Frequently Asked Questions
This page answers some of the most frequently asked questions about life and business coaching and consulting. If the information you need is not here, please go to the Contact page and email me or book a conference call. Thank you!
Coaching focuses on where you are and where you're headed. We build strategies, mindsets, and habits to support your next chapter. Therapy looks more at your past and trauma healing.
Somatic means body-based. We use breath, posture, and nervous system awareness to access deeper clarity and emotional safety—especially during change or stress.
The Sage Within helps women 40–70 navigate major life thresholds with clarity and strength.
Success Ready supports families—parents and teens—preparing for college, trade school, and financial independence together.
All coaching, group sessions, and workshops are held virtually. This allows flexibility and accessibility, no matter where you live.
Information isn’t transformation. Coaching offers personalized support, accountability, and safe space to move from knowing to doing—with lasting impact.
Family, friends, and mentors are frequently excellent resources, in part, because they have developed relationships with you over time, know you well, and have your best interests at heart.
The flip-side to this positive is that the advice they give may not be impartial.
A coach is, usually, someone who you don't know who brings fresh eyes, ears, and perspectives to your issues. They have immediate access to information and tools you need to fix the problems, that would take a great deal of time and energy to amass on your own. Their #1 goal is to help you attain the outcomes you desire.
Just as musicians, visual artists, dancers and other areas of artistic endeavor participate in continuing education (lessons and masterclasses) with great artist and teachers, business people engage coaches and work with mentors for fresh perspectives and to gain new information which helps to prevent stagnation in their personal and professional growth.
It’s a set of transformational programs designed to help women move through life changes with confidence, clarity, and grounded self-trust.
Empowered Essence: Reclaim confidence, worth, and personal direction after burnout, invisibility, or self-neglect.
Aligned Horizons: Align your career path and life rhythm with what truly matters to you now.
Rooted Renewal: Rediscover who you are after losing your parents, and build a life that honors what’s next.
Women ages 40–70 navigating life changes—career shifts, identity questions, loss, or reinvention—who want realignment without the overwhelm.
You don’t have to be fully ready. We start where you are. Each program is paced for nervous system safety and gradual growth.
You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of yourself, a stronger sense of direction, emotional tools, and practices that create real-life changes.
A coaching program that helps families prepare for college, trade school, and life beyond high school with clear communication and financial tools.
The Launch Plan helps parents and teens co-create a financial roadmap, explore future paths, and prepare emotionally and practically for the transition ahead.
We focus on more than money. Success Ready brings communication, emotional readiness, and shared values into the conversation—so families move forward together.
We use tools designed to meet teens where they are. The program encourages independence and mutual respect without pressure.
It’s not too late. We’ll assess where you are and build a personalized, doable plan—without shame or overwhelm.
Yes. The program supports budgeting, financial literacy, and transition skills even after school has started.
You’ll get space to talk through your current situation, goals, and struggles. I’ll share next steps and whether coaching is a good fit—no pressure.
Not at all. Options range from self-paced courses to group coaching and VIP 1:1 work. You can begin with what feels right.
Weekly live sessions, recorded content, reflective exercises, a private support group, and optional 1:1 coaching—all in a flexible, supportive format.
Because lasting change happens when your body, mind, and habits are aligned. This isn’t surface-level coaching—it’s integrated, embodied growth.
Coaches work with healthy clients who are striving to improve their circumstances.
They are not counselors or therapists.
Coach
A coach provides the tools, support, and accountability to assist the client in determining and achieving their goals. Most highly qualified coaches have completed coach training in their areas of expertise. Coaches help their clients understand how thought processes and feelings can affect their decision making, and they provide tools to help their clients overcome the disruptive issues to the process.
Counselor
Counselors work with persons needing help and hoping to identify dysfunction or trauma to heal and resolve old pain.
Therapist
A psychotherapist is someone who has completed a 4-5 year degree program in clinical psychology and have passed board regulated exams to obtain a license to practice. For more information on the differences between designations in psychology degrees, follow this link https://www.claritytherapynyc.com/what-is-psychotherapist-psychologist/
Coaches are not therapists and are NOT LICENSED to provide and diagnoses or treat any mental illnesses.
Coaching
Coaching helps people understand how thought processes and feelings can affect their decision-making and provides the tools, support, and accountability to assist clients in determining and achieving their goals by overcoming the disruptive issues to the process.
Consulting
Consulting gains an understanding of the client’s goals, objectives, and desired outcome through written reports, conversations and meetings. Based on this information, a personalized plan of action is designed, and ongoing implementation support may be provided to ensure the success of the plan. Therefore, they are paid at a higher price point.
A financial coach helps their clients with the basics of money management. Their goal is to help their clients develop healthy money habits that will last. Financial coaches educate their clients on the basics of personal finance and work with them to create a financial plan that reflects their goals.
A financial planner is a professional who helps companies and individuals create a program to meet long-term financial goals.
A financial advisor is a broader term for those who help manage your money including investments and other accounts.Given the proliferation of the financial industry today, many planners and advisors may actually do the same thing—so do your homework before hiring somebody to guide you.
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