Build Awareness, Clarity and Focus
on Transformational Change
Meet Coach Val
Guiding clients towards emotional, mental, behavioral, spiritual
well-being
Hello, I’m Coach Val. Born and raised in Oxford, England before emigrating to the United States years ago, l have mentored and coached people for over 23 years. l am an author and professional ICF PCC (licensed), Life Coach with both Erickson Academy and a certified Brave Thinking, DreamBuilder Life Coach. I hold a master’s degree in social science, Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health, and an associate degree in Commercial Art & Advertising. I am highly adept at compassionately providing life coaching and bereavement support that help individuals and families move toward lives of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. I have extensive experience offering one-to-one coaching and working with interdisciplinary teams supporting patients, families and caregivers.
Based on 23 years of professional experience working directly with 100+ college students, hospital staff and countless Palliative Care patients in the healthcare industry, my aim is to explore topics with the goal to support, guide, uplift and equip clients to move toward a specific goal. All of my services are based on coaching, not therapeutic, model. See below for the difference between coaching and therapy.*
I specialize in clients gaining more awareness, clarity and focus on transformational change. I am committed to helping clients realize their ambitions, dreams and goals through co-created visualization and leveraging of potential inner strengths and abilities. I equip clients to connect to core values through self-awareness techniques so they can identify more clearly potential skillsets to harness image building desires, career goals, relationship strengthening mindfulness etc. as well as potential obstacles that may hinder overall growth.
“Valerie has been wonderful in coaching me through my grief process. She really helped me with her support and kind words while I have been dealing with the loss of my entire family including my mother, three sisters and my beloved doggie, Angel. These significant losses have been extremely hard and difficult. The pain has been immense. I was so grateful for Valerie’s amazing session. She really helped me to feel better.”
— Sherdina
“You are GIFTED in so many ways...
I highly commend you for your awareness, abilities and skills. What I like most about you is your gift of listening, and hearing what someone has to say. You are wonderfully intuitive, aware of people's feelings, sincere, kind, caring, so thoughtful and giving. You have a great sense of humor, you are organized, so knowledgeable, intelligent, successful. Val is a great coach for anyone to have.”
— Beate
*The Difference Between Coaching and Therapy
Unlike therapy, which is generally a long term service, coaching is more short term. Therapy often times is designed to treat deep seated emotional issues. Coaching however is focused on changing behavior in the present. Therapy, for the most part, focuses analytically on the past treating most likely a dysfunctional issue. Coaching is future-oriented enhancing life experiences and relationships by constructing and implementing solutions to work on.