Life Coaching
What is life coaching?
Imagine that all your life you've been carrying a backpack. Over time, you've found treasures and useful tools to keep in there. You've also held on to outdated survival stories and heartbreaks that become incredibly heavy and don't rest well against your back.
Life coaching is a space to unpack the backpack and, over our time together, to gently repack that pack with a clear orientation to your own worth, embodied personal power, self compassion, and an instinctual sense of where your journey is guiding you.
Coaching for Sensitive and Neurodivergent Adults
Transformative coaching techniques
One-on-one support and compassionate accountability
Extensive, supportive intake process
Connect over video (Zoom) or phone
Option to create a ritual or event to share your growth with those closest to you
Approach
Story
Stories serve as our primary vehicle to understand where you come from and to uncover and anchor the new narratives you're called to embody.
Body
Practice staying inside your body in ways that work for your inner temperament. Anchor and sustain your growth and change.
Living Earth
We welcome the natural animate world as a teacher of rhythms, patience, and belonging to your own body, story, and homeplace.
Spirit
Your rich inner life and your own spiritual orientation are integral to this journey. Your deep knowing and your inner calling are guides.
Benefits
More Ease and Comfort, Less Stress - Be Seen and Heard - Cultivate Self Trust & Belonging
Celebrate Exceptional Relationships - More Energy and Focus - Honor Your Story - Feel at Home in Your Body
Having Leah to listen to me, to witness and coach me has been such an amazing and necessary experience! Leah's warm-heartedness, intuition, and sensitivity made this process so nourishing as well as both personally and professionally productive. I highly recommend her.
-Angela Braxton-Johnson,
Coach/Author/Poet/Educator
For years, I've known what I wanted to do but kept running into dead-ends. I sought out support from business advisors, seminars, books, blogs, an art coach, and even therapy. Things changed after I began coaching with Leah. I had a space for unpacking deeply entrenched fears and a guide who helped me do the work. Within a 3-month season I was finally able to overcome hurdles that, despite previous efforts, seemed unbeatable.
Several months later, I find myself moving forward in my journey every day, feeling free from those old, weighty fears---I'm finally leading in my life the way I always hoped and dreamed.
- S. Nicki Youngsma - Writer, Artist, & Editor
In my time working with Leah, I have felt seen, connected, understood, accepted and wholly valued for the person I am. Our time has been a wonderful, nourishing gift that has allowed me deeper insight to how I function as an artist, entrepreneur, partner, son, and friend. With Leah's gentle guidance, I have come to identify and further understand the ways in which I have been holding myself back. Upon completing our first round of sessions together, I feel excited and motivated to explore my path moving forward. I would wholeheartedly recommend Leah as a life coach.
-Bill Simpson,
Artist & Entrepreneur
Leah's guidance has been invaluable to me in discovering a path back from burnout. She provides a safe space to explore the connections between mind, body, and spirit, especially for the HSP person in a high-stress environment. I've learned to reframe my sensitivity as a strength and not a weakness, and connect with the parts of myself that the workplace culture taught me to suppress.
- Jennifer Lycette, MD
Working with Leah exploded my idea of working with a life coach. I've always wanted to work with someone who encouraged making connections between my work, dreams, history and ideas. Leah encouraged me to grow in ways that I love.
- Michelle Swinehart
Leah created for me, in our coaching sessions, a grounded and fertile growing space that I expect to be harvesting from for the rest of my life. Every week a new tool, symbol, story and/or experience that unlocked a piece of my own inner wisdom and direction. On top of all that, Leah glows with such a profound kindness and compassion, that I could not help but feel that way towards myself, too.
- Jake Antles
From the moment our session started, I felt safe and secure. Like a blanket of love was around me. It allowed me to open up to Leah and share my feelings. The best part was that she gave me tools and guidance to help me through not only this difficult time but possible future difficult times. Thank You, Leah!!
-Marilyn Johnson of
Spread the Love
While preparing for a workshop to host a diverse team of technical experts I reached out to Leah for inspiration. Leah has a way to intuitively connect to people’s needs. It’s a rare gift. I recommend Leah for anyone seeking clarity for your work, run your ideas over, receive thoughtful feedback and feel reassured and confident for the task at hand.
–Neeraja Havaligi, Biodiversity Advocate, Seed Steward, and Executive Director of Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network
Leah is grounded and deeply present, which creates a welcoming and safe space to be witnessed and to explore with freedom. Her intuition and skilled facilitation brought me to a profound understanding of what I'm ready to create and gave me tools to support my movement forward. I am very grateful for her coaching.
-Ann Warnock,
Leadership & Life Coach
Thank you Leah for your kind, gentle, powerful presence and extraordinary capacity for deep listening and reflection. As a result of our work together I gained a profound level of clarity, developed a greater understanding of myself and an understanding of my needs and how to balance them.
- Katie T., MD