I coach high-achieving professionals across disciplines to help them visualize and move toward the career and life they find most fulfilling.
I help clients gain clarity on what they want, what’s holding them back, and how to remove barriers to potential success and happiness.
Coaching is a directive process in which I work with you to identify your best path, but it is NOT about me telling you what to do. Rather, I help you to identify and deploy the resources you already have to make the best choices for your future. Common focuses of coaching include career transitions, performance improvement, work-life balance, and anxiety management.
COACHING VS. THERAPY
Many people are confused about the difference between therapy and coaching, and therapists and coaches tend to offer wildly different explanations for the differences between the two services. Coaches often say that therapists focus more on the past than on the future (this is not true), and therapists often say that coaches are therapist-wannabes without any training (also not true, although you should understand that the field of coaching is far less regulated than the field of therapy). In my own practice, there are several differences between therapy and coaching services:
Independent Work
In coaching, assignments completed outside of session comprise a much more significant part of the work. I will provide writing prompts and exercises for you to complete and will review your responses before our sessions to evaluate how to best use our time. In therapy, more of the work happens in the room between us.
Focus
Coaching clients generally have one or two specific objectives they hope to accomplish such as gaining clarity around a specific career transition, improving a specific aspect of performance, or reducing anxiety. As such, coaching tends to be more limited in duration.
Diagnosis
In coaching, there will be no diagnosis of mental health conditions or treatment of past trauma.
SMALL GROUP COACHING
Group coaching provides a powerful opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals who get you.
High-stress environments are made more stressful when we feel like we must face the challenges of them alone, hiding the extent to which we are struggling to draw boundaries, manage anxiety, or balance our obligations. While being vulnerable with all our colleagues is often not advisable, creating a community of people with whom we can share authentically provides many benefits for our well-being. Group participants can learn from one another, improve their mental health through the formation of meaningful relationships, and further their careers by creating a supportive professional network.
In group coaching, I curate small groups of six individuals likely to face similar work stressors based on their profession, specialization, geographic location, and career stage. Participants sign up for an initial ten-week coaching package during which we cover topics impacting members of the group. While topics vary from group to group, common topics include drawing boundaries, managing anxiety, imposter syndrome, and balancing competing demands.
I currently have groups open for young women lawyers and young women in tech. If there is a group you would like to see that is not a current offering, please let me know.