About me

Coaches are Change Agents who help individuals take responsibility for their lives and act to maximize their own creative potential. 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.

To go about our lives without having to think through every action, our brains develop constructs and rules that we operate within unconsciously. This means that we get stuck in our automatic thought processing. To interrupt this process and think differently, disruption must be welcomed by the individual. Coaching taps into the middle brain, activating the creative mind instead of our survival or analytical mechanisms. This also arouses a sense of personal responsibility and courage. 

Logotherapy is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for meaning and purpose. Your “meaning“ consists of whatever you are meaningfully engaged in and occupied with in the here-and-now that deserves your attention.

The three main techniques of logotherapy are:

1. Dereflection - redirecting the attention away from self-absorption and empathizing with others. 
2.  Paradoxical Intention - fighting anticipatory anxiety with irony and humor. 
3. Socratic Dialogue - uses one’s own words as a method of self discovery. By listening intently to what one is saying, a coach can point out specific patterns of words or word solutions to the client. This process allows the client to discover the answers are within, waiting to be discovered.

Insight based learning within a co-active coaching model develops peoples' minds and confidence. A reflective inquiry-based conversation focuses on how people think in order to facilitate insight-based learning. Creative thoughts emerge as people pull out and connect bits of stored information in a new way to answer a provocative question. 

When thoughts, beliefs, and emotional reactions are held up in reflection, individuals are prompted to examine their own thinking. As such, their perception changes to gain a new awareness of themselves and the world around them.  

The time that your coaching process will take depends on the complexity of your goals and your commitment and openness to your process. For coaching to be successful and provide the best outcomes, you must:

• Respond to reflective statements and questions even when it feels uncomfortable. 
• Be an active participant, not a curious bystander. 
• Be open, honest, and willing to explore what isn't clear or fully known about yourself, others, and the situation. 
• Meet commitments for action between sessions, and show up for scheduled sessions unless an unexpected emergency happens.
• Carve out time to think about coaching conversation after a session, and immediately before the next session.  

100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions, just like seeing a therapist.