Our Mission:
We work creatively at the interface of coaching and psychotherapy to facilitate life-enhancing career and personal transitions. Respect for our clients and the complex challenges they face shapes all phases of our process. In addition to our core services, we help clients access our network of financial, legal and health professionals, so that comprehensive support is provided throughout. Our clients working in collaboration with us identify and address the internal and external issues key to realizing their unique version of career and personal success.
We work creatively at the interface of coaching and psychotherapy to facilitate life-enhancing career and personal transitions. Respect for our clients and the complex challenges they face shapes all phases of our process. In addition to our core services, we help clients access our network of financial, legal and health professionals, so that comprehensive support is provided throughout. Our clients working in collaboration with us identify and address the internal and external issues key to realizing their unique version of career and personal success.
Who would benefit from using our services?
People challenged by:
Group and organizational consultations and workshops are individually calculated from the base rate of $200/hr.
What is unique about our services?
We:
People challenged by:
- a career and/or life phase transition,
- a need to restructure an existing career trajectory,
- a career derailment,
- professional burn out,
- a professional and/or personal crisis,
- a sexual boundary violation,
- a geographic dislocation,
- a divorce, death or other radical personal disconnect,
- a successful but unfulfilling vocation,
- an intrinsic desire to create something new or to contribute something more meaningful.
- We will meet with a client for an initial one day evaluation in Boston. The evaluation will involve both individual and joint meetings with Sharyn and Joan:
- To explore the client’s
- presenting issues
- desired outcomes and life goals
- current physical and emotional well being
- preferred styles of interaction
- To develop an individually designed program:
- flexible in length and intensity
- specific to each client’s transition needs and their unique version of career and personal success
Group and organizational consultations and workshops are individually calculated from the base rate of $200/hr.
What is unique about our services?
We:
- transcend traditional coaching and traditional psychotherapy
- employ life-enhancing strategies
- address the often neglected identity and emotional issues crucial to effective personal and professional transitions
- offer educational preparation for the psychological issues that are likely to arise during transition
- provide access to a team of associated legal, financial and health professionals, as needed
- create a program tailored to each client’s unique needs, rather than offer a generic package
- design a program for total well being, rather than unidimensional change
- commit to the client’s success in achieving their unique personal and professional goals.
- Having experienced significant transitions ourselves, we appreciate the complexity of issues that arise in this challenging process
- We value and enjoy using our training and experience to help others
- Our unique relationship shapes our collaboration style and is both complementary and synergistic
- The combination of the humanistic values we share, our academic credentials, experience and expertise generates an atmosphere of respect between us and our clients
- The process we create with clients is imaginative, expansive, innovative, insightful, fun and productive.
- Create balance and well-being
- Assess strengths and vulnerabilities
- Monitor and manage stress levels
- Resolve identity crises
- Emerge successfully from personal and professional losses
- Respond adaptively to economic destabilizations, geographic relocations and relationship disruptions
- Define personal and professional boundaries of responsibility
- Clarify appropriate boundaries of emotional and sexual intimacy in personal and professional relationships
- Access resources and support for addressing employment disputes, discrimination and/or litigation
- Recognize and resolve potential crisis points
- Optimize productive attitudes and actions
- Explore earlier interests and aspirations and integrate them with current needs
- Envision new initiatives and relationships
- Establish a new set of personal and professional goals and implement strategies to attain them
- Create and achieve your unique definition of success!