Life Coaching

Life coaching is a holistically focused and more specialized niche service for people who are interested in optimizing life and career goals. This type of service is best for adults looking to set and achieve personal or professional goals, maximize growth opportunities leading to a more fulfilling lived experience, and generally maintain balance in their daily lives. Life coaching can be extremely beneficial for business executives looking to maintain their competitive advantage, entrepreneurs looking to maintain motivation and a positive approach to their work, athletes who are elite or on elite training paths, and even college students wanting to optimize their experiences.

Outpatient therapy focuses on mental health issues and how to overcomes past traumas and current disabilities that result from dysfunctional behavior. It begins from the premise that you are not adapting or coping with the demands of life, which tends to impact most if not all areas of your daily life. In therapy, you are diagnosed with a mental health-related condition, which serves as the reference point for a treatment plan to get you closer towards your wellness goals. Life coaching incorporates pieces of this as needed, but you are not diagnosed and we do not approach our meetings from a place of dysfunction. In this way, there is a more holistic focus to maximizing your wellness, with more specific goals for achieving self actualization (working towards what amounts to your full potential).

Because coaching is not a service insurance will pay for, we can meet as often as our schedules will allow. My fee schedule is the same as for outpatient therapy.

In general, life coaching is best if your goal is working towards a level of self actualization that comes with having specific goals for life that you want help achieving. It is more goal oriented and goal directed. Outpatient therapy is best if you are having difficulty navigating emotional and psychological well being. It is still very much a goal oriented process, but specific goals for maximizing wellness in all areas of life is secondary to goals that are more specific to learning about internal triggers for problematic thinking and behavior, often with a focus on developing coping mechanisms to manage day to day stressors or chronic mental health conditions. Concierge counseling is best if you want to have someone on standby for when life gets difficult, or, if you have a set of specific goals and needs that requires a combination of individual therapy and therapeutic involvement of those in your immediate life. A concierge approach definitely focuses on mental health and wellness, and CAN include coaching as well, making it the most flexible option that transcends all approaches to care.