Life is generally complicated at any age. We can’t always control outcomes, but we can learn to apply practical, evidence-based skills to live better and achieve our goals. The process begins with self-insight, dedicating focused attention to understand how we function and why; and where our own thought patterns, emotions, and behaviors stand in our way or propel us forward.

From there we can develop solutions and take purposeful action to enrich our lives. Highly effective people attend to self-mastery. Effectiveness is simply a result. The beautiful thing about life is we can choose to begin this work at any point, regardless of where we are or what we’ve done, and create a future we can be proud of. 

Most clients working with Certified Youth Resilience Coaches are 13-25-year-old middle school, high school, college, or university students, teens, or young adults seeking support in the following areas:

• – Life, college, or career direction that fits

• – Improving motivation, performance, and engagement in school or work

• – Stress management 

• – Time management and organization

• – Prioritizing self-care and work/life balance

• – Managing thoughts, emotions, or behavior

• – Developing confidence and effectiveness

• – Improving self-control and decision making

• – Improving conflict management and negotiation skills

• – Improving social and communication skills

• – Developing  critical thinking skills

• – Developing leadership skills

• – Improving relationships

We enhance outcomes through these channels:

Resource Optimization

Helping you identify and leverage the internal and external tools presently available to you to begin moving toward your goals. We facilitate your self-awareness around concepts like identity, strengths, interests, values, and desires to enhance your self-mastery.

Personal Development

We enhance your sense of agency to choose goals that matter to you, pursue those goals, and achieve them. We support you as you prioritize self-regulation and tap into self-determined motivation, meaning, and purpose on your way to achievement.

Social Development

We facilitate your social and emotional learning and related competency building. Through this focus, you become more aware of the functional role of social interactions and relationships to success and well-being.

Academic and Professional Development

This work is about goal-orientation for fit in education, job paths, and prosocial groups conducive to your goals; and skill building for effectiveness and efficiency. We coach you through the research and considerations necessary to begin to establish self-determined life direction, related planning, and action steps around long-term goals. We also coach to build psychological capital – confidence, positive expectations, hope for your future, and resilience to strengthen your capacity to thrive through the journey.

Unsure if coaching is a fit for you or your child? Learn the differences between coaching and therapy here.