Coaching

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Coaching is a relatively new self-empowerment tool once reserved for athletes or executives. Coaching supports your life’s journey, and those who offer coaching listen, nudge and encourage your exploration of the path you are choosing in life.

The following coaches support our community:

• Susan Anacker, Professional Life Coach, 612.718.3973, SAnacker@hotmail.com, www.SusanAnacker.com — Individual Life Coaching with special interest in recovering life purpose after surprise transitions of Chronic Disease, Disability or Medical Diagnosis. Experienced in issues of Caregiving, Grief, Parenting, ADHD and Finding Purpose. Coaching available in person in Minneapolis West Metro, by phone, or by Skype. Life is short. Be your purpose!
• Artist Coach Wendy Lane, LLC, 1621A Upper Afton Road, St. Paul, MN 55106, 651.776.3944 press 1, wendy@artistcoachwendylane.com, www.artistcoachwendylane.com — “Identifying what’s in your heart, awakening your spirit, and living creatively.” Wendy Lane is a certified professional co-active life coach (CPCC), visual artist and human resources professional. Wendy coaches you to live creatively maximizing your potential in alignment with your values. Contact Wendy for a free sample session.
• Dee A. Bailey, MA, CPCC, 952.707.6825, coachdeebailey@msn.com, www.DeeBailey.com — Certified Co-Active Coach, Grief Specialist and Transition Coach with 28 years experience guiding adults through transition, loss and what’s next. Custom presentations in business, schools, churches, community, healthcare and non-profit settings. For private coaching, retreats, workshops and grief walks, call for appointment.
• Beacon Point Coaching, Donna Campbell CPCC/PCC certified coach, 952.797.6295, beaconpoint@comcast.net, www.beaconpointcoaching.com — Donna works with professional women, leaders and small business owners who want to take a strengths/values based approach to: professional development, navigating career changes, job search transitions, business development and focusing, branding, aligning mindset with important goals. A deeper approach, decision making tools, core passion and branding 360 assessments.
• Anne Brady | One Holistic Wellness, 320.250.9402, anne@oneholisticwellness.com, www.oneholisticwellness.com — ONE Holistic Wellness offers services in coaching that are spirit directed and life focused. By adding the energetic dimension to her coaching, Anne Brady is able to bring your guides and angels into the work of helping you achieve your greatest goals and heart’s desire. Anne is trained and proficient in her use of hypnosis, NLP and PSYCH K to make changes easy and comfortable for her clients.
• Breakthrough Life Coaching, 612.396.8190, trena@breakthroughlifecoaching.com, www.breakthroughlifecoaching.com — Through a coaching partnership, I will inspire you to imagine the possibilities and define action steps to achieve your goals. Empowerment and motivation are two tools I use to help individuals achieve effective transformation. To receive your free life coaching session, please call or email me. I look forward to guiding you to your “breakthrough!”
• Karen Carr, MA, CPCC, Revitalize Life Coaching LLC, 651.426.5123, Karen@RevitalizeCoaching.com, www.RevitalizeCoaching.com — Revitalize your Life: Learn how to focus on what matters. Discover new ways to align your actions with your desires. Since 2001, Karen has been dedicated to supporting individuals in creating greater clarity with the guidance of coaching. Through focused, purposeful coaching, individuals discover more meaning and confidence in their daily decision making, leading to greater satisfaction in personal and professional relationships. For a happier, healthier you!
• ChangeMaker Inc., Litahni Coleman, CTC, (Certified Therapeutic Coach), near Ridgedale in Minnetonka, MN, 763.427.0212, litahni@changemakerinc.com, www.ChangeMakerInc.com – I am dedicated to positive change in your health and wealth. We will work together find and remove blocks, clear old beliefs and traumas and find your internal compass to get you where you choose to be. NLP, Hypnotherapy and other tools for change. Motivational Speaker and Workshop Leader.
