Family Coaching^tm - Helping your family work - together!

Family Coaching^tm 

Family Coaching^tm .  Gee, why wasn't something like this available when I was younger.  If it was, I sure wish someone would have steered me to it!  Being part of a "family", however you define it, is not always easy.  And, as our culture becomes faster paced and more diverse, challenges as well as opportunities bombard us daily.

Family Coaching^tm can help people discover what is possible for them, both as a group and as individuals.  Coaching is not counseling, but rather a way to facilitate group meetings where everyone is heard and respected.  Ideas are explored and plans are set in place to reach individual and family goals.  My role, as your coach, is to help you achieve success.

I will provide you with an experienced and independent sounding board, and hopefully help you be better able to achieve your most meaningful and fulfilling goals.  My background in teaching, conflict resolution and mediation, and family life can help members of your family identify, clarify, focus, and follow through on what is most important to you.

And as in all mentoring relationships, the student is also the teacher.  One of the things I am most grateful for are the many teachers and mentors I have had throughout my life.

Are these "family" issues keeping you and your loved ones from reaching your potential and enjoying more of what life has to offer?

• Difficulties with your children

• Difficulties with your parents

• Working against each other, and no one "wins"

• Little things escalate into larger problems

• "He/she won't listen to me"!

• Too many fights, arguments, conflicts

• Most family members are unhappy

What I can help you do:

• Put together an action plan that everyone can support

• Work together to resolve common differences

• Work to support each other's goals

• Discover what you want, and what you really need

• Listen to each other, and understand things from another person's perspective

• Separate the people from the problem

• Heal past and current relationships

• Discover the way out of the emotional, family "quicksand"

• Life styles
• Fighting and arguing
• Chores
• Budgets and money
• School
• Parents not listening to their children
• Children not listening to their parents
• The legal system
• Neighborhood incidents
• Pets
• Behavior issues
• Personal conflicts

I've worked with a variety of people including seniors, gays and lesbians, roommates, adoptive, foster and step parents, domestic partners, and family businesses.

I've worked with parents and their adult children around family issues including homes, wills, lifestyles, living arrangements and health care.