Coaching
Frequently Asked Questions
What is coaching?
Coaching is a collaborative, client-centered process that helps you clarify what matters most, recognize your strengths and values, and make meaningful progress in ways that fit your life. Rather than telling you what to do, coaching offers space to reflect, explore possibilities, and choose the steps that feel right for you.
What can I bring to coaching?
You don’t need to arrive with a clearly defined goal. You may be navigating a transition, feeling stuck, looking for greater balance, ready for something new, or simply sensing that something in your life could be different.
We begin with where you are and explore what matters most to you now.
What areas can we explore through coaching?
Coaching can support many aspects of your wellbeing and everyday life. Depending on what matters most to you, our work might include:
reducing stress and strengthening resilience
improving energy, sleep, movement, or other sustainable health habits
exploring your relationship with nutrition and wellbeing
turning larger goals into manageable, realistic actions
creating greater balance among work, family, relationships, and your own needs
navigating life transitions and changing priorities
leading with clarity and confidence, whether you manage a team, are stepping into a new role, or are leading yourself through change
starting a business, launching a new project, or building something of your own
strengthening boundaries and making more intentional choices
reconnecting with purpose, meaning, or what you want next
putting recommendations from your healthcare providers into practice in ways that fit your life
You don’t need to work on all – or even several – of these areas. Coaching begins with what matters most to you now.
Do you work with individuals navigating changing roles and priorities?
Yes. Coaching can provide space to reflect on the many dimensions of life that may be competing for your attention – your health, relationships, family, career, finances, sense of purpose, and your own wellbeing.
This may look different at every stage of life. For young adults, it may mean finishing school, starting a career, or figuring out what comes next. For women, it may include pregnancy and preparing for motherhood; adjusting to life with a new baby or young children; returning to work or redefining priorities after becoming a parent; or navigating physiological changes that may affect energy, sleep, or focus. For men, it may mean balancing career pressures with family, health, and a sense of purpose. For many of us, it means balancing the needs of children and aging parents. And later in life, it may involve retirement, a new sense of purpose, or caring for your health and independence.
Through all of these transitions, it can be easy for your own needs, priorities, and sense of self to move quietly into the background. Coaching creates space to reconnect with what matters to you – to consider your own wellbeing and sense of purpose, strengthen boundaries, clarify priorities, and make choices that allow you to care for yourself while continuing to care about the people and responsibilities that matter to you.
Coaching doesn’t diagnose or treat physical or psychological conditions. Instead, it allows you to explore how these transitions and changes are affecting your life, what you need now, and what realistic, sustainable steps may help you move forward – alongside appropriate clinical care when needed.
Do you work with leaders and people starting something new?
Yes. Many of my clients are professionals and leaders navigating demanding roles, career moves, or the balance between work and life. Others are starting a business, launching a project, or making a significant transition and want space to think it through and plan practical next steps.
Drawing on my years in international corporate law and my own experience building a business, I understand the process, and the pressures and possibilities that come with it. I help clients turn what might feel overwhelming into clear, manageable steps, while also offering room to consider their own wellbeing and life balance along the way
What informs your coaching approach?
My approach is collaborative, client-centered, strengths- and values-based, and grounded in evidence-informed coaching practices.
My training incorporates established approaches to behavior change, including Motivational Interviewing, Positive Psychology, Self-Determination Theory, stages of change, and strengths-based goal setting. These approaches help us explore motivation, build confidence, identify meaningful goals, and translate insight into realistic action.
Throughout our work, you remain the expert on your own life. My role is not to tell you what you should do, but to help you discover what feels meaningful, possible, and sustainable for you.
My training was completed through the Mayo Clinic Wellness Coach Training Program, an NBHWC Approved Training Program. My coaching practice is informed by the professional competencies, scope-of-practice principles, and ethical standards established by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), and is also guided by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics.
What happens during a coaching session?
