To explain what coaching is, it may be best to first understand what it is not.

Professional coaching is not consulting, mentorship, or therapy. Those are all uniquely valuable resources for seeking advice or receiving assistance in certain areas of life, but they’re each distinctly different and serve unique purposes.

Consultants and mentors generally provide advice or guidance based on the specific knowledge that they have within a given industry or area of expertise. This can definitely be helpful in overcoming specific hurdles or tasks that are centered around external problems, but likely won’t resolve more internalized issues… such as assumptions, interpretations, or limiting beliefs… that are holding you back and keeping you from doing things you know you’re capable of doing.

Similarly, therapist tend to focus on problems that are rooted in the past, working primarily to uncover why things might have happened. Again, this can be extremely valuable for getting at the root cause of deeply seeded or traumatic issues, but this differs from professional coaching because coaching is more focused on issue you’re facing in the present and determining how you’d like to handle or change things going forward.

Therefore, at it’s core, true coaching is designed to be more of a solution-focused and action-oriented partnership that gives you the ability to create a life of your own choosing.

It will help you identify and better understand how you’re currently showing up in the world around you, so that you can better dictate how you want to show up or be in the future.

And as your coach, my role and responsibility is to challenge you to look at things differently, help you to discover what you truly want in life, support you with designing step-by-step action plans for achieving your goals, and then hold you accountable for taking action on the things you say you’re going to do.

All of which is done through personalized, one-on-one coaching sessions that are specifically designed to help you uncover the core of what makes you who you are, while also providing guidance, support, and actionable strategies for you to enhance your life, career, business, personal/professional relationships, and more.