What outcomes can I expect from coaching?

This is not typical career coaching. The focus of sessions will never be about resumes, job hunting, or interviews. Although those topics could be involved in some conversations, the focus of coaching is to empower you with the foundational skills that support your ability to make as many intentional and authentic choices as possible in your career. The outcomes you can expect to gain as a result of this career coaching are:

• A clearly identified direction for the next steps of your career journey. 

• Expanded awareness of limiting patterns developed in childhood that prevent your desired growth.

• Identification of likely root causes of limiting patterns.

• Knowledge of skills that you can implement to overcome limitations and achieve goals.

• Identification of abilities and qualities that can be used in your career. 

• Greater self-confidence and self-respect as a result of being seen and heard. 

What type of homework can i expect?

Any homework provided between coaching sessions is given in hopes that it will make efficient use of the time we have together. Homework may consist of answering several questions, watching a video, or reading an article. Homework between sessions will most often require no more than an hour of your time.

What is insecure attachment?

Children that do not receive adequate emotional bonding from their primary caregiver develop survival strategies to cope with their unmet needs. The survival strategies were adaptive during childhood, but become primarily maladaptive in adulthood. These strategies lead to insecure ways of attaching to partners, supervisors, jobs, hobbies, and more. The subcategories of insecure attachment (anxious, avoidant, or fearful avoidant {aka disorganized}) describe how one navigates their attachments, whether through means of strict emotion, strict logic, or assessing the environment to determine whether emotion or logic will win. However, secure attachment can be developed so that equal parts logic and emotion can be used while navigating important attachments. This can be important because secure attachments are typically what leads to fulfillment.

What is household dysfunction?

Household dysfunction refers to a living environment in which substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, poverty, or any other harmful environmental dynamics are present. Although none of these directly affect the way a child is cared for, they create an environment where the child experiences extreme distress and learns maladaptive behaviors and beliefs to survive. For example, the adult may grow up and believe it’s normal to make excuses for folks who are making mistakes

What is FINANCIAL INSECURITY?

This can include generational poverty, situational poverty, or working class conditions. This could lead to adult behaviors like micromanaging financial decisions, where one worries about a $2 increase in a product. A child raised in these circumstances might also learn that taking risks with financial decisions is often dangerous. For example, withdrawing funds from a retirement account to fund a new career path might seem like a fatal failure to the folks from a similar past.