People often wonder...
What is the difference between therapy and coaching?
Therapy focuses on understanding and healing the past. It explores how early experiences and emotions influence your present challenges. Coaching, on the other hand, is forward-focused. It helps you identify what matters most to you now and supports you as you move toward your goals.
While we may occasionally look to the past for insight, coaching always centers on growth, action, and creating meaningful change in the present and future. Coaching clients are typically functioning well in daily life but may feel stuck or uncertain about their next steps.
Coaching is not a substitute for therapy. If you are experiencing mental health issues, trauma, or distress that interferes with daily functioning, please seek help from a licensed mental health professional before beginning coaching.
What is Positive Psychology Coaching?
Often we hear the word psychology, we think of the study of people’s thoughts and resulting behaviors. WHY people do the things they do.
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Positive Psychology, on the other hand, is the field of study devoted to what makes one flourish. It looks at what is strong rather than what is wrong. It seeks to understand what goes well for those who live their best lives and what conditions are necessary for one to be at their best.
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Positive psychology is NOT about pretending that everything is fine when it isn't. That is referred to as toxic positivity. Positive psychology uses science to help better understand how we can live our best lives, even when faced with challenges.
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Positive psychology coaching is based on research that has identified a variety of experiential tools that put the client in the center of their own journey toward growth and fulfillment. It honors the emotional aspects of what it is to be human, while helping a client build positive feelings of resilience, self-efficacy, and hope.
What is Mental Fitness?
Mental fitness refers to our ability to face challenges with greater ease and flow. Just like going to the gym builds muscle, the PQ® mental fitness program is like a gym for the brain. With exercise, we can rewire negative thought patterns in a way that builds resilience, wisdom, and happiness.
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PQ® is a six week app based program that can be taken in conjunction with coaching to maximize success.
Do you offer online coaching?
Presently, I offer coaching via ZOOM for clients 9 and up.
What are your fees?
Fees vary depending upon the package. Please refer to Packages and Fees for specifics.