Coaching vs therapy

Therapy focuses on the WHY. We examine long standing patterns, often from childhood. Therapy focuses a lot on the past-which can be very helpful when resolving trauma-but it’s easy to get stuck there in the past.

Coaching focuses on the NOW. We identify a problem or a goal, and then make a step-by-step action plan to get you from where you are to where you want to be.

Therapy is reflective. Therapeutic goals are general and vague. Therapists are discouraged from giving direct advice.

Coaching is proactive. Coaching goals are specific. Plus you a step by step PLAN.

In my coaching practice, I use all my therapeutic skills-I can’t help it. I have 20+ years of clinical expertise.

But, I don’t allow my coaching clients to sit in their problems. And that includes YOU if you choose to work with me.

How can I help you as a woman in midlife ?

The message we get is that by the time you reach midlife, you better have your whole life all figured out. Your career should be rocking. Your relationship better be solid. You better be on the trajectory of cruising towards retirement safe, snug, on autopilot with a couple of mil in your 401K. You better have all of that AND LOOK GOOD. And if you don’t ? You are out of luck. There is no more time for exploration, growth, opportunities or expansion.

AND that my friend, is a boatload of BS !

As someone who never managed to color in the lines-when I hit my 40s, I was unprepared.

Several rapid fire life events knocked me on my butt:

Perimenopause kicked in bringing with it severe anxiety and panic attacks.

I followed love half way across the country, and left behind almost everyone I knew.

I bought my first home.

My mother got very ill, and died.

I got diagnosed with the beginnings of ovarian cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy.

I was stuck in a job I hated, anxious about the changes I saw happening to my body, overwhelmed by managing the care of my aging, verbally abusive father (who also lived in a 1000 miles away) and who clearly had the beginnings of dementia.

Oh and there was a pandemic.

These back to back experiences ushered in waves of panic, self doubt, despair and grief.

It took several radical shifts and a lot of mindset work-but at 50+ I am TRUELY the happiest I’ve ever been.

We deserve joy and magic.

We deserve the opportunity to create a life of our own choosing.

I will help you courageously and unapologetically pursue the biggest, sparkliest, juiciest, most magical life that you can imagine.

Together, we will identify your deepest desires and to remove the blocks you have to getting there.

I will help you reconnect to yourself and tap into your inner knowing and innate intuition. 

I will help you develop new habits, thoughts, and beliefs that support the life you want to live. 

Imagine creating an amazing life to your own specifications. A life of your CHOOSING.

Doing this work opens infinite doors and expands your possibilities. I will help you uncover and dismantle the thoughts and emotions that keep you perpetually stuck.  

In my coaching practice, I utilize all of my skills, as a therapist, as a coach, as an EFT specialist, a tarot reader, an astrologer and a spiritual practitioner. We will use every tool I have and help you develop a self-care routine that nourishes your soul. 

If you choose to work with me, here is my promise to you:

You will laugh your ass off.

You will cry your eyes out.

The walls that are keeping you safe, scared and stuck will be dismantled brick by brick.

Gently. Firmly. And lovingly-of course.

Because of my therapy background-I GOT YOU.

You will be free. Joyful. Confident. You will boldly walk towards a life of purpose and magic.

Shaking in your sketchers ? AWESOME !

Fear is just a sign that you are ready to leap.

I can't wait to help you break through your blocks and embrace the life that you want as a woman in midlife.

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