My Approach

Personal Power Through Knowledge, Wisdom, and Grace

I believe you already hold the power within to guide and create the life you most want. I help you uncover your potential and harness your personal power.

As a Lifestyle and Mindfulness Coach, I work with you to help you connect to your inner wisdom by creating clarity and choice with personal and professional transitions. I help you cut through the barriers that have prevented you from living a more authentic and purposeful life. My approach to coaching begins with the premise that you are naturally creative, resourceful and whole. With this as a starting point, I help you remove the fear and story of being broken or in need of fixing.

Wherever you feel stuck, together we explore and confront the root of internal barriers, paving the way to a more dynamic and open-minded understanding of your potential. Over the years of practicing with a wide spectrum of backgrounds in tandem with my own beliefs, my practice has evolved and matured into a simple (yet not always easy) framework to help you create impactful and meaningful long-term change.

These concepts are not linear but rather are layered synergistically with each other. They encompass different ways of understanding, contemplation, and action.

The first of these starts with what defines me as a Lifestyle coach, which means I consider the whole picture of your life. We don’t live in a vacuum and it is important to know how these elements affect one another in a very real way. This whole picture encompasses the Mind, Body and Spirit. We work to create a game plan that includes a healthy balance of awareness in each of these areas. Optimal well -being is dependent on the inclusion and fostering of all three of these important aspects:

Mind: understanding our mental health, mindsets, perspectives, etc.
Body: how we care and nourish our physical bodies through movement and nutrition.
Spirit: how we think about and understand connections to higher powers and source energy

There are many things we need to know and learn in order to live happy and purposeful lives. In order to feel empowered, we need to understand that we have the ability to always choose. Over the many years of working with my clients, I have found these concepts particularly important in creating our power to choose and this personal power comes from understanding the concepts of Beliefs, Control and Purpose:

Beliefs: understanding the pivotal role that beliefs and narratives play in shaping our realities.
Control: grasping the concept of what is in our control, and what is not helps to shift focus to places where we can impact real and meaningful change.
Purpose: understanding our life’s purpose and creating awareness around what is truly meaningful helps us stay on track and have a greater understanding of our choices and how they affect the bigger picture.

When setting out on a journey of change, we need a path to help us stay on course. You already hold the power within you to guide and create the life you most want. To help uncover your potential and harness your personal power, we work in the guiding principles of knowledge, wisdom, and grace:

Knowledge is the root of all change. Through self-exploration, curiosity, questioning, and being open to new ways of thinking and being, we gain the skills needed to help move us forward.
Wisdom is the ability to employ our new learning in ways that improve our lives and many times, the lives of others around us.
Grace can be of a spiritual nature, but often is also a quiet and confident understanding of ourselves and perhaps, a higher power at play in our lives

Mindfulness is an overarching concept to all of these elements. As a Mindfulness Coach, I introduce the benefits of what having a mindfulness practice can mean in so many amazing ways. To move into the realm of awareness and conscious living is one of the best gifts one could ever give to themselves! Working with a mindfulness practice and helping to strengthen those skills, is beneficial to every aspect of life.

Addressing these foundational & essential aspects of who you are as a whole enables you to:

Increase clarity around areas of confusion
Shift your mindset for positive & effective outcomes
Express yourself more authentically
Reach the next level in leadership
Understand how mindfulness positively impacts your life
Move from dreaming to doing
Feel more empowered to take control of your life
Experience improved interpersonal relationships

As a trained coach, I also draw on my therapeutic background which offers an eclectic approach that utilizes strategies from multiple orientations to create a personal and customized coaching experience.

Besides my formal education and training, as a practical and integrative coach, I also pull from some of these areas:

Mindfulness practices
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Strengths-Based Approaches
Modern Stoicism
Law of Intentionality
The latest in Neuroscience findings

The Potentia Motto

The best way to live your life fully is to keep growing. The only way to continually grow is through change. The most effective way to change lies within mindful awareness and curiosity to learn. The only way to truly learn is to experience what life has to offer. The best way to experience life is to actually show up for it.

What My Clients Say

I have regained my inner strength in the process. Jean has listened, given input, and validated my feelings. She has helped me to trust my “self-knowing”, and choices I have made, good and bad. She ultimately helped me see the “why”, and how the reaction and perception of my own experience play such a big part in my life.”

From the first few minutes of our session, I knew I could be open with Jean. She’s an excellent listener and provided me with suggestions and feedback almost immediately. We also never got bogged down with unnecessary baggage -- her approach is very action-focused. You’re always moving forward, never just spinning your wheels.”

“Jean challenged me to rethink my limiting beliefs, helped me work through the process of forgiving myself for my past, and provided me with a safe space to rebuild my confidence. She’s an articulate, knowledgeable, and empathetic professional truly who helped me find the light at the end of the tunnel. Life really does go on, especially if you have a fantastic therapist by your side”

JPK

“I sought counseling because I knew I needed help, and quickly. Jean walked beside me through the entirety of my crisis-- she’s been a listening ear, a sounding board, the voice of reason, and a fierce ally in a time of acute loneliness. Jean made me feel validated, heard, and gave me the tools to rediscover who I truly am.”

RVD

My Approach

I believe you already hold the power within to guide and create the life you most want. I help you uncover your potential and harness your personal power.

The Potentia Motto

What My Clients Say

Say yes to showing up for your magnificent life!

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