Coaching is a vehicle for rediscovering your potential and moving forward.  It acknowledges the past while focusing on present actions to generate a future outcome.

Therapy can work in conjunction with coaching, but there are distinct differences.  Therapy often focuses on the past, and the therapist is seen as an expert.  In coaching, we focus on the future and the coach recognizes that you are whole and complete as you are and that YOU are your own expert; it's the coach's job to help tease out that expertise to get you where you want to go.

Consultants are invited into a set of circumstances, evaluate the circumstances, and make recommendations based on their evaluations.  They can also help implement their suggestions to improve or change the circumstances.  My particular flavor of coaching recognizes your wholeness and completeness as you are and allows YOU to make the decisions and actions YOU want to move forward.

Ontology is the study of being - at its core, it's about being our Self, whole and complete, immutable, unchangeable, unaffected by trauma or life.  It is who we were born to be, always.  Ontological coaching, then, approaches the coaching relationship from this perspective that the client is whole and complete and has this Self that is fully capable of whatever he/she/they want.  This Self is beautifully and wonderfully made and, at its core, ontological coaching is about who we need to BE in order to be this Self more often.

You can expect a safe space to share your life's experiences and your dreams.  You can expect a deep heart capable of accepting you as you are, not as you believe you should be, but as your Self.  You can expect gentle and firm confrontation of the stories you tell yourself and what is standing in the way between where you are and where you want to be.  You can expect professionalism and love.

Not all coaches are trained or have the same training as others.  I was trained by Accomplishment Coaching for 1 full year and graduated in July 2025.  This is an accredited program by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).