3 Easy Steps to Establishing a Coaching Relationship
(see frequently asked questions for more details and common questions (scroll down))
- I will reach out within 24 hours after filling out the application with options, some applicants depending on the answers may be on a waiting list or be offered an affordable One-to-Many type program.
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"You will stay the same until the discomfort of staying the same surpasses the discomfort of changing."
My coaching philosophy and approach blend elements of all three styles, emphasizing intuition and transformation above the rest, as this is how lasting change occurs.
Working with me is not your typical coaching experience. I wake you up to your true potential. To help you stop playing small and see what is really possible for you.
~ Katherine Hood
I don’t have that as an option at this time.
Coaching requires consistent attendance in multiple sessions to be effective. While one session can have a significant impact if you understand coaching and approach it with an open and curious mindset, it is essential to apply what you learn in real-life situations.
Some people see results immediately, while others may take some time to notice any changes. If you approach things with skepticism and resistance, it will likely take longer for you to see results. However, if you approach things with an open mind, value your coaching time, view it as important, and are willing to try anything to achieve the life you want, you may see results sooner.
Learning a new skill (breaking a habit, creating a new habit) can be compared to lifting weights. Just like one gym session won't make you strong or an athlete, it takes consistent practice, learning from mistakes, reflecting on the process, and gradually increasing the reps, intensity, and resistance to improve.
For instance, some clients prefer to wait until they feel comfortable to discuss sensitive topics, which could happen in the first session or a few sessions later. Nonetheless, it's essential to understand that one session may not fully represent what coaching is about. Coaching is a joint partnership that demands dedication to personal growth and self-discovery.
Since coaching is an undefined profession, many people call themselves coaches when in fact they are mentors, counselors, consultants, nutritionists, personal trainers or even teachers. Those are admirable roles and serve a distinctly different purpose.
- Do you need help processing or healing something from your past?
- Do you need someone to show you how to build your business?
- Do you need someone to teach you how to do a new skill?
- Do you need someone to help you to get over grief?
- Do you need someone to tell you what workouts to do and what to eat?
If you said yes to any of those three questions, you don't need a coach. You need a counselor, therapist, nutritionist, trainer, a consultant, mentor, or teacher.
Coaching is distinctly different by a few important factors. Coaches hold space for their clients to speak about things that are stopping them from living their life fully now.
I like to think of coaches as thinking partners. Your thoughts are what create your reality, your feelings, and can keep your stuck or propel you forward in life.
Well-trained, skilled, certified ethical coaches (like me) are talented at listening deeply to their clients' stories, beliefs, fears, and easily spotting what's stopping them from having the life they want. Coaches empathetically show their clients what's creating their patterns or habits, then come alongside them and help them by providing support and accountability to move forward victoriously.
- Coaches talk very little, they listen.
- Coaches don’t give information; they ask questions to point to solutions.
- Coaches don’t offer ideas; they generate ideas from clients.
- Coaches don’t present solutions; they expand the client’s thinking.
- Coaches don’t tell you what to do: they have you feeling seen, heard, and important.
- Coaches don’t give recommendations; they empower clients to choose.
- Coaches don’t label or diagnose you; they offer compassion and empathy.
- Coaches don’t see you as broken: they see you as enough and worthy of living your life how you want to live your life.
- Coaches don’t give you a program or protocol; they stick by your side while you navigate doing things differently.
Who’s a good candidate for coaching?
Anyone really. I get weekly coaching, and I am a coach. I am also a certified personal trainer and hire a trainer now and then.
We all struggle in some area of our life, in relationships with other people, in working on a project that is important but other things keep getting in the way, breaking old habits and trying to start a new one, trying to find love, or create a life that you dream of but are feeling stuck. The feedback I get is, "I can talk to you about anything I am wrestling with. I can't talk to my friends or family because they are biased or will judge me."
