FAQ's

What happens after I commit to coaching?

After we determine your goals and needs, I’ll design a coaching program for you based on your coaching goals. I meet with you once a week either over the phone or in person. Throughout the program, homework will be assigned and we’ll use the information that you share as a springboard to move into the next session. You are the expert on your life. My role is to help you see yourself through the eyes of another and to structure a program to help you move forward. I am committed to your success, so I will be available to you via e-mail to answer questions or provide clarity.

How is coaching different from therapy?

Coaching is based on moving forward and discovering answers to help you change direction to live in a way that is right for your unique life circumstance. Coaching is designed as a program with a beginning and an end. Some choose only an hour of coaching. While most of the time I advise people to be willing to commit to one to three months to gain the optimal results.

What can I expect from coaching?

Once we diagnose what your needs are, a great way to describe coaching is working together to put together a jigsaw puzzle. We work together to arrange the puzzle through a conversational style discovery process. This may involve examining and questioning the assumptions, beliefs and habits that are currently driving your behavior and to explore options that are already working well for you. Whether you approached coaching to become a better parent, or to just determine why you seem to be stuck in a life pattern that is killing your enthusiasm or passion for life; you will be guided to discover the answers to questions that motivated you to pursue coaching as an option to enrich your life. As your coach, I will help you focus, inspire, motivate, educate and hold you accountable for your goals.

Will I have to do something different or uncomfortable?

While coaching is a very life empowering rewarding experience, sometimes personal growth requires some pain. To create a powerful intention, a commitment to yourself to bring into existence a particular result, you must be willing to look within yourself in order to reveal, truthfully, how committed you are to reach a positive outcome. Sometimes, the desired outcome may require new or initially uncomfortable ways of viewing the world, yourself, or others. Though I offer a fresh perspective, I totally honor an individual’s right to free will choice. Decisions made during the coaching process will be yours. However, my role as coach is to serve as encourager, cheer-leader, motivator and an ongoing supporter, to inspire courage needed to reach the outcome aligned with your genuine potential. Pushing someone to follow my agenda for your life goes against my total philosophy of coaching.

Why use a Martha Beck Certified Coach?

Martha Beck has tremendous credibility in the field of Life Coaching. “U.S.A. Today” named her as America’s premier life coach. She is the official Life Coach for Oprah Winfrey and a regular columnist for “O Magazine”. The process to be selected for the certification training is extremely exclusive, so that Martha can personally ensure that her “tribe of coaches” adopts the same values she brings to coaching. She views it as a privilege and honor to be entrusted with influencing someone’s life choice and certainly passes this value along to her coaches. Martha is the best selling author of “Finding Your Own North Star” and “The Four Day Win”. Her new book “Stirring by Starlight” will be released this spring. As a Martha Beck certified coach, I have access to all her copyrighted coaching tools. She also created a site for her coaches and is extremely involved in guiding her coaches, when a coach needs advice regarding a fresh approach.

What are Mary Ann’s Areas of Expertise?

For more information, see the page “About Mary Ann”

My personal life experiences and professional training validate my belief that the mind is open to change. A willingness to “let go” of old familiar patterns and a willingness to reconsider all that you view as fact, will carry you to possibilities that you can’t even imagine in your mind at this moment. If you’ll take that first step to commit to the coaching process, I promise that your openness coupled with the tools at my disposal will lead to a transformation that will provide you with the mindset to live a life of joy and abundance. My practice is called “Create a New Season”, because I encourage you to consider what you have to do to create your ideal intention.