As a Certified Professional Coach, Ellie takes a holistic approach to coaching. She weaves her training and education in applied psychology and intuitive channeled life, business, and spiritual coaching, yoga, meditation, and metaphysics with her life experiences to help clients feel balanced, complete, and fulfilled.
She does this by helping clients set intentions, identify and achieve personal goals, develop blended solutions, work with their own energy via channeled energy work, and implement strategies that will enhance performance, increase conscious awareness, and improve overall life satisfaction.
Ellie also encourages and facilitates self-discovery and awareness, insight, intrapersonal growth, and increased personal fulfillment, while supporting her clients and helping them assess and evaluate their individual experiences and progression.
Throughout her career, Ellie has worked closely with people from all walks of life, and is dedicated to providing competent, confidential, and ethical care to every individual she encounters.
Individual Coaching Sessions
Coaching sessions are conducted in-person or telephonically, and include email and phone support as necessary. The intention of sessions is to identify personal goals, develop and implement strategies that help clients reach personally defined objectives that will enhance performance, awareness, and life satisfaction.
Because coaching is a client-guided process, clients will set the agenda for each session, and work will largely depend upon participation, motivation, and self-disclosure.
As the coach, Ellie will offer unconditional positive regard, and will remain empathic, genuine, honest, and direct with her guidance. Additionally, she will ask deliberate questions and employ various coaching techniques that will encourage self-discovery and help clients evaluate their experiences and progress.
Healing Intensives
Applying the same philosophies that guide individual sessions, Ellie also creates personal Intensive experiences, retreats, and workshops that are designed to address the needs of the individuals and special-interest groups involved in this process.
The intention of these Intensive experiences is to delve into deep-seeded issues, bringing a deeper awareness and understanding of long-standing patterns, and initiating positive change. These Intensive experiences are an opportunity to unleash authenticity, enliven, and bring potency and manifestation into all aspects of an individual's life.
Intensive experiences, workshops, and retreats are individually tailored, and lead to nothing short of magic!
Clarifications
Because Ellie is trained as a life coach and a therapist, it is important that clients understand the similarities and differences of both practices. Both coaching and psychotherapy utilize knowledge of human behavior, motivation, and behavioral change, and interactive counseling techniques. The major differences lie in the goals, emphasis, and level of professional responsibility
By definition, life coaching assumes the relative mental health of the individual. Coaching is a collaborative process that emphasizes action, solutions, and creating positive change, both in the present and in the future. Coaching also places an emphasis on client accountability and a commitment to self-awareness, intrapersonal growth, and increased personal satisfaction.
Psychotherapy, on the other hand, identifies, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association. Goals in therapy include the alleviation of symptoms, altering dysfunctional patterns involved in various disorders, and coping with psychological distress.
Please understand that life coaching sessions are not a substitute for psychotherapy or mental health care. In the event that either the coach of the client recognizes a problem that may be better served by psychotherapy, I will refer you to the appropriate resources.
If you are currently under the care of a mental health professional, please inform her of this and consult with your care provider about your involvement in life coaching.
While Ellie has the education and training in both professions, she cannot attempt to fulfill both roles simultaneously. As a life coach, she will remain fully committed to the coaching profession and serve clients competently, ethically, and professionally.
It is also important to understand that the client-coach relationship is a crucial component in the process of life coaching, however it is not to be used in lieu of other professional advice. As a coach, it is Ellie’s responsibility to help clients identify personal goals, develop strategies to overcome obstacles, and empower them to live positively. Ellie and her clients always bear in mind that all decisions in each area of her client’s life are exclusively theirs and their actions regarding them are their own responsibility.