If you're feeling lost, disconnected, misunderstood, struggling to break a habit/start a new habit, having a hard time figuring out your purpose or meaning in life, experiencing communication conflicts in your relationships, or moving into a new phase of life and feeling unsure how to move forward with making life's decisions, coaching is for you!
Consistency is the key. The space in frequency is subjective to each individuals needs, learning style, and budget.
Optimally every week, same time, and same day. I also see clients get great results in every other week cadence.
Clients report back that having 3 weeks or more between sessions they tend to slip back into old habits, old patterns, old thought processing and lose momentum.
You're in charge of booking your own sessions, you'll purchase a package of 5, 10, or 20 sessions, the clients that get the greatest results book all of them right away, block off the time, show up and put in the work and effort to change.
Everyone's needs and speed is unique to them. Life isn't a race; it's a journey, and the more we embrace that things unfold as they are meant to for ourselves individually, the greater we will appreciate how it falls into place. Asking how fast it will happen almost means you want to fight gravity.
It will take time, consistency, and, more importantly, a deep desire to experience this life differently. I have seen people flip a switch super quickly (in as little as a few sessions, completely change their life) and others that wallow in self-pity and continue to live through old wounds, fight, resist change, debate, justify and almost argue to keep their old habits of thought/actions this will take months to years to change. The more open, curious, and excited you are to create a happier, more fulfilling life and put the work into yourself, the better, the faster and more successful you will be.
All coaching is done via phone calls except One-to-Many coaching sessions. Due to technical issues that drop connectivity, technically and in deep coaching via phone is way less technologically complicated. It prevents malfunctions, and I don't have to stare into a camera. I am able to focus on your language, your words, your thoughts, feelings, and be more in tune with your wants, needs, and desires.
When I start working with clients they are often stuck in a Story, we shift to seeing that all that is, is a whole lot of excess thinking and a habit. It takes time to break the habit, with consistency, determination and persistence we break that habit and they are Free to live their life more vibrantly.
Briefly..
Therapy and counseling will go into your past, heal, repair, unlock, and unpack old hurts, wounds, and traumas.
Coaching is seeing you as a whole unique person with life experiences. Certainly you view the world through lens that are made up of all your life's experiences. What a coach does is helps you move forward powerfully, build and create ways to cope, navigate and move forward with strength, confidence, peace and a sense of control.
So coaching is more about NOW and moving forward towards your goals or how you want to experience life. Often seeing a new perspective, changing thoughts, and becoming more aware conscious. Helping you spend more time in a positive emotion than a negative emotion.
Not at this time. My prices currently are incredibly low on a per session basis. The value far exceeds the investment. With the price point of the smallest package it ensure people that sign up are committed, investing in themselves and have skin in the game.
To maintain low rates, it requires to keep a lean overhead and in person isn't an option. I get so much praise on my low rates and no need to commute or get dressed up. Sessions are incredibly powerful when clients are in a space with no distractions, quiet and they feel safe.
Most of us have a habit of thought, we are just not aware of them. We indulge in critical self-dialogue without realizing that doing so is a choice that has a major impact on how we feel and move through our lives.
Our thoughts hold immense power over us, shaping our perceptions, emotions, and behaviors. They can either uplift us, empowering us to achieve our goals and live a fulfilling life, or they can bring us down, trapping us in a cycle of negativity and self-doubt.
Becoming aware of our thought patterns is the first step towards making a positive change. By recognizing the thoughts that hold us back, we can start challenging and reframing them. Instead of dwelling on self-criticism, we can shift our focus towards self-compassion and self-acceptance.
How do you figure out what thought patterns are keeping you stuck? So glad you asked, hire someone like me and get some life coaching to uplevel one or more areas of your life, and the thoughts holding you back will be revealed and we will work together on shifting your habit of thought.
Changing our thought patterns takes time and effort. It requires consistent practice and a commitment to self-improvement. By making a conscious effort to cultivate positive thoughts and beliefs, we can transform our lives and create a more fulfilling and meaningful existence.
