Coaching

I prefer to call it coaching rather than counseling. You don’t need one more person telling you what you should do, and that’s not the job of a good counselor or therapist. The best solution is the one you come up with. I’m here to ask questions to help you figure out your next steps based on your dreams and goals, and your sense of the ethical dilemmas that may be making things seem confusing.

It is your life. Whatever you bring to a coaching session is very important. Sometimes those are the most difficult things to talk about. I create a safe space for you to talk about what you might never have discussed with anyone before. You need to feel respected enough and safe enough to do that. 

We’re on a team. I’m not here to slap a label on you and give you advice. Quite frankly, you deserve better than that. I will work with you as we focus on what matters most to you. Strategies may include mindfulness, NLP (neurolinguistic programming), hypnotherapy, self-relations psychotherapy, and somatic techniques. Who knows? It might help to go for a walk!

Utilizing Steve Gilligan’s framework for Generative Change, I work from some basic premises. They are:

1. An indestructible “tender soft spot” exists at the core of each person
2. Life moves through you, except when it doesn’t.
3. Life is great, but sometimes it hurts like hell.
4. There are two of you: Relationship is the basic unit.
5. An intelligence greater than you exists in the world.
6. Your path is yours alone. You are an incurable deviant!