Life Transitions
Change is hard.
Have you recently experienced a change and something new in your life that has left you feeling off balance?
Maybe you are struggling to understand why a recent positive shift in your life has you feeling overwhelmed and anxious.
Or, maybe you are noticing the skills you once used to navigate difficulties in life just aren't working anymore.
Our coaches can help you navigate life transitions with more confidence and ease.
Resisting change puts you on a path to frustration and confusion.
Learning to work with change will help you confidently cope with the transitions you are navigating. You may even learn to enjoy the positive changes that occur in your life.
Let us be a partner to you as you navigate this transition.
Coaching for life transitions can help...
Which of the following sound true for you?
SELF ASSESSMENT
How to Get Started with Coaching for
Life Transitions:
Getting started is as simple as completing our 5-minute
Intake Pre-screen where you will:
- Briefly share with us why you're seeking services and your presenting concerns.
- Complete a brief risk assessment to ensure you're not at risk for harm to yourself or others.
- Schedule your initial appointment, or a complimentary 15-minute consultation, to ensure you are connecting to the service and provider that’s the best fit for you immediately after you submit your Intake Pre-screen.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)
“Life transitions” is an umbrella term that really includes anything you experience as a significant change in your life. Whether or not a transition is “big” is really determined by you. Even positive transitions (like buying a house) can leave us feeling lost or challenged. Here are some examples of life transitions:
- Moving away to college
- Ending a relationship (including a friendship)
- Starting a new job
- Retirement
- Family changes
- Becoming a parent
- Sharing a part of your identity with community/coming out
- Marriage
- Questioning your faith and more
Working with a coach can help you identify your goals, build skills to work towards them, and have support and accountability along the way. Although a “coach” in sports terms is different than a Goal or Wellness Coach, there are some similarities in the ways our coaches give you the tools, help you reflect, and support you through practice.
After a brief discussion of your needs, strengths, and goals, you and your coach will work together to create a plan and start building skills. Skills you may build in coaching to help you navigate a transition include:
- Assertive communication
- Boundary setting
- Self-reflection
- Challenging negative self-talk
- S.M.A.R.T. goal planning
- Coping skills
- Building a budget and more.
This really depends on the transition you are navigating and its impact on you. Even two people facing the same transition may choose differently between coaching and counseling. Others choose to do counseling and coaching one after the other or at the same time.
You can look at the chart below to understand some of the differences. The best way to determine which is best for you is to talk to someone who knows. You can complete our online pre-screen to schedule a complimentary call with a member of our team who can help you decide.
Coaching
- Focus on growth
- Mostly looking at the present and the future
- Fostering mental wellness
- Task-focused
- Short term
- Asks “how”
Counseling
- Focus on recovery, healing, and new norms
- Mostly looking at the present and the past
- Healing mental illness
- Emotion-focused
- Short or long term
- Asks “why”, then "how"
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