Coaching
Frequently Asked Questions
What is wellness coaching?
Wellness coaching is a collaborative, client-centered process that helps you clarify what matters most, identify your strengths and values, and create meaningful changes that fit your life. Rather than telling you what to do, coaching provides space to reflect, explore possibilities, and determine 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, wanting to make a change, 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 wellness coaching?
Wellness 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
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.
For women in particular, this 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; balancing the needs of children and aging parents; career and relationship changes; or navigating physiological changes that may affect energy, sleep, or focus.
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.
What informs your coaching approach?
My approach is collaborative, client-centered, strengths- and values-based, and grounded in evidence-informed wellness 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 will listen, ask thoughtful questions, and help you reflect on your strengths, values, priorities, and possibilities. Together, we may identify practical steps or experiments that you would like to take between sessions.
The process is collaborative and evolves as your needs and goals evolve.
What is the Lead From Within™ Coaching Experience?
The Lead From Within™ Coaching Experience is my six session coaching journey designed to help you reconnect with what matters most and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and intention. Together, we'll explore your strengths, values, and aspirations to uncover what motivates meaningful change. Through thoughtful reflection, evidence-based coaching, and practical action planning, you'll develop sustainable strategies that support your health, wellbeing, and the life you envision.
The Lead From Within™ Coaching Experience includes six 30-minute Coaching Sessions.
This experience is designed to be completed over approximately 6–8 weeks, allowing time to build momentum, practice new habits, and integrate meaningful, lasting change.
What happens after the six-session experience?
Coaching does not have to end after six sessions. If you would like continued support, ongoing individual coaching sessions 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 creating change. 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 wellness coaching? Is it the same as therapy or medical care?
No. Wellness 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 change is more powerful when it grows 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?
Yes. Coaching sessions are conducted live virtually, allowing us to work together regardless of your location.
How long are coaching sessions?
Coaching sessions are 30 minutes in length, unless otherwise agreed.
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 Wellness Coaching Agreement provided before we begin working together.
How do I get started?
A first step is a complimentary 15-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.
Prefer to jump right in, the Lead From Within™ Coaching Experience is a great place to begin.