How Integrative Wellness Coaching Works

The Focus of Coaching

Coaching is different from other helping professions in that it focuses predominantly on the present. Coaching doesn’t usually delve into your past. Instead, it looks practically at what you’re doing now in your life, and how well it’s working to take you where you want to go. In other words, coaching focuses on the growth and change that lie within your immediate grasp. It also tends to emphasize the positive, rather than on the negative or critical. Coaching is not about troubleshooting, problem solving, offering advice, or floating suggestions. Rather, it’s about helping you to realize your strengths and then putting them to the fullest use to achieve your goals.

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The Coaching Perspective

Coaching isn’t about mining the coach’s bright ideas or solutions. On the contrary, it’s about tapping your innate wisdom and virtue and using it to take you to your higher ground. This undertaking depends less on the coach providing the right answers than it does on them providing the right questions, ones that help you define, design, and take action on your best way forward. Good coaching also evades pat agendas, processes, patterns, and models. Only you can determine the approach that best serves you. And I’ll help you find it.

The Coaching Process

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Typically we begin by assessing the big picture, the eagle’s-eye view of your life. It provides a holistic way of understanding where, how, and who you are in contrast to where, how, and who you truly want to be. My job as a coach is to always bear your highest aspirations in mind, and help you use each session to steer toward them. Each time we meet is another step toward your highest goals and ideal future. But only you can decide what that step is and how, when, where, and why to take it. The agenda is always your creation.

Typical Coaching Timeframes

Most coaching sessions last for one hour; however, 90-minute and 30-minute sessions are also feasible. The duration of the coaching engagement also varies widely. I’ve seen people change their lives in 30 minutes. Then again, some people like seeing a coach on an ongoing basis as a steady support system in their life. Ultimately, the coaching engagement ends when you’re convinced that you’ve accomplished all you came to do.

Ways of Meeting for Coaching

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I often meet with clients online using web video apps such as Zoom or Skype. For those who prefer it, we can also meet via a phone call or a voice app. I meet in-person with some clients in the greater LA area, either at their homes, workplaces, or a neutral site. And I maintain an office/studio for meeting people in the Pasadena-Glendale-Burbank-La Canada area. Any combination of the above works great, too.

Request a Complimentary 30-Minute Coaching Session

I provide a free coaching “chemistry” session for first-time clients who want to see if my coaching approach is right for them. Just fill out and submit the form below, and I’ll contact you to set up an online appointment (Zoom).