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Spiritually Guided Life Coaching
I am a Holistic Life Coach specializing in women's issues and a certified Fellow member in the Holistic Life Coach Association. With many of my clients, I incorporate coaching into their healing sessions and consultation, and/or healing into their coaching sessions
Frequently Asked Questions About Life Coaching
1- What is Life Coaching?
Life coaches assist people to discover what they want in life and unlock their own brilliance to achieve it. Life coaching is about people generating their own answers, not looking outside of themselves for solutions. This process is not about teaching what you already know or about clients acting like students. Instead, life coaching is empowering people to invent something new - to think something they've never thought before and to say something they've never said before. Coaching is a powerful relationship for people making important changes in their lives. Coaching is an ongoing relationship, which focuses on clients taking action toward the realization of their visions, goals, or desires. A life coach helps the client discover what they want in all aspects of their lives.
2- How do life coaches view their clients?
Coaches see their clients as well and whole and seeking a richer life. Life coaches see clients with nothing wrong, broken, or missing, or in need of repair. We also believe that only clients have the answers to their concerns. A coach helps a client experience their brilliance. It is buried in the client's unconscious mind and can be experienced when they begin to design their lives consciously and purposely. Coaches recognize the brilliance of each client and their personal power to discover their own solutions when provided with support, accountability and unconditional positive regard.
3- There are three powerful principles that guide my work as a life coach:
I believe that my clients are whole and brilliant (even when they don't act that way)
I believe that my clients want what they say they want (even when they don't act like it.)
I believe that I am a partner and co-creator with my clients to help them get what they want.
4- Why do people need life coaches?
Society has gone from being stable and mostly predictable to being fast paced, impersonal, and constantly evolving. For many people, a coach is someone to keep them focused, connected to their desired outcomes, and living their life "on purpose."
5- How many paths does the life coach help the clients to create to reach their goals?
There are multiple paths to reach each want. In order to increase the likelihood of success, life coaches help clients create multiple paths to achieve what they want in their lives. Answers and solutions lie with the client. The client knows the way (even though he or she may not realize it at the time).
6- How can a life coach help someone to lose weight and keep the weight off?
Life coaching is especially helpful if the client has self-esteem issues, which commonly develop when someone is overweight. A coach provides the client with the emotional support they need to create the life they want without the excess weight.
7- What is the difference between therapy and life coaching?
Therapy helps clients deal with their past. Life coaching is about designing a future, not getting over a past. The focus is on the future. Therapy clients assume that they will be fixed and have emotional healing as a result of their relationship with a therapist, because that is why they wanted therapy in the first place. Coaching clients, assume that by working with a coach they will have greater success in planning, setting goals, and creating the lives of their dreams. If a life coach is approached by someone who has a major psychological problem? the appropriate action is to refer that client to a qualified therapist.
8- How are many problems that people would normally see a therapist for, better solved by a life coach, and why is it more acceptable?
The paradigm and powerfulness of coaching will attract more health clients that therapy and, in fact, may of the problems of living that clients sought the assistance of a therapist for are better served by a life coach, avoiding the stigma of therapy altogether. People will think more positive about it because it doesn't have the stigma of therapy.
9- How, when and where can a life coach meet with clients?
I might meet a client in a coffeehouse, your office, an airport club lounge, or exclusively on the telephone. Likewise I could meet for half an hour, an hour, or a full day.
10- What is the most effective way to communicate with clients?
Coaching over the telephone seems to be most effective. For clients, it is anonymous so they disclose more than they might in person. It is great for busy adults. It also allows me to take detailed notes, consult resources, and stay focused on what the client is saying without the distractions of nonverbal behaviors and appearance.
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Healing Modalities 
