​How My Coaching Supports Teens

 

My focus is on helping your child learn to identify their areas of struggle, gain confidence, and build trust in their own perspective and decision making process.

Through partnering with a coach, teens learn to:

• Develop their self-awareness and confidence 

• Strengthen decision-making and critical thinking skills

• Practice healthy communication and self-advocacy

• Create better informed relationships with social media and technology

• Explore their identity, values, and future possibilities at their own pace
   

A Trauma-Informed, Neurodivergent-Aware Approach

 

Your child is never pressured to share outside of their comfort zone. I feel it is important for each client to lead the session and participate at a level that feels safe. I offer grounding exercises to help regulate the nervous system and allow space for inner reflection and self awareness to grow. 

I embrace an approach that is:

• Attuned to nervous system regulation and emotional safety

• Respectful of neurodivergent processing styles

• Centered on consent, client- lead pacing, and choices

• Supportive of identity exploration, including gender, race, religion and cultural identities. 
   

The Role of Parents & Caregivers

You are your child's first point of connection. You are an important part of the coaching process and often I like to hold at least one or two caregiver sessions with you from a supportive point of view while honoring your teen’s autonomy. 

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You can expect:

• Clear agreements around confidentiality and boundaries

• General updates on goals or focus areas (not private session content)

• Collaboration around support needs and logistics

• Respect for the teen’s voice, privacy, and growing independence

• Space to ask questions and discuss any concerns that may come up. 
   

This structure helps teens feel safe while keeping parents & caregivers appropriately informed.
 

What Life Coaching Is and Isn’t

 

What Life Coaching Is

Life coaching is a collaborative, client-centered partnership that supports reflection, clarity, and intentional forward movement. In alignment with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), coaching focuses on helping clients explore their goals, values, beliefs, and choices through thoughtful inquiry and self-discovery.

 

Life Coaching IS:

• Centering the client as the expert in their own life

• Encouraging awareness, insight, and personal responsibility

• Supporting goal clarification and intentional action

• Honoring autonomy, consent, and client-defined outcomes

• Is forward-focused while informed by lived experience

• Adapting to each client’s pace, capacity, and context

 

The coach’s role is to ask reflective questions, notice patterns, offer observations, and support accountability—without directing, diagnosing, or prescribing solutions.

 

What Life Coaching Isn’t

Coaches do not assess, treat, or diagnose mental health conditions. When concerns fall outside the scope of coaching, appropriate referrals or additional supports may be encouraged.

 

Life coaching is NOT:

• Therapy, counseling, or psychotherapy

• Mental health diagnosis or treatment

• Crisis intervention or emergency support

• Medical, legal, or financial advice

• Advice-giving or problem-solving on behalf of the client

 

​Coaching as Part of a Support System

 

Life coaching can complement therapy or other professional supports when appropriate. Many clients find coaching helpful alongside other forms of care, particularly when working toward goals, navigating transitions, or building self-trust and clarity.

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