Coaching is a personalized service designed for individuals already experiencing success and seeking further progress. In essence, a coach collaborates with you to enhance your performance. This involves setting goals together and employing customized practices to focus on achieving future advancements and improvements.

A coach isn't a know-it-all guru providing answers. Instead, the coaching relationship is a partnership where the coach helps you gain clarity by encouraging introspection. The belief is that the answers you seek already exist within you, and as a coach, the perspective is that you are already whole.

While coaches aim to assist you in making tangible changes in your life, their role isn't to impose suggested changes on you. Coaches guide you along the journey you've chosen for yourself. Ultimately, you are considered your own expert and agent of change, with a coach serving as both a mirror and sounding board.

A coach collaborates with clients to identify and optimize their strengths, values, and motivation for positive change. Specifically, Chopra-certified well-being coaches like myself serve as guides for the mind, body, and spirit. They assist clients in crafting their own well-being vision and goals, providing comprehensive support across the spectrum and facilitating transformative healing experiences.

Coaching can empower, uplift and support you emotionally, spiritually and psychologically, but coaching is not a substitute for psychotherapy, and does not involve the diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.

Therapists have special training to help patients with emotional and mental health. They follow a set of ethical rules and are licensed to provide such care. Additionally, these professionals—with degrees in social work, psychology, or psychiatry—get ongoing education to diagnose and treat mental health issues. While therapy does look at current issues and challenges, it addresses them by exploring personal history, relationships, behavior patterns, and processing past traumas. Therapy usually looks back.

Coaches—based on their expertise and certifications (they are not licensed mental health professionals)—improve physical, emotional, professional, social, or athletic performance. They help set goals for the future, and therefore service people already doing well who want more progress. Coaching usually looks forward.

Coaching is about you actively engaging in the process of self-discovery and growth, which is different from teaching or consulting. As a Chopra-certified health and meditation instructor, I may transition from a coaching role to a teaching role if I sense it could benefit you. In these moments, I might share insights from Ayurveda or meditation. However, the primary goal remains to help you uncover the answers within yourself.

A key distinction between coaching and teaching lies in the focus—coaching emphasizes listening and reflecting, whereas teaching centers on sharing information. In coaching, I take on the role of the listener, while in teaching, you become the listener (such as if you were to book me for an Intro to Ayurveda learning session).

The most talking I’ll do will typically occur during your consultation and intake session. In subsequent sessions, my role is predominantly that of a listener. I'll ask questions to guide you toward your own answers and solutions because you know yourself better than I do. This process facilitates a reconnection with yourself, even if you feel you've lost touch or have never believed in that connection before.

During a coaching session, you and your coach engage in a collaborative conversation. The focus is on exploring your goals, strengths, and areas for growth. Your coach will guide you in setting specific, achievable objectives and support you in developing strategies to overcome challenges.

Sessions often involve discussions, reflections, and action planning to help you move towards your desired outcomes. The exact content varies based on your needs and the coaching focus, whether it's related to personal development, career advancement, or other areas of improvement. The type of coach you’re working with also plays a role in the structure of your sessions. For example, since you’ll be working with a Chopra-certified well-being coach, each of your sessions will begin with a brief meditation to facilitate grounding, presence, and awareness.

The length of each session varies based on the type of session booked. Sessions within the well-being coaching package are 45 minutes long. For single sessions, you have the flexibility to choose durations of 30, 45, 60, or 90 minutes to suit your preferences and needs.

At many practices, clients have the flexibility to meet with a coach on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis, depending on their individual needs. At SRL Well-Being, I generally recommend and favor weekly sessions, at least for the first 12 weeks, due to the proven effectiveness in producing meaningful changes. Occasionally, a two-weeks-on/one-week-off schedule may be implemented.

Weekly sessions allow for valuable time between meetings for reflection and application of learning, while also maintaining the momentum of our collaborative work. After your initial sessions, you have the freedom to choose whether to continue with a weekly cadence or adjust the frequency based on your progress and preferences. The decision is entirely yours.

All sessions will take place over Zoom unless other arrangements are made.

Absolutely. Feel free to reach out via email between our sessions—I welcome and encourage it! Whether you have questions or want to share your challenges and successes, I genuinely enjoy staying in the loop about your progress and how you're doing. I can be reached via hello@srlwellbeing.com and typically respond within 24 hours (with the exception of weekends and holidays).