Career & Success Coaching
How it Works
You’re no cookie, and you want more than a cookie-cutter approach. Investing in coaching can help you get there a lot quicker than trial and error, saving you precious time and money in the long run. Reclaim your time so you can be out there being the badass you were meant to be!
Life Coaching is more about forward momentum and achieving goals than visiting the painful past. Two minds can be better than one when it comes to fresh perspective. They can form a bridge to take you to the other side. We’ll strategize a plan that puts your dreams within reach.
If you want to:
Get out of school and/or personal debt that’s weighing you down
Feel more valued in your career and live your purpose
Have the lifestyle you dream about
Find personal empowerment in the face of microaggressions
Clarify the action steps to make your dreams more a reality
Overcome obstacles holding you back
…then Life or Career Coaching might be a good match for you.
Scenario: “Florian:” From Anxiety to Advocacy
When Florian came to me, he was suffering from extreme anxiety that was manifesting as stomach and headaches, fights with his girlfriend and a lack of productivity at work. He had trouble saying “no” to old friends who would come into town to visit him and treat him (and his girlfriend) poorly, which would decrease his work productivity. He would get almost paralyzed around his new boss, who was an overpowering presence. Florian would get angry at how his boss treated him and his coworkers, but he also felt obligated to tend to his boss’s demands, which was confusing and frustrating for him. He wanted to feel more empowered.
Florian is very intelligent and had made a lot of smart choices for his life, so he couldn’t understand why he couldn’t think his way through the scenarios he found himself in. Florian grew up in Eastern Europe and described his upbringing as an environment of toxic masculinity that he moved countries to get away from. He stated that he could sometimes “be an asshole,” which he didn’t like about himself and it reminded him of his dad. Florian’s nervous system had been hardwired to anticipate his rageful and traumatized dad overpowering him and the need to tend to his highly anxious mother to get his needs met as a child. His attention had been trained to focus on managing his parents’ dysregulated nervous systems and not on his own. As we allowed space for his nervous system to identify more responses he can make as an adult, Florian developed the ability to tend to his body’s signals before more severe symptoms could manifest. And this gave him a repertoire of choices.
Florian is now married to that girlfriend and they have a relationship he is really proud of. His old friends no longer wreak havoc in his life and he is able to set boundaries with his family and work. Although not everything at work is controllable or comfortable, Florian now knows what he can do to create the boundaries that work for him. His bosses noticed and promoted him to a new team and role! Somatic symptoms don’t rule his life.