Expert Coaching

Stress Management
According to the National Institutes of Health, stress impacts physical as well as emotional well-being, and it can impact every part of our bodies. I’ve found that treating stressed-out people holistically, not just as clients, helps me to help them find their own custom-made solutions. I’ll ask about life style: diet, exercise, sleep, general enjoyment of life, the work situation and so on. My approach to helping people cope with and manage stress involves encouraging them to accept the fact that we can’t control everything outside us. But we can control our own responses. Once we realize how powerful we really are, we gain the confidence to make it through tough times and stressful relationships and situations.

Anger Management
Mismanaged anger can aggravate existing health problems, like high blood pressure, and increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. The experience of anger, like all emotions, doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s connected to our thinking, our behavior, and often to another emotion, as well. One key to managing anger is discovering new ways of thinking, because our thoughts can be controlled directly, whereas emotions tend to evade our efforts to manage them. When you’ve succeeded, you’ll have the pleasure of knowing that anger no longer controls you, because you’ve learned to control your thinking and your behavior.

Conflict Resolution and Problem-Solving
Is it true that everything we need to know we learned in kindergarten? Well, almost. But we learned some pretty bad habits back then, too. Habits like name-calling, bullying, gossip, and all manner of manipulation. Isn’t it amazing that some of us have carried those habits over into our adult lives? Learning to resolve conflict and to solve problems together is largely a matter of un-learning bad habits. Like learning to communicate effectively, it’s not hard; but the real test is the temptation to give up when changes don’t happen fast enough, or when others don’t cooperate. I can help you handle that, if you’re committed to helping yourself and others.

Improved Communication

It’s not always easy to express one’s own needs and feelings, or to understand the feelings, needs and motives of other people. “We just don’t communicate!” How many times have you heard yourself or someone else say that? How

about, “She only hears what she wants to hear.” Or “Sometimes I feel like I’m a happy family

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nobody’s listening.” Nearly every relationship in any setting can suffer from poor communication now and then. Fortunately, learning to communicate effectively is not as hard as people think. With my help you’ll learn skills and gain new understanding that will pay richly in any situation where communication matters.