My Mission is to empower you to know yourself and to act in alignment with your values, principles, and truths; in essence, to find your authentic self, to trust and respect yourself.
My Vision is to shift the context of your recovery from coping with and managing addictions and/or mental health issues, to uncovering and healing the deepest source of your addictions and suffering, and as a result becoming more self-realized. To be the creator of a life you are truly proud of.
I will work together with you to find your personal power. Through self-discovery exercises you will learn how to use the relationship of your head, heart and center to build a life of balance and prosperity.
I coach each client as a unique individual. I truly believe that you have everything you need inside to create the life you dream of. My job as your coach is to build a pathway to your true self.
Happiness Is Work provides Recovery & Integration Coaching, NOT Counseling. Although there are similarities, the
two are very different and it’s important you know what these differences are.
Happiness Is Work Recovery Coaching
● Coaching is an emerging profession not
regulated by legislature
● The coach/client relationship is an equal
partnership focused on the client with fewer
restrictions than counselors
● Coaching is based on coaching techniques,
coaching experience, practical observation,
self-help & personal growth literature, & life
teachings.
● The assumption holds that clients are
coachable and competent to achieve their
goals & take responsibility.
● The focus is on goal achieving to include:
goal setting, action steps, routines,
schedules, and tracking charts to hold
clients accountable to goals.
● Counselors must have a license to practice
counseling or psychotherapy
● The counselor is the authority and
professional, and there are many
restrictions on the counselor/client
relationship
● Based on the medical model, theory based
approved psychotherapies, and specific
schools of thought; techniques are based
on counselor’s training, education, and
professional experience.
● Assumption holds that something is wrong
with the client.
● Focus is on pathology, diagnoses, mental
illness, problems, symptoms, and
understanding causes.