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I am a writer, speaker, life coach and nationally certified counselor.  I write and speak on relationships, career development, positive psychology and calling.  I also do individual and couple’s counseling and coaching in my offices in Denver and via telephone nationwide.   
 
I see my work as both teaching and facilitating and acting as a resource for problem resolution and conflict management.  My work is about human growth and development. I work with my clients to help them develop themselves in a way that produces an individual who can function in the world in a whole, healthy and authentic way.   My role is to encourage, enlighten and inspire my clients to make changes in themselves and their behavior so that they live a happier, fully and more satisfying life. 

I am a graduate of Martin Seligman’s Authentic Happiness Coaching program.  The focus of this program is to encourage the use of Positive Psychology in the helping professions.  The basic idea of positive psychology is to look at what’s right with people rather than what’s wrong with them.  The emphasis is on strengths and using positive emotion and optimism to negotiate the world.  I combine this with my belief in human development as a life long process with the result being a proactive and forward thinking way to work with people.

Since my work is focused on growth and development, I use a co-venture approach, which means the client is an active participant in the process.  I do the work of facilitation, teaching and inspiration and the client does the work of personal change and development.  I give the client homework and reading assignments and I expect the client to follow through on these.  I also act as a “dot connector” in that I often see patterns that are causing problems before the client does and so I point these out so change can occur.   The bottom line is it’s all about change and development. 

Since very few people would seek out a counselor or coach unless there is a problem or challenge, they are facing or some goal they want to reach I work in the following areas:  relationship issues and improvement, career transitions and improvement, self esteem and self confidence and Calling.  I also work with you on any other problem or challenge related to living a happy, satisfied life.  In addition, I see all of our problems as calls to the quest to find and develop your authentic self.    The problem is a message from your soul to do something about a particular thing in your life.  I can help you figure out what needs to be done and facilitate the changes needed to get you there.