Welcome
I am Sharon,
a dedicated professional coach who specializes in empowering women and supporting them through their personal and professional journeys. My strength-based approach focuses on helping women develop self-awareness and confidence, let go of limiting beliefs, enhance mental and emotional resilience, strengthen communication skills, and work toward goals that align with their values, meaning, and purpose.
Common areas to explore in coaching:
Life
Transitions
Life is full of expected and unexpected transitions. Whether you are preparing for a leadership role, returning to work after a maternity leave, shifting to a new position, moving to a different city, going through a divorce, preparing for retirement, or seeking a better work-life balance, coaching can provide invaluable support along the way. The power of coaching lies in its ability to be tailored to your specific challenges and objectives. Coaching empowers you during life transitions and helps you to maintain high levels of well-being as you navigate those.
Emotional Resilience
Emotional management skills are essential in our daily interactions as they impact the way we manage ourselves, our relationships, and different situations. Life presents numerous emotional challenges, and strong emotional management skills help us recognize and regulate our emotions, offer support to others, navigate emotional landscapes, create peaceful environments, and shape desired behaviors. Coaching helps you enhance your emotional skills by helping you develop awareness around emotions and build the vocabulary and confidence for communicating your emotional needs. They also help you identify difficult emotion when they arise, spot the triggers that bring them on, and develop the strategies for managing them.
Strengths
Our strengths are the positive qualities that define us, and they influence our thoughts, emotions, and actions. While we often tend to concentrate on our weaknesses and try to improve them, a more effective approach is to focus on our strongest attributes and to explore how we can shape our lives around them. Identifying and enhancing our key strengths empowers us, boosts our energy, our confidence, and our drive. When we rely on our strengths, we are also more likely to offer support to others and to start seeing the strengths in them. Coaching helps you make a habit out of noticing and enhancing your strengths, utilizing them more often in the different areas of your life, and ultimately, develop a strength-based lens through which you view yourself and others.
Goal Orientation
Setting clear goals and objectives and creating a plan to achieve them, help us manage our time and energy more effectively, prioritize tasks, and work towards our professional and personal aspirations. With the right structure and support, we can thrive in both realms and enjoy success in the workplace while still being present for our loved ones. Coaching is a structured process that helps you move toward your goals by providing equal amounts of support and challenge. Dream big! You are capable of achieving great things.
Confidence & Empowerment
A lack of confidence can pose a significant barrier to reaching our goals. Whether you are applying for jobs, aiming for a promotion, interested in nurturing your relationships, or wanting to seize an opportunity, a lack of confidence can impede your progress or stop you from taking the next steps all together. When we feel good about ourselves and confident in our abilities, we are more likely to explore new ventures and to go after our goals and our dreams. We are also more likely to remember that we can handle the challenges and setbacks along the way. Confidence empowers us to trust in our capabilities, express our needs, and go after what we want. Coaching strives to support you in cultivating your confidence, pursuing your aspirations, and presenting yourself the way that you want to.
Motivation & Drive
Motivation is the driving force that push people towards achieving their goals and aspirations. It fuels persistence and engagement, enhances performance, and plays a crucial role in overcoming obstacles. Without motivation, we often struggle to reach our full potential. Coaching can help with motivation by helping you clarify your goals, identify potential barriers, and develop actionable plans. It helps you foster a growth mindset and empowers you to push beyond your perceived limits. Moreover, coaching empowers you to tap into your intrinsic motivation by helping you to align your values, meaning, and purpose with your objectives.
Limiting
Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are the deep-rooted thoughts and perceptions that hold us back from reaching our full potential. These beliefs often stem from our past experiences, societal and familial expectations, and internalized criticisms, and they create barriers to our well-being, as well as to our personal and professional growth. Coaching can be a powerful tool to help people identify and overcome limiting beliefs, such as "I'm not good enough," or "I cannot change this," as it provides a supportive and non-judgemental environment for exploration and change. Coaches use techniques such as active listening and questioning to help their clients recognize thinking patterns that do not serve them, challenge them, and replace them with empowering ones.
Well-being & Happiness
Well-being is a subjective concept that varies from person to person, but it basically means "feeling well and doing good" and having a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in the different areas of our lives. Coaching can be a powerful tool to enhance well-being as it is an empowering process that helps you move forward. When you come to coaching with the purpose of enhancing your well-being, we start by exploring the different areas of your life and identifying which areas need enhancements. Our sessions provide structure and support that keep you motivated, engaged, and accountable.
Positive Leadership
Positive leadership is a style of management that focuses on empowering and motivating employees to achieve their full potential. When you come to coaching for the purpose of enhancing your leadership skills, we start by exploring your views on leadership and we have conversations around the qualities that you value in leaders; leadership qualities that you see in yourself; your values and your strengths how they can support you as a leader; and many more. We often look at different positive leadership models for inspiration and guidance and we start working toward building your leadership mindset and skillset, as well as your confidence in your leadership abilities.
Social Skills
Effective social skills help us establish strong support networks, nurture positive relationships, resolve conflicts skillfully, and promote teamwork in both our personal and professional settings. Additionally, social skills allow for clear communication and increased empathy, which can play a key role both in our personal and professional relationships. Having good social skills supports our professional advancement, as these skills open the door to improved job prospects, leadership positions, and increased job satisfaction.
