Therapy is a treatment used to resolve specific mental health disorders that are negatively impacting someone’s ability to live their lives normally and functionally. Coaching is a collaboration between coach and client to help the client live more optimally. Coaching clients tend to function fairly well in most areas of their lives but have challenges they want extra support and expertise for. Some techniques used in therapy and coaching may be similar or even the same, but the goals and focus are very different. 

This website, its information, and offers are for coaching ONLY from Shelley. Although Shelley is a therapist as well as a coach, we will not be doing any therapy during our meetings and Shelley is your coach if you choose to hire her. 

If you have a therapist that you are working with already, coaching may still be an option for you, on a case-by-case basis. If you begin working with Shelley and it appears that you may benefit from therapy, Shelley will refer you for an evaluation with a therapist.

The types of hypnotherapy and hypnosis techniques that Shelley uses only require a very light trance. You will always be aware and in control of yourself- no Las Vegas acts here! The trances are similar to when you go see a movie in the theatre and suspend your disbelief for the duration of the film or when you get lost in your thoughts while driving somewhere familiar and aren’t as aware of yourself. In both cases, if something out of the ordinary were to happen, you would immediately be out of the trance and able to take action, If the idea still makes you uncomfortable, Shelley can coach you without these techniques, but it will likely take longer to reach your goals. 

This program lasts 12 sessions which are usually scheduled weekly or biweekly.

This program is for people who want to change their lives to be more vibrant and in sync with their values, gifts, and dreams. It is for people who feel overwhelmed and limited by their emotions, self-sabotaging actions, and old stories about themselves and their lives and are ready to break free from these. It is for people who want to become the Boss of their emotions and brain and who are willing to try out new ideas and practices. It is for people who are ready to make a change in their lives now. 

This program isn’t for you if you aren’t ready to make changes in your life right now or to try new things or ideas. You don’t have to believe in the skills for them to work, but you do have to be willing to try and practice them. Most of our work is done in session, but there will be homework, mostly in the form of practicing skills, that I will ask you to do daily if possible. The skills usually take 10-30 minutes, depending on what skills you’re working on and how quickly you want to make additional progress outside of sessions. Practicing skills is an important part of re-wiring your brain. Depending on your particular goals, there may be more homework involved which we will have agreed upon.

Shelley is available by Voxer Tuesday-Friday if you have any problems or questions.