Life Coaching NYC
How would you like to maximize your potential and fulfill your purpose in life? Life coaching can help. Healthy Minds NYC offers virtual and in-person life coaching and executive coaching with our trained life planner. With options for monthly sessions or a two-day life planning intensive, we can help you improve your relationships, career, and general quality of life. Contact our New York City-based office today by scheduling a free consultation with our care coordinator to learn about life coaching and how it can help you achieve your goals.
Life Coaching Q&A
What is life coaching?
Life coaching is expert guidance for your personal and professional life from a wellness professional who functions like a trusted advisor and wise consultant to help you reach your goals. You know those areas of your life where you feel completely stuck and can’t seem to make progress no matter how hard you try? Life coaching can help you break out of your rut to become a better version of yourself.
When you work with a life coach, you’ll receive encouragement to establish clear objectives for your future and you’ll get ongoing accountability to achieve those goals. At Healthy Minds NYC, we provide life coaching and executive coaching to help you assess where you are now, identify what you hope to accomplish in the future, and plan how you can bridge the gap to move into the life you desire. You coach will also help you identify and manage against obstacles that keep you from being successful.
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What is the difference between life coaching and therapy?
Life coaching can feel similar to therapy in the way both approaches address your fears, anxieties, hopes, and aspirations. However, there are key differences between therapy and life coaching.
How Life Coaching Works
As you begin life coaching sessions, you’ll find that your coach does the following:
focuses on creating specific objectives to help you bring your desires to life
provides accountability to ensure you stay on track to reach your goals
helps you troubleshoot potential obstacles and mental blocks as you implement your life strategies
recommends ancillary resources or tools that might be helpful for you to achieve your goals
makes real life connections or referrals to help catalyze you on your path to growth
allows you to schedule sessions as needed based on your growth trajectory
offers sessions virtually so you can easily access your coach from the comfort of your home or office.
How Therapy Works
In therapy, your clinician will take a more structured approach that will does the following:
focuses on reducing your negative symptoms and the stressors interfering with your life
provides insight to help you overcome pain from the past or dysfunctional patterns of behavior in the present
helps you understand the history of your presenting challenges
maintains structured weekly sessions for consistent healing and growth
allows you to potentially submit super bills to your insurance company for reimbursement (see our care coordinator for your specific payment options)
offers in-person or virtual Telehealth sessions based on your preference and availability.
Who is a candidate for life coaching?
Anyone who wants a happier, more meaningful life is a candidate for life coaching. We also recommend professionals work with our life coach for “executive coaching” that focuses on helping you improve your performance and experience specifically within your workplace or career.
Often, people turn to life coaching when facing a major life change – whether that’s a new job, a relationship shift, financial transition, or a major move. Life coaching can give you direction and prevent you from standing in your own way. It offers the incentives you need to thrive.
What are the signs that I could benefit from life coaching?
You may actually have symptoms that suggest life coaching could help you. These include:
High levels of stress or anxiety
Lack of fulfillment in your social and work lives
Sense of blocked creativity
Frequent irritability and mood changes
Fear that you have just one chance to get it “right”
You may find yourself falling back into bad habits and losing enthusiasm for your job. Life coaching can help if you’re giving a lot of thought to your future but can’t seem to direct your thoughts and move in a productive direction.
How does life coaching work?
At Healthy Minds NYC, we offer different levels of life coaching based on your needs and your life goals. Many of our clients enjoy life coaching within the context of regular weekly psychotherapy sessions with any member of our expert team of mental health care providers. We work with you to set your objectives and provide ongoing accountability and support to help you break through the barriers keeping you from the life you hope to live.
In addition, at Healthy Minds NYC we also have a dedicated life coaching program with our co-founder, Chanel Dokun who is the author of Life Starts Now: How to Create the Life You’ve Been Waiting For. You can select from the following three options for life coaching with Chanel Dokun:
Option One: Monthly Life Coaching Sessions (Virtual)
Through monthly life coaching with Chanel Dokun, you will get clarity around the various spheres of your life in an open-ended coaching format. You’ll meet with your life coach for one-hour virtual sessions where you will audit your life, set goals for the future, and get consistent accountability and support to overcome the mental and practical barriers keeping you from the life you want. You may be given short growth assignments to complete outside of sessions as needed as further support for your goals and to deepen your new life habits.
Life coaching at Healthy Minds NYC includes monthly or bi-monthly 1-hour sessions, optional recordings of sessions, and a custom playbook of recommended next actions and growth assignments.
Option Two: 2-Day Life Planning Retreat
At Healthy Minds NYC, we offer a special life coaching program through the structure 2-Day Life Planning Retreat (virtual or in-person). The life planning framework is based on the Purpose Discovery Framework outlined in Chanel Dokun’s book Life Starts Now. During this process you will do the following:
put language to your zone of genius by discovering your talents so you know what you do exceedingly well,
explore your passions by clarifying your life mission and heart focus so you know your "North Star” in life,
and craft your strategic life plan by learning how to steward your influence so you know exactly what to do next.
Life planning at Healthy Minds NYC includes a one-on-one guided retreat, a digital Self-Reflection Workbook with access to personality assessments, and a Life Action Plan with a recap of your retreat and next actions.
Option Three: 2-Day Life Planning Retreat + Coaching
Many of our clients enjoy combining the catalytic process of life planning with ongoing coaching. If you are seeking maximum transformation for you life, we recommend you begin your life coaching journey with a 2-Day Life Planning Retreat. This intensive will give you optimal perspective on who you are and where you’re headed. Then you can schedule monthly or bi-monthly follow-up coaching sessions to hold you accountable as you begin to implement new life rhythms.
Life Planning with Implementation Coaching at Healthy Minds NYC includes a one-on-one guided retreat, a digital Self-Reflection Workbook, a Life Action Plan, and 3 to 6 follow-up 1-hour coaching sessions.
To learn more about life coaching or life planning and book your first session, request an appointment online today.
“You get to be the architect of the good life.”
— Chanel Dokun