Why I Became a Coach

Moving away from my hard-earned credentials as a therapist to become a coach was not an easy decision for me or a comfortable one. After all the training I have invested in, I have no desire to be a #bossbabe Instagram coach or to be seen as one.

But I was starting to feel like the constraints of being a therapist were holding me back from the kind of impact I wanted to have in my work.

Therapy is about holding space for gradual transformation.

Therapy is very much about following the client’s lead and privileging the therapeutic alliance with the client versus, say….challenging them.

Encouraging them to do the new, scary thing.

Holding them accountable to the growth they want.

Staying focused rather than open-ended.

And providing the coaching they might need in-between sessions.

HIPPA puts a lot of constraints on therapists where we can’t email you, text you, or use any kind of apps that are not HIPPA-approved. Even though I don’t suspect issues would arise, the fear of it binds me.

I want to be free to use new communication methods to provide coaching in-between sessions. For you to ask questions, share wins or disappointments and get responses from me. And no matter how much I offered that to my therapy clients they never took advantage of it. I think the “therapy relationship” puts constraints on them, too, and they fear being “too much.”

And perhaps most importantly, I found myself developing a method that I wanted to feel more emboldened and free to use with my clients.

A method that I knew would expedite the change they were seeking.

This meant becoming more of a leader in my work than a follower.

This doesn’t mean we don’t follow your feelings, your flow, or your truth. Quite the contrary. Your wisdom will still lead us.

But we get to work on integrating that wisdom into your daily life starting now.

So here I am. Taking the risk. Believing in myself. And doing all the things I would teach you how to do ….to discover yourself on the other side of whatever holds you back.