Typically, not always those that ask this question love homework. If that's you, you're in luck, be sure to inform me you love homework. I do start to send out mental fitness exercises typically 3 sessions in, however EVERY session there's things to apply and try out in real life. So homework, to do's or things to experiment with, what ever language you resonate with, it will be available.
Coaching is about helping people achieve their goals through a professional relationship with their coach and by using resources they already have, they just don't know how to access them. With a focus on both the present and the future, coaching guides people to open a path for themselves that allows them to move through the struggles and stresses of job and family life. Coaching creates and nurtures a growth mindset for living a full and productive life and provides the tools for coping with day-to-day highs and lows.
Coaching isn't counseling, mentoring, or therapy, where these other modalities focus on the past, healing old wounds, and unpacking the past. Coaching doesn't analyze the past; it focuses on the present and future to help people who are ready to move forward in their lives powerfully.
When hearing the word "coach," many people may have preconceived notions of someone who acts like a nagging parent or a strict P.E. teacher who forced us to play dodgeball back in middle school. However, a life coach is vastly different from these stereotypes. A life coach is a trained professional who helps individuals set and achieve personal and professional goals, offering support and guidance along the way. A life coach serves as a partner in helping individuals unlock their full potential and live their best lives.
Coaching uniquely focuses on maximizing a person's mental, emotional, and physical potential.
Types of people that hire a life coach
People who have goals or dreams and want to achieve them faster and easier than they ever thought possible.
People who have challenges, stress, and pain that they want support in overcoming.
People who want to improve their life, improve their skills, have someone help them transcend the blind-spots.
A life coach provides:
Synergy, a person who will both witness and remember, reflect, and who can contribute ideas or a different perspective that you cannot (or will not) see yourself.
Change does take time and requires regular, consistent intervals over a period of time, typically spread over months. The greater the person's curiosity, willingness, openness, and action, the faster the results.
Vision, someone to notice when you're playing it too small, or safe, and help you to envision and acknowledge desires you might not have dared to imagine for yourself on your own.
Encouragement, when resistance comes up, which it WILL – to have somebody to help you heal the fears and anxieties that are making it feel like such a big, dark brick wall...
Objectivity, reassurance when your saboteurs (inner voice) is doing the freak-out dance (which is common when any variety of fear is present). Our saboteurs don't really like anything to change or be new. Having a coach on your team, there for when things become difficult is like having a good lawyer in your back pocket.
Coaching defined:
“Coaching is a partnership between Coach and Client. Each coaching session is filled with thought-provoking questions and a creative process that inspires them to maximize Client's personal and professional potential.”
We All Need Support
"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you." Zig Ziglar
Additional Tips
- Come to each session prepared with one topic to work on. (have it in the form of a question)
- When asked questions in the session, take your time to think out your responses. Speak freely. You don't have to have the right words or say the right thing.
- Think of coaching as learning to play a musical instrument or becoming a professional athlete; it takes time, consistency, and practice.
- Have an ongoing list of things you'd like coaching on. (Goals, habits, barriers, challenges)
- Be open-minded, teachable, curious, and seek to understand.
- Driving a car is very different than someone telling you how to drive a car. Be willing to apply one principle in your real life after each session.
- At the end of each session, reflect on what you learned. (I email notes)
- Stay consistent with your sessions, booking them in advance; common is weekly or bi-weekly.(what your budget can handle)
- Focus on one priority each session, continue working on one topic, and progress to the next.
- Set a realistic goal to work on one at a time.
- Be teachable, willing to learn, try, and reflect.
- Look to gain ONE insight each session, put it into practice, test it out, and reflect on how it went between sessions (email or chat).
- Be patient. One coaching session is never enough. It takes consistency, trusting the process, and bringing up any resistance in your next session (or email or chat).
- Come to each session fully open without distraction and listen with a learning mindset. We can't think and listen at the same time.
- Be willing to be vulnerable, and apply what you learn in real life.
