Coaching
unbecome the things you were told you should be.
become more fully you.
There’s an unexpressed and exquisite part of you that is longing to be set free. It can feel difficult to acknowledge and even more daunting to act upon. You’ve done all the “right” things so far… met the expectations and created the life you “should” want, but you still feel unsatisfied. You know something needs to shift, but making changes could be disruptive because the stakes feel high. As a people pleaser or a “good girl,” you’ve sacrificed harmony with yourself in favor of harmony with others, sometimes trading your authenticity for approval. You wonder, “Do I want this? Or have I just been socialized to want this?”
Now, you’re finding yourself being awakened by a persistent inner call to seek what is missing from the life you’ve so carefully constructed, even if it means deserting social prescriptions and others’ expectations. That simultaneously terrifies and electrifies you. You fantasize about the paths not taken. It’s hard to admit to yourself that you might want a different kind of life. You ache for more… more passion, more depth, more grit, more truth, more freedom… to be more fully YOU.
You essentially have two choices: Repeat what you’ve been doing day in and day out…
or you can evolve and EMERGE.
my coaching clients are adults seeking guidance with any of the following (& more):
Facing and honoring life’s transitions at any age (such as shifts in identity, relationships, vocation, location, health, spirituality, etc.)
Traversing the midlife passage (roughly between ages 40-60). Click here to learn more about this piece.
Exploring sexuality and/or gender as an adult (which may include “coming out” later in life, grappling with early compulsory heterosexuality/gender binary messaging, etc.)
Moving through separation, divorce, and rebuilding after divorce
Healing beyond familial, cultural, and social conditioning
Connecting more deeply with one’s spiritual and intuitive nature
what making this commitment to yourself looks like *
You don’t have to go through it alone. I will meet you right where you are and journey alongside you as you rebirth yourself in full integrity. You and me, one-to-one, in a steadily held and liberatingly free thought-partnering (and, let’s be real, feel-partnering) coaching relationship. The logistics:
We’ll meet twice monthly (every other week) for 60-minute coaching sessions on Zoom, so you can be located anywhere in the world.
You’ll receive thoughtfully, heartfully, and intuitively personalized homeplay/soulwork invitations after each session to further integrate your discoveries.
Through the duration of our time together, I provide ongoing email and voice messaging support to keep you in your exploration, growth, and accountability, even outside of sessions.
Your emotional and energetic investment in this coaching engagement includes a willingness to participate fully, regularly, and honestly in your process.
Your financial investment in this depth and breadth of individualized support is $575 USD/month. An initial three-month commitment is required, with extensions available in one month increments.*
* Customized coaching cadences, bulk pay discounts, payment plan options, and periodic scholarships are available. Please reach out, and we’ll work together to find the way I can best support you.
What is coaching?
(and how does it differ from counseling/psychotherapy?)
As a practitioner who pivoted from counseling to coaching, I get this question a lot. If you Google it, you’ll learn that the primary difference between coaching and counseling is that counseling (or psychotherapy) centers around managing mental health challenges and healing emotional trauma carried from the past, while coaching focuses on identifying present and future intentions, leveraging strengths, and taking steps toward your personal growth and evolution. The essence of coaching is partnership. Unlike most counseling relationships where you are paying per session, when entering into in a coaching relationship with me, you are signing up for ongoing support, including between session invitations, care, and feedback.
Most life coaches are not mental healthcare professionals; however, the good news for you is that I bring a wealth of education and two decades of experience as a psychotherapist to my coaching practice. I am a trauma-informed, licensed counselor, and I’m trained in several psychotherapeutic and healing modalities, such as art therapy, Hakomi, Reiki, the chakra system, the enneagram, ceremony, etc. Though engaging in a coaching relationship with me is not counseling, I carry this wisdom into our work. I also published a bestselling book on the midlife transition, which I encourage you to check out if you’d like to learn more.
