Coach Terry specializes in empowering you, the client, to decide on a series of small steps to take that can lead to significant results in managing weight and implementing a healthy nutrition lifestyle. You will partner with Coach Terry to move your life to the next level as you seek your best self.
Coaching assumes that YOU, the client, are inventive, effective, resourceful, and strong. Moving to the next level in any area of your life can be facilitated by powerful questions, goal-setting, and accountability. Coach Terry would like to help you achieve your goals through phone coaching in one of the following areas.
Weight Management
Your satisfaction with what you see in the mirror every day can affect your life in many ways. If you are dissatisfied with that image, you may be considering making some changes to your weight—either up or down.
Weight management takes in elements of your sleep, your movement, your levels of stress, and, of course, the fuel that you take in to energize your body.
As we meet together, we will consider how all of these elements work together—or maybe don’t work together!—in your life. Then we will discuss what small changes you decide you could make each week to move closer towards your goal. Remember, small hinges move big doors! You are in the driver’s seat and I will be alongside to help you make the journey.
Healthy Nutrition Lifestyle
Just as fuel helps you arrive at a destination in your car, the fuel of healthy nutrition helps you achieve your weight management and healthy lifestyle goals. Coach Terry will help you consider different types of nutrition lifestyles to enable you to decide what works best for you. Remember, it’s all about you and Seeking Your Best Self!
FAQ’s
What is Coaching?
Really, in a "nutshell," coaching assumes that YOU, the client are inventive, effective, and resourceful. And that seeking your best self in work and life can be facilitated by powerful questions, an unbiased ear, and accountability. I would like to provide you with these three things through phone coaching in the areas of weight management and healthy nutrition.
Is Coaching the Same as Pastoral Counseling or Therapy?
I describe counseling or therapy as "diagnostic"—focusing on past events and looking there for answers to present questions. Coaching is "strategic"—future-focused and seeking goals to accomplish the next level of change in your life.
Personal coaches are trained to help people learn new skills and make significant behavior changes. I am here to offer my skills in the areas of communication, problem-solving, and behavior change. I do this through a service called "coaching", in which you come to me as a whole and healthy person, seeking help in making decisions and implementing them, in order to achieve goals that you decide for yourself.
As YOUR Coach, my job is to help YOU take information and skills that YOU already have to
Make decisions about which changes YOU would like to make (this includes any goals discussed in the complimentary coaching call)
Develop a personal "action plan" in order for YOU to move forward with those changes
Implement YOUR action plan to and make the behavioral changes
Develop strategies to maintain the changes YOU have made. I will support, encourage, teach, and help you stay "on track" toward YOUR goals.
You, as the Client, set the agenda for your coaching, and your success will depend on your willingness to define and take risks and try new approaches. You can expect me as your Coach to be honest and direct, asking straightforward questions and using challenging techniques to help you move forward. You are expected to evaluate your own progress, and if the coaching is not working as you wish, you should immediately inform me so we can both take steps to correct the problem. Like any human endeavor, coaching can involve feelings of distress and frustration which accompany the process of change. Coaching does not offer any guarantee of success, but you are always in the driver’s seat.
What About Confidentiality?
As an ordained Minister of the Gospel, I protect the confidentiality of those who seek pastoral counsel with me; I also respect the confidentiality for my coaching clients. I will only release information about our work to others with your express written permission, or if I am required to do so by a court order.
There are some situations in which I am legally obligated to breach your confidentiality in order to protect others from harm, including
(1) if I have information that indicates that a child or elderly or disabled person is being abused, I must report that to the appropriate state agency and
(2) if a client is an imminent risk to him/herself or makes threats of imminent violence against another person, I am required to take protective actions.
These situations rarely occur in coaching practices, but if such a situation does occur, I will make every effort to discuss it with you before taking any action.
Opportunities may arise for coaching to be conducted in groups, including teleconference groups. You agree to maintain the confidentiality of all information communicated to you by other coaching clients and by your Coach. We also understand that progress is often enhanced when clients discuss their coaching relationship with trusted colleagues and friends. You can have these discussions, but you are expected to be very careful not to share any information that would allow others in the group to be identified. One way to decide how and what to discuss is to think about how you would feel if someone else in the group was discussing you.
Your responsibility to keep confidentiality of group information does not end at the conclusion of the group. My responsibility to keep the confidentiality of your individual information, in accordance with the above guidelines, does not end when our coaching relationship ends.
As you are probably aware, it is impossible to protect the confidentiality of information transmitted electronically. This is particularly true of email and information stored on computers connected to the internet (unless you use encryption and other forms of security protection), and if you use a cordless or cell phone for coaching sessions, someone with a scanner could hear you talk.
