About My Work
I believe that the greatest gift I can offer my clients is to create a safe environment for growth. To my clients I am a confidential, non-judgmental learning partner who believes that everyone deserves to live in a space of joy and fulfillment. I work with people from all walks of life, different ages and backgrounds and have found that we all share the same desire: To Be Happy.
My mission is to help my clients bring about life changing awareness, so they can embrace their potential and move towards being the person they have only dreamed about becoming. Growth is a process, a hero’s journey that takes us from the place of inertia and stagnation caused by fear, into the realm where joy, fulfillment, inspiration, creativity and vitality are the achievable options.
As complicated as we sometimes want to make this transformation seem, it really boils down to fear vs. love. For the many of us, pain and suffering are the catalysts for inner transformation and growth. I will teach you how to use the wisdom of your body and the expression of emotions to guide you to the core issues that are the road blocks to your overall freedom.
What makes my coaching different is that I see my clients as already whole and that all the answers reside within them. The guidance I provide helps people grow into their wholeness. Optimum growth comes about when we shift from trying to manipulate the outside conditions and circumstances of the world, and begin to question and evaluate our core beliefs. The good news is, once changes occur on the inside, the world invariably seeks to meet those changes on the outside.
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
-Rumi-
What I Have to Offer
Coaching Credentials
I am a Certified Ontological Coach, with 10 years of experience, specializing in Somatic Work. Ontology is a discipline that requires a substantial learning methodology on the process of change and transformation of individuals. Ontological Coaching addresses three important areas:
1) Language (how you communicate with others, and more importantly, how you talk to yourself).
2) Emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, frustration, depression and shame to name a few).
3) The Mind/Body Connection (the links and blockages that affect each element).
Somatic Work deals with the emotions held within the body which are expressed when one is triggered by a memory, situation or event.
Together, Ontological and Somatic Coaching form a holistic approach that focuses on core issues, beliefs and behaviors that limit your overall potential to shine.
I will help you find your True North.
Mindfulness
For over 30 years I have been studying and applying mindfulness practices to my life. The process has become particularly relevant for me in the past decade, as I started pursuing inner-mastery on my own and in retreats with leading teachers world wide. Along the way, I became a certified yoga and meditation teacher.
Emotional Intelligence
As a man, I was taught early on to shut down my emotions. Don't cry, deal with the pain, be tough... It took me years to learn that it was safe and healthy to open up to emotions, in essence, to be human. Unlocking the inner beauty that lies beneath the minefield of emotions requires intuition, clarity and courage. In my quest for understanding and self-knowledge, I continue to apply what I have learned for my own growth. I believe in practicality, not theory. If it has worked for me, I believe it can work for you.
Somatic Embodiment
As a yoga practitioner, fitness enthusiast and former gymnast, I have become acutely aware of the impact of negative thoughts and emotions on my body. I am skilled at guiding my clients through the uncharted and sometimes fearful emotion-liberating experience safely and at their pace.