What should I expect when we work together? When we embark on our work together, we’ll set out our initial goals, the pace at which we want to start, and lay the groundwork for how to communicate. Though there are certain methodologies and aspects of my practice I use to help you, I remain flexible in how we move forward together.

What does your approach look like? My approach to coaching is centered at the intersection of post-traumatic growth, positive psychology, and aspects of neuroscience related to neuroplasticity. Essentially, researchers have found that people who are survivors of trauma can grow and evolve their psychological frameworks with help and the right tools. Organizations, like Wholebeing Institute or VIA something, have created methodologies that bring practice to theory in ways that bring about holistic change. My particular focus is cancer survivorship and people navigating big life changes in career and at home.

What does success look like for me? In helping you imagine and explore your desired future, in concrete detail, we can orient our work toward X. As you grow toward those goals, you may feel things like the shedding of weight, stress, anxiety, or maybe hopelessness. It very much depends on your experiences, goals, and appetite for change. However, something super positive and easy to understand.

What do I need to know about your background? My training is based in positive psychology, a research field focused on human thriving and the conditions that lead to flourishing. We shift from human pathology, (what’s wrong in people), and move towards healthy growth, cultivating more of what is already right and working. Positive psychology coaching is a natural way to apply evidence-based techniques, products of this rich science, in practical ways that prepare and guide us to live into our highest potential.

Why do you believe coaching would be a beneficial process for cancer survivors? It offers a vehicle where a more balanced perspective between the more traditional, illness-oriented approach of cancer treatment to a broader approach that also includes well-being as an important aspect of mental health in survivorship. Positive mental health has been reliably measured as well being. {Research rom Bohlmeijer’s article A new Model for Sustainable Mental Health) And positive psychology has been developed as a science of well-being and flourishing, with a focus on studying positive emotions, traits and institutions (Seligman & Csikszentmihaly, 2000). The coaching model creates a positive environment wth a focus on what is good and right in a person which sets the stage for magical things to happen for any human. We each hold the potential of human flourishing. For cancer survivors it is fertile ground. They have experienced a trauma, had extraordinary focus on what was wrong and lived in a subliminal state of fight or flight during the treatment phase of their path. The bridge to survivorship offers a different type of healing. It is phycological and physiological healing. An integral part of this is to invite people back into the driver’s seat of their life. Coaching offers the survivor into the rest and digest part of their nervous system, allows them control while defining and pursuing meaningful goals. The coaching environment is structured, supportive and positive. Many that are called to this work are ready to change, looking to change after their experience but not aware of the how. Coaching offers the how and the where.

If I were super curious, what else should I look into? Some of my big influences in the context of coaching have been…Robert Biswas-Diener, Margarita Taragona, David Drake and Rick Hanson.

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