The Power of Transformative Coaching

Coaching is collaborative partnership/alliance focused on providing you with guidance, accountability, and support in accessing your own insights, skills, and strengths so that you may maximize your personal and professional potential. Coaching is a thought-provoking, creative, and inspirational process designed to help you identify your goals and design a plan/strategy for how you will accomplish them. You set the agenda; your success will depend on your willingness to take risks and try new approaches. I will not make decisions for you or provide directives to you, but will attempt to facilitate increased awareness, goal setting, action steps, and outcome evaluation. You can count on me to be honest and straightforward, asking powerful questions and using various techniques to help move you forward, in accordance with your needs and my training. You are responsible for evaluating your own progress and, when coaching is not working as you wish, you should immediately let me know so we can both take steps to correct the problem.

I follow the ethics and standards of the International Coach Federation (ICF). You may wish to review these at https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/coaching-ethics/.

Coaching is a comprehensive process that may involve many areas of your life, including work, finances, health, family, relationships, and many more. As coaching is collaborative in nature, its value and outcomes depend on your active and honest participation, your openness to assistance and feedback, your forthrightness in requesting and designing strategies that support you, and your dedication of your time and energy to the coaching process. You have the ability through your active participation to make and keep our coaching relationship powerful! You are the expert on your own life. All decisions, choices, and actions you take during and after our work together are yours. While I will do my best to support you toward your coaching goals and believe deeply that coaching services can help many people, you are 100% responsible for your participation, progress, and results. You are choosing to purchase coaching services and work with me on a purely voluntary basis and will not hold me responsible should you become dissatisfied with any portion of the services, with the exception of allegations of professional malpractice or fraud.

The answer is different for everyone, but only you will know how many coaching sessions you need to feel "complete" with accomplishing your goals. Depending on the scope of your project and how many areas of your life are involved, and whether you want to explore your values, motivations, attitudes, behaviors, and other inner workings in a deep fashion, you may want to work with me weekly for 6 or more sessions. Perhaps you will determine that as you build momentum in making the changes you want, you would prefer to meet every other week to maintain accountability, or perhaps monthly. Clients are welcome to return for "tune-up" sessions when they feel the need, or to schedule another series of weekly sessions to address a new goal or life area that has come to the surface.