FAQ

Couples coaching is a beautiful, transformative process and can be highly successful for some couples. However, it only works with couples who are committed and willing to put in the work. To find out if you’re ready for coaching click here and answer these 8 questions.

All couples want to be known and understood in their relationship. They want to feel connected and safe and share their lives together in a meaningful way. Sometimes trust has been broken or the spark has faded and the rigamortis of routine has set in.

If this sounds familiar, I want to assure you, Couples Coaching can help. As part of my couples program, I use research-based tools and techniques to help you rekindle love and appreciation of one another as well as deepen your sexual and emotional connection.

It is important to understand however, that coaching isn’t going to solve everything. It will give you padding and some skills and tools to more easily and quickly take care of issues that come up in your relationship.

The entire focus of couples coaching is to help you safeguard and strengthen your relationship with new learning and strategies.  Click here to read more about my Coaching Program.

All of my coaching packages and courses are conducted online/telephone. As long as you have an internet connection and access to a telephone, we can work together!

There is merit in having weekly sessions online, the most obvious being that you get my undivided professional attention all from the comfort and convenience of your own home. What is also true is study after study shows that online coaching is more effective than meeting face-to-face. This seems to be supported by my own personal experience of using this method of coaching which allows greater focus and eliminates the distraction of visual stimuli. Clients seem to respond better in the safe and familiar environment of their home. You’re focused on the agenda and outcomes of the session rather than on the coach.

And forgive me for stating the obvious but with telephone coaching, you can kiss goodbye to long commutes, annoying traffic jams, and parking hassles. You can start and end your sessions in a space that is conducive to growth and ultimate success.  If coaching is right for you, schedule a FREE 45-minute 1-on-1 ‘Couples Strategy’ Session with me today. 45 minutes that could change your life! 

Before we even get started, it’s really important that I gain insight into your relationship. One of the ways I do this is with a tool called the Relationship Assessment.

It is a self-assessment that helps identify the strong areas of your relationship as well as the weak areas that may need some work. The value of the questionnaire is that it provides crucial information about you, for you, and for your partner.

We can then set goals for your relationship from this new information and awareness.

Once we get going, sessions run for 60 minutes, once a week generally pre-scheduled at the same time on the same day. So Tuesday, July 18 at 5.30 pm (CST) will be your time slot for each session going forward.

All times are in CST since I live in Chicago, USA.

There is a minimum commitment of 90-days for most of my coaching packages but I get more into the weeds of that during your Free 45-minute, 1-on-1 ‘Couples Strategy’ Session

No, coaching is not therapy. Coaching is forward-moving and future-focused, unlike therapy which involves the extensive examination of your past to understand how you got here in the first place.

Although the story of your life is interesting to me, I am much more focused on your life today particularly as it relates to goal-setting, outcome creation, and change management.

While therapy and coaching both are very valuable in moving you past roadblocks in life, their approaches differ in many ways.

Coaching is largely about discovery and self-awareness that seeks to optimize your resilience, develop internal resources, and maximize your full potential. By focusing on the three pillars of attitude, skills, and choices, it meets you where you are today and utilizes your individual strengths and capabilities to propel you to where you would much rather be in the future.

Finally, and foremost, coaches DO NOT diagnose or treat any psychiatric disorders.

Absolutely no! Although the focus on this website is on couples, I offer coaching to singles or anybody wanting clarification or more out of life.

Whether it relates to work, relationships, your physical or mental well-being, transitioning to a new situation, decision-making, or taking bold action, coaching is the process that helps you reach your destination.

If you’re looking for help OUTSIDE of  Couples Coaching, click here to get to my ‘Life Coaching’ website.

My job as a Coach is to unwrap whatever issues may be standing in your way and facilitate your growth and development.

In some instances, couples who sign up together may require individual work.

Whether you sign up as an individual or a couple, you will leave my coaching program with increased self-awareness, usable life skills, clarity and peace of mind, thoughtful decision-making strategies, and growth-oriented thinking to help you make wise choices and respond to life effectively and with renewed resilience. Most of all, you’ll have a life plan for living more fully, and with greater insight.