Individual Coaching

Wherever you are in your life’s journey, wherever you aspire to go, self-connection and self-compassion are your steady companions.

• Empathic Coaching supports you in cultivating deeper awareness and understanding of your own feelings and the needs behind them, so that you can better identify and pursue your life’s goals with confidence and trust.

• Empathic Coaching helps you gain greater confidence as a communicator, and in navigating life’s normal challenges and transitions with courage, grace, and compassion for yourself and others.

My individualized approach to Empathic Coaching is tailored to your specific needs and is informed by my training in Nonviolent Communication and mediation. Individual sessions run generally for 60 minutes and longer sessions are available by mutual agreement.

I am not a licensed mental health professional and my services do not replace the care of psychologists or other healthcare professionals.

Relationship Coaching

Couples Communication Coaching & Facilitation

Feelings-and-needs-based communication is communication that leads to deeper interpersonal connection and understanding. My goal is to offer you and your partner empowering tools that enable you to find solutions together, solutions that are life affirming and where everyone’s needs are considered.

I offfer single sessions as well as a series of 4-6 individualized sessions (total of 6 hrs) for couples who are interested in improving and enriching their relationship through more clear, authentic, and compassionate communication.

As a couple, you will learn and practice:

• How to gain greater awareness of the feelings and unmet needs behind conflicts.

• How to express to your partner what’s important to you in ways that foster respect and understanding.

• How to listen to each other with an open heart, even when you and your partner disagree.

• How to approach emotionally charged conversations with a collaborative mindset of power-with, rather than power-over.

• How to engage with challenging topics or situations from perspectives other than your own and with greater ease.

• How to stay connected to yourself and to your partner as you deactivate your stress responses.

Conflict Coaching and Mediation in Everyday Life

The reality is, conflict is a part of life. Whether at home, at work, or with friends, we all experience conflict — big and small. So how can we engage more productively with conflict?

Conflict lets us know what values, needs, and dreams are important to us.

When approached with care and respect for all involved, conflicts are life-serving and life-enriching, and can lead to greater connection, cooperation, and intimacy between the parties involved.

One of the keys to successfully navigating, and eventually reducing interpersonal conflict, is the ability genuinely to connect with another person while staying connected to oneself; to know and feel moved by what matters to them while at the same honoring your own needs.

So how do we get there?

My approach to conflict coaching and mediation is based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication and starts with finding and building connection between the parties involved. Connection is the foundation to co-creating solutions that can meet everyone’s needs to the greatest extent possible. Connection builds understanding and trust, and trust builds our ability to navigate differences and find solutions together that are life serving.

Length and number of sessions will vary depending on your specific needs, and by mutual agreement.

Workshops and Presentations

Empathic Listening and Mindful Expression:
An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication

I offer Introduction to Nonviolent Communication presentations and workshops to individual, families, groups, and organizations, including colleges and universities.

Please contact me to discuss tailoring workshops and presentations to align with your specific needs and goals.

Facilitated Dream Exploration

This facilitated group-based approach to dream sharing and interpretation is called “Projective Dream Work,” developed by Dr. Jeremy Taylor. When dreams are worked collectively, a fuller range of meanings is derived as dreams speak to us in the universal language of images and metaphors that have both individual and collective significance. No matter the nature of the dream, “all dreams come in the service of health and wholeness” (Jeremy Taylor).

Our process:

• A dream is shared with the group, and group members participate in “projecting” meaning onto the dream as if it was their own dream.

• Participants contribute to uncovering multiple layers of significance and meaning.

• The Dreamer gains insight into the dreams' images, feelings, and associations.

• In the end, only the Dreamer knows for certain, through “aha” moments, what a particular dream means to them.

Dream Exploration workshops meet once a month for 90 minutes and run for four or five consecutive months. The ideal number of participants is 4-6. Generally, two or three dreams are worked on during a 90-minute session, depending on the length of the dreams and level of detail.

Privacy and confidentiality are essential in creating a safe, supportive, and respectful environment that honors all participants’ dignity and integrity.