- Ultimately creating a healthy lifestyle, mindset, habits, routines, and responses are perishable.
- Coaching is like building muscle; it requires consistency, increased progression, and someone to help you see your blind spots.
- Coaching means keeping your skills sharp, expanding your consciousness, awareness, and Understanding, and elevating your life experience.
- Memorization comes without Understanding. Coaching is not learned at an intellectual level. So there's no memorization, no exam to pass, and it's the application in your own life. You'll get one takeaway in each session(if you are open to it), apply it to your life, see it unfold, and reflect on what you saw via email.
- Change is "simple"; I didn't say "easy." Any change is a long game, not a "quick fix."
- Run and idea by someone else unattached to my life to help get a broader perspective on the issue, challenge, or goal.
- Coaching won’t suddenly make you better like some pill you can take and instantly change yourself; it influences how you grow, learn, experience life, it is like using higher-quality soil for a plant. Give it time and work on it.
It takes time to view and navigate life differently - the more you practice it, the more it will become automatic.
- Relationships of all kinds (love, friendships, relatives, work relationships)
- Mindset
- Improved Health & Weight loss
- Productivity
- Time management
- Improved Communication
- Increased confidence
- Goal setting
- Problem-solving
- Overcoming obstacles/barriers (overthinking, sabotage, habits, etc)
- Becoming a better listener
- Becoming a better team leader
- Increase focus
- Improved effectiveness
- Prioritizing
- Establishing a new identity or way of being after a change in life
- Become less judgment and criticism of self and others
- Habit breaking
- Balancing family and work
- and most popular Creating a happy life.
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Testimonials
“I would highly recommend working with Katherine. I was in the process of managing several projects and I was also looking for ways to improve productivity during the day when I first spoke to Katherine...Katherine has been extremely helpful in helping me organize and prioritize my time to achieve several business goals...A really great experience."
STAN B.
“This will be the best decision you make! Katherine will help you reach your goals. She is professional, effective, and work quality is amazing. Price point is incredibly affordable."
AMY I.
“Katherine is an amazing coach! Her wisdom and expertise as a coach helped me release childhood fears and doubts about my self-worth, which allowed me to step into my own power as a woman, wife, and a mother. Now I own my worth, have established strong personal boundaries, and am teaching my kids to do the same."
CRISTIN F.
“Katherine is the epitome of what success looks like in a life coach. She brings passion and insight to every session with the ability to inspire improvement in others. I wholeheartedly recommend her and especially for such a small price for an immense return on investment. Do yourself a favor and set up an appointment with her today!"
MARK T.
“Katherine is an intuitive coach who offers support, listening, and appeals to your highest self. She is strong presence of wisdom and guidance to navigate any of life's issues in any area - relationships, health, fitness and more. I am so thankful for support to navigate a transition. I highly recommend her to support tapping into your best self."
JENDAYI H.
“Katherine is a wonderful coach. She’s attentive and supportive and holds a space for you to help you identify the problem and help grow out of it. She does it in a very simple yet very effective way. Would definitely recommend her."
NIKETA K.
“Katherine is amazing! I love that she follows up with an email after our session that reviews what we discuss. It is fabulous being able to refer back to it if I run into similar challenges. She really gets you thinking and is committed to helping you on your journey. Working with her is life-changing in the best possible way!"
JENNI C.
“Katherine has been a wonderful coach. She stays in touch, has great ideas, and is very knowledgeable. All you have to do is see her and speak with her to understand she leads by example with exercise and healthy food choices."
AMANDA V.
“I took a risk and found Katherine online. It was late at night and there were some big worries I had that were bothering me.
One thing that impressed me about Katherine right away was that she seemed to really want to coach and it wasn't about the money for her. I could tell instantly that she has a "servant-heart." Katherine is a healer. She is an amazing listener and has the skill to separate the "issue" from the person. Meaning, no matter what I bring up, there is zero judgement and then excellent tools to recreate my thoughts and my life.
I love her!"
KIM B.