In addition to applying a solid, rich, and profound coaching approach to our work together, I come with a wildly abundant cauldron of offerings. Every coaching relationship is unique and customized to your quest and curiosities. In our co-created space, we may choose to call upon any of the following practices, including but not limited to: journaling, art-making + art therapy prompts, guided visualization exercises, designing personal rituals + ceremonies, energetic counseling + the chakra system, the enneagram, dreamwork, supports from the earth (such as stones and plants), supports from the unseen world (such as archetypes, guides, and ancestors), divination (tarot or oracle cards, etc), astrology, and working with seasonal and celestial cycles. For me, it’s important to keep things that feel “woo woo” deeply grounded and to be respectful by aligning with one’s own cultural lineage.
As your coach, I will be your companion, cheerleader, and guide who asks the good-kind-of-hard questions and holds you accountable as you traverse the often messy, non-linear path of transition. Our partnership is a confidential, accepting, safe container wherein we can explore how you wish to uplevel to a more whole, more integrated, more expressed, and more FREE version of your self.
Start where you are.
Are you ready to begin? If you feel something while reading this page, whether evidenced by butterflies in your belly or a lump in your throat, pay attention to your body’s messages. Click the button below to schedule a free, 20-minute consultation call and begin to live your most true and beautiful life.
OR if this sounds like just what you need, but you prefer a community-based experience, applications are now open for the next cohort of the Midlife Emergence Group Guidance Program, beginning in the new year.
pay it forward
If you’re able and moved to help others access my individual coaching or group programs, please consider donating to the scholarship fund by clicking the button below. Thank you in advance for your generosity, as it will mean so very much to another person, so it means a lot to me.
endorsements
testimonials from coaching clients
“Jen’s Midlife Emergence coaching was exactly what I’ve been looking for in my life! I loved her approach to helping women who are feeling the bumpiness of this transitional time of life. She comes to each session with such a comforting and powerful blend of “life coach,” “therapist,” and “supportive friend.” I felt so fully seen by her, both during our calls and afterwards when her thoughtful and spot-on follow-up emails would hit my inbox. She gets it. She’s lived it. And it’s impossible not to feel the comfort of that in sessions with her.”
“I woke up late in life yearning for something more! I was lost trying to answer the question “so what do I want?!?” I discovered Jen’s Midlife Emergence practice; her book, her facilitated groups and 1:1 coaching. I have so appreciated Jen’s writing and the richness of her prompts (art, writing, poetry, spiritual rituals) to expand my thinking and the extraordinary experience of truth telling in a small group council format to explore my desires out loud in a safe community of women who are on a similar journey. My advice is don’t go it alone if you are pondering big questions in your life. Get the support you deserve!”
“Jen helped me to make sense of the anxieties and fears of this tumultuous time of passage and take steps to make concrete changes in my life. I am moving forward now with more clarity, bravery and confidence. Jen’s empathy and ability to ‘read’ me are extraordinary.”
“In any rite of passage, we need wise elders or guides to hold space for us during the threshold seasons of our lives. Otherwise, we risk stumbling around in the dark, taking the long way home. That’s how I see Jen — as an incredibly wise and intuitive guide who holds space for you to do the work, whilst keeping you emboldened, self-reflective, and inspired throughout your own unique emergence journey. While the process of transformation is personal, this doesn’t mean that it should be experienced in private. In the right relationships and communities, where we feel deeply seen and heard, we can come to truly find ourselves.”
“Jen’s guidance came at a perfect time in my life. I wasn’t even sure what or if I needed something, and now I am finding out about patterns that I had covered onto which I am able to compassionately shine a light.”
“Having Jen as a witness is an invaluable experience. Each coaching session felt aligning. Jen provided me with guidance to the things in my Self that I (and that we all) can overlook. Jen was there to listen and carefully place parts of my reclaimed Self on a virtual altar, alongside new discoveries. ”
“Jen’s prompts for deep reflection and discovery using journaling, art, and spirituality helped me open my mind and heart to make immediate and long term shifts to create the life I want to build. Some shifts I have made are subtle and some are substantial, and she has held me while gently pushing me to go deeper and to sit in the uncomfortable spaces to make real change.”
“Midlife coaching has really helped me in this critical time of self-discovery. At a time of life when all of the pressures of caring for others (aging parents, partners, children, etc.,) feel so heavy and distracting, this material has helped me look inward, find my inner voice, nurture it, and move more authentically and deliberately toward the life I want in my second act.”
