One to One Coaching
How It Works
The Coaching Journey
Coaching is a collaborative, personalized process where we’ll work together to clarify your goals, explore tailored strategies, and integrate meaningful changes that align with your long-term vision—ultimately empowering you to navigate challenges with awareness, confidence, and intention
FRAME
We’ll work together to craft a six to nine month engagement, defining a set of desired outcomes for your personal and professional goals. In each session, we’ll co-create a Unit of Work with a focus and objectives that aligns with fulfilling your long-term vision.
EXPERIMENT
Through biweekly or monthly in-person or virtual coaching sessions, we’ll unlock strategies and solutions you can put to work. I apply a client-centered approach, meeting you where you are right now, focusing on your own thoughts, challenges, and goals. We’ll co-create experiments and I’ll help bring your own tools and resources into your awareness.
REINFORCE
This is where we move from the “what is” to the “so what.” You’ll put your learning into action, make the desired change, and integrate the new awareness, insight or learning into your way of being in the world. I’ll support your progress and integration while you maintain ownership for your action plan and outcomes.
GET THE INSIDE SCOOP
The Coaching Experience
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
My Coaching Philosophy
Gestalt Psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and a person’s behaviors as a whole.
When trying to make sense of the world around us, Gestalt psychology suggests that we don’t simply focus on every small component. Instead, we zoom out and perceive objects and patterns as part of a greater whole and as elements of more complex systems.
THE DETAILS
FAQs About Coaching
What is the commitment for one to one coaching with The Symbiotic Collective?
What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
Coaching is explicitly targeting emotionally healthy people. If someone is dealing with some kind of emotional issue or past trauma, then I would refer them to a therapist. I’m credentialed by the International Coaching Federation, and there’s an entire ethical code of conduct that we’re required to uphold, which includes referring people to the appropriate practitioner.
This isn’t mentoring. This isn’t sponsorship. It really is teaching people how to use the tools that are in their toolbox.
How much information is confidential?
Everything we say in a coaching session is confidential. If your company is paying for the coaching services, they can provide input and tell me how the client is progressing, but I’m still not allowed by the ethical standards of ICF to provide the company any information about what takes place in the coaching session.
What is the role of a coach?
I’m not going to talk to your boss for you, right? I’m not giving you advice. There’s accountability for outcomes and you have the ownership of the action and the outcome. And what we’re talking about are maybe different ways that you may want to approach or experiment with, but the ultimate accountability is with the coachee.
What is Gestalt?
Gestalt by definition is a physical, biological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of element so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be identified from a simple summation of its parts.
Gestalt approach has the basic premise that life happens in the present—not in the past or the future—and that when we are dwelling on the past or fantasizing about the future we are not living fully. Through living in the present we are able to take responsibility for our responses and actions. To be fully present in the here and now offers us more excitement, energy, and courage to live life directly.
Gestalt principles commonly referenced are:
