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
As a therapist, I bring my life, career, academic, and ministry experience to the counseling profession. Along with empathy and compassion, a healthy therapeutic connection develops. Throughout life, we can be faced with struggles that require the expertise and experience of a licensed professional. I help those who are facing a variety of life and mentally impactful challenges. Together we wor...
At PURE Recovery, we believe in multiple paths to recovery, which is why we accept guests recovering from a full range of addictive and co-occurring disorders such as substance use, alcohol dependence, sex addiction, disordered eating and trauma. We also honor medication assisted recovery, as we strongly believe that medication prescribed by a treating professional is a legitimate recovery path...
I value authenticity and strive to provide a therapeutic environment where clients can feel safe to be honest while simultaneously challenged to grow. I utilize cognitive behavioral therapy, person-centered therapy, and family structural therapy techniques to address anxiety, depression, and relational conflicts, etc. The Center provides best practice clinical care while additionally offering a...
I specialize working with individuals on the Autism spectrum at all levels of functionality, PTSD, anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar, dyslexia and other learning disabilities, Down Syndrome, veterans and military families, blended families, gender identity issues, and general life crises. I have no preferred age range to work with and will see anyone of any age, children included. I offer holis...
I have been married for 12 years and have three adult stepchildren, a granddaughter, and a son-in-law. (Our family also includes three fur babies, a cat and two granddogs.) The spirit of family is something that has grown and valued over the years. We have found beauty in a family unit that now includes an extended family of exes and in-laws to celebrate holidays and special events. My life...
***Not currently accepting new clients - As of July 27, 2020. Video/Phone Sessions Available! Licensed in DC and Maryland. Why should you engage in therapy? Too often we compete for support from friends or family, we don't always trust them, AND often, they are our problem. Psychotherapy is nonjudgmental, encouraging, and intentionally about you. It's where you learn your obstacles and learn ho...
Life can be brutal, can't it?! Can you remember that time in life when you were happy, like top of the world scream it from the rooftops happy? In that moment, everything was right in your world and then well, life happened. Now you look back and have so many questions...What happened? Let me tell you, you are not alone! We've all been there in some season of life. But who says this can't make ...
You may be suffering the pain and trauma of discovering your partner is in an affair; you have tried therapy before and felt it didn't help; you feel hopeless and don't know what to do. In my career I have had over 600 hours of training on these very specialized issues so my approach is intensive therapy whether it is a weekly session or my intensive crisis retreats with one couple at a time. C...
I have a passion for working with people who have been impacted by trauma, in whatever way you might identify that trauma. My hope for you is to live your biggest and fullest life, with both meaning and connection. I work with individuals: teens, adults, and elders. My approach combines a number of therapeutic frameworks, including EMDR which is an evidenced-based treatment for people who have...
The people I've been able to help most feel stuck and crave direction in recovering an assured sense of who they are and their potential. We are all creatures of adaptation and many of us learn early on to adjust to whatever the world asks of us. Accordingly, we may internalize the priorities of our parents, our peers, and our culture, agendas that don’t always serve our own interest. My role a...
As a compassionate, experienced therapist I enjoy working with people of all ages and backgrounds and specialize in helping children who are struggling emotionally/behaviorally increase their ability to function in the home and/or school. I have experienced considerable success in treating clients with anger, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, posttraumatic stress disorder, autism, adjustment...
I specialize in Biblical, Christian Counseling. I believe the Bible holds great truth when addressing many of today's personal, marital, and family dilemmas and circumstances. My 35 years of pastoral counseling allows for professional and spiritual help and healing to those who hurt personally, emotionally, and spiritually. I enjoy helping people discover the healing powers of Scripture and the...
We are here to thrive, not just survive. As a licensed therapist, Shamanic practitioner and former bodyworker, I am here to help the soul searchers, truth seekers, and those on a quest to rediscover their authentic selves towards overall health and healing. I will support you on your journey to shed the layers of fear, shame, trauma and pain. I will help you on your spiritual or self healing...
Your authority is in your authenticity, simply meaning the more honest, accepting, vulnerable and open you are with yourself first, is the more empowered you will be to address and heal any area of your life. We must radically accept our selves with compassion and honor. Self honor is the beginning of personal freedom. Radical self acceptance is the antecedent. I promote and empower positivity ...
