MENTAL HEALTH COACHING SUPPORTS PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MILD TO MODERATE SYMPTOMS OF STRESS AND ANXIETY
Every person wants to experience mental and emotional well-being. But sometimes stress, anxiety and other strong emotions can make it difficult to manage our responsibilities and move effectively towards our growth and success.
As inspired people we too often judge and criticize ourselves in unproductive ways, thinking it will help us reach our goals faster.
Or we ignore the signs and signals that indicate we need balance until we reach burn out or crisis.
Or we feel afraid of strong emotions like anger and sadness and think we need to control them.
Or we get stuck in a cycle of overthinking and analysis paralysis.
Or we aren’t skilled at setting boundaries and asking for what we want so that we end up living someone else’s vision for us, brewing conflict and resentment.
It doesn’t have to be this way. There are tools and techniques to help you stay in good mental and emotional hygiene so that you can more effectively keep your cool, stay balanced, and reach your personal definition of success. Mental Health Coaching is proven to be useful in reducing stress and increasing mental-emotional wellbeing. The majority of clients notice improvements in their mental wellbeing in under 6 sessions (Lyra Health, 2020).
IS COACHING FOR ME?
Coaching is for you if you want to address stress, anxiety and overthinking head on and develop the skills to create more ease in your life. My evidenced-based approach uses cognitive behavioral coaching techniques to teach you skills to create long-lasting shifts in the way you approach life.
I work with dedicated professionals of all stripes looking to reduce stress, overwhelm and overthinking so that they can focus on what matters most. I specifically coach:
Tech professionals who want to move up in their career while enjoying their lives.
Health care professionals who want to manage the many demands of their professional and personal lives.
Early professionals looking to gain direction on their path and develop healthy skills for a long and successful career.
Budding entrepreneurs who are looking to combine their passions with economic stability.
Passionate parents who need to balance responsibilities at home and at work.
Partnered people who want their relationships to be a source of support and joy.
What topics can we discuss together?
We can talk about any area that matters to you, including:
Stress management and anxiety reduction.
Becoming more comfortable with strong emotions like anger and sadness.
Career, purpose and meaning.
Overwhelm and overthinking.
Effective communication in personal and professional relationships.
Coaching might be for you if you are…
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed and looking for better ways to manage.
Having strong emotional reactions that seem disproportioned to what is going on.
In a negative relationship with your emotions and think they need to be controlled and suppressed.
Navigating a job or relationship transition and need support making a clear decision.
Spending time spiraling out about the worst case scenario instead of making meaningful action on your goals.
Ready to feel more ease in your day to day but don’t know where to start.
Burning out or exhausted by the demands of everyday life.
MANAGE DIFFICULT EMOTIONS
IMPROVE RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
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The client experience
My coaching sessions with Angela have focused on anxiety and decision-making, specifically in the context of relationships. We’ve used a variety of techniques to help me understand my emotions better and stay relaxed and present throughout the day.
- Donny, Software Engineer
What I have taken from our sessions is working on my continued self confidence, and how to manage my stress levels.
- Jasmina, Retail Manager
I regularly incorporate learnings from my coaching sessions in everyday life. Angela has encouraged me to identify the physical sensations that I associate with stress and anxiety, and this has helped me quickly note when an anxious feeling arises and lessen it’s severity and duration.
- Molly, Tech Exec
Angela is just so approachable, professional and trustworthy. - MB, Executive Assistant
Processing my emotions with Angela has been helpful in steering me away from making impulse decisions and not being overly reactive.
- Dennis, Finance Attorney
Angela helped me build the confidence to ask for the things that I want.
- Juanita, Mom
I did not realize how important it is for me to reflect my values in my personal and professional interactions.
- Jamal, Sales
My experience with Angela has been really wonderful. She is smart, warm, friendly, and very good at what she does. Her experience and expertise helped me focus on specific goals and achieve them! I highly recommend her as a coach.
- Ankeen, Wellness Practitioner
"I focused on embracing my full self and knowing how to have the two sides of me that were previously in conflict, coexist."
- Maria, Consultant
I feel motivated again, I feel strong again about my work. I was so much more present and connected with what I'm doing. I felt very very supported. Angela understood how to guide me, when I had a problem, she made it less intimidating. - VT, Artist NYC
I had a pinprick of an idea, and Angela asked all the right questions to help me fledge out thoughts and consolidate it into a plan. I felt a newfound motivation to keep moving and I had quite the breakthrough.
- TM, Artist
My relationship has benefitted from me being able to communicate better, and also being able to validate my partner’s feelings.
