Life coaching is different than mental health counseling in critical ways, but both types of specialists offer benefits. Life coaches typically can’t diagnose and provide treatment plans for mental health disorders. Counselors and therapists do. Life coaches help people establish goals, find motivation, and achieve those goals. Their focus isn’t on mental health. A life coach uses motivational techniques to help someone accomplish goals that are unique to them and their aspirations. A person would go to a life coach for guidance in establishing more meaning in their life.
Therapists Who Specialize in Offering Life Coaching
Coming to therapy takes a lot of courage, and it also probably means you have been doing your best to address your personal issues for some time now. I work from the vantage point that growth is always possible no matter how dire or stuck you may feel. In my practice, I use an eclectic therapeutic approach that stresses reflection, support, validation, collaboration, and aims to foster the...
Facing life's challenges can be extremely difficult. It is my goal to provide the support needed as clients work through their past issues and move towards a more empowered future. I take a holistic approach to treatment with an emphasis on spiritual, physical, emotional, and psychological development. I strongly believe in the capacity for change and have been amazed by the obstacles that I ha...
Do you feel dissatisfied with your relationship? Are you tired of feeling disconnected and out of sync with your partner? Do you wish you could find and follow your gut? We all have periods in our life where we need help navigating difficult situations, decisions, the day-to-day stressors, and our relationships. I work with my clients to help them regain a feeling of self control, personal wort...
My Care Philosophy: I believe an effective therapist must have a set of sophisticated interpersonal skills that include verbal fluency, warmth, acceptance, empathy, and an ability to identify with how a client is feeling. I am that effective therapist, one with good interpersonal skills, I have a systematic model with a high success rate, and the ability to implement those models with fidelity ...
Your thoughts are racing, stuck on replay. Your inner critic is winning. Life feels meaningless and exhausting. You want to escape reality. Feeling scared of vulnerability and hiding who you really are is wearing on you. Your relationships are draining. It feels like you're carrying around a body bag full of fears and insecurities. Feeling like a prisoner to your past is exhausting, too. Let’s...
I work with children, adolescents and adults, in varying degrees of distress. Many clients enter their therapeutic relationship with presenting problems which may include depression, anxiety, dysfunction in a primary relationship, or grief and loss. Others present addiction and codependency patterns that cause chronic difficulties with maintaining healthy relationships. Some suffer trauma that...
I make it a priority to help my clients feel at ease with me and with the work we do together. If you were my client, you can expect me to be warm, welcoming and supportive. My specialty areas include: attention deficit disorders, anxiety, depression, bipolar, OCD, relationship issues, and self-esteem building, although I have personal comfort with a myriad of presenting concerns (please see si...
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor. I work with children & adolescents, individuals, couples, families, and forensic cases. I specialize in eating disorders, addictions, obesity, weight loss surgery, body image, self-worth, codependency, childhood trauma, grief & death, juvenile and adult offenders, dual diagnoses, and severe psychiatric disorders. I began working with a diverse population ...
I am also an Educational Therapist working in various schools and clinics. I work with children, adolescents, and parents and all the professionals that orbit their lives. School Anxiety is a particular area of interest. The colleagues I work with support the multi-diciplinary approach to treating the whole child. Professionals I work with have specialties not limited to speech, language, visio...
"Love and safety heal -- everything else is just tools."* And our places of deepest pain can, over time, not only heal but become medicine for others. I offer a safe space and caring presence to accompany clients who are ready to unburden their souls (psyche) and take a "depth" approach to understanding their lives and struggles. We have all been intricately shaped by our history and choices, o...
I honed my helping skills providing over a decade of individual, couple, and family counseling and working several years in the crisis intervention and crisis stabilization field in the states of California and Virginia. My experience and knowledge equips me to share with others as a marriage and family therapist, minister, coach, consultant and author, and allows me to facilitate positive chan...
I am particularly interested in clients that are open to cultivating the garden of their life. Our life can represent a garden; in any garden there are beautiful flowers and unfortunately there are thorns and thistles. My client must be willing to smell the aroma of the flowers as we travel through the thorns and thistles of the garden life also. My scope of specialization is broad. My passion ...
I offer a safe, non judgmental and caring environment in which you can feel comfortable expressing your needs and desires for your future. I believe that you are the "expert" on your life and have the answers within you. My skill is helping you unearth and use these skills to move forward and feel more at ease and have a healthy sense of self and view of where you are going in your life. We oft...
I believe pursuing therapy is a very courageous act and feel honored to provide a space for this vital work. Common challenges that I help with include depression, anxiety, stress management, trauma, substance use disorders, process addictions, and life transitions. I employ holistic therapeutic styles rooted in mindfulness and Buddhist Psychology. My aim as a clinician is to help clients uncov...
It’s a crazy world right now with all this COVID-19 stuff going on and tensions are high with all the quarantines and uncertainty. Please reach out if you need help. Do you feel "stuck" repeating the same things over and over? Does it feel like you can't seem to move forward? Is anxiety and depression overwhelming you? It is very important that you make sure you find the right therapist for you...
