I provide life coaching services to both adults and teenagers, whether it be in the form of a single session or building a long-term relationship with clients. I completed the InnerLifeSkills Coaching Course in 2012 and have been offering coaching services since then. When I work with teenagers, I also draw extensively on my 25 years of experience as a teacher.
On my personal healing journey, I have come to recognize the limitations of approaches which tend to focus on ‘fixing’ people and inculcating new habits in them to make them ‘better’ people. While this type of coaching may bring some short-term benefits, this often comes at the expense of long-term healing.
My approach to soul-centred life coaching recognizes that truly transformative inner work can be lonely and often feels painful. Thus, I offer guidance, companionship, and a safe-space to engage in deep, soul-centred dialogue. My sessions are unique to each person, acknowledging that sometimes we feel clear and certain about the way forward, while at other times we feel confused, hopeless, and broken-hearted. I do not see these states (or the vacillation between them) as signs of failure or a need for improvement but rather as signs of our true humanity.
Soul-centred life coaching sees times of transition or crisis as a ‘path’ to wholeness, opportunities to connect to your essence. My sessions aim to help you connect with your essence and to find love and compassion for yourself as you truly are, not as the world or others want you to be. My experience in working both with adults and teenagers is that, when we focus our attention on these soul-centred issues, the ensuing shifts bring meaningful and lasting solutions to the ‘problems’ we are experiencing.
The doorway into the aliveness we long for is found in the chaotic glory of our lives as they are – buried inside our confusion, hopelessness, disappointment, and doubt – hidden in the most ‘ordinary’ parts of our bodies, emotions, relationships, and the natural world itself.
As we learn to attune to the wisdom, the compassion, and creativity that is wired into our true nature, our perception is cleansed and a portal opens, revealing a freedom, spontaneity, and rest that is always already there. Somehow the struggle begins to fall away and dispute the traumas of the past, the worries of the future, and difficult emotion of the present, we are alive, fully here, and our hearts open to the magic of the scared world.“
Matt Licata
TESTIMONIALS
My Sessions with Venessa were beneficial to me starting on my ongoing journey of personal growth, self-awareness, and self-love. Venessa’s calm presence and attentive manner never fail to put me at ease and open myself up to explore my life and reflect on my experience beyond my comfort zone. I love that Venessa has been available for regular and intermittent sessions as I have needed them. Even when things are tough, I leave these sessions feeling enlightened and supported. Venessa knows what tools to give me and guides me towards paths I’ve been able to explore on my own.
-Kirsty