- Rocko, Software Developer
I continue to be amazed by Angela’s gift of creative thinking. It's been so valuable to me in times of stress. You've really helped keep me on track.
- Alexis O, Yoga Therapist
I have started reframing my thinking when I’m feeling anxious or upset to label my emotions and give myself space to feel these things.
- RJ, Sports Exec
RESHAPE NEGATIVE THINKING PATTERNS
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REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY
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MY APPROACH
Literally anyone can call themselves a “coach.” Given that, it’s important to find someone qualified and well-trained. I’ve logged over 2,500 hours of professional coaching experience and over 350 hours of training since 2015 through Coaches for Transformation, the Neuro-Linguistic Programming Center of NYC and Lyra Health Cognitive Behavioral Coaching programs. I am a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation and member practitioner at MINKA Wellness in Brooklyn, NY, Kensho Health and WellSet.
My approach sees each client as whole and resourceful. I listen for the deeper agenda and guide my clients towards greater understanding of themselves using evidence-based cognitive behavioral techniques. My greatest goal for you is that you walk away with a stronger relationship to yourself, with more skills, more compassion and more strength to do what you have set out to do. Being an inspired person means that you care, a lot, about many things. I allow you to put things into perspective, prioritize and make clear action plans for forward movement.
Some useful distinctions about what coaching is and is not:
Therapy is about healing more severe and specialty symptoms; coaching is about navigating mild to moderate stressors that impact your day-to-day.
Consulting prescribes expertise-based solutions and advice; coaching emboldens you to act on your own wisdom.
Mentoring guides you based on a mentor’s experience; coaching guides you according to your own values and intentions.
Training follows a set curriculum toward set objectives; coaching reveals your own objectives and a path to fulfill them.
Coaching supports you to get clear on what is truly important to you and to move forward past where you are currently stuck.
MY STORY
I’ve been involved in personal development and wellness work for the past 10 years with a focus on interpersonal communication and emotional wellness. I studied coaching through the Coaching for Transformation program, the Neuro-Linguistic Programming Center of NYC and Lyra Health Cognitive Behavioral Coaching frameworks. I am an accredited Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation and have logged over 2,500 hours of professional coaching experience.
I believe that emotional wellness comes from having a deeper understanding of ourselves and being courageous enough to make choices in service to our core values. I’ve seen people realize their amazing potential for growth when they are supported with kindness, compassion and direction.
My own personal wellness has come from developing a warm relationship with my mind, engaging in joyful exercise each day, cultivating a supportive community and appreciating our natural resources. I live on the island of Hawai’i and am passionate about friendship, swimming in the ocean, West African drum and dance, and creating opportunities for vulnerability. I embody warmth, curiosity and determination in service to my client’s goals.
IDENTITY
Angela identifies as a white, pansexual, Irish-Canadian/American woman in the middle socioeconomic class. She is allied with, and has extensive experience supporting clients who identify as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, immigrant, and ESL. She has also had experience supporting non-monogamous relationships and people with mental or physical disabilities.
PACKAGE AND RAtES - video and phone
My starting package is 3 months, two 45 minute sessions per month. Long enough for meaningful results, short enough for a doable commitment — and we can always renew from there.
I offer coaching via video conference or phone on a sliding scale to increase accessibility to coaching:
$130/month If your income is uncertain.
$170/month If it’s a stretch to be investing in coaching right now.
$210/month If you’re financially stable.
$250/month if you’re financially flourishing or receiving organizational funding.
Everybody’s situation is different, and nobody knows yours better than you. No need to disclose your income or justify your choice to me — I trust you to choose the tier that makes the work accessible for you.
Monthly fee includes 2 sessions/month. Contact me to learn more. If you are ready to get started simply click the button below:
package and rates - Live messaging
Live messaging sessions are a great format for people who feel more comfortable with the space and privacy that live messaging provides. We meet on zoom but without video or sound, simply using the chat feature for the entirety of our 45 minute session. While the results are the similar, less can be covered in a live messaging session and the rates reflect this. Live messaging sessions are a nice option for people who have never engaged in coaching or therapy before and want to get used to it in private. Package is 3 months, two 45 minute sessions per month.
I offer live messaging coaching on a sliding scale to increase accessibility to coaching:
$90/month If your income is uncertain.
$120/month If you’re financially stable.
$150/month if you’re financially flourishing or receiving organizational funding.
Monthly fee includes 2 sessions/month. Contact me to learn more. If you are ready to get started simply click the button below:
