How coaching can help your family

'Family Planning Coaching' does many things, but mostly it helps give you control back in your life, your emotions and your relationships. Some areas you may choose to work on may include:

Aids in determining your true family values.
Helps set family planning goals and helps you stay on track.
Allows you to look at, and consider (in a safe, non judgmental situation) what is best for you.
Helps identify self and separate you from the situation.
Rebuilds self esteem.
Helps you move on after loss.
Provides encouragement and supports while you deal with life altering transitions.
Supports better communication skills helping you have better relationships with family, friends and professionals.
Gets you organized.
Finds a balance between trying to conceive and your personal/professional lives.
Assists you in decision making around treatment, adoption or living child-free.
Help walk you through the adoption process.
Provides help in deciding to live child-free and help you find ways to learn this new way of life.

'Family Planning Coaching' is not:

Medically based and does not provide medical education that is left to the Doctors and nurses. I am a grief counselor and a life coach who has walked the ‘family planning’ path ahead of you. I have acquired skills that can help you gain control of your life and work towards creating the family you desire.
A counseling service, it offers support, direction, guidance and helps you through difficult times. Most people do not require counseling to deal with fertility issues, but if you do require therapeutic assistance with issues such as depression, any form of mental illness, etc... I would gladly help you locate a good trained professional.

I am not directly affiliated with any fertility clinic, service providers or products, I provide a completely unbiased, nonjudgmental service that has your needs totally considered.

The ICF adheres to a form of coaching that honours the client as the expert in his/her personal and/or professional life and believes that every client is creative, resourceful and whole. Standing on these foundations, the coach’s responsibility is to:

1.Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve.
2. Encourage client self-discoveries.
3. Elicit client generated solutions and strategies.
4. Hold the client responsible and accountable.

Thus, professional coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the coaching process, clients deepen learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be tomorrow.

Coaching will focus on three aspects of the client: the personal core of the client, what they want and what they are willing to do or change to get what they want. The coach is not the leader, they are a partner, listener and client advocate. The client is the leader.

A Coach helps you clarify who you are, what your values are and what is needed to be true to yourself. If you are not true to your values, you create a disharmony within yourself. You decide if you are making life choices that are right for you, or if you are following societal trends. A coach helps you figure out what you need to do to be happy and balanced. A coach uses inquiry, reflection, requests and discussion to help you identify personal and/or business, so you can develop strategies, relationships and action plans intended to achieve those goals. A coach keeps you focused and works with you to redefine your goals and dreams. Your coach not only supports you, but helps push you to reach the goals you set for yourself. Your coach holds you accountable for the goals you set and the action plan you use to meet those goals.