Life coaching focuses on helping you move forward in areas of life where you want greater clarity, direction, or follow-through. Coaching is practical and goal-oriented. Together, we identify what you want to accomplish and break it down into clear, achievable steps.

Coaching often includes tools such as values clarification, accountability structures, habit-building strategies, and decision-making frameworks. The focus is on improving effectiveness, strengthening boundaries, managing competing demands, and creating momentum toward meaningful goals.

When your coach is also a clinically trained therapist, you benefit from a deeper understanding of the psychological patterns that can interfere with progress. Many high-achieving people encounter obstacles such as perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, avoidance, or difficulty setting boundaries. Clinical training helps identify these common mental and productivity blocks early and address them in a practical way so that goals remain realistic and sustainable.

A therapist’s background also supports thoughtful pacing, healthy expectations, and a greater awareness of stress, emotional load, and relational dynamics that can affect decision making and performance.

Psychotherapy and life coaching serve different purposes. I won’t offer both services to you at the same time. If you are a therapy client of mine and you want to explore coaching, I will refer you to a trusted colleague. Vice versa, if I am working with you as a coach and I feel you would benefit from clinical therapy, I will refer you out for targeted support.

• Psychotherapy focuses on healing psychological distress, processing trauma or past experiences, and treating mental health conditions. Therapy often explores emotional patterns, history, and underlying wounds in order to reduce symptoms and improve overall well-being.

• Life coaching focuses on forward movement, goal attainment, and practical change in areas such as career direction, leadership, work-life balance, and personal effectiveness. Coaching is not mental health treatment and does not involve diagnosing or treating psychological disorders.

Because of my clinical background, I pay close attention to whether coaching is the right fit. If it becomes clear that unresolved trauma, significant emotional distress, or deeper psychological wounds need attention, I will recommend a referral to therapy so that those issues can be properly supported. Addressing those foundations often makes later goal-setting much more effective.

Life coaching is often most useful during seasons of life when you are ready to focus on growth, direction, and execution. For many people, this is a period between active therapeutic healing and repair, or after therapy goals have been met, when the focus shifts toward building the life you want with greater clarity and confidence.

I’m confident that you have specific goals in mind and are aware of how you work best as a learner. Let’s spend a few minutes talking about those priorities and determine if we’re a good fit. I enjoy a good referral, so if I’m not a perfect fit, I’ll be sure to give you a few resources that I trust.

Reach out to me here to schedule a free consultation.

I do not bill insurance for Coaching services. My fee is $200 per 50-min meeting. Alternatively, if you want to purchase three meetings in a bundle, I’ll discount my rate to $500.

$200 per meeting

$500 for three

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