Coaching

Coaching for Individuals

Some of the benefits people have experienced from coaching include:
Improved relationships
Clearer vision of your goals and dreams
Greater sense of balance and fulfillment
Support and encouragement through transitions – life and /or career
New perspectives on yourself and your world

Coaching gives you peace of mind. At the heart of coaching is its ability to help you directly address the places in your life where you are stuck or frustrated and looking for new ways to accomplish your goals. Coaching provides you the knowledge and power to shift your perspectives in the situations confronting you, discovering new views, new possibilities and realizing new openings for action. Ultimately a coach enables you to really take control of your life, break free your self-defeating thoughts and design the life that you will love.

What does life coaching look like?
Coaching consists of conversations that are based on respect, openness, compassion and empathy. My coaching style is co-active meaning it differentiates from other coaching methods because I believe that you are naturally creative, resourceful and whole. As a coach and client working together, we will build a relationship that cultivates new discoveries, new awareness and the wealth of choices available to you. This process will effectively empower you to find your own answers while also encouraging and supporting you along the path to achieve your goals.

Coaching sessions most often take place on the phone. This offers you convenience and a reduction stress in your life. No more rushing to make an appointment, no getting stuck in traffic on the way. Your sessions can be in the comfort of your home or anywhere you choose.

How do you get started?
I offer a 30 minute free sample session that gives you the opportunity to experience coaching before entering a longer term coaching relationship. Once deciding to move forward our initial session will be 2 hours in length by phone or in person. During this Discovery Session we discuss what you want to get out of coaching, how we will work together, and identify where you are now and look at where you are wanting to go. We will then begin to meet, usually by phone and typically 2 to 3 times per month. The real work of coaching will happen between our calls. You will be amazed at how your perspectives shift and your possibilities broaden as you move from intention to action.

Through overcoming the challenges and adversities I have faced in my life I have come to believe that how we grow up doesn’t have to define who are today. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to help people overcome past and present obstacles and become who they truly are.

How is coaching different from therapy?

Therapy addresses your past experiences and helps you uncover generational behavioral patterns that affect your everyday life.

Therapy addresses questions like "Why do I do the things I do?" and "How can I make better choices in the future?" or "What does a healthy relationship really look like?" Therapy is a healing process that uncovers hurts from the past that might be blocking your ability to completely enjoy your present life.

Coaching does not address your past; it starts with your present life and focuses on where you want to go. In coaching, we will examine the plans you have for your life, work to shape the vision of your future and the legacy you would like to leave behind for future generations.

Coaching is really about taking a look at the big picture and addressing the smaller pieces that will help you achieve your hopes and your dreams.

Connie Curlett MA LMHCA 206-293-5889