Tenets of coaching & ethical responsibility

My tenets for coaching are my values in action. This is the guiding philosophy I approach my entire body of work with including all programming, coaching tools, mentorship, community support, writing, and classes.

I believe coaching can create braver spaces in you and in the world

You are worth being brave with your life. While I cannot define “brave” for you, I believe being brave means speaking up and out for your values, supporting the collective whole, living as though your life truly mattered, and listening with your whole self to your body, your needs, your intuition, the land, and our collective humanity.

I believe coaching is a true empowerment tool

True coaching reminds you that you are your own domain and always have a choice, the very definition of empowerment.

I believe you are whole, creative, and resourceful

You do not need to be diagnosed, fixed, or healed because you are not broken.

I believe coaching is not a solution

This work is a pure creative space where you can explore all possible outcomes and remember that you have a choice. Our primary goal is to move you toward your choice.

I believe coaching is a space to be heard and seen, not to be perfect or “get it right”

Perfectionism is a conditioned response to risking belonging when the vulnerability of being our full human selves arises.

I believe coaching should create a space for you to be the expert

You are a resilient and capable adult who knows herself better than I ever could. I welcome your self-knowledge and wisdom to be the center of our coaching relationship.

Ethical responsibility

Aware of the lack of accessibility to helping services, I am committed to the acknowledgment and necessity of equal access. 

I dedicate a portion of my time to providing free resources and continuous outreach to underserved populations through my programming. I am committed to producing work in an ecological and sustainable way for my clients, my industry, and my community.

Aware that dogmatic methodology creates an unhealthy attachment to the “provider” and disempowers the client, I am committed to principle-based services which move people toward choice. 

Knowing that “guru-ism” is rampant in helping services, I am committed to coaching my clients home to themselves where they are not reliant on my processes to do the work. Our work is collaborative and co-creative and founded on mutuality. 

Aware that as a white woman I can not operate outside the lens of white supremacy, I am committed to practicing anti-racism.

I am a white woman actively working to dismantle her own racism as created by covertly existing and blinding benefiting from a white supremacist society. You can read my specific commitments and the Anti-Racist Small Business Pledge I took here.

Aware that unnecessary harm is caused through negligence of helping providers and the space they provide, I am committed to the tenet, ‘do no harm’. 

The space I provide promotes safe sharing through confidential communication, client-driven processes, permission, and the client’s right to end the work if/when it’s no longer serving you.

Aware that harm is caused by dishonest and manipulative language, I am committed to loving communication by listening, first. 

I am dedicated to honoring my client’s experience and to only use my skills of questions and listening to meet a client where they’re at. I will only challenge if in service of the desired outcomes you’ve outlined in our work together.

Aware that harm is caused psychologically and physically when helpers operate outside their scope of practice, I am committed to stay in my lane and seek advisement as needed.

Through continued education and ongoing mentorship, I hold myself accountable to the integrity of being a professional coach. I seek support on a case-by-case basis as needed and am fully resourced to refer a client out if/when the need should arise.