How would Integrative Life Coaching work for me?

Through questions, active listening, and feedback, the Integrative Spiritual Life Coach supports the client in identifying and achieving his/her goals and objectives. Through a proactive process of collaboration, the client and the coach design strategies to bring the client to balance, fulfillment, and success.

What is the Mind-Body-Spirit Approach?

Transpersonal psychology typically builds on the whole-person approach, focusing on mind, body, and spirit to effect change in a person’s life or manifest personal growth. Life Coaching focuses on the present, creating a future free from the constraints and limitations of the past. Integrative Coaching assists a client to move forward by setting personal and professional goals that help him/her create the life she/he really wants.

Why do people come for Integrative Life Coaching?

People come to Integrative Life Coaching because they want something in their life to be different – whether it is something in their career, their dreams, their achievements, their motivation for change or their spiritual development. They come for a variety of reasons: Sometimes an individual wants to be more effective, more satisfied, more creative, more mindful, more self-empowered, or perhaps he or she would like to become more spiritual. Sometimes people come because they want less stress in their jobs, less disorder or less disorganization, less financial pressure, less confusion in their daily lives. Sometimes a person will come to learn how to orchestrate a better quality of life, or to define a greater simplicity in their life. No matter what your reason or motivation is, the primary purpose is to get one’s needs met.

Does Integrative Life Coaching differ from psychotherapy or counseling?

Yes! Integrative Life Coaching is not psychotherapy; nor is it a substitute for counseling. In psychotherapy, the direction of change is typically toward the reestablishment of health, whereas in Integrative Life Coaching, the client’s desire for balance, fulfillment, and personal betterment is what makes the coaching relationship successful. Coaching is a collaborative process, where the client seeks his/her own focus and the coach facilitates that process.

What is expected of a client who engages in Integrative Life Coaching?

Clients who come to me for coaching are encouraged to be creative, resourceful, and whole. They understand that their agenda is the primary focus of the coaching relationship and that the design of the coaching relationship is a collaborative and proactive process; a process of learning, growth, and interpersonal stability.

What can I expect from engaging in long-term Integrative Life Coaching?

In integrative coaching, the emphasis is on a collaborative and cooperative alliance, where the client sets the agenda and the coach facilitates the client’s goals and objectives. Unlike therapy, coaching is a learning process, not an instructional one. It assumes that healing is already a part of the client’s background and that a desired goal is the purpose of the collaboration. The gain is in realized action; and realized action comes from a greater insight and confidence in one’s abilities.

Clients who work with me are able to become focused and produce better results because they respond favorably to someone who truly listens to them and encourages them to live their dreams and achieve their goals and objectives.