My Coaching Approach

Client Centered

I believe you are talented, capable, and self-innovative. Coaching with me is a supportive and collaborative process. I’ll personalize sessions based on your unique needs and goals. You’ll be motivated to set the coaching agenda and implement action steps.

Whole-person Based

I believe embracing your whole, authentic self is key in realizing your true potential. We’ll align your professional goals with your values, needs, and strengths, and leverage different intelligences within you - intellectual, somatic, emotional, and relational.

Outcome Oriented

I believe the results of coaching should be tangible. You’ll walk away from each session with an improved sense of confidence and clarity, having gained insightful perspectives or clear action steps. Overtime you’ll make steady progress towards set goals.

The Process

New to coaching? I’ll provide structure and guidance every step along the way.

Step 1 - Consultation

For new clients, the first step is to get in touch through the contact form. From there we can schedule a free 20-minute consultation call to discuss your aspirations, challenges, and what you’d like to achieve through coaching. We’ll jointly assess if my coaching would be a good fit for your needs.

Step 2 - Partnership

If you’d like to move froward, I’ll draft an initial coaching package based on your needs. All my current offerings are through 50-minute virtual 1:1 sessions via zoom or phone call. In the session, we’ll work on a critical topic together and check in on your progress. You’ll leave each session with fresh perspectives and actionable steps.

Step 3 - Continued Growth

We’ll reflect on your growth achieved after completing the initial coaching package. From there you can choose to continue our partnership with another package or make further progress on your own, knowing you can always book a stand-alone session when needed.

FAQs

Here are some commonly asked questions and answers.

  • Coaching and therapy are among many helping professions.

    The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” The American Psychological Association (APA) defines psychotherapy as “the informed and intentional application of clinical methods and interpersonal stances derived from established psychological principles for the purpose of assisting people to modify their behaviors, cognitions, emotions, and/or other personal characteristics in directions that the participants deem desirable.”

    The main distinctions between coaching and psychotherapy are based on focus, purpose, and population. Coaching focuses on moving into the future from the present state. Therapy emphasizes the past in order to understand the present. The purpose of coaching is frequently about performance improvement, learning, or development while therapy often dives into deep-seated emotional issues to work on personal healing or trauma recovery. Coaching tends to work with well-functioning individuals whereas therapy work tends to be for individuals with some level of dysfunction or disorder. As an analogy, a coach is like an athletic trainer while a therapist is like a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine.

    Reference: REFERRING A CLIENT TO THERAPY: A SET OF GUIDELINES, INTERNATIONAL COACH FEDERATION

  • Coaching is distinct from the advice-giving practices of experts, consultants, or mentors in that it supports the client to seek their answers from their own resources. In this way, the client is able to recognize and strengthen their ability to draw upon their own capacity and wisdom to chart the course for themselves, and thus to develop their inner trust in their own resourcefulness. Effectively, they “learn to fish” for themselves.

    While consulting approaches vary widely, it is often assumed that the consultant or expert diagnoses problems, then advises and sometimes implements the most effective solutions. These experts typically offer a tested and proven process that is specialized in its application, and is almost always based on the consultant’s particular expertise and experience. As a result, the role of the expert is to help an individual see things from the expert’s frame of reference, knowledge and skills.

    A strong distinction between mentoring and coaching is that a mentor has traveled a particular path or developed a level of experience or expertise that enables them to teach others “how to” based on the mentor’s idyllic pathway. Although some professional coaches include mentoring as part of their coaching process, professional coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach. Instead, they use questions that invite the client to find their own resources and reliable mentors within their own lives versus relying upon the coach for all the answers and suggestions.

    Reference:COACHING DISTINCTIONS, COACH TRAINING WORLD

  • If you have a growth mindset and a passion for continuous learning, you're in the right place. I've worked with highly creative individuals across various fields —entrepreneurs, researchers, social workers, and more. Remember, your job title doesn't define you. You don't need a traditional "creative" role to live creatively.

  • My professional coach training was primarily rooted in Whole Person Coaching (WPC) methods, developed by Feroshia R.J. Knight, a master coach and educator. WPC is a holistic, transformational approach that centers on the idea that when individuals fully embrace and embody their whole selves, they are empowered to thrive in all areas of life. This method recognizes the interconnectedness of all life’s aspects and engages the client’s entire being—intellectual, emotional, somatic, and relational. Grounded in scientific theory and supported by the International Coach Federation (ICF), WPC offers a comprehensive framework for lasting personal growth.

  • Integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency are core values in my practice. My coaching also complies with International Coach Federation’s code of ethics, which you can reference here: https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/code-of-ethics.