Certified Life Coach, Dr. Colleen Georges - Expert Life Coaching Services
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LIFE COACHING - LIFE TRANSITIONS ~ PERSONAL GOALS ~ HEALTH & WELLNESS ~ SELF-CARE ~ TIME MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTIVITY ~ STRESS MANAGEMENT ~ RELATIONSHIP CONFLICT & COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT ~ WORK LIFE BALANCE ~ CAREER CHANGE ~ CAREER ADVANCEMENT ~ & BEYOND!
I'm blessed to love the work I do. As a Certified Life Coach and Certified Career Coach, I get to help my clients RESCRIPT their stories, speak to themselves and about themselves with compassion and confidence, and reach their unique personal and professional goals. Over the last 25+ years, I've worked with thousands of people to guide them in achieving their dreams!
Life coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a life coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if life coaching is a good fit for you!
What is a Life Coach / What's the Difference Between Life Coaching and Counseling?
In addition to being a Certified Life Coach and Certified Career Coach, I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, and for many years I provided counseling services. Today, I no longer provide counseling, I provide life coaching and career coaching. 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. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Life Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Life Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your life 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.
Life 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 life coaching partnership, we help you RESCRIPT your story and author a limitless life!
What Types of Goals Do You Help Clients Work on as a Life Coach?
As a Life Coach, I help my clients achieve goals in many areas of their lives. Below are some examples.
How Does Your Life Coaching Process Work?
Can You Share More About Your RESCRIPT Framework?
As a Life Coach, I've developed my own framework for helping my clients quiet negative self talk and become their own best advocates.
We have two very different mental narrators who talk to us in our minds—the Inner Antagonist and the Inner Advocate.
Your Inner Antagonist is your story’s inner opposing force. It tells you that you have disorder, conflict, weaknesses, and deficits within and around you, and that you do not have what it takes to resolve any of it. Your Inner Antagonist can also lead you to act in ways that are not aligned with your values and ultimate desires.
Your Inner Advocate has your back. It’s your inner ally, supporter, encourager, and collaborative problem solver. It tells you that you’re strong and capable. It reminds you of all the resources you have within and around you. It reminds you of the wisdom you’ve gained from life experience. It tells you that you can overcome anything. To amplify our Inner Advocate, we must RESCRIPT:
If you'd like to read a bit more about my RESCRIPT Framework, I wrote this Huffington Post article about it: 8 Practices to Re-Script Your Self-Story.
Life coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a life coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if life coaching is a good fit for you!
What is a Life Coach / What's the Difference Between Life Coaching and Counseling?
In addition to being a Certified Life Coach and Certified Career Coach, I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, and for many years I provided counseling services. Today, I no longer provide counseling, I provide life coaching and career coaching. 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. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Life Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Life Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your life 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.
Life 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 life coaching partnership, we help you RESCRIPT your story and author a limitless life!
What Types of Goals Do You Help Clients Work on as a Life Coach?
As a Life Coach, I help my clients achieve goals in many areas of their lives. Below are some examples.
- Relationships: Eliminating unhealthy patterns, managing losses and transitions, communication strategies, addressing conflict and managing difficult conversations, creating and maintaining meaningful connections, establishing boundaries, being your authentic self with others.
- Career: Discovering and using your strengths, building your career around your passions and purpose, turning a passion into a business, feeling more engaged at work, creating work-life balance, making major career decisions, navigating career changes, job search and interviewing strategies, strategies for best showcasing your strengths and achievements on your resume and online, career advancement and leadership strategies, managing challenging career transitions or layoffs, improving office communication.
- Financial: Improving money mindset, increasing income, saving for specific goals and passions, saving for the future or emergencies, spending wisely, eliminating debt.
- Living Environment: Organizing or enhancing your living space, creating a sanctuary, planning for a move.
- Community Engagement: Finding volunteer opportunities, engaging in community activities, creating a sense of connection within your community.
- Physical Health: Creating healthy eating habits, developing exercise and fitness routines, health maintenance, addressing physical ailments and concerns.
- Mental & Emotional Health: RESCRIPTing negative self-talk, minimizing self-criticism, making peace with the past, approaching the future with hope and optimism, alleviating stress and overwhelm, enhancing confidence and feelings of self-worth, eliminating over-analyzing, growing self-compassion, practicing kindness and forgiveness, enhancing resilience, eliminating mental and emotional chaos by getting organized and effectively managing your time.
- Intellectual Growth: Learning a new skill, gaining new knowledge, growing expertise, increasing awareness, taking a course, going back to school, reading more frequently.
- Recreation & Relaxation: Creating self-care habits, discovering and making time for activities that bring you joy or calm, rewarding hard work with something fun or relaxing.
- Spirituality: Engaging in activities that fill you with a sense of purpose and mission, connecting with your higher power and the universe, creating and maintaining gratitude practices.
How Does Your Life Coaching Process Work?
- Step 1 - ACQUAINT: We schedule a FREE 20-minute Discovery Session to get acquainted, discuss your life coaching needs, and answer any questions you may have.
- Step 2 - ASSESS: We'll assess your level of satisfaction with each area of your life, as well as evaluate your unique self-talk patterns.
- Step 3 - AIM: We'll have an in-depth discussion of your assessment results and begin setting specific short- and long-term goals based on your assessments and what we discover during our discussion so we know what destinations we are aiming for.
- Step 4 - ACTION: We'll jump right in with "In-Between Session Actions" (AKA - homework ;-) customized to your needs to begin moving you into action toward your goals.
