What Even Is Coaching?

Coaching is a practice which aims to help you achieve your goals. It is a complementary practice to therapy, and coaches and therapists do share some techniques. On the other hand, there are techniques that are unique to therapy as well, so it’s important not to confuse the two.

Currently, getting a therapist is often both difficult and expensive. And you might not even need someone of those specific qualifications to help you. That’s where coaching comes in. If you have a goal you’d like to move towards that doesn’t involve getting a medical diagnosis, seeking medical treatment, or processing adverse trauma, then coaching might be able to help.

General

  • Ideal for most goals.

  • Common Topics

    • Building Healthy Habits, Communication Skills, Unprocessed Emotions, Feeling Happy

Career

  • Ideal when the main goals are primarily related to career advancement or skills you use at work.

  • Common Topics

    • Discovering Work Interests, Resumé / CV Review, Offer Negotiations, Workplace Politics, Determining Career Trajectory, Work-Life Balance

Family

  • Ideal when the main goals are primarily related to family dynamics.

  • Can be done solo or together with a child, parent, partner, or other family member.

  • Common Topics

    • Setting Healthy Boundaries, Parenting for Neurodivergency, Establishing Effective Family Communication

Coaching Services

Rather than having you scroll through marketing copy, let me state my service fees plainly:

  • $55 General Coaching

  • $65 General Coaching w/ Check-Ins 6 Days per Week

  • $75 All Specialty Coaching Types


These prices are per session and there is no obligation to buy a package of sessions at once.

If you don’t feel this is for you, then no worries! My job is to help you and if I can’t do that then I don’t want you to waste your money on a service that doesn’t work for YOU!

 FAQs

  • The best way I have heard this put is:

    Therapy helps you get from -100 to 0. Coaching helps you get from 0 to 100.

    If you are looking for a diagnosis of a mental disorder, please seek out a therapist instead of a coach. If you are looking to understand how you tick and work on strategies to address an issue in your life, a therapist and a coach could both help, depending on the issue at hand.

    If you are looking for a more hands-on approach that focuses on planning, accountability, and dismantling your resistances, then a coach would likely be a better fit.

  • Coaching can help you isolate the roadblocks that are already standing between you and your goals.

    If you could just achieve all of your goals right now, then I doubt you'd be looking for help, right? I think people are likely only looking for help when they already feel stuck. That help can come in many forms. Therapy is one, and coaching is another.

    Together, let's figure out what exactly your roadblocks are. What's keeping you stuck? That's Step 1.

    Then we need to figure out how to cleanse that roadblock so that you can move on. Sometimes, you might just need practical information and to bounce ideas off someone else with more experience. Most of the time though, you'll probably need to work through some emotions that are holding you back, and that's when having someone trained in finding and processing those emotions really comes in clutch.

  • Ali is certified as a master-tier coach by Healthy Gamer Institute (HGI). This program is certified by The Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC).

    Ali is also currently pursuing a certification with the National Board of Medical Examiners to obtain a board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC).

  • Sessions can be held over any common videocalling platform such as FaceTime, Zoom, Discord, or Google Meet.

    Additionally, if you don't have access to one of those or are not comfortable putting yourself on video, we can always do an audio-only call on your phone.

Get in Touch.

How can I best help support you?

If we don’t click, that’s okay. I’m happy to help set you up with a colleague who might be a better fit.

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

— Mihaly Czikszentmihaly (Hungarian-American Psychologist - Codifier of the Flow State)