities of good coaching alone can be genuinely transformative.
2. Domain-specific capacities: Coaching is amplified when coaching talents are combined with a depth of knowledge in an aligned field or domain—such as when you are seeking support for improving your health, engaging a health coach who is educated and certified in health & wellness can leap-frog your process—saving confusion, frustration, time, energy, and money.
3. Lived experience: Coaching becomes even more impactful when a coach has firsthand, lived experience in the journey you are on, providing a foundation for empathy and insights for effective action.
4. Sense of connection: The pleasure of working with your coach can turn a "need to do" into a "want to do." Connecting with someone you genuinely enjoy builds a sense of team, having a partner and collaborator with you along the way.
When you're navigating times of significant challenge or change, coaching can profoundly uplift your life—in the present moment and for your enduring future—yet calls for a greater level of capacity to support you not only through A to B transitions, but through an ‘A’ to a-yet-to-be-discovered ‘C’ journey.
In such times these additional coaching attributes become vital:
5. Embodied presence: A coach with embodied presence—capacity for nuance, complexity, discernment, patience, wisdom—can help you explore and grow into truly new awareness, possibilities, and potentials.
6. Integrative capacities: A coach with integrative capacities across multiple domains can help you prioritize your energy and resources across seemingly competing contexts—engaging perceived limitations as design parameters rather than as constraints—to care in balanced ways for the whole of your life.
7. Centered on your growth: A coaching approach that meets you where you’re at, that is focussed on your next genuine step, and moves at a pace that allows your journey to unfold organically.
8. Focused on your greatest outcomes: Support that recognizes that while your journey may benefit from the experiences of others—including your coach’s lived experience—this journey is thoroughly and uniquely yours. Differentiated from the delivery of a program or pre-designed approach, support that is focussed specifically on your life for your greatest outcomes.
This all is the kind, and quality, of support you will experience with me.
I provide a custom experience for your journey through change and challenge—support that is unique to you, your needs, and your circumstances.
Structure & CostTogether, we will establish a pace, rhythm, and duration that serves you. Your journey may be a short one as you move through an acute challenge, or longer as you navigate significant transitions.
Twice per month is a great approach for most, shifting to weekly during times of increased challenge, and once per month during times of easy momentum.
Payment is set up with automatic monthly invoicing. If all sessions are not used in a month, invoicing will be deferred with paid sessions saved until they’re used. You may at request purchase a fixed block of sessions to be allocated as needed.
Sessions last 50 minutes via Zoom, followed by comprehensive notes shared through your private Client Portal.
Notes capture insights, next actions, recommended resources, and any other vital elements from our time together. They also become revelatory to look back on!
Pricing is designed to be financially accessible while not displacing your capacity to access other therapies, modalities, experiences, or practitioners as they may become supportive along the way.
‘Graduated’ clients are always welcome to schedule themselves for single session touch-ins.
FAQs-
I welcome individuals of all genders, identities, and orientations, and am qualified to support people who are 18 years or older.
If, at any point, you feel that the limits of my lived identities are impacting your coaching experience, I genuinely invite your feedback to ensure a supportive coaching environment for you.
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I work primarily with clients across the US and Canada, and welcome clients from around the world. My language skills limit my effective coaching capacities to English. Please reach out by email if the times available for scheduling aren’t possible for you in your time zone.
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In-person sessions are welcomed and appreciated when possible considering our locations and carbon footprints. For context, I live and work in the United States in Bellevue, WA
Bellevue is on the ancestral homelands of the Coastal Salish Peoples—Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, and Tulalip—who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial.
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Scheduling is a dynamic and flexible process. At the close of each session we’ll schedule the next. Alternatively, every client has the freedom to book their own time in my calendar at any time, and typically does so within a window of one week to one month in advance. This approach provides the advantage of adapting to life's changes with minimal rescheduling.
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This link provides the details of the coaching agreement. When you sign up for coaching you will have the chance to review and electronically sign a copy of the agreement through your Coaching Portal.
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I invite you to schedule a complimentary discovery session. If, after our session, coaching together feels like a right fit for you, I'll set you up with coaching services.
ProcessWe will move through your journey organically, session by session.
I have developed several maps to support your journey as they become relevant and supportive. Each one provides access to well-researched and comprehensive resources—to “simplify the complexity”. Below are examples.
What is "NBC-HWC"?National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches “display an unconditional positive regard for their clients and have trained to the highest standards in the profession which means that they have the skills and knowledge to walk alongside you on your path to your healthiest self.”
– National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC)
“Instead of sacrificing thriving to meet life’s demands, thriving becomes essential to meeting those demands.”
—Wellcoaches ‘Coaching Psychology Manual’