- Step 5 - ACHIEVE, ADDRESS, & APPRECIATE: We'll focus our sessions on reviewing your goal achievement progress, discussing and addressing any negative self-talk that is getting in your way, positively tackling any new challenges and opportunities that arise, and CELEBRATING AND APPRECIATING YOUR SUCCESSES - the small ones along the way and big ones following your hard work!
Can You Share More About Your RESCRIPT Framework?
As a Life Coach, I've developed my own framework for helping my clients quiet negative self talk and become their own best advocates.
We have two very different mental narrators who talk to us in our minds—the Inner Antagonist and the Inner Advocate.
Your Inner Antagonist is your story’s inner opposing force. It tells you that you have disorder, conflict, weaknesses, and deficits within and around you, and that you do not have what it takes to resolve any of it. Your Inner Antagonist can also lead you to act in ways that are not aligned with your values and ultimate desires.
Your Inner Advocate has your back. It’s your inner ally, supporter, encourager, and collaborative problem solver. It tells you that you’re strong and capable. It reminds you of all the resources you have within and around you. It reminds you of the wisdom you’ve gained from life experience. It tells you that you can overcome anything. To amplify our Inner Advocate, we must RESCRIPT:
- R - Release Rumination
- E - Engage Growth Goals
- S - Seek Strengths
- C - Challenge Catastrophizing
- R - Restrict Regret
- I - Invite Imperfection
- P - Pursue Passion & Purpose
- T - Think Thankfully
If you'd like to read a bit more about my RESCRIPT Framework, I wrote this Huffington Post article about it: 8 Practices to Re-Script Your Self-Story.
What is Your Role as My Life Coach?
What is My Role as a Life Coaching Client?
As a life coaching client, I ask you to:
Why Should I Work with You as my Life Coach, Dr. Colleen?
Helping others has been my calling since I was a kid. My very first job at 14 was as a camp counselor, so it was destiny! I just genuinely love people and want to see others happy and living their most fulfilled lives. Here's a bit about my background and experience:
Can I Hear What Other Clients' Experiences Have Been Working With You?
Absolutely! Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Dr. Colleen, Do You Have Any Videos I Can Watch to Learn More About Your Work?
I do! In 2016, I was blessed to do a TEDx Talk, called Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves and I've also been fortunate to do several TV and podcast interviews that you can watch and listen to on my Media Interviews page.
How Can I Find Out More About Your Life Coaching Packages and Pricing?
You can learn more about my different life coaching packages and pricing on my Career Coaching & Life Coaching page.
Do You Offer Other Services in Addition to Coaching?
Yes! In addition to life coaching and career coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group.
I Think I'd Like to Work with You, Dr. Colleen - Can We Talk Before I Decide?
We sure can! In fact, I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
What is Your Role as My Life Coach?
- I'm your co-strategizer: Together, we come up with ideas and strategies to help you quiet your Inner Antagonist, amplify your Inner Advocate, set and take action toward your goals, achieve your dreams, and enhance your life satisfaction. I have developed over 100 exercises and worksheets to help you on your journey (no, you don't have to use ALL of them, just the ones that resonate with you!).
- I'm your accountability partner: I help you remain motivated, engaged, and on track toward achieving your short- and long-term goals!
- I'm your External Advocate and champion: I help you see your strengths, accomplishments, passions, and purpose so you can live your fullest, limitless life. I help encourage, empower, and motivate you, and I celebrate you and all of the steps you take towards positively changing your life.
What is My Role as a Life Coaching Client?
As a life coaching client, I ask you to:
- Allow yourself to dream and believe in positive change - You CAN and WILL achieve your goals!
- Allow yourself to be a priority in your life - Put yourself on your list - HIGH on your list!
- Do the work - Life coaching requires time and effort. You are worth all of it! TOGETHER, we can achieve your dreams.
Why Should I Work with You as my Life Coach, Dr. Colleen?
Helping others has been my calling since I was a kid. My very first job at 14 was as a camp counselor, so it was destiny! I just genuinely love people and want to see others happy and living their most fulfilled lives. Here's a bit about my background and experience:
- Providing life coaching and career coaching and conducting personal and career development workshops for 25+ years.
- Running my life coaching and career coaching business for 15 of these years.
- Teaching psychology, counseling, and leadership courses at Rutgers University for 15 years.
- Wrote an award-winning, best-selling self-help book, chapters in other self-help books, and several psychology-based articles.
- Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University and 30+ certificates and certifications in coaching and psychology, including certifications as a Life Coach, Career Coach, Positive Psychology Coach, Health & Nutrition Coach, Anxiety Specialist, Parent Educator, and Time Management Consultant.
- Navigated several challenges and major decisions in my own life and career, including overcoming anxiety and panic attacks, getting divorced and remarried, and leaving salaried work to run my business, to name a few.
- A little more about my story: Dr. Colleen's Story.
Can I Hear What Other Clients' Experiences Have Been Working With You?
Absolutely! Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Dr. Colleen, Do You Have Any Videos I Can Watch to Learn More About Your Work?
I do! In 2016, I was blessed to do a TEDx Talk, called Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves and I've also been fortunate to do several TV and podcast interviews that you can watch and listen to on my Media Interviews page.
How Can I Find Out More About Your Life Coaching Packages and Pricing?
You can learn more about my different life coaching packages and pricing on my Career Coaching & Life Coaching page.
Do You Offer Other Services in Addition to Coaching?
Yes! In addition to life coaching and career coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group.
I Think I'd Like to Work with You, Dr. Colleen - Can We Talk Before I Decide?
We sure can! In fact, I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
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