Meaning & Purpose
Having a clear sense of meaning and purpose is essential for both our professional and personal lives. When we have meaning and purpose we tend to be more satisfied with our live and more resilient to stress. A sense of meaning and purpose provides direction and fulfillment by keeping us focused and motivated. Moreover, feeling that our work has a purpose enhances our engagement, productivity, and success. This is particularly important for working mothers, as we juggle multiple responsibilities and often neglect to make time for reflections and alignment. Coaching can assist you in discovering your personal sense of meaning and purpose by exploring your values, passions, and dreams, and start aligning your life around them.
Awareness
& Care
Self-awareness and self-care are crucial for our well-being. When we develop awareness of our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and of our attitudes toward ourselves, our lives, and others, we are better able to identify the changes we need to make to enhance our well-being. As women, we often take care of everyone around us and neglect to take care of ourselves. Coaching helps you gain self-and-other awareness, develop a kinder attitude toward yourself, identify which activities and people deplete you and which replete you, and create the structure that you need to prioritize your health, well-being, and goals.
Positive Parenting
Positive parenting is a parenting approach that focuses on strengths and on building strong and healthy relationships. It involves using clear communication, setting boundaries, and providing support and encouragement. When we utilize positive parenting techniques, we help our children develop confidence, resilience, hope, a growth-mindset, and a positive outlook on life. This approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, understanding, and patience, and it helps us create a nurturing environment in which our children (and ourselves) can thrive. Positive parenting is not about being perfect, but rather about being present, loving, supportive, and skillful in guiding our children through life's challenges and triumphs.
Hope & Optimism
Hope and optimism are powerful psychological states that involve a positive outlook on the future and a belief in the possibility of achieving goals and overcoming challenges. Hope is the expectation that things will work out, while optimism is both a general tendency to expect the best possible outcomes, as well as a tendency to explain good things as permanent (things will always be good), pervasive (everything is good), and personal (I made it good) and bad things as temporary (it is only bad now), specific (this is bad but so many other things are good) and external (someone else is to blame). Coaching fosters hope and optimism by helping people identify what they want, set achievable goals, and develop strategies to overcome obstacles. It creates a supportive environment that builds confidence, encourages exploration of potential, and promotes proactive steps toward aspirations. This process enhances personal growth and well-being, resulting in a more positive outlook on life.
Why work with me?
I am a working mother who spent the last decade studying and practicing the science of strengths, well-being, motivation, positive change, and optimal functioning. I am dedicated to my clients and I utilize a wide array of evidence-based tools and techniques from the fields of positive psychology, coaching psychology, positive leadership, and positive change to help my clients grow and thrive.
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1 hr
1 hr
125 US dollars1 hr 30 min
180 US dollars
I offer coaching and skills-training facilitation sessions for small groups. My sessions offer a supportive, empowering, and welcoming environment for meaningful conversation, growth, self-reflection, learning, and self-care.
Book Now
1 hr
1 hr
125 US dollars1 hr 30 min
180 US dollars
FAQ
Do you offer a free consultation session?
Yes. I offer a FREE online consultation session during which we can identify how I can support you.
What can I expect from working with you?
Expect to feel heard, inspired, supported, empowered and motivated. Also except to have fun, to discover what limits you, to reconnect to your values, meaning and purpose, and to move toward your goals.
What is the difference between coaching and therapy/counseling?
For coaching to work, you need to be psychologically healthy and capable making your own decisions for growth. I do not tell you what you need to do, instead, I empower you to discover what works for you and access your inner resources to create desired changes.
What is coaching and positive psychology?
Coaching is the process of helping you move toward your goals, grow, and achieve positive changes that last. Coaching psychology is the science behind the practice. Positive psychology is a scientific field that focuses on the promotion of well-being, strengths, resilience, and optimal functioning.
How many sessions would I need?
It depends.
The number of sessions varies based on the depth of exploration and the changes you wish to implement. Every client and coaching engagement is unique.
In some instances, one or two sessions could be enough, while in others, the coaching process could extend over several months. Schedule a free consultation to discuss your specific goals and identify the level of commitment that suits you best.
What is your refund policy?
My aim is to be as helpful as I can. Coaching is a partnership and so if, at any point, you feel that the process is not meeting your needs, please feel free to bring it up. You have the right to terminate our agreement if it does not meet your needs and you will be refunded for any paid-for future sessions (but not for any sessions that already occurred.)
What do you get out of coaching?
Coaching often follows unsuccessful attempts to make positive changes alone. It offers a non-judgmental space to explore, understand, challenge, and change thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that do not serve you. Through structured conversations, a skilled professional listens deeply, asks you powerful questions, supports you with unconditional positive regard, and helps you move forward.
My commitment to you
I commit to being open-minded, non-judgmental, focused, considerate, respectful, and prepared. I also commit to provide support through careful listening, questioning, and constructive challenge. I am here to keep you accountable and to assist you in your development and growth by utilizing evidence-based tools and techniques.