Our conversations are shaped by you and what you would like to explore. I listen closely, ask questions, and share observations when they may be useful, so you can see your situation more clearly and recognize your strengths, values, and possibilities. Together, we identify practical steps you would like to take between sessions.
The process is collaborative and evolves as your needs and goals evolve.
What is Leading From Within™?
Leading From Within™ is my signature coaching experience, designed to help you reconnect with what matters most and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and intention. Together, we explore your strengths, values, and aspirations, and through questions, reflection, and practical action planning, you’ll develop sustainable steps that support your wellbeing and the life you envision.
It is offered in two editions:
Personal Edition: six 30-minute sessions, completed over approximately 6–8 weeks, for anyone ready to focus on what matters most, whether that’s your health, relationships, a life transition, a new beginning, or simply finding greater balance.
Professional Edition: eight 45-minute sessions over about eight weeks, with an intake assessment and between-session support, for professionals and leaders who want to lead with greater clarity and intention while navigating career moves, demanding roles, and the balance between work and life.
What happens after Leading From Within™?
Coaching does not have to end when your Leading From Within™ experience does. If you would like continued support, Individual Sessions and the Package of 3 are available as your goals, circumstances, and priorities evolve.
How do I know whether coaching is right for me?
Coaching may be a good fit if you are ready to reflect honestly, explore possibilities, and take an active role in shaping what comes next.. You do not need to have the answers—or even know exactly where you want to begin.
This is one reason I offer a complimentary introductory conversation. It gives us an opportunity to talk about what brings you to coaching, answer your questions, and determine whether working together feels like the right fit.
What is the scope of coaching? Is it the same as therapy or medical care?
No. Coaching is not therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, medical treatment, or a substitute for care from a licensed healthcare professional.
Coaching focuses on your present circumstances and the direction you would like to move. We may explore your strengths, values, motivation, habits, goals, and possibilities, translating what matters to you into practical, self-directed action through small, realistic steps.
When you are receiving care from a physician or other healthcare professional, coaching can also help you explore how to put their recommendations into practice in your everyday life.
I work within a defined professional scope, maintain clear boundaries and confidentiality, and refer to appropriately qualified professionals when a client’s needs extend beyond the scope of coaching.
Do you give advice or tell me what I should do?
My role is not to prescribe a path for you. I believe meaningful and sustainable growth is more powerful when it stems from your own values, strengths, insights, and priorities.
I may offer observations, questions, resources, or perspectives when appropriate, but you remain the expert on your own life and the person who ultimately decides what feels right for you.
Are coaching sessions virtual?
Most coaching sessions take place live over Zoom, so we can work together wherever you are. In-person options, A Coffee and a Pause™ and A Stroll and a Pause™, are available in Greenwich, CT.
What are A Coffee and a Pause™ and A Stroll and a Pause™?
These are 60-minute in-person coaching sessions in Greenwich, CT: one over coffee at a café on Greenwich Avenue, the other on a walk outdoors. Both offer a change of setting that can bring a fresh perspective.
How long are coaching sessions?
Most coaching sessions are 30 minutes. Professional Edition sessions are 45 minutes, and in-person sessions are 60 minutes.
Can my employer pay for coaching?
Many companies cover coaching through learning and development budgets. I can provide an itemized invoice and a program description to share with your manager or HR team. Leading From Within™: Professional Edition is designed with this in mind.
Do you offer reduced rates?
Yes. Reduced rates are available for young adults (18–25) and for community members facing financial barriers. Learn more on the Investment & Accessibility page.
Is what I share during coaching confidential?
Yes. I treat our coaching conversations and personal information with care and respect. The specific terms and limitations of confidentiality are outlined in the Coaching Agreement provided before we begin working together.
How do I get started?
A first step is a complimentary 20-minute introductory conversation. It is an opportunity to share what prompted you to reach out, learn more about my approach, ask questions, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.
There is no need to have everything figured out before we talk.
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