Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
Is Coaching for me?
What about confidentiality?
How do you Coach?
What does Coaching Cost?
When are Fees due?
How long does a client work with you?
What are your qualifications?

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What is the difference between coaching and therapy?

Coaching is not therapy, though it is compatible with therapy and many clients choose to do both. Imagine therapy as a process that opens and airs out all the rooms in your house. Coaching is the process that helps you move into those rooms and make the most of them.

Coaching holds clients to be whole, resourceful, creative, fully competent to live the lives they are meant to live. Rather than exploring and analyzing the past, we focus on the present, on your current challenges and how best to meet them. While many clients experience improvements in their mental and emotional health as they learn to set and reach the goals that are congruent with their values and that ask the most of their resources, this is not the focus of a coaching relationship.

Clients come to coaching not because they need it, but because they are ready for it!

Is Coaching for Me?

Fill out the Coaching questionnaire and this will help you determine your next move.

What about confidentiality?

As a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), I adhere to the highest standards of professional ethics, summarized below.

• I am committed to coaching only in my area of competence, where legally permitted to practice and in matters, which will provide real benefit to my clients. If necessary, I refer clients to other specialists, such as therapists, attorneys, and financial planners.
• I treat information entrusted to me by clients with strict confidentiality to the fullest extent allowable under the law.
• I will advise my clients of any circumstances which might influence my judgement or objectivity.

How Do You Coach?

I coach mostly by phone. I do see some clients in person when we are first starting our relationship. The coaching process begins with an intake session, a one and a half hour conference during which we review the inventories you will have prepared in advance.

This clarifies your goals and values, identifies opportunities and obstacles (sometimes the same thing!) and lays the groundwork for effective communication.

At the intake, we design your coaching process by choosing the frequency and length of sessions that will be best for you. From then on we meet by phone at our scheduled times. Coaching continues between sessions as you implement the strategies you devise during our sessions.

In summary, I coach by:

•  Helping people set goals consistent with their values and we work together to see those goals reached over time. Ask my clients to do more than they would have done on their own.

• Approach and encourage the development of the whole person.
• Provide the tools, support, and structure for greater accomplishment
• Encourage momentum and proactive problem solving.

What does coaching cost?

See my Program Options on the other page.

I offer "just-in-time" coaching at the rate of $285 per hour. This service is especially for clients who have completed coaching and who request occasional focused support for a specific project or decision.

In preparation for coaching, I ask new clients to prepare a coaching assessment of where they are and where they want to go in the coaching relationship. Once the assessment is complete, we meet ( in person or by phone)for the Intake Session. This is a special one and a half hour session that jump-starts the process and allows us to get right to work. The fee for the Intake Session is $200, payable at the time of the session.

When are fees due?

If you choose to pay by credit card (recommended )I process your billing on the first of the month. Fees for the intake session or for "just-in-time" sessions are due at the time service is rendered.

How long does a client work with you?

Clients typically stay with me an average of nine to fifteen months. A few clients longer and some who are so committed to coaching that they intend to work with a coach indefinitely. Several clients hired me for a short term project, but stayed because there are always new and interesting things to accomplish.

What are your qualifications?

Please see My Coaching Resume or About Anne

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For a free introductory half hour session to determine whether coaching with Anne is the right fit for you, please contact Anne.