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Welcome.  It is a privilege for me to help you along your way on this journey of being human.  I am a strength-based life coach who can offer you support and resources to navigate life transitions, and grow in positive directions. I help you manage stress by prioritizing what is meaningful to you and learning how to access your own inner calm.  

The aim of my coaching is to live the life you have chosen for yourself.  This might include

• Uncover your unique Gifts, Strengths, & Self-Care resources. 
  
  
• Clarify Personal Values.  Revise your Self Story.  Make Meaning.
  
  
• Identify and remove obstacles or barriers to you living the life you envision.
  
  
• Grieve Loss of all kinds - Pet Loss, Pregnancy Loss, Life Transitions, Moves, Job Loss, Heartbreak, Innocence.
  
  
• Thrive as a Healthy Sensitive or Intuitive.  Balance excesses - Overwhelmed, over responsibility, over giving.
  
  
• Learn the role of Feelings & the value of Intuition.  Discern your Energy from the energy of other people or places. 
  
  
• Explore Temperament, Personality, & Spirituality through the Enneagram.    
  
  
• Discover Your Place in the Life Cycle.  Honor your Choices.  Allow for Change.  Make peace with Uncertainty.
  
  
• Cope with Illness or Caregiving.  Review your Life.  Prepare to Die. 
  
  
• Manage Stress. Remove Barriers to your Decision-Making.
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• Personalize a strategy for managing Procrastination and Perfectionism.
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• Create an individualized plan for Sustaining Healthy Choices.
  
  
• Balance Commitments.   Peacefully Parent. 
  
  
• Develop Self Compassion.  Enhance Esteem.  Maintain Healthy Boundaries.
  
  
• Discern what is your issue, or energy, and what is someone else's.
  
  
• Enhance ability to Connect with others & to Be On Your Own.   Improve Relationships.  
    
• Assess your Strengths.    Listen to your Dreams.  
  
  

Highly Sensitive Personality Trait (HSP):  I have additional training and am experienced with supporting stress management and insight in clients who are highly sensitive. [See research done by Dr. Elaine Aron: http://hsperson.com/].   Learn to honor your sensitive ways. Let's collaborate to increase your self-acceptance and ease while you take steps to embody your life's vision.

Scope of Practice:  I am a retired LCSW who keeps a small caseload of coaching clients that I meet with online.  Coaching is not appropriate to persons in crisis or whose functioning difficulties requires therapy by a licensed clinician.  My education and background equip me to evaluate your situation and make referrals to licensed professionals if needed to support your wellness goals.  My work with personality trait sensitivity relies on insight and has the best outcomes with clients who are motivated to grow.  If you have an active substance abuse problem, are at risk for domestic violence, or have current suicidal thoughts, those are crisis situations:  If you are experiencing an immediate mental health crisis, call 2-1-1 for assistance.  If you want, I can offer guidance on how to seek and screen a therapist.  Here is a useful article from Psychology Today on How to Find a Therapist. If you want to work with me at a later time to address the role of sensitivity in your life, I am glad to discuss that with you then.
   
Confidentiality.  Your confidentiality is fully protected in our work together.   To ensure the quality of your care, I participate in continued education and periodic peer consultation.  During consultations, identifying client information is removed.