What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching helps you get out of your own way.

Starting at baseline, a life coach helps you to move forward and meet goals that may seem out of reach. Whether you are dealing with a loss, the end of a relationship, or just lack vision on being the best version of yourself, a life coach will help you push past the barriers you set up for yourself and instead realize your strength and passions. Life coaching is not therapy. When you are low functioning, a psychologist, therapist, or counselor are better suited for major trauma and issues. Rather, a life coach may initially revisit your past but empower you to regroup and tap into your full potential to meet goals for now and in the future. The coach is not the “expert” like a traditional therapist would be, but rather part of your team! The coach helps you identify your strengths, introduces you to some information and resources and together we craft an action plan to obtain the results you want!

Coaching With Chris

Coaching with me feels safe and motivating. I am compassionate, truly listen to my clients, help them see things differently, and get unstuck.  

My 40 plus years of experience equips me with the tools, techniques and strategies to overcome roadblocks and help you take the next step.

Together, we create a customized plan to:

  • Clarify your goals.

  • Harness your strengths.

  • Maximize your opportunities.

Specialties:

Professional Life Coaching | Life Transitions | Career Coaching | Career Transition | Job Search Strategies | Career Management | Professional Development | Personal Development | Redefining Self| Navigating Family Dynamics | Moving Through Trauma

I provide coaching services to help you:

  • Career transition

  • Gain control of your life by identifying and setting limits and boundaries

  • Tame and reframe negative thoughts

  • Find work life balance: is about effectively managing the juggling act between paid work and other activities that are important to us - including spending time with family, taking part in sport and recreation, volunteering or undertaking further study.

  • Communicate more assertively, effectively and confidently

  • Improve Personal & Professional Relationships: Strengthen connections and improve communication in your personal and professional relationships. Gain practical strategies to build trust, resolve conflicts, and create meaningful bonds.

  • Stress Management: Discover tools and techniques to navigate life’s challenges with ease. Learn to manage stress, build resilience, and find balance through personalized strategies that fit your lifestyle.

FAQs

  • Coaching is a results-driven partnership between coach and client, built on trust, confidentiality, and accountability, that facilitates learning, self-awareness, and clarity.

    Consider a coach as your guide, growth partner, and accountability ally, offering support throughout your personal or professional journey.

  • The objective is to focus on your potential (your unrealized ability, capacity or possibility) by leveraging your strengths, uncovering what’s in your way, and targeting the areas you are most interested in addressing to help you reach your goals more effectively.

  • Coaching is focused on personal and professional development and partnering with individuals to help them shrink or close the gap between where they are and where they want to go.

    Therapy tends to focus on healing, and Therapists are licensed clinicians who are trained to diagnose and treat mental health issues.

  • A mentor is a senior person in the business who guides a junior person from their greater experience. A coach does not have to be a senior person in the client’s line of business. The client has to know the business, not the coach.

    Consultancy deals with the business system as a whole. A consultants recommendations affect individuals indirectly. Coaching affects individuals directly. Coaching will very often be part of a consultant’s recommendations for a business.

  • All human beings dream of fulfilling themselves and they deserve the opportunity to be their best.

    People create their life experience and a coach can help a client to create the life that they want.

    Intellectual understanding is not enough. Change means taking action.

    There is no such thing as failure, if you do not get what you want, you find another way. Failure is just a short-term way of saying that you not succeeded – yet.

    Everyone already have all the resources we need or can create them. No one is helpless. The client has the answers, the coach has the questions.

    A coach works to increase the amount of choice in the client’s life.

    Coaching is an equal, synergistic partnership.

  • Career development, feeling stuck, navigating workplace challenges, personal branding, goal development and execution, authenticity, life purpose exploration, clarity on values, and more.

  • Each individual’s results depend on their own efforts, diligence, and skill. There is no guarantee that any level of success or income will derive from coaching.

    Coaching is an investment. For those who want to grow, evolve, and realize their potential, coaching is a useful and transformational tool. It requires work and a commitment to learning.

  • Everyone and anyone. Organizations hire coaches to improve teamwork, to coach executives and help managers. Individuals hire coaches to improve their life, their relationships, and their general happiness.

  • After you complete the form and share your interest, I will reach out via email to set up a discovery call where we explore your intentions with coaching as well as your goals. We’ll discuss available coaching options and cost.

    If we agree to move forward and partner together, we will determine start date and I’ll send a coaching agreement for you to review and sign. Then the coaching relationship will begin.

  • Unlike therapy, coaching is not covered under health insurance plans. However, you can check with your Learning & Development or Human Resources teams at your company to learn if they might cover the cost.

  • I provide coaching services virtually, in person, and via conference call.