Coaching for Women in Midlife

As women, our lives are complex, sometimes hard, and often beautiful. And while many coaches offer support on specific solutions to specific problems, I believe we can’t separate the practical from the emotional or the physical. Using my various sources of experience, knowledge, and training, I am able to embolden your whole self, rather than focusing on one facet of your life. Through a series of online coaching sessions, I will help you not only tackle whatever challenges you may be facing but to find solutions and growth that fit your life as it truly is.

As a midlife coach I support women who are struggling with any, or all, of the following:

• Parenting Challenges: adjusting to an empty nest, navigating relationships with tweens/teens, managing exhaustion and parenting younger children, etc.
• Relationship Shifts: adjusting to a new stage of life together, different visions for the future, intimacy issues, partnerships ending, starting to date, etc.
• Sandwich Generation Struggles: changing relationship with aging parents, care-taking stressors, balancing needs from kids and parents, etc.
• Career Changes: craving a change, determining vision for next phase in professional life, frustrations with age discrimination, figuring out how to slow down/transition, etc.
• Evolving Bodies: struggles with perimenopausal/menopausal symptoms, weight gain/body composition changes, health status changes, need/desire to make changes to diet, etc.
• Identity Shifts: as a mother, wife/partner, professional, daughter, friend, community member, etc.

What’s it like working with me?

I am like your grounded, supportive, sometimes bossy, best friend. I listen deeply, empathize fully, and help you to cut through the paralysis that can so often come when we are either overwhelmed with life or just bombarded by all of the advice and information that comes at us from every direction. I’ll help you to prioritize, clarify, and come up with practical solutions to life’s challenges. Sometimes the work is in finding the answers for yourself and sometimes you need a little nudge – I’m by your side through all of it.

Like reading a recipe, I’ll help you see the steps you need to take so that you can make the most of the ingredients that make up your life. Like a hike, I’ll show you the path, lay out the signposts, and make sure you reach the peak. 

My philosophy and approach

Let’s face it: life is a scramble. The to-do lists, obligations, information, and expectations coming at us from all sides can feel pretty overwhelming. As women, we are socialized to be caretakers. We are raised to put others’ needs before our own. In some ways, this is a true gift. It makes us emotionally attuned, compassionate, flexible, super efficient, and really effective jugglers of all of the things.

But it also means that we tend to put ourselves on the back burner – for instance, we women are much more likely to shell out cash to pay for a service or course or experience for our kids, our partners, even our friends, than we are for ourselves. And that’s after we have been overwhelmed with messages about the importance of self-care!! 

Furthermore, as we navigate adulthood, we are overwhelmed by information and pressured to do everything the “right” way – from parenting to career to eating to exercise to relationships. Not only does it impose intense pressure, but making sense of all of the different approaches and philosophies can, in and of itself, be a full-time job. So it is no surprise that we often throw up our hands and just try to limp along as best as we can. 

But the truth is that we have a choice. We can navigate the craziness with the resentment, frustration, and fear that naturally arises, or we can use those emotions to step into our strength and do it our own way. 

You are likely asking yourself: But how do I do that? How do I balance the expectations that bombard me from every side (work, family, community) with my own needs? How do I make space to “put on that oxygen mask?” How do I find the ability to prioritize some of my own needs, while also making space for the pulls on me that come from so many directions? 

I believe that once we acknowledge these tensions and pressures, we can reframe the questions and ask: What if we could do it differently? What if there was a judgment-free approach to finding balance, choosing priorities, and making sense of the challenges that we face from raising humans to determining our career goals to navigating midlife so that we could move forward with purpose and confidence? 

I would be honored to be your midlife coach as you embark upon this journey. 

My Credentials as a Midlife and Menopause Coach

In order to be able to support women in all of the different aspects of their lives, I have completed a variety of training programs.

• I received my Masters in Social Work (2005) from The University of Michigan School of Social work where I focused my training on providing therapeutic services to women and families
• I am a certified health coach (2013), receiving my training from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition
• I am a certified menopause coach (2024), receiving my training from the GGS Academy
• I completed a CEU course in coaching through the midlife transition (2024)

Coaching Options

The first step in your coaching journey with me is a FREE 30-minute online discovery session where you’ll share the challenges you’re currently facing and we’ll dig into what it is you really want to change. At the end of that session, we’ll discuss next steps and the various ways I can support you in your midlife journey. You’ll also come away with 1-2 ideas to try in the next week, so that you leave with a real sense of purpose and hope.

I know how busy you are, so all sessions take place online in order to make it easier to fit this important work into your already jam-packed life.

Rates

If you choose to work with me as your midlife coach, our first session will be 90-minutes long, so that we can take our time and make sure we touch upon all of the different aspects of life that are most often pain points for women in midlife. After that, each session is 50-minutes.

Cost of First 90-Minute Session: $225

Cost of Subsequent 50-minute Sessions: $150 each*

*I also offer the opportunity to purchase multi-session packages for a 10% discount.

Want to learn more about my philosophy when it comes to coaching for women in midlife? Check out my advice column!