Personal Coaching
Personal coaching is an assisted process with the goal of helping you become more self-aware, more coherent, and more capable of owning and accomplishing your agendas.
Approach
I bring to our work the full range of my training: as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist; in negotiation and conflict management; in couples and relationship work; in brain and neuroscience; and in somatic neurophysiology, that works with resilience, character, and trauma held in the body and expressed nonverbally.
Being present with you, and inviting you to be present to yourself, is at the crux of all of our conversations. In addition to seeing your uniqueness and individuality, I am alert and interested in your context and background — cultural, ethnic, national, religious, gender, socioeconomic — without giving privilege to any particular community over another.
Getting Started
When we first meet, you can let me know what you want to work on, including any specific issue. It’s okay to have trouble articulating it, or to not know at all. Very often when people start by identifying something specific, as self-learning deepens, a more meaningful goal can emerge. Everything tends to be interconnected, so starting anywhere is a useful beginning. You are not expected to diagnose yourself — only to begin the process of letting me get to know you.
We will talk about how you live your life, how you function, the beliefs that motivate you, how you relate to the people around you — including the unconscious dimensions of your functioning: your motivations, personality, emotions, formative events and relationships. As it seems appropriate, I may invite you to exercises within sessions or in your life, and I use what happens between us in the room to deepen our understanding of you.
Areas of Focus
I work with an individual as a whole person — attentive to the entire life trajectory, the challenges that have formed your strengths, your inherent gifts, and the sticking points of your continued growth.
People come with specific concerns — career transitions,
relationships,
creativity, confidence,
life changes,
peak performance,
imposter syndrome, women in leadership — and we find the thread that runs through them.