What is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful relationship that
helps individuals make enduring, positive changes.
Coaching is about meeting your goals and
enhancing your well-being—helping
you create and live exactly the life you want.
The coaching relationship is uniquely
defined for you individually in order to meet the goals and
objectives you bring to coaching.
As your personal coach,
Melissa McCreery:
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Helps you clarify your goals and identify a
path to success that emphasizes your strengths
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Works with you to identify and surmount
roadblocks
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Listens without judgment
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Helps maintain momentum
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Holds you accountable
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Celebrates your successes
Coaching is not therapy:
People often wonder how coaching differs
from psychotherapy or counseling. Psychotherapy or counseling
involves the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues.
The focus is usually on healing emotional wounds with a
significant focus on understanding your emotional history—the
past.
Coaching is action oriented and forward
moving. It's about opening possibilities and getting
unstuck. You set the agenda and Melissa helps you
identify how to best target your strengths towards creating the
life you want.
How Coaching Works:
Coaching can take place in
person; however, coaching more commonly occurs over the phone.
This is more time-effective for you and allows you to
participate in coaching from your home or office, anywhere in
the world, at a
pre-arranged coaching appointment time. Appointments are
usually weekly and are typically thirty minutes, although it is possible to tailor the
length and frequency of calls to meet your needs. We may
exchange emails between calls to check in on goals or
assignments you are working on.
We begin coaching by
carefully exploring your goals and identifying the style or
approach that works best for you, targeting your strengths and
assessing potential roadblocks. Coaching helps you to
develop a plan that you have confidence in and provides you
individualized help and support as you implement it.
Commitment:
Coaching is a confidential
relationship. As your goals and objectives are identified, my
commitment is to helping you achieve the results you want—in
the ways that will work best for you. I work to ensure that you
continue to move in the direction you desire, while maintaining
the life balance that you need. Coaching is a nonjudgmental
process. Missteps and “back-sliding” are opportunities to learn
and reorganize, not fodder for criticism or guilt.
Change is complicated. We all wax and
wane in our motivation. Some of the most powerful progress in
coaching occurs during the “rough periods.” Working through
discouragement or “stuck-ness” teaches us incredible lessons
about our own strengths. It is not uncommon to begin coaching
with a great deal of motivation and then enter a slump after
several weeks. For this reason, I ask you to consider
making an initial
three-month commitment—not to me—but
to yourself. This is not required, but many
find it helpful.
Payment for coaching is made in advance,
on a monthly (four-week) basis and may be made by check or credit card. I
will discuss coaching options and fees with you in your initial
consultation call.
If you are interested in life or
wellness coaching, please
email or call
360.671.8520 to schedule a free
consultation and to discuss coaching further.
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