• Maggie Christopher, 651.231.1360, www.maggiechristopher.com — Maggie is a certified holistic nutrition counselor in St. Paul. She counsels individuals and couples who struggle with sugar cravings and emotional eating. She specializes in teaching easy, delicious ways to prepare wholesome foods and simple ways to live a healthier lifestyle. Call to schedule a complimentary, 60-minute consultation.
• Co-Inspire Coaching and Consulting, 612.237.5309, cynthia.kalina@yahoo.com, www.co-inspirecoaching.com — Are you longing for a simple system of applying spiritual principles to your goals? Cynthia works with clients on the inner and outer levels with a proven energy management planning system that helps clients focus on what they want to create, gain insight from contrast, raise their vibration and shift beliefs to achieve better relationships and more prosperity, peace and fulfillment.
• Connected Path Coaching, Randy Brown, 612.280.4369, cpathcoaching@yahoo.com — Combining Professional Personal Coaching with Sexuality is the mission of Connected Path Coaching. I offer Slow Sex Coaching — safe, confidential, personal coaching that designs and defines your sexuality and that meets your inherent need for connection.
• Bracha Feigel, 612.718.1106, journeys@consciouslifecoaching.net, www.consciouslifecoaching.net — When Change is desired or inevitable; and finding Direction, and Living your Passion becomes a priority; Come, join me on your Coaching Journey into Possibilities. As a Certified Life Coach, Physical Therapist, Kabbalistic and Energy Healer, I approach Life Coaching from a multifaceted, holistic perspective. Let Your Journey Begin!
• Firebird Coaching, 651.398.9050, ekduffy@firebirdcoaching.net, www.firebirdcoaching.net — Firebird Coaching partners with you to transform any aspect of your life-career, relationships, health, creativity, performance and spirituality — using effective, innovative tools for change and growth. We’ll help you: Reduce Stress; Set and Achieve Life Goals; Change or Redirect Your Career; Improve Relationships; Enhance Creative Expression; and Deepen Spiritual Awareness.
• Grif Sadow CPCC, PCC, Grow Into More, 901 N. Third St., Suite 405, Minneapolis, MN 55401, 763.458.1672, grif@growintomore.com, www.growintomore.com — This “Jack-of-all-trades” works with individuals, entrepreneurs and organizations looking to increase their “internal fitness and confidence” to create real dramatic change personally and/or professionally. Grif also coaches on public speaking, performance comfort, impact, creativity and full self-expression. He received his training from CTI, certified in 2007.
• Susan Hawkins, 612.220.5185, susan@LifeBridging.com, www.Lifebridging.com — Transitions coach, empowering you to make the best impressions for your next professional positions or as you make other life choices. You can expect thorough assessment, building toward excellent written and personal presentation, expert listening and careful guidance through your next steps in your transitions.
• The Healer’s Workshop, www.HealersWorkshop.com — Online coaching program that will help you create financial freedom through your healing practice. Experienced healers, shamans and spiritual leaders only. Let’s make it a revolution.
• Becky Henry, CPCC, Hope Network, Inc., 13033 Ridgedale Dr. #102, Minnetonka, MN 55305, 952.451.5663, Becky@hopenetwork.info, www.hopenetwork.info, Coachbeckyhenry.blogspot.com — Clients say our coaching provided the safe, nurturing place to be heard, receive answers and comfort while bringing them out of the dark woods of caring for someone with an eating disorder to connect with their strength, and save financial resources while reclaiming their lives. Bringing joy to families living with serious illnesses. I appreciate your referrals! Book coming soon: Just Tell Her to Stop: Stories of Families Coping with Eating Disorders.
• Highly Sensitive by Nature, Barbara Moffett, 612.823.3959 or 612.964.0325, bemoffett@gmail.com — If you’re highly sensitive by nature, you may feel pressured to toughen-up. That’s not what’s needed. I offer a creative, collaborative relationship for you to explore your sensitivity as a wonderful asset that brings you back to your senses and fosters a radical new way of living your life sensitively.
• Cheryl Hiltibran, M.Ed., CMH Consulting & Coaching LLC, 952.486.1298, cheryl@goinggenius.com, goinggenius.com — Business, Entrepreneur and Life Coaching for creatively spirited individuals seeking to live from their core values and purpose. Cheryl’s clients discover the practical intentions of their dreams and take courageous action to achieve them. Contact Cheryl for a complimentary session to discover if she is the coach for you.
• Holistic Healthy Healing, Bonnie Flores, Spiritual Life Coaching, 952.217.6105, www.holistichealthyhealing.com — Offering Intuitive Readings, Hypnosis, Energy Healing, Meditation, Chakra Cleansing and more! Discover the benefits of our own healing capabilities. Free yourself of those negative habits, find your true life path, increase your self-confidence, heal your body and create your own Happiness.
• Hope Ability Coaching, Nancy Sopkowiak, BS. ACC, Healthy Life Coaching, 3192 Eldridge Ave. NW, Maple Lake, MN, 612.998.6452, HopeAbility@gmail.com, www.HealthsAngels.com, www.hopeability.wordpress.com — Nancy loves being a Life Coach. She specializes in coaching people with disabilities, chronic health conditions and cancer. Living with her own health challenges has taught her some creative coping skills, which she enjoys sharing. She teaches, coaches and writes about living well with hope and celebrating our abilities.
• Hypnosis, Life Coaching, Connye LaCombe, Ed.D., 651.334.8151, connye@lacombehypnosis.com, www.lacombehypnosis.com — Connye LaCombe uses 5-Path™ hypnosis, 7-Path™ self-hypnosis, past-life regression and NLP to help you set and achieve your life goals. A veteran educator, Connye works well not only with adults, but with children and teens to increase motivation, overcome problems and deal with other issues causing stress.
• Insight Leadership Coaching Group, 952.220.2049, www.insightleadershipcoaching.com — The Insight Leadership Coaching Group utilizes proven methods to meet your goals through assessments, coaching and consulting to maximize your personal/professional potential. Our certified coaches have years of HR/OD experience (at Director/VP level, including authors/public speakers) with emerging leaders to seasoned C-Level executives. Call for a complimentary consultation.
• Dynamic Minds Inc., Hypnosis Center & Training, 4749 Chicago Ave. S., Suite 1, Minneapolis, MN 55407, 612.827.8094, www.dynamicmindsinc.com — Where our mind goes, our energy & body follows! We coach people to dissolve limiting beliefs, shift limiting habits and create a creative and rewarding life. Weight loss, stop smoking, fears, phobias, fatigue, pain management, confidence, past lives and more! Certification training is also available to become a certified hypnotherapist so you can coach others.
• Karen Karsten, CPCC, Certified ARTbundance™ Coach, karen@thinkyoucan.net, www.thinkyoucan.net — ARTbundance™ coaching uses unique creative tools that access your imagination and intuition, allowing you to make powerful life changes, quickly and joyfully! Call forth your amazing natural ability to create a life you love. No artistic talent needed — you have all the tools you need just waiting to be used.
• Jennifer Kern, M.S., intrinsicsoulutions@gmail.com, www.intrinsicsoulutions.com — As an International Life Coach, Jennifer will stir your passions and ignite your potential! Her focus is on the contemporary spiritual journey, which is about your personal development and impact on the world around you. With her guidance, you’ll discover your unique purpose and start to create the life you really want!
• Melanie Keveles, MA, CPCC, MCC, 715.394.4260, melanie@startingfreshcoaching.com, www.startingfreshcoaching.com — Master professional coach, Melanie Keveles has been a mid-wife for career change since 1982. Contact her via phone or email for a complimentary phone session to experience her unique model of Dream, Courage, Action! Read her new book: Scrappy Startups: How 15 Ordinary Women Turned Their Unique Ideas into Profitable Business available on Amazon.com.
• Sage Lewis, Creature Teacher, 612.817.4473, Sage@DancingPorcupine.com, www.DancingPorcupine.com — Sage will help you discover a happier, healthier, better behaved self, and you’ll have fun doing it! She’s a Certified Coach (CTI), Animal Communicator, Shamanic Practitioner, and Level 3 Certified Tellington TTouch® Practitioner (pet behavior/training.) Phone/Skype sessions worldwide. In-person, individual, couples and group sessions available. Tag, you’re it!
• Life Guidance Coaching (LCG), Kim Eisen, HHCP, EFTCert-I, Ph.D., Worldwide Sessions, 612.802.HEAL, www.LifeGuidanceCoaching.com — Find your passion and release any blocks that may be holding you back. It’s much easier than you think. 10-week intensive with free Life Power Tools™ that you can use forever. If you’ve been wondering how to change and access your spiritual purpose Now, please contact us.
• Life Illumination Presentations & Coaching, Sharol Tyra, PCC, CPCC, RN, Professional Certified Coach, Life Coach, & Inspirational Speaker, Hanover, MN, 763.477.9186, www.LifeIllumination.com — Health practitioners partner with Sharol by telephone or in-person to achieve your visions…by closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be — and to Experience A Richer Life…by understanding what is vital in each moment. Featured on TV, Radio & Professional Publications.
• Life Song: Professional Coaching & Facilitation, Bonnie Henriksen, CPCC, Grand Rapids, MN, 218.327.2691, www.lifesongcoaching.com — Inviting creative women to explore possibilities for living their lives passionately on purpose! Services include: One-on-one coaching; coaching circles; and facilitation of transformational leadership events and Parent Builder Retreats for couples to create thriving relationships that launch incredibly successful kids.
• Sandi Lindgren, LICSW, Professional, Certified Life Coach, ¡Adelante Coaching! 612.827.5657, sjlindgren@mac.com, www.adelantecoaching.com — “Adelante” in Spanish means to “move forward,” and that is what you should expect through Sandi’s professional coaching. Her expertise in working with youth and families demonstrates a dedication to supporting youth and those who serve them.
• Living Rhythm and Joy, Kara Phillips, Chaska, MN, 612.605.1720, kara@livingrhythmandjoy.com, www.livingrhythmandjoy.com — Find joy when you discover your purpose and passion! At Living Rhythm and Joy, we employ a Christian worldview to help you make important discoveries about yourself, which will create a life that is both fulfilling for you and honors your values. Call today to get started!
• Living Well Energy Healing, Jennifer Galvin, M.A., Jennifer@LivingWellEnergyHealing.com, www.LivingWellEnergyHealing.com — Jennifer Galvin, M.A., is a Holistic Life Coach and Energy Healing Practitioner, specializing in transitional support on your Journey to Wellness, particularly in the area of organization. Jennifer has more than15 years of experience in overcoming her own adversities, providing her the gift of Balance for learning to Live Well.
• Magic Health and Wellness, John Armstrong, 612.384.1148, john@magichealthandwellness.com, www.magichealthandwellness.com — John offers an interdisciplinary approach to personal transformation. Realize your dreams by embracing the life force within and around you. Services include coaching and consulting, bodywork and breathwork, movement and meditation. Change the world by changing yourself — Intentionally and Playfully!
• Laurie Mattila, M.S.Ed., Career Counselor, 651.644.7766, LaurieMattila@aol.com, www.LaurieMattila.com — Clarifying Conversations are guided by your own heart, inspired by your own knowing. Laurie uses this intuitive, conversational approach to help you hear and trust your inner guidance. Explore other ways of living, working, being. Trust the divine spark in your evolving process. Create a personally fulfilling and sustainable future.
• Theresa May, T.L.C. Transformational Life Coaching, Heaven On Earth Healing, Stillwater, MN, 612.345.1537, www.HeavenOnEarthHealing.com — Short-term, solution-based, therapeutic style coaching that makes it easier and more comfortable to heal the past, become more resourceful in the present and approach your desired future more effortlessly. Feeling stuck in your life is no way to live. Let me help you get unstuck and enjoying life again.
• Sharon Merges, CPCC, ACC, Merges Coaching Services, Certified Professional Life Coach, 612.760.0134, sjmerges@earthlink.net — Sharon provides coaching services for women 50+ who want to find their love of life and live their values. Enjoy this transition time and learn ways to continue to grow. Sharon has 20 years of experience helping women. Individual coaching, groups and workshops are available. Make it great after 50!
• The Meta Institute, 952.831.6382, Meta@metainstitute.com, www.Metainstitute.com — The Meta Institute is a Minnesota Licensed Adult Career School. Provides services and certification courses in the area of Therapeutic Life Coaching, Reiki, NLP and Hypnosis. Our Therapeutic Coaching® Program is a 500-hour, comprehensive, hands-on certification course that will give students a multitude of tools for working with others. The course provides five certifications. New class begins Sept. 16.
• Jesenia Morales, P.O. Box 41698, Minneapolis MN 55441-0698, 612.220.8435, coach@jeseniamorales.com, www.jeseniamorales.com, www.linkedin.com/in/jeseniamorales — Jesenia is a leader in developing effective and practical operational solutions. Jesenia is a coach, strategist, analyst and educator who works with women in start-ups with two employees or less to create efficient operations and allow for confidant and focused next-step decision making. Jesenia completed her MBA in 2008.
• Opening to Love LLC, Lyndra Hearn Antonson, CPCC, MSW, Calling in “The One” Coach, 952.212.1682, lyndra@openingtolove.org, www.openingtolove.org — Prepare to receive love rather than trying to find it. Release barriers to love you don’t even know you have. Partner with a force of life greater than yourself to “call in” magnificent love. Lyndra facilitates a powerfully transforming eight week Calling in “The One” course by phone for individuals and groups.
• Sheronda Orridge, Loving Spirit Life Coach Academy LLC, Life coaching and life coach training, 651.228.9594 or 651.261.9317, sheronda@lslifecoachacademy.com, www.lslifecoachacademy.com — We specialize in holistic healing and artistry coach training. Holistic Healing Blog radio show Tuesday 9pm Central. Call in number: 347.989.8689. Fulfill Your Destiny — Become a Certified Life Coach.
• Beth Peterson, CPCC, MA, Equine Guided Coach, 612.386.1909, www.GroundSpringCoaching.com — How might a horse help you gain greater clarity and more grounding in how you want to live your life personally and/or professionally? Ground Spring Coaching offers equine assisted coaching for individuals and groups, as well as traditional one-to-one coaching and workshops.
• Nina Potter at Hypnosis Coaching Center, 651.773.0732 or toll free 1.888.978.9118, www.HypnosisCoachingCenter.com — Want to make permanent lifestyle changes easy and fun? Call now for your free “Lose Weight-Feel Great” coaching session to get clear goals and motivation, a next-step action plan, hidden challenges revealed (they may not be what you think), and renewed energy to get the results you deserve.
• Smile Life Coaching, Kristin Berns, M.Ed, Certified Adlerian Life Coach, 952.406.1923, www.smilelifecoaching.com — Helping you create life and work that brings you joy. Using a four-step holistic process, I create a safe and non-judgmental space for you to express and create what you desire in your life. I offer a free consultation. Member of the ICF.
• Soul & Surroundings Coaching, Char Jung, 8730 41st St. SE, Ypsilanti, ND 58497, 701.368.9255, char@charjung.com, www.charjung.com — Would you like to connect with your Soul and hear what it has been communicating to you? Experience the healing benefits of Soul Coaching, Past Life Coaching, Reiki, Reiki Drumming and Crystal Healing at our country healing/training center. Char leads you on a journey of discovery using Soul Coaching, Crystals, Energy Work, Drumming and Reiki. Soul & Surroundings Coaching is located just 10 minutes out of Jamestown, ND, in a serene country location.
• Kelli Spencer, 320.240.6399, kelli@kellispencer.com, www.kellispencer.com — Working as a vibrational coach, I have a developed a 4-step process: 4 weeks, working with 4 parts of the body and 4 steps to becoming a strong individual that is able to quiet the ego and reclaim your personal strength or power.
• Spiritual Life Coaching, Kathleen Cox, 952.946.0100, www.ConnectToSpirit.com — Kathleen Cox works with people who feel their life is out of balance. They are tired of feeling stuck and want their dreams to come true from the inside out so they stick. People invite her to help them through transitions with their job/careers, relationship endings and beginnings. Have Kathleen as your Spiritual Life Coach and you have a personal trainer for your life purpose. Call for a complimentary sample of Spiritual Life Coaching.
• Judy Steele, MTP, Coaching, Counseling, Healing, Transformation, 6311 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 212, St. Louis Park MN 55416, 612.590.3193, judy.steele@earthlink.net, www.schoolforliving.org — Discover how quickly and easily you can make important life changes! Clear old traumas, old beliefs, old habits, old conditioning, old fears. Get in touch with your own knowing about what’s right for you. Real transformation can happen if you’re ready!
• Claire M. Stuckey, M.A., LPC, Integrative Holistic Psychotherapy/Health Coaching, 3390 Annapolis Lane N., Suite A, Plymouth, MN 55447, 952.985.3794, c-stuc1@umn.edu — Claire is a Licensed Professional Counselor trained in Adlerian psychotherapy and counseling, holds a Certificate in Complementary Therapies and Healing Practices emphasizing Health Coaching from the Center for Spirituality and Healing (U of MN), and has completed advanced professional training in Mind/Body Medicine at the Center for Mind/Body Medicine (Washington, D.C.). Share your personal story in a comfortable and confidential environment. A variety of complementary and alternative approaches are considered utilizing holistic wellness strategies for issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, pain, life & health crisis support. Take part in collaborative, solution-driven sessions that empower movement to whole life balance.
• Cathryn Taylor, author, licensed practitioner and Pro-EFT Certified, 612.710.7720, www.JoinCathrynTaylor.com — Cathryn offers Coaching Consults applying her signature Seven-Layer Healing Modality to effectively resolve any area of concern. Cathryn’s innovative approach combines her expertise on the inner child with the Energy Therapy of Pro-EFT to empower you to attract your heart’s desires by neutralizing your inner child’s fears.
• Susan Trapp, Confidence in Change LLC, Woodbury, MN, 651.964.0360, susan@confidenceinchange.com, www.confidenceinchange.com — Working with clients is my passion and I approach it as I do everything — with a sense of humor, fun and creativity. We will work together to build your life of fulfillment and ensure you are spending your time and energy on what you truly value.
• Rev. Sandee Traeger, sandee.traeger@gmail.com, www.newwavemystics.com — Sandee is a life-long Intuitive Life Coach and Conscious Channel of Divine Communications. Her mission as a spiritual teacher, speaker, counselor, healer and Planetary Lightworker is to bring love, light and balance where needed. Private sessions available in person, by phone or online. Summer Special: 30 Minutes for $25.
• Joni Turck, 320.220.7418, www.joniturck.com — Joni is a certified Life Coach who offers sessions by phone to bring positive, significant changes to your life. With 15+ years experience in metaphysics, Joni can combine spiritual and holistic methods with professional guidance and focused goal setting. Joni has spent many years on her own path of self discovery and self empowerment, and through her personal connection and friendly manner, is equipped to help you move forward in your life.

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