Why Have a coach?
We come to junctures in our lives where we feel stuck, ungrounded by the pace of daily living or are struggling to find and claim a sense of purpose or deep meaning in how we live. Having a coach can be an invaluable tool to help you move through those stages by offering you structure, practices, support and perspective outside yourself to uncover clarity about who and what matters to you and the unique gifts you have to give.
I create a safe and supportive environment for my clients to discover, be challenged and grow. I partner with clients to help them deepen into their aliveness. By stepping into more aliveness, we can better unearth who and what matters most to us and make sustainable change in our actions, practices and viewpoints.
What you will explore in our sessions
Presence: Connect with power of presence and gain insight into how your presence affects others and influences outcomes. Gain awareness into how you react or “show up” under pressure and increase your ability to have more choice in how you respond.
Resilience: Get in touch with your inner strength in order to recover more quickly from setbacks. View and honor difficult situations and people as practice opportunities to help you discover important life lessons.
Aliveness: How to move toward and experience more aliveness by unearthing what truly matters to you, the unique gifts you bring to the world, and how you want to be of service in your life.
Soma (body): Become deeply in touch with sensation and emotion arising in the body and tap into the wisdom of the body to plan, make decisions and take action.
Communication: Practice communication techniques aimed at effectively influencing action.
Prioritize self-care: Discover how to feed your vitality, explore patterns in your life that keep you from prioritizing yourself and create practices that bring more harmony into your day-to-day.
Deepen relationships through vulnerability and mercy: Build a deeper relationship with yourself and others through increasing your capacity to trust that you can be accepted just as you are. Embrace yourself fully and learn to insert more care and mercy into your relationships.
Ease and relaxation: How to slow your pace and savor your journey for the sake of being more in tune with the more subtle signals your body is sending you. Relaxing is an art and bringing more ease into your life is a practice.
Trust and unfolding: How to trust your path and honor the mystery guiding the unfolding of your life.
Beauty and joy: Give beauty and joy a seat at the table of your life by exploring what makes you feel “rich,” supported and connected. Learn how to celebrate wins and insert more fun, play and exploration in your daily life.
About my coaching practice
I practice a form of mind-body coaching called “somatic” or “embodied leadership” coaching based in mindfulness, neuroscience, action-oriented communication, and somatics (body)-based practices and research. At its foundation, this coaching style holds that our body offers us a lot of insight into how we show up in the world, meaning how we historically have and currently take care of safety, dignity and belonging in our lives. Working with the body in addition to the mind is critical to creating sustainable change because while we might “know” all the right things to do, if the learning just stays in the mind then under pressure we often revert to our unconscious ways of acting, reacting and thinking.
Somatic coaching is both depthful and pragmatic and goes beyond the traditional “tips and tricks,” talk-based coaching model. Somatic coaching focuses on helping clients build a set of practices that allows each person to embody the change she/he wants to become. In our sessions you will work toward a commitment that you set for yourself and I will support you in your journey of uncovering and bridging the dissonance between where you’re at and what you are longing to become.
Our sessions may focus in any domain of your life that you feel is important to explore, such as work, family, relationships, artistic or athletic practice, or your general sense of purpose or spirit. In our work together, you will explore questions such as, “How might I show up as a better leader of my own life?,” and then from there, “How might I more effectively lead those around me?” Our sessions may be spent in conversation, action-based practices and even some bodywork depending on what you want to work on and what methods are most effective at bringing you deeper insight.
I received my professional coaching certificate from the Strozzi Institute and am an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach. I adhere to ICF's code of ethics in my practice.