I recently, in July of 2023, completed a very intensive 6 month Holistic Life Coaching program and I am so excited to add these new coaching offerings!

You may be wondering, what is the difference between hiring Christine as my holistic life coach versus hiring her to be my holistic psychotherapist? So allow me to explain:

Holistic life coaching is similar in many ways to what I offer in my holistic psychotherapy practice, except for a few differences:

As a coach I can work across state lines and country lines, while as a marriage and family therapist licensed in California I can only work with clients who live in California. So if you would like to work with me but live outside of California, my holistic coaching offerings make it possible for us to work together.

Life coaches can not do any trauma work with a client who has not already worked with a psychotherapist on that trauma. So, if your main need is help with active post traumatic stress disorder, or if you have any other major psychological diagnosis such as bipolar disorder that you haven’t yet received treatment for you would want to inquire about hiring me as your holistic psychotherapist rather than your holistic life coach (if you are living in California).

As a holistic psychotherapist I have an intuitive, more loosely structured process in which I pull techniques out of my bag of healing offerings based on the needs of my client and as I am intuitively guided to do so. As a holistic life coach I have a slightly more structured process; Although I still use my intuitive gifts as a coach, there is a bit more journaling and homework involved than what you would have in my therapy process. Because my coaching offerings are a more structured version of my “bag of healing offerings,” I am able to offer different coaching packages that you can choose from. Purchasing a coaching package gives you a beginning date and an end date, which some clients prefer as it gives them more accountability and incentive to complete their homework each week.

Some clients prefer to pay for coaching on a weekly basis, which is also an option. But the benefits of buying a coaching package are that you get a discount, and for some individuals, it also helps them feel more committed to the process as the impact of making a larger one time payment is felt as a very tangible investment in their personal growth that they are now motivated to prioritize amidst all of the other demands of their life. The per session cost for my coaching sessions are the same as my psychotherapy sessions. Please visit my page titled “Services Offered, Fees, and Special Offers” for Holistic Life Coaching pricing information. I am currently offering a free 30 minute introductory zoom session for new coaching clients. I have listed some details of my coaching offerings below. And please feel free to call or email me if you have any questions!

Soul Work/Higher Self/Inner Child Healing: This is a process of Soul Retrieval, or retrieving a lost soul part so that you regain your full authentic power and come into your true authentic self. You will learn (based on my 15 years of research, personal experience, and working with clients as a psychotherapist) about your Higher Self and your Soul, how to strengthen your connection to them, and how to let your Soul and Higher Self lead you. You will identify and establish your own spiritual beliefs and practices, participate in shamanic journeys/guided visualizations, learn tools such as powerful mindfulness/meditations/breath work practices, be given assignments that involve spending time in nature, journaling to strengthen your self image, shadow work; releasing un-forgiveness, processing grief, and stepping out of victim mentality and war consciousness. You will learn about certain important aspects of your astrology that aid your soul work. You will also learn about the power of your subconscious mind and how it creates your reality, how what you focus on expands, and how to harness this internal power to create your most optimal future.

Soul Work/Pre/Post Plant Ceremony Integration: This has very similar components as the Soul work/Higher Self/Inner Child Healing process with the addition of helping clients participating in plant ceremony healing work with preparation, intention setting, and post ceremony integration. Plant Ceremony Integration work helps you to retain and embody the sacred gifts that come from any healing, insights, messages, sacred visions, epiphanies and important consciousness shifts that occur right before, during or after your plant ceremony experience. Although participating in a plant ceremony is not necessary for deep soul level healing, and not everyone has the calling to work with plant medicine, plant medicines can be powerfully transformative spiritual allies in your soul work. Post ceremony integration helps you to maintain your connection to the spirit of the plant medicine so that you can more readily receive ongoing guidance and healing from the spirit of that plant with or without continuing to attend plant medicine ceremonies. As part of this process I will guide you on a shamanic journey to reintegrate the spirit of the plant medicine back into your auric field to more actively work with you. You will also learn how to clear negative or dark energy form your field. (Please note: I myself do not lead plant ceremonies, although I can potentially refer clients to one of several different medicine people who do).

Conscious Love Coaching: This is a beautiful relationship coaching process for couples (or individuals seeking to improve their relationship with their partner (or future partner) that comes from my 15 years of working as a marriage and family therapist with a specialization in romantic relationships. You will learn about the common patterns couples can fall into that erode their relationships, the importance of love expression and five love languages, navigating cultural differences, spiritual differences, sexuality differences, parenting differences, how to call “time outs” and have “nurturing talks” rather than relationship eroding harsh conflict, or succumbing to resent pile ups, blaming pits. You will learn about affair prevention, understanding how to set healthy boundaries for yourself and your partner, and you will create a relationship vision. You will also learn about spiritual partnership, or how to be more present and view your relationship (wether your married or not) as a sacred spiritual contract where you are learning and growing together and having each others backs. Conscious love is a beautiful process in which you become your own best nurturer as well as a nurturer to your partner. Your self image and the lens through which you see your partner can undergo major positive shifts that can lead to more vulnerability, authenticity, and love flowing, which naturally leads to tantric love (and tantric sex). Yay!