Professional life coaching

  • Business and Career

  • Mindset and Motivation

  • Wellness and Fitness

How do I advance in my career? How do I get beyond what is holding me back? How do I balance my professional life with my personal life? How do I find the time and energy to follow my dreams and pursue my goals?

How do I live the life I deserve?

We ask ourselves these questions all the time, often becoming overwhelmed with where to start.

As a coaches, we believe you have the answers to these questions within you. You have the tools. Our role is to help you find them.

What is a professional life coach?

Simply put, life coaches help clients get from where they are stuck to where they want to be. Through the use of goal setting, thoughtful, guided questions and active listening, coaches empower clients to discover their own abilities to make an impact, initiate change, and create new opportunities.

Life coaches are not therapists, consultants or mentors. We create a safe space and work as your partner for exploration, reflection and creation.

We help clients create a personalized plan to achieve goals. We help hold clients accountable to those goals. And we help support clients every step of the journey.

FOCUS

We start by focusing on very specific goals you want to achieve. We work one goal at a time and stay focused. We develop a timeline for achieving that goal and set a strategy for completion.

REFLECT and refine

Once the goal has been set, it’s time to reflect on where you are today, what is holding you back from achieving that goal, what is within your control, what you can change. And refine those reflections into actionable solutions.

creation

Now it is time to put what you’ve discovered into practice by developing a specific plan and timeline. We will support you by checking in and holding you accountable, but this is your time to create the life you want to lead.

My Coaching Method

About me

Gretchen’s passion for coaching began decades ago. As a business executive, balancing family and career, she participated as a client in a coaching program which provided her with valuable tools to excel in her career and achieve better work/life balance. She took those skills and began mentoring women in her industry to help them achieve their goals, and she was recognized as one of her industry’s top women influencers (and not the social media kind!) and as an industry champion.

Over the years, she has participated in various women’s roundtables and events to help educate and work with women to help them find their voice, gain self-confidence and empower them to follow their dreams.

Now, she has followed her own dreams and has become a master certified professional life coach focusing on helping women break barriers (and glass ceilings) to achieve both their personal and professional goals.

“I’m thrilled to be able to put my passion into practice and help women live the lives they deserve. A life coach is different from therapy, consulting or mentorship, because a coach works as a partner to guide clients through their journey and discover their own paths forward. I can’t change what I don’t own, but through guided questions and discussions, I can help my clients pull from within and find the change they need. I’m so excited to start this journey with you.”

Gretchen West, MCPC