Coaching Builds a Satisfying Life
Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC was voted by community members, including current and past clients, as the top life coach in What's Up Eastern Shore 2024 poll.
This practice thanks all those who made that happen and for giving Loriann that vote of confidence! She guides, but clients truly do the work needed to effect change.
Coaching makes sense if one's problems do not require mental health counseling that comes with a diagnosis. With the Counseling Compact in 2025, I can see individuals in some other states for mental healthcare. This is not in place in the U.S. just yet.
If a client seeks certain strategies/expertise to guide thinking through a challenge while they develop solutions, coaching makes sense. These sessions are informational, exploring options.
These sessions are not as filled with emotional content and are NOT for those with significant anxiety, mood symptoms, or trauma.
Here's what we can tackle in coaching sessions:
- identifying areas of indecision or confusion in personal/work life
- mapping out to-do steps for solutions we've found
- resumé building, writing and creation (see below)
- brainstorming strategies for career, a side gig, or retirement
- improving your personal satisfaction
- increasing self-awareness and self-confidence
- having someone to hold you accountable to goals you set or we collaboratively develop
There's an educational emphasis to coaching. Thus, sessions can be shorter-term than traditional therapy because they are problem-dependent, not the result of years of emotional process.
Coaching can be done by telephone or via video/audio with the encrypted App this practice uses. Reach out through the contact link on this website for coaching help.
“Thank you for teaching how to deal with difficult people with how to express myself and stand up to those who take advantage, and with your book about passive-aggressive people. I had not considered how people-pleasing I was. All that has changed. A brick lifted in a sense, and I can see the effects both at work and in relationships.” — man in midlife
Post-Divorce Coaching
One excellent way to use coaching is through collaborative parenting and post-divorce conflicts that pop up. Let's say your Divorce Agreement or Settlement contained deadlines that have difficulty being met or a task that was left unfulfilled.
This is where having the conversation(s) with a trained professional makes the difference between resolving matters or possibly getting weighed down in emotional drama, more resentment, or hefty legal fees to have someone else solve it for you.
Ms. Oberlin has had divorce mediation, child access and collaborative law training. Coupled with her family systems knowledge and two tiers of the Gottman Approach, she helps clients to get along for long-term gain for all concerned.
Prior to her counseling career, Loriann Oberlin worked as a freelance writer, and during that time wrote dozens of resumés for clients who were college graduates, those returning to work, dealing with employment gaps, plus various types of jobs/industries as well as other challenges.
If you would like a second opinion about your resumé or need a brand new one to be created, please reach out under coaching services.
Your eyes on my resumé really helped me to revise it and succinctly capture a lifetime of skills, avoid passive voice and just generally 'punch it up.' It garnered more interest in the weeks after the revise Loriann helped me to create. — former job-seeking client
Resume Writing
