Description of Services

Personal and Professional Coaching

What is coaching anyhow? It is a type of assistance that helps you focus on and achieve your goals in any area of life. Whether you want to achieve a long overdue degree or lose 25 pounds, personal or professional coaching can help you to make a commitment to yourself and stick to it. The advantage of the coaching is that you will set a goal and receive one on one, step by step support from an expert in a specific time frame set by you and your coach.

How does it work? Coaching helps people to help themselves in a very special way. Through goal identification, goal setting and individualized support, a personal coach assists the client to chose and achieve success in specific areas of living such as health, career, personal development or life transition.

Limitations: Coaching works best for those who have clear goals and who have worked on themselves enough so that past emotional baggage does not still interfere with growth. If after the initial assessment, the coach believes that the potential client will benefit first from psychotherapy, a referral will be made to a competent mental health professional to clear up the issues before coaching can proceed.

Nursing Administrators: A healthy caregiver provides better patient outcomes. Give your nurses a gift for Nurses Day or any other time throughout the year! The Nurse as Healer: A One Day Nursing Retreat. Please book early to avoid disappointment. More Information

Individual and Group Counseling

When coaching isn’t enough, individual counseling provides a safe place to explore thoughts, feelings and perceptions and to devise strategies for change. Group counseling also offers a venue for interaction with others for support and problem solving. Possible types of groups include women’s or men’s groups, weight control groups and mixed gender support groups.

Personal Coaching for Weight Management

Nutritional Guidance and Lifestyle Counseling are incorporated into an overall plan to improve the quality of your life. After helping you to assess your health patterns in the areas of diet, exercise and overall level of self-care, we will work with you to move toward making positive changes for weight management and incorporating them into your daily routine. Hypnosis is also available for positive reinforcement of weight loss goals.

Personal Wellness Consultation
Specializes in Caring for the Impaired Professional

If so, Personal Wellness Consultation can help. Dr. Conti-O’Hare has over 20 years of experience in the addictions field and has worked with many clients diagnosed with depression and substance abuse. As author of the Nurse as Wounded Healer, she understands the dynamics that help to create problems for nurses and can give appropriate direction to help you on the road to recovery. As a group leader for Statewide Peer Assistance Program for Nurses SPAN, she has been helping nurses manage recovery for the last 2 years. For further information on SPAN log on to http://www.nysna.org/programs/span/span_home.htm

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Testimonial: "Your personal tutorial on ANCC Certification was so very helpful and inspiring. Your excitement and motivation was exactly what I needed to pass this test. The information was right on the money. The key points and stories you told stimulated my learning…I told my friends that they should have come with me that day….They did not listen and they failed the test…Thanks again." Lisa Gressett RN