Your Best Life - Living Your Truth

Life Coaching is about supporting Clients in achieving a desired change or outcome. Sessions are typically virtual, but can also be in person. Client and Coach start by building trust and establishing what the Client wants to accomplish. This is followed by exploring what the outcomes will look like and how they will benefit Client. Finally, Client looks for the best, most authentic way to achieve the desired outcomes.

No one knows better than Clients what they want and how best to achieve it. When life is challenging, we tend to forget  that. My job as a Coach is to help Clients remember. Clients learn to trust themselves and their own wisdom. Because each person's innate understanding of  Self and personal Truth  is the key to creating an authentic, fulfilling life.

With horses as my Co-facilitators, I offer Equus Coaching Clients a safe space to access viscerally what is important to them, (re) discover their own wisdom, finding authentic, achievable ways to resolve problems and release perceived limitations. How is this possible?  

• Horses have big hearts, literally, that help human hearts slow down in a horse’s presence, resulting in people feeling more relaxed. 
• Horses also are 100% present, without judgement. We cannot help but feel better, more ourselves, when near these generous animals.
• When we interact with horses, they give us feedback through their physical responses to our behavior and emotions.
• Equus Coaching is experiential and visceral, resulting in learning that is immediately impactful and transformative.

• Virtual Life Coaching sessions are conducted  over Zoom, but can also be done in person. Sessions are 60-minutes.
• Equus Coaching sessions are 90-minutes and take place at the farm.
• Equus Coaching does not involve riding or getting on a horse.
• Prior experience with horses is not necessary to experience Equus Coaching.
• Safety protocols are reviewed at the beginning of every Equus Coaching session, so Clients understand how to safely and comfortably interact with a horse.  
• Coaching is NOT Therapy. Coaching is about creating the future, and can be experienced in conjunction with Therapy. It does not replace Therapy, which is  typically for people in crisis and healing from trauma in the past.

My business career as an HR, Finance and Operations professional has been rewarding, intense, and successful. I have collaