I love to mentor people who are serious about getting more of what they want out of life. We take a teaching-learning approach, similar in spirit to hiring a personal trainer at the gym, taking a college course, or hiring a financial planner.

I provide months of regular, ongoing mentoring to help you deepen these skills:

• Developing strategies and tactics that work:
  • Setting reachable goals and managing them
  • Tracking your progress and making adjustments
  • Maintaining focus and motivation
  • Developing strong support networks
• Reducing upsetting thoughts
• Changing negative feelings to long-lasting positive ones
• Increasing flexibility
• Addressing any issue that's preventing you from reaching your goals

And I'm not just a teacher, I'm a student as well. I'm furthering my learning with all skills that I teach to others. You can think of it this way: although we're both in the same boat, I have a bit more sailing experience.

I help people to get unstuck and to keep making progress until they meet their personal goals. Personal goals are most often something specific you want whose progress you can see or measure, such as dating more, finding a compatible partner, advancing your career, changing your career, or making more money. They can be smaller goals, as well, such as losing weight or quitting smoking.

Sometimes personal goals can be more about feeling happier in your life; examples include wanting to be less shy and make more friends, learning to let go of workaholism or perfectionism, needing to reduce stress, or wanting to be calmer during your daily commute. As you can see, personal goals can be just about anything that you want to bring into being in your life.

Meetings with me last for one hour, and we meet every week or every two weeks. I prefer to meet with people in my office, but I also enjoy phone and online video meetings (Skype). The most benefit comes not from our conversations, but when you take action and practice between meetings. Also, as mentioned on the first page of this website, I offer phone and email coaching in between our meetings to provide reminders or tips right at the time during your week when you can most use it.

Clients working on one specific, manageable goal can expect to see significant progress between 4 and 6 months; easiser goals or faster learners can get good results sooner. Many of my clients find so much value in the way we work that they apply it to goal after goal, and they work with me for several years.

Many of my clients are Psychotherapy graduates who are looking for less focus on feelings and on the past and more focus on building a better future. Here are the technical terms for the emotion-management skills I teach: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Dialectical Behavioral Treatment (DBT), reframing, and metaphor work. My CBT counseling is a much more advanced version of what you typically find with the few Counselors who use these methods; it goes way beyond handing you a worksheet, going through a self-help book with you, or tediously changing every negative self-talk thought to a boring positive one.

I invite you to come on into my office, have a relaxing cup of tea or coffee, and let's talk further about how my Life Coaching can help you to achieve the level of success and happiness you've been looking for. Call 410-949-7888 or email me to schedule an appointment for your free half-hour consultation.

...or, if you'd prefer to read further, you can find more more technical detail about my approach by clicking on the links in Site Map below this paragraph: Services, Influences, Testimonials, About other coaches, and so on.