What is coaching?

Coaching is the collaborative partnership between client and coach whereby individuals focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their desired goals. Life coaching is about indentifying and clarifying goals while removing obstructions. All with an emphasis on action, accountability and follow through. By concentrating on balancing all the areas of one's life, one can more fully recognize their natural strengths and produce amazing, life changing results.

What are the benefits of coaching?

The power of greatness lies within each individual, therefore the benefits of coaching are only limited by one's own desire to live a more fulfilled, passionate life. Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, improved problem solving and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal relationships, increased satisfaction at home and work, and an overall sense of balance and order in one's life.

Who could benefit from coaching?

There are many reasons that an individual might choose to work with a coach. Some of these include, but are not limited to:

• Life transitions
• A major conflict that is disrupting one's life
• Desire to accelerate results at home or work
• Desire for more balance and order in one's life
• Re-entry into the workforce
• Desire for work and life to be simpler, less complicated
• A need to improved one's quality of life
• Desire to improve one's health

A coaching partnership is an invaluable tool for developing a strategy for achieving your desired outcome with greater ease and success. Coaching is for anyone interested in living a more balanced, fulfilling life. How does coaching differ from counseling?

Professional coaching is a distinctly different service from counseling. Coaching focuses on an individual's life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change. Coaching is forward moving and future focused while counseling focuses on healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within the individual's past. Coaching is solution focused while counseling is problem focused.

How are coaching sessions offered?

Coaching typically begins with a personal, one on one consultation. This initial 50 minute assessment begins the collaborative process of defining the scope of the relationship, identifying the priorities for action and establishing specific outcomes. All subsequent sessions are either 25 or 50 minutes in length and are typically provided via the telephone.

Please contact me at (602) 625-2080 to schedule your initial assessment. Mention that you saw this on the web and you'll receive 50% off of your initial consultation.

The strength lies in you! It will my pleasure to help you actualize your potential.

Karen Mavrikos has a Masters Degree in Counseling and more than a decade of experience working with adults and children dealing with challenges in their lives. She has turned those skills from helping people in crisis, to guiding women who want more from an already good life.