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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.

At the start of my coaching practice I did have that as an option, however with a busy practice having one technical error during a session on my side or the clients side it created a landfill of issues. I used to do these charging double the rate and block off more time on my schedule, but what I found is coaching via phone is way less technologically complicated for some, we avoid 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. 

*exception is group coaching

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. 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.