How are online counseling & coaching sessions structured?
Lia is professionally trained in coaching and counseling and tailors individual sessions to serve each client’s unique needs. Counseling concentrates on healing emotional pain and usually deals with resolving issues stemming from the person’s childhood. It is geared towards understanding and resolving the past and understanding why the person is experiencing their current problems. Clients struggling in their day-to-day lives who are unprepared to take on new challenges benefit from counseling. Once their mental health has improved, they can move on to coaching. Coaching is a collaborative process designed to empower individuals to reach their full potential and achieve their goals. The essence of coaching lies in goal-setting, performance improvement, and pursuing future-oriented solutions. Lia works with her clients to identify objectives, break them down into manageable steps, and develop actionable plans to achieve them. When you initially share your issues with her, she will make recommendations, and you will decide what focus the sessions will take.
What can I expect from my online sessions?
Individual sessions with Lia are a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth. She will help you deal with a variety of personal topics such as relationship challenges, parenting challenges, managing yourself better, anxiety, depression, confusion, grief, etc. Sessions are effective help for various emotional difficulties and life challenges and can improve or control symptoms that influence your well-being. You’ll be given the opportunity to confidentially talk through your problems and situations with an experienced professional. It will not necessarily make the problems disappear, but it will equip you with the tools to cope more effectively. Lia is trained to help you see where you are today and help you establish your goals. She will not tell you what to do but become a sounding board to help you discover what you want to do and then strategize and support you in accomplishing your goals.
In a confidential, safe, and nurturing environment, you and Lia will explore many different issues, including:
- Your behavior patterns
- Your strengths and weaknesses
- Expression of your thoughts and emotions
- Problem solving
- Conflict resolution
- Strategies
- Goal setting
- Development of actionable plans
- Support in accomplishing your goals
Why should I hire a counselor or coach vs. just talking about my problems with a family member or friend?
It’s wonderful to have people in your life who you feel comfortable opening up with, but a professional brings something different to the table…
Counselors and coaches are trained to empathize with their clients’ experience without becoming overwhelmed, running away, jumping in to fix it, or telling you that it’s not a big deal. This makes them the world’s best listeners.
When you reveal your personal problems to a friend or family member it can backfire and inadvertently impact your relationship in a negative way. Unfortunately, friends and family may often tell you what you want to hear, give bad advice, or have ulterior motives or a hidden agenda. They are also biased because they are in a personal relationship with you so they may not be able to see the big picture, patterns, and psychology behind your challenges.
Lia will give you guidance that is in your best interest. She is trained to help you find your blind spots and discover the hidden dynamics in your relationships. She will ask the right questions without judgment to make you curious about your beliefs and behaviors. Lia is skilled at helping people find their inner strengths and can hear your personal story while identifying the underlying characteristics that will eventually drive change. She will listen to your problems without judgment while addressing your deeper struggles and identifying your strengths. Lia will educate you with the best methods for overcoming your obstacles and guide you as you move forward.
You will get the support you need without potentially straining or negatively impacting any of your personal relationships.
What are the benefits of individual sessions and support groups?
- Gives you a safe, fun support network from the convenience of your home or chosen location
- Helps you gain a better understanding of yourself and the people in your life
- Teaches you how to handle your emotions and the emotions of others better
- Helps you identify underlying causes of symptoms
- Provides coping strategies
- Helps you to manage yourself and others more effectively
- Facilitates with lifestyle changes and challenges
Whatever your issues may be, having a support system can be a life-changing experience. Happy Soul Path provides online support groups and individual counseling and coaching sessions to help you improve your mental well-being. Most importantly, Lia genuinely understands and empathizes her clients because she has faced and overcome the problems they are dealing.
How can individual sessions and support groups help me?
Many people tend to get caught up in the same old patterns of thinking and behaving. We assume that we can maintain these learned patterns because they’ve worked for us in the past. They’re safe and familiar, while change is scary and uncertain. However, counselors and coaches hold up a compassionate mirror to their clients and help them see who they are, their unconscious patterns of thoughts and behavior, their strengths and weaknesses, and who they’re capable of becoming.
Naturally, the process can be emotionally painful at times. It can be hard work. But it’s hard work with a huge payoff. Becoming fully aware of your feelings is often necessaryto have a healthier relationship with yourself and others. Happy Soul Path offers safe containers to feel, express, and relearn…everything. After all, when we hide from our pain, it tends to surface elsewhere, usually in unhealthy ways. Happy Soul Path offers you a space to be seen and heard so you can vent, explore your options, and receive tried and true strategies for success.
Can I do both individual sessions and support groups?
Absolutely. The more time and energy you put into getting to the root of your problems and making solution plans, the quicker you will see positive changes occur in your life.
