​I work with many driven, high-achieving clients who have a lot on their plates, and are working hard to perfectly accommodate everyone and everything around them. Does this sound like you? If so, you know how stressed, drained, unfocused, and self-critical this way of living can make you feel. I also know, because I've lived it too.

For many years I lived with perfectionism, regret, catastrophizing, anxiety, panic attacks, and low self-esteem. As I share in my TED Talk, it was Positive Psychology tools that helped me RESCRIPT my negative self-story and start living a different one.

What is a self-story? A self-story is comprised of all the things we tell ourselves in our minds, moment by moment, about who we are, why we are or aren’t good enough, what we are or aren’t capable of, and what possibilities the future can hold for us. 

If you feel like you've scripted yourself a story that could use some RESCRIPTing for greater balance, fulfillment, passion, self-care, and self-compassion, I'd love to work with you!

​How We Partner to RESCRIPT Your Story:
We'll assess your current level of satisfaction in 10 important areas of your life, and develop a detailed plan for what you want for your life in each area, concentrating on the areas most important to you:

1. Relationships: Unhealthy patterns learned from past relationships can challenge current/future relationships. Uncovering and shifting these patterns helps us achieve the meaningful connections we crave.  
2. ​Career: We can sometimes find ourselves in jobs/careers that don't bring us a sense of fulfillment. When we illuminate our strengths, passions, and purpose, we can align our career actions with them and create greater joy. 
3. ​Financial: While money does not equal happiness, financial security helps ensure our basic needs are met and that we can live a lifestyle that supports our joy. Creating healthy money thoughts and habits can enhance our happiness.
4. Living Environment: When our living spaces and environments are in chaos, our minds can feel chaotic. Understanding what environments bring us solace helps us plan ways to organize and create these spaces.
5. Community Engagement: We can sometimes find ourselves feeling disconnected from our local and larger communities. Finding ways to volunteer/give back helps us express gratitude for all we have and find meaning in caring for our communities.
6. Physical Health: Amidst busy lives we can put our physical wellness on the back-burner and develop unhealthy habits. Creating realistic, achievable physical wellness goals and habits helps us live a happy life.
7. Mental & Emotional Health: Past disappointments and mistakes, daily stressors, and current challenges can take a mental and emotional toll. Learning new ways of thinking and being can help rid us of rumination, regret, catastrophizing, low self-esteem, and other negative emotional and mental states, and help us reach our other life and career goals. 
8. Intellectual Growth: Sometimes in our lives and careers, we can feel stuck in a rut of intellectual stagnation. Exploring and embarking on new intellectual growth adventures helps us lead more enriched lives. 
9. Recreation & Relaxation: It's easy to do only what we must on our increasingly busy to do lists, and its often our recreation and relaxation that get put aside. Rediscovering and reintegrating our passions and self-care practices is critical for our wellness.
10. Spirituality: There are times that we can realize we want a connection to something larger than us. Exploring and using our greater purpose to do good in the world and express gratitude for all we have been given helps us live more meaningfully. 

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Once we explore your visions for these areas of life, we'll prioritize those of greatest importance to you and develop relevant, specific short- and long-term goals. We'll design step-by-step actions for you to implement daily, weekly, monthly, and beyond to RESCRIPT any limiting self-talk and self-stories, refocus your lenses, and redesign your life for greater satisfaction.

​Dr. Colleen's RESCRIPT Framework:

• R – Release Rumination: We will work on catching your ruminating thoughts as they begin, releasing them, and concentrating your thoughts and actions instead on what you can positively control in your story right now.
• E – Engage vs. Evade: We'll help you engage in growth-driven adventures you have been avoiding. 
• S – Seek Strengths: We'll explore what you are great at so you can use your strengths at work and in the community to do and feel good. 
• C – Challenge Catastrophizing: We'll challenge any catastrophizing you are engaging in over what's to come in your future, and help you script successes instead so you’ll be more equipped to plan how to achieve what you want.
• R – Restrict Regret: We'll work on restricting the time you spend on regret, and instead using mistakes to drive growth moving forward.
• I – Invite Imperfection: We'll work on helping you invite imperfection in, laugh with it, and embrace it. Our idiosyncrasies are part of what keeps our stories so interesting.
• P – Pursue Passion & Purpose: We'll plan goals and actions to make your passions and purpose key themes in your story. 
• ​​T – Think Thankfully: We'll train your brain to see the good within and around you. 

Coaching versus Counseling - What is the Difference?

Although I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with experience providing counseling previously, today I provide coaching, not counseling. You might be wondering--how is coaching different from counseling?
 
Counseling (also referred to as therapy) involves diagnosing psychological dysfunction and helping clients manage deeper level clinical disorders and personality disorders. Counseling often explores a client's past and utilizes insights gained to resolve psychological and emotional traumas. Counseling is typically provided in person and over a longer period of time. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
 
Coaching, on the other hand, involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past. As your coach, I focus on exploring your goals in each area of your life, as well as identifying the obstacles getting in the way of achieving those goals. I guide you in creating a roadmap for achieving what you desire. I partner with you to design and implement actionable steps and benchmarks toward your goals, strategies for maintaining motivation and inspiration along the way, and customized follow-through and accountability methods. Coaching is very action driven. I also help you celebrate and savor your successes! Because self-talk is at the core of my RESCRIPT Framework, as we work on your specific goals, we simultaneously work on helping you eliminate negative self-talk patterns and develop a positive internal dialogue. By learning and maintaining empowering self-talk strategies, you gain the most important fuel for achieving what you desire. Through our coaching partnership, we help you RESCRIPT your story and author a limitless life!

While some coaches work in person, coaching is often provided virtually via phone and Skype video. I work with my clients virtually, which allows me to work with clients across the globe. It also provides my clients with greater scheduling flexibility! While coaching can be shorter term, I customize my work with clients to meet their specific coaching needs. We work together until you reach your unique goals!

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