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RELATIONSHIPS: Sometimes what began as love evolves into something very different. Communication may have deteriorated, one partner may have emotional problems. Intimidation and/or abuse may have crept in. When a marriage or long term relationship flounders or dissolves, there are feelings of loss, grief, loneliness, anger, regret. Counseling can help with self-evaluation, understanding of what went wrong, rebuilding of self-esteem, and healing.
ABUSE: Women in abusive relationships may experience confusion, shame, and a belief that there is no choice. Adult victims of childhood abuse may continue to experience a profound impact on their lives, years later. Counseling can help clients sort out feelings, improve self-esteem, and make healthy and safe decisions.
LIFE TRANSITIONS: Job loss, divorce, bereavement, & mid-life are times of radical change or crisis. They are also openings for clarification and discovery of what captures your imagination and energy. This is a time to seek abundance in work, love, creativity, and personal satisfaction.
LIFESTYLE DECISIONS: It can be difficult to make the decisions that attract you most. These choices may impact finances, friends, family, status quo, even your self-definition. A lifestyle change may focus on career, home, relationships, health, spiritual shifts, embracing neglected talents, or other aspects of your life.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Women in Recovery - Women who become dependent on substances struggle with shame and guilt, and may be more harshly judged than their male counterparts. Codependency - binds an individual's freedom to the demands and needs of another. Unlike parenthood, codependency occurs between adults, one of whom structures life around the emotional and/or addictive patterns of the other.
CRISIS & BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING: You will receive support, acceptance, and experience in dealing with personal challenges, life style decisions, finding peace, and accessing your dreams.
Life Coaching
Life Coaching can help you can begin to learn what constitutes a balanced life for you: an insight that is often overshadowed by daily demands, schedules, and the expectations of others.
What will do when working with a coach?
· Assess the important aspects of your life, today, with the help of an objective, supportive life coach
· Acknowledge your sense of purpose and the ideals which drive your dreams
· Explore your options
· Make decisions that are realistic and healthy for you
· Design goals which will lead to fulfillment FOR YOU
I am committed to helping clients discover their basic values and core purpose. These insights can then be applied to creation of lives that are meaningful for them. This type of coaching can assist you in the discovery of those things which you must do in order to feel that your life is complete.
It's not uncommon for clients to say, "I don't know who I am or what I want, but something is missing.' Life Coaching can help you become the architect of your life and reverse the well-worn path of circumstances that has been pulling you along.
Through the process of Life Coaching, you can begin to learn what constitutes a balanced and fulfilling life for you. This level of insight is often overshadowed by daily demands, schedules, and responsibilities. The details of ordinary life may demand your attention and overshadow your truest self and dreams. The intrinsic qualities that characterize your individuality and life mission may be sacrificed to both trivia and the immediate requirements of your role in the world. Perhaps you have a dream, an unpolished talent, or desire to be in an environment that brings out untapped aspects of your personality.
Coaching can help you discover and define core values that contribute to the design of a meaningful life.
Creative Expression
Creativity in itself is a broad concept, not limited to popular definitions. You could be a musician, sculptor, or writer. Or the creativity that flows from you may take the shape of aesthetic movement, healing, guiding others, or whatever your imagination and soul bring forth.
When you are being creative, you may feel a direct connection with your deepest self. No one needs to give you an instruction book: in many instances, it wells from you uncalled, and is immediately recognized as fresh and right. Creating from your center is a spiritual moment, whatever your beliefs. If you yearn for this and are at an unproductive point right now, a shift may be needed for you to approach or return to that inspired state. This change may take the form of place, peers, silence, freedom from tedious demands, or something else that is a uniquely personal choice.
There is some truth in the concept that environment can influence the suppression or outpouring of creativity. For example, in taking a risk with original ideas, one may depart from the mainstream of local culture. In some locales, this will be met with negative judgment or rejection, leaving the options of isolation, abandoning the experiment, or leaving. Conversely, when artists, seekers, or healers are surrounded by creative peers, new ideas and adventures are stimulated. Thus, as you search for tactics to get your juices flowing, it may be helpful to look carefully at where you are and what comrades can be found.
Coaching is intended to help you discover your needs and wants, assess how well you are addressing them, and support the changes that will lead to incorporating these elements into your life. In coaching for creativity, the question is, “What can you do to nourish the connection between you, your spiritual self, and the inspiration that emerges joyfully from you?” Perhaps a coach who resonates with this search can help you chart a direction back to your creative wholeness.
Women's Issues
With many years of experience in the area of women's psychology, I understand the difficult decisions that women encounter, as they try to fulfill many obligations, while aspiring toward personal growth and self- manifestation. Balancing of their own needs and those of others too often results in women relinquishing dreams and talents in favor of service.
When a woman reaches the crossroads between other directedness and her own aspirations, it’s very useful to step back, evaluate the beliefs and rules that she has imposed on herself. Often, it’s helpful to have an objective person to act as a sounding board, in evaluating the legitimacy and fairness of these assumptions. Frequently women feel that it’s selfish to take time and space for themselves, and this is lethal to their own development and accomplishment.
Women who are seeking a transition to fullness, and the blossoming of their abilities and imaginings are ideal candidates to work with a coach who is steeped in the nuances of psychology/ sociology /biology/culture/ history. This is an area that is intensely interesting and important to me.
As your Life Coach it would be my pleasure to assist in your journey.
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