In today’s challenging times many people are turning to a Life Coach to help them get the winning edge.

Helping Professionals and individuals achieve their goals by putting the pieces together

What is life coaching?

Life coaching is a future orientated process that focuses completely on YOU!  Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow professionally and personally.  Coaches assist you in identifying and executing the actions necessary to achieve your goals.  With the help of a Life coach you will achieve your professional, personal, and spiritual  goals, much more effectively, easily and objectively, and in less time.

Coaching is a good fit for a goal-oriented person who prefers to take responsibility for their processes and outcomes.  Coaches work with “highly-functioning” people.  Meaning the assumption is that the client is healthy, willing and fully capable of achieving their goals.  Clients who are looking for guidance and motivation.
Clients who do NOT perceive themselves in need of therapy may be more inclined to see a Life Coach, preferring a coaching model to a therapy model.

A Life Coach works closely with you to establish an action plan for creating what you want in your life.  A Coach is an active partner to guide you, create action plans, identify what holds you back and motivate you to move forward.  With life coaching, you will not analyze the past, but looks toward the future to figure out what to do next.

With a Life Coach, you will:

• Develop a Step-by-Step Action Plan
• Have someone to be accountable to, and help you complete that plan
• Focus on Future Goals, Not Past Issues
• Explore What Holds You back
• Celebrate Results

Differences between Therapy and Life Coaching

Therapy 

• Assumes the client needs healing
• Roots in medicine, psychiatry
• Focuses on feelings and past events
• Explores the root of problems
• Works for internal resolution of pain and to let go of old patterns

Life Coaching

• Assumes the clients is highly-functional
• Roots in business and personal growth venues
• Works to motivate people to a higher level of functioning.
• Focuses on actions and the future; goal-orientation
• Focuses on solving problems
• Works for solutions to overcome barriers, learn new skills and implement effective choices

Who could benefit from Life Coaching?
People in a transition phase of their professional lives:

• Job changes
• Getting ready to go back to work,
• Starting a new business
• Growing or downsizing your existing business,
• Getting ready for retirement,
• Learning more effective ways of communicating within your business or with clients,
• Sales people, Executives and anyone wanting to go grow their career

People in transition with their personal lives:

• Divorce
• Dealing with a loss or death
• Moving to a new area
• Newly married
• New parents
• Empty Nesters looking to make the most out of their future
• Newly retired, but wanting a new challenge
• Dealing with a Chronic Illness
• Single parents

Personal development and growth:

• Weight Management
• Organizational skills, motivation start or finish a project or goal
• Finding out what your true purpose and passion is
• Managing stress and finding your way to true Happiness
• Exploring Spiritual beliefs
• Learning to put yourself first again, and find out how that will benefit all those around you

How does Life Coaching work?

Typically after the initial meeting either in person or over the phone, you interact with your coach over the phone. If you would prefer to meet your me in person that can be easily arranged. I have found that in general coaching by phone creates more focus and fewer distractions, is usually more effective and can take place wherever you are in the country or the world. I coach individuals one to one, as well as group coaching and ongoing seminars.

You and your coach will develop an ongoing partnership, based upon trust and cooperation to achieve your desired outcome. Your coach will focus their full energy and attention and skill set on you achieving your goals. Your coach is the totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive mirror into whom you really are and what you really want to do. Your coach will let you see options, new perspectives, give you encouragement, insight, and confidence to take your planned actions towards achieving your goals. Your coach will help you to identify any self-imposed obstacles and assist you to overcome them, using active questioning and listening, hypnosis and HypnoCoaching if you choose.

What is HypnoCoaching?

HypnoCoaching blends hypnosis, emotional freedom techniques and neuro-linguistic tools with motivational coaching skills to help you achieve more than you ever thought possible - more quickly, easily and effectively than personal coaching alone. 
HypnoCoaching works with more than just the conscious mind that analyzes and makes decisions.  We use the power of the subconscious mind to uncover hidden sabotaging beliefs, old habits, and stuck behaviors and transform them into healthy beliefs, clearly defined goals, and pragmatic action steps to help you manage life changes with ease.

If you have any questions as to whether Life Coaching would benefit you please contact us for a free 15 minute session.  For further information on life coaching please click on links below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2009/Do-I-Need-a-Life-Coach/