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
“If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got.” Are you tired of being stuck in the same old cycles? Whether the problem is self-sabotaging behavior, feelings of worthlessness, constant family squabbling, or the like, let me help you break free from the madness and put you on a path to mental and emotional wellness. I will come along side you with encouraging insight,...
My goal is to help you become clearer on where you are so you are able to acknowledge your pain, heal and find the freedom to experience life in a new way, making new decisions, and finding fulfillment. I work with clients who are feeling "stuck" and inevitably struggle with addictions, anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, unsatisfying relationships, and unfulfilling work. I believe we ar...
Are you still facing traumas from the past? Not sure how to process the traumas and overcome the stress? Feeling anxious every time something triggers a memory? Let me help. No matter what form the stress and traumas came in, they're still hard to process. If they’re difficult for you to process, then it’s important to me to help you. A certain population that I'm passionate about helping are...
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I believe in providing the highest level of personalized therapeutic care for each client by integrating techniques from traditional and evidenced based therapies. I seek to understand each person from a systemic perspective and use an experiential approach that creates a secure environment where self-awareness, healing, and change can occur. I aspire to raise clients’ inherent strengths to rem...
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over 13 years of experience researching and practicing evidence-based treatments. There are a number of highly effective therapies out there, and my primary focus is on those that help people overcome: Traumatic Stress (PTSD); Anxiety Disorders (social anxiety, panic, phobias); and Disordered Eating (emotional eating, body image, binge eating, bulimia,...
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If you experience frequent anxiety and panic attacks, depressed feelings or obsessive and compulsive behavior, it can cause severe distress and disruption in daily life affecting your well-being. Making choices and finding meaning in life may have become difficult. In my private practice, I focus on counseling and treatment in children, teens and adults who deal with any or all of those feeling...
**NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME** I utilize CBT, Solution Focused, Play Therapy and Strengths Based models but cater treatment to each client's needs. I am LGBTQIA affirming. I specialize in treating those who have suffered from traumatic incidents as well as those who struggle with life stress. I commend your for taking that first step in gaining/regaining control of your life and I'm...
Hello, As a clinical director, I understand the importance of understanding and honoring the needs of my clients. My Life experience and clinical understanding inspires me to co-create change with and for my clients. My faith and family have helped me stay balanced and energized for service. I love helping clients uncover facts that were hidden from view. I love seeing a person's eyes light up...
As an African American male, I am well aware of the reluctance in our community to express personal feelings of pain, distress and overall discomfort around the things troubling us. African and Latin Americans specifically but people of color in general, share the same mental health issues as the rest of the world, with arguably even greater stressors due to racism, prejudice, oppression and...
I am Licensed Clinical Social Worker, licensed by the State of Oregon. I earned my Master of Social Work degree from the University of Washington School of Social Work. My work is informed by training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy as well as in EMDR, a process with demonstrated success that can help individuals work through past traumas. Additionally, I have training in Cognitive Behavioral...
You are too hard on yourself, holding yourself to unrealistic standards. Others tell you you are “too sensitive” and “overly emotional,” or you hold your emotions in tightly to protect yourself. You feel stuck in your life and relationships, getting in your own way with the negative, self-defeating stories you tell yourself. I believe that people are inherently resilient. Using a supportive and...
Polished Pearls Counseling & Coaching, PLLC services is a counseling and coaching organization that was designed to assist others with “Putting the SHINE back into your life”. Throughout life we are all faced with various challenges or hardships, that may place us in dark spaces. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I am here to assist you with coping throughout and overcoming those challenges...
I believe that most people want to learn ways in which they can lessen the amount of stress in their lives. A person's thoughts and feelings can often stay trapped in the negative issues of the past or be pushed forward to the concerns of the future. These two states of mind can invariably lead a person to experience depression and anxiety. Learning new techniques that allow the person to put...
