I help you get motivated, get a plan, and stay focused!

When you're excited about reaching your goals, and you're enjoying yourself every step of the way, then success happens—it's a done deal.

But even for the best and brightest of us, it doesn't always work that way. Motivation can come and go, and daily life can distract, stall, or side track you.

That's where I can help!

My name is Gerry Fisher. I'm a unique life coach who helps you get unstuck so you reach your goals quicker and easier than going it alone...for career counseling, dating, personal happiness, and much more.

I mentor children (10+), adults, couples, and families. I'll teach you skills learned from 15+ years of being a professional coach, a counseling master's degree, and 20+ years of corporate experience—including being a hiring manager and starting my own businesses.

Your life is important, so call 410-949-7888 or email me now to set up a free half-hour consultation meeting to see if we're a great fit life for working together. Don't delay success and personal happiness another minute!

You can click here for a full description, but this section sums it up. As your personal and professional mentor, I help with:

1. Getting clear on where you are now in life, where you want to go in the future, and how you can best get there.
2. Staying focused and advancing toward your goals step-by-step, over time.
3. If you get stuck, learning how it happened, how to get out of it, and how to prevent it from happening again.

I guide you during 1-hour meetings in person, online (Skype), or by phone, with email and phone coaching in between sessions. Plan on 4 to 6 months of ongoing mentoring to make serious progress toward most types of goals.

People most often struggle to reach goals for emotional reasons: motivation fails us, or feeling stress, overwhelm, worry, or frustration get in the way. But we can all learn—both strategies and emotional skills—for keeping a positive focus and for feeling energized, making it much easier to reach goals. Finally, many of the skills I teach are proven by research to help you feel better and get moving again! Cognitive Behavioral Treatment or CBT skills are just one example.

Hear it from one of my clients:

Sound interesting? Want to know more? Call me now at 410-949-7888 or email me to schedule your free consultation meeting as soon as possible. Why wait?

Psychotherapists and Counselors believe that you get stuck because you don't understand your family background, you need to vent your feelings more, or you have a chemical imbalance. These counselors provide medical treatment for your illness. And, unfortunately, most give you medication with no counseling, use counseling methods that don't help you feel better for long (they don't work "beyond placebo"), or offer no help for reaching career or other personal goals.

Counselors give you brief relief while you're stuck in a bad situation...I help you get out of a bad situation.

A typical Life Coach believes that you get stuck because you aren't organized enough. Most of these coaches are briefly trained, personal project managers, who list and prioritize your goals and who cheerlead your successes. However, they don't know what to do when you get stuck emotionally. If you're still stuck after they give you some positive-thinking and motivational slogans, they refer you to a Psychotherapist to work on "your issues."

Other Life Coaches organize your life and hold you accountable...I help you build focus and motivation so you can organize your own life.

My approach is closer to the type of relationship you might have with a financial planner, a personal trainer at the gym, or a teacher and student. In an ongoing mentoring relationship with someone who knows you and cares about you, I provide guidance as you practice new skills and put them into use in your life.

Mindfulness is just one of the many tools that I teach to help people feel better and get unstuck. This is a video that I did for the Neurofibromatosis Mid-Atlantic organization, which introduces mindfulness as a way for caregivers to reduce stress:

The best way to get a feel for these approaches is to stop by my office, get comfortable with some coffee or tea, and talk it through with me. Why not call me now at 410-949-7888 or email me to schedule a free consultation?

My experience is broad and my clients are diverse; this section gives you some examples of the mentoring I provide:

• Career Counseling and Executive Coaching

  I've worked with several CEOs, many Directors and mid-level managers, several entrepreneurs, and many other white- and blue-collar workers. I love assisting with career changes, negotiation skills, leadership skills, "managing your manager," and more.

• Dating and Relationship Coaching

  Examples include making small talk, finding a compatible spouse, building a strong couples partnership, strengthening parent-child relationships, recovering from a break-up, and more.

• Retirement Coaching

  The "quit work and go play golf all day" retirement model doesn't work for many people. I help clients to reduce the intimidation factor and to create a comfortable, custom retirement plan.

• Educational Coaching

  Examples include effective test taking, writing papers, shortening homework time, preparing to enter the workforce, and more.

• ADD Coaching (Attention Deficit or ADHD)

  For example: learning mindfulness schools to strenthen the power to focus, which can even act as a powerful supplement for those who take medication for ADHD. I can also help with practical strategies for improving focus at home, at work, in school, or while doing homework.

• Gay Counseling and Coaching

  As an openly gay counselor, I help with coming-out issues, accessing community resources, reconciling lifestyle with spirituality, and more.

• Package Deals

  I offer a set of specially priced package deals for people who want to work on only one goal:

  • Resume writing—For only $249, this package includes one two-hour meeting, choices of attractive templates, multiple editing passes, and a professionally written resume. (Tell me more...)
  • Interview coaching—For only $225, this package includes three meetings total, two mock interviewing sessions, strategy planning, and tips for boosting relaxation and confidence. (Tell me more...)
  • Weight loss—For only $329 (individual) or $125 (group), this package includes four meetings total, brief check-ins in between meetings, an aditional month of weekly check-ins to make sure that the weight is coming off, and a copy of the national best selling book upon which this package is based. (Tell me more...)
  • Sleep improvement—For only $279 (individual) or $125 (group), this package includes a two-hour assessment meeting and general sleep guidelines, two weekly meetings, brief check-ins in between meetings, and an additional month of weekly check-ins to make sure that your sleep is improving. (Tell me more...)
  • Hypnosis for habit change—For only $329 (individual) or $125 (group), this package includes 1 two-hour assessment meeting and a general "well-being" hypnosis session, two customized hypnosis sessions, and an additional month of weekly check-ins to make sure that you're making progress. Use hypnosis for any habit change, but it is particularl well suited for quitting smoking, losing weight, chronic stress, panic attacks, and generalized (non-specific) anxiety. (Tell me more...)

  You don't have to be a life coaching client to purchase these packages. Current life coaching clients receive a discount on all packages.

Instead of staring at my resume, why not come on into the office for a half hour, relax, and speak with me at length until you've got a good feeling about working together? Give me a call at 410-949-7888 or email me today to set up an appointment for your free half-hour consultation?