Life coaching or personal coaching is a proven vehicle for helping people overcome existential, present challenges, enabling them function better. People hire a coach when they are making a career transition, starting a new business, feeling dissatisfied, finding child-rearing challenging, re-evaluating life choices, or simply looking for personal and professional breakthroughs.

A Personal Coach may help clients identify personal and/or business and/or relationship goals, develop strategies, relationships and action plans intended to achieve those goals. A coach provides a place for clients to be held accountable to themselves by monitoring the clients' progress towards implementation of their action plans. Together they evolve and modify the plan to best suit the client's needs and environmental relationships. A Personal Coach acts as a human mirror for clients by sharing an outside and unbiased perspective on what they are observing about their clients. A Personal Coach may teach specific insights and skills to empower the client toward their goals.

In the coaching relationship, the coaches’’ intention is to work alongside of you, holding your vision of your self and your life, to accomplish your greatest dreams and realize your deepest desires. The coach will serve many roles for you including sounding board, motivator, facilitator, guide, mirror, intuitive, and confidant. The coaching relationship is a sacred space that serves as an incubator for the changes you wish to see in your life.

Through the coaching relationship and process, Clients learn how to:

• Identify and articulate obstacles to success
• Move from breakdown to breakthrough
• Enhance self-awareness, accountability and perseverance
• Set goals and achieve results

The following are only a few examples of the subject matter coaching can help:

• Issues with work-life balance
• Interpersonal issues at work or life
• Balance in life
• Stress and anxiety management
• Decision making skills
• Problem solving skills
• Personal growth and development
• Conflict management
• Life purpose and spirituality
• Dating successfully
• Building deep relationships
• Building self-esteem and confidence
• Overcoming social anxiety
• Developing communication skills
• Manage your health
• Removing fear and self doubt
• Let go of old, unwanted habit
• Balance your life and work

Unlike psychotherapy, which is generally long-term and is concerned with the dynamics processes underlying psychological dysfunction, and treats deep-seeded emotional problems, coaching is short term, and is focused on changing behavior in the present. Rather than focusing on the past; analyze the problem or treating a dysfunction, coaching is future- oriented method and is about enhancing performance or one’s life experience by constructing and implementing solutions.

You hire a life coach because you want to improve the quality of your life by directing or redirecting your focus and energy. You want more awareness, ease and clarity for yourself and your relations. You want to grow through support, personal insight and understanding. You want to live your life intentionally.

Your life coach will assist you to:

• Discover who you are and what really motivates you!
• Set and achieve proactive, powerful goals rather than just reacting to life!
• Create the life and career you want to follow your passions, priorities, and talents!
• Gain a professional guide that would support you and facilitate your process toward goal achievement.
• UNLEASH THE POWERS WITHIN YOU, to accomplish more than you ever thought possible!

• CoachU - Tools and training for coaches.
• The International Coach Federation
• Institute for Life Coach Training - A Training Program for Therapists to transition to Life Coaching.
• Glossary of coaching terms