Coaching provides targeted sessions where every person has a voice in deciding on and achieving outcomes. Coaching with me is focused on measured outcomes with specific approaches that produce clear and identifiable results. This same approach holds true to any coaching I do with individuals or an entire family.
Family Intensives are multiday experiences that allow for deeper connection and transformation. “On the Grid” utilizes the comforts of a house while incorporating sustainable experiential and outdoor experiences. Some families I have worked with affectionately call it “Family Camp”.
In-person On the Grid Family Coaching Intensives are offered in a variety of locations. Families have chosen their own homes, a vacation homes, or families have utilized Steamboat Springs for their family-intensive site. The duration and timing are individual, and availability-based.
A family’s desires, the location, and the length of the intensive will determine the activities and adventures included. Examples of potential experiences are:
These activities are tailored to the family’s unique preferences, ensuring a meaningful and memorable intensive experience.
Absolutely! One of my foundational beliefs is in teaching families how to sustain the growth and investments they make in themselves. I’m committed to finding similar and additional adventures that your family can continue to explore and participate in closer to home. This way, the progress made during the intensive can be reinforced through ongoing experiences that foster connection and growth.
Depending on the size, needs of the family, and the location of the intensive, I may bring in a co-facilitator to enhance the experience. You can find more information about the professionals I collaborate with under the Resource tab. This collaborative approach ensures that each family receives the tailored support they need for a successful intensive.
Parent Coaching is an area that I have become an expert in for the last 15 years. Sometimes, we need to incorporate parent coaching sessions within the family work to focus on specific areas that only a parent can change that will help shift the system and the relationships. Parent Coaching also provides the opportunity to address co-parenting issues that are impacting the successes you are looking for.
My coaching incorporates my clinical awareness and knowledge as a therapist, it’s a hat I will always wear in my coaching work, though I am clear on when and how to wear it. My personality style is curious, compassionate, direct, funny, and energized with a passion for teaching and supporting families in their healing journeys. I am known to be able to quickly and accurately assess patterns and needs in a family system and the individuals within it. My coaching style is described, and I agree, as practical and direct, yet an empowering approach filled with compassion, insight, knowledge, humor, and patience.
In general, coaching is less process and more strategy and direction than therapy. The family coaching that I provide allows for process, though we determine how much process is needed to get to the strategic coaching for desired change. As a therapist, I often wait for my clients to get there through the process and as a coach, I am going to help you get there quicker through insight, feedback, and direction.
My answer is that it should not be, instead of, but asking yourself, “What is needed right now”? I work with many family systems that struggle to tolerate family therapy. My belief and experience are because the tools required to be effective in family therapy, to reach the desired outcomes that one goes to family therapy for are just not there or are harder to implement than everyone thought. Family coaching allows for this type of work, allowing for the family to participate in family therapy when needed more effectively and with stronger results.
The skills that are acquired in family coaching allow for families to show up in a more productive and meaningful way in therapy. The skills and practice that are achieved in family coaching allow for family members to engage in curiosity, to allow for vulnerability, and to be more responsive and less reactive to family members. Family Coaching identifies and addresses issues that are creating obstacles and showing up in a way that seeks connection and strengthens relationships. All of which are very much needed for family therapy to be effective.
Absolutely, 100%. The biggest compliment I have been given from outpatient therapists is the acknowledgment of how well their client(s) are showing up in their sessions. The increase in effective communication and tolerance for the discomfort that often surfaces in family therapy and relationship healing, are easily noticed.
Yes, I would want and expect to collaborate with your all professional team members to ensure I have full awareness of the work you are doing and how each professional thinks I can be of help.
Absolutely, I adjust my methods to meet a family system where they are. It’s thought out, it’s discussed, and it’s with great intention. No matter what or how, with all the families I work with and no matter how individualized I can be, measured outcomes are always KEY in my work. My goal is to increase objective outcomes that provide changed and strengthened family relationships.
My rules are methods, and they are also the start of commitments that family members make when participating in family coaching with me. My rules allow for the concepts and methods to be implemented with success. I have them because they have continuously worked.
Absolutely not and even when together when doing virtual sessions, the encouragement is for everyone to consider the benefit of being on their own device and in their own space. I offer both phone sessions and video sessions. Both are effective in many ways and depending on the family, one can be more effective than the other, and we decide together what the best approach is.
Family Coaching Sessions are provided in short rounds. Each Family Coaching Session is 1 hour in length. Family Coaching Intensives are1-5 days in length. The number of coaching rounds or the length of time in a Family Intensive is determined by me and your family.
Anywhere from 3-6 family coaching sessions are included in one round of virtual family or Young Adult coaching. In-Person Family Coaching Intensives are all individualized in the number of days as well as in the duration of time for intensives.
I am so glad you asked. I often give specific relationship-building skills for clients to work on in between coaching sessions. Additionally, I provide a write-up after each session to remind you where we are and where we are going.
The more communicative (doesn’t always have to be effective communication) and more willing the young person is to have their share of ownership in the relationship, the more effective family coaching can be. Remember, this isn’t therapy and no one person is the focus.
Many members of a family system can participate in family coaching, however, what we determine together is how many members at a time and which members will participate in a particular session or intensive.
Here is what you can expect and will gain when working with me:
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