A Holistic Life & Wellness Coach is trained to help you identify, pursue, & achieve your dreams & goals in a variety of aspects that improve your quality of life. 

Coaches provide guidance to help you to maximize your full potential by using practical steps & offering support & accountability to set & achieve goals. They work with clients on self discovery, goal setting, barrier identification, habit changes, mindset shifts, skill advancement, & the development of coping mechanisms & tools to overcome challenges.

Life & Wellness Coaches specialize in personal development using holistic wellness as a vehicle to health, wealth, & happiness. This type of coaching helps clients to achieve mind-body-soul well-being.

At Mountains of Wellness, I offer personal & professional holistic coaching. This type of coaching takes aspects of performance & developmental coaching a step further to help clients truly transform.

Performance coaching

Externally focused & outcome driven. Aims to help clients work towards goals. Ex: A client changes what they eat to lose weight quickly.

Developmental coaching

More internally focused. A broader aim to help clients explore the knowledge & development they take away from coaching & the change that takes place while working towards goals. The intention is to create learning & growth from action. Ex: A client explores how to develop habits to change how they eat, sleep, & cope with stress to lose & maintain a healthy weight long-term.

Holistic coaching

Works “deeper” to change who you're being rather than what you're doing so you can reach your true potential. The focus is to help clients explore the root of their assumptions, beliefs, values, expectations, & personal attitudes that shape the experience of their internal & external worlds. It takes pieces of performance & developmental coaching & pushes it to the next level. Ex: A client addresses beliefs & mental patterns while nourishing & balancing mind-body-soul to become the type of person who naturally maintains a healthy weight, no matter the challenges or circumstances throughout the course of their life.

All coaching starts with identifying a challenge, issue, or aspiration. The difference in holistic coaching is that rather than focusing purely on resolving/achieving a goal, it seeks to explore & heal what is at the heart of it to break down barriers, develop new habits, & then take action.

​Coach vs. Nutritionist

A Holistic Coach is a supportive ally who helps people understand how to nourish themselves holistically & guides them toward their goals. A nutritionist focuses mainly on nutrition & diet. A coach does this as well but places a large focus on non-food forms of nourishment like career, relationships, physical activity, & spirituality too. Coaches also provide the accountability & support to implement changes & behavior shifts beyond what a traditional nutritionist or dietician is able to offer.

Coach vs. Therapist

Unlike therapists who diagnose mental health behaviors, a Holistic Coach offers valuable resources for getting through periods of challenge, anxiety, or fear related to worries that are outside general mental health concerns. Instead of diagnosing, they serve as an active & supportive listener who utilizes their training to empower & guide clients to discover their own challenges & solutions. Another difference is that therapists place a lot of their focus on one's past to examine unhealthy thought patterns & behaviors. While coaches address the past to dig down to the root cause, much of their focus brings a client back to the present & future to utilize strengths & make immediate lifestyle & behavior changes toward goals.

Coach vs. Doctor

Unlike a doctor, a Holistic Coach cannot order lab work, prescribe medication, or diagnose health issues. What they can do though is pick up where a doctor leaves off & offer much needed support & guidance to make nutrition & lifestyle changes that a doctor may suggest. Doctors unfortunately don't have the time to work with patients to develop & follow through with health plans, which is why the majority of patients are unable to make the necessary changes, ending up right back in the doctor's office. A coach can work with your doctor's recommendations to take the steps & implement changes that result in long-term, sustainable health improvements.

Here's a simple example to illustrate the differences:

Doctor: tells you that you’re overweight & need to lose weight to be healthier.

Nutritionist: gives you a good diet & meal plan to implement.

Therapist: diagnoses any underlying mental health issues & helps you to address anything in your past that has an influence on your beliefs & behavior related to weight.

Holistic Coach: takes all of this into account & then helps you to identify goals & desired outcomes, make an action plan with realistic steps, & identify barriers & related tactics to overcome challenges while providing accountability & support every step of the way to ensure long-term success.

Everyone can benefit from coaching, whether you're a personal development newbie or a self-help junkie making steady progress on your goals & shifts.  Coaching may be particularly beneficial for individuals who can identify with any of these obstacles:

• You need help navigating your career, relationships, lifestyle changes, or health concerns

• Fear of failure prevents you from pursuing goals

• You need guidance to discover your wants, needs, & dreams to find clarity, purpose, & direction

• You lack structure, discipline, enthusiasm, or self-motivation

• You need advice on turning goals into actionable steps & overcoming barriers to achieve them

• You feel stagnant & need guidance or inspiration to unlock creativity, passion & growth 

• You have the desire to improve through self-care, self-love, & increased self-esteem

Coaching at Mountains of Wellness is not a quick fix, it's truly transformational.  By digging in deep to address the root cause & then spending time taking inspired action through small shifts & baby steps, change is sustainable, long-term, & more likely to be permanent.

Holistic Coaching is not for individuals who are looking for a quick fix or a band-aid to immediately mask & cover symptoms or issues.  I will never make promises for overnight results because those types of results don't last & will never spark true transformation.

Statistics show that coaching works & provides numerous benefits.  Coaching helps you to:

• Identify & develop your unique skills & talents

• Turn your challenges & barriers into strengths, advantages, & opportunities

• Get a constant flow of inspiration, motivation, & accountability to take consistent action toward attaining your goals

• Facilitate self-awareness so that you can recognize that the power for change has always been within you

• Receive unbiased & honest feedback & support

• Feel more satisfied with your career

• Improve key health metrics including blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, & cardiorespiratory fitness

• Improve quality of life, stress levels, & mental, physical, social, emotional, & spiritual well-being

• Reduce procrastination, improve imposter syndrome, & facilitate goal attainment

• ​Become more self-reliant & self-empowered

• Coaching clients report a 99% satisfaction rate

• The average return on investment for coaching clients is 7X the amount spent

• 92% of entrepreneurs say that coaching had a direct impact on their growth & business survival rate

• 73% of people working with a coach report happier & deeper connections & relationships

• 30% of business owners who had just one interaction with a mentor reported both business & customer growth

• 57% improved their time management skills

• 62% of coaching clients say they improved their career opportunities thanks to coaching

• Coaching clients are 3X more likely to lose weight & keep it off when working with a coach compared to other methods

• 80% of coachees report increased self-confidence, self-esteem, & self-worth

• 75% of coaching clients improve communication, interpersonal skills, work performance, work/life balance, & wellness

• 96% of clients say they had such great success they would work with a coach again