Coaching is an interactive experience where we discover your goals and your passions and use them to help you travel down a path to the life you want. My role is to empower YOU as the client and ultimate authority on your life. I use techniques supported by evidence on what works to achieve change.

Therapy is designed to address mental and behavioral disorders. Therapy is a healing modality, and relies on therapist clinical expertise. The focus is on stabilizing and reaching a functional baseline; coaching assumes function and focuses on optimization. Coaching is a self-directed learning activity. You design the agenda, goals, and do your own thinking. A coaching approach is EXPANSIVE rather than reactive; it is defined by creating solutions, not managing a problem or decreasing symptoms. The goal is not healing disorders, but growth. Coaching exists outside the western medical model. It is present and future focused and relies on the client’s agency and self-discovery. You completely determine the goals for sessions.

• The time that your coaching process will take depends on your goals and your commitment and openness to your process. Many people find benefit from just one session; however I recommend 4-8 to start.

• If you have active dysfunction/ a disorder and your goal is symptom management; if you need trauma healing or want to process your emotions or past. Coaching acknowledges the past, but is concerned only with the present and future. If you feel you need to process and understand your past in order to move forward, therapy is a better fit.

100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions, with few exceptions for safety, just like seeing a therapist. I follow the ethical guidelines set by the International Coaching Federation

I received my Masters in Social Work and spent over a decade as a licensed mental health practitioner. My LISW ( currently in escrow) is in Ohio.
I received extensive training evidence-based therapies such as CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Gottman Level 1  couples counseling

Gottman 7 principles educator

Certified Coach with the Coaching Program for Helping Professionals, an ICF-accredited program