Realization Coaching for living, loving, and leading…
realization coaching
- essential support for enlightening "aha" within, between, and beyond, 2) integral support for embodying "tada" within, between, and beyond.
Wake up to what is—and realize what could be—in excellent company.
Have you woken up to some aspect of reality—good, bad, or FUBAR—inspiring more dedicated attention?
“I was reluctant to see any therapist, coach, or psychologist before meeting Karen, but when I spoke with her for the first time I could see that she was much more than just another counselor. Her clear insight, awareness, and compassion made me feel instantly comfortable and open; her incisive questions helped me look at my patterns in a fresh light and begin to change them; and, though it sounds cliche, her very presence was healing. Karen helped me refind my center during a very difficult time. Our sessions catalyzed a more successful and stable period of my life.”
Is something in your personal, relational, and/or professional life stretching your capacity, and prompting a desire for some skillful support?
Would you like to have a better experience of yourself, others, and the world given (or despite) the conditions of your existence?
If you are ready to face the reality of whatever is happening just as you are while exploring the gap between what is and what could be (known, felt, done), you are in the right place.
Whether you’re experiencing big shifts, professional quandaries, personal issues, relationship challenges, existential malaise, or spiritual awakening, it’s all welcome here.
My specialty is helping people navigate the messy magnificence of being human with deep listening, productive pondering, incisive enquiry, fresh perspectives, proven practices, uncommon clarity, level-headed levity, and heaps of compassion.
I partner with clients to cultivate habits and habitats for well-being using an integral approach refined over the course of two decades.
Regardless of the situation, our work together involves a potent blend of insight-oriented exploration, present-centered support, and results-driven strategy.
CLEAR-MINDED
DISCERNMENT
KNOW BETTER
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Make better sense of what’s happening, however complex, ambiguous, or uncertain the circumstances.
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Check your assumptions—potential biases, blind-spots, sacred cows, white elephants, wishful thoughts—related to what’s actually happened or happening.
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Determine what really matters to you given your current conditions, intentions, and expectations.
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Craft a more resonant, coherent story rooted in the truth of your experience and worthy of your character that you can comfortably inhabit.
WHOLE-HEARTED ATTUNEMENT
FEEL BETTER
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Get to the heart of the matter. Explore your core values, real motives, and deepest yearnings.
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Safely metabolize the felt experience of what’s happening within you—psyche + soma—so you can be more wholly at home in your own skin.
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Level up. Slow down. Find your flow and your focus. Adapt your way of seeing and being for optimal outcomes.
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Cultivate conscious, healthy, fulfilling connections with yourself and others.
FULL-BODIED COMMITMENT
DO BETTER
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Orient yourself to the current context, map the territory, adapt to shifting conditions, and plot the best course given available resources.
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Create the optimal habits and habitats for living your best life based on a realistic assessment of your current conditions, habitual patterns, and adaptive capacity.
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Make it happen. Initiate and innovate the nitty, gritty plan into being. Decide what to do, take the next steps, and hold yourself accountable.
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Just kidding. But wouldn’t that be cool? We can work together to shape your future though, which is pretty darn cool too (and less likely to draw unwanted attention from those seeking to exploit your amazing talents).
How We Work
Most clients work with me for no fewer than seven sessions over the course of three to six months, but how often we meet depends on our mutual availability and the nature of our work together.
Our first session serves as an opportunity to clarify your goals and map the overall course of our work together, assuming we’re a good fit.
Please keep in mind that I only work with a limited number of seriously awesome, committed clients at any given time. This keeps me sane, healthy, and best of all, fully attentive to you. If you want to work together, get your sessions on my calendar sooner rather than later.*
Confidential sessions are held in-person, or online via video-conferencing. For video-conferencing sessions, please arrange to be in a quiet, private space where you will be uninterrupted and undistracted (no driving, texting, checking messages, dining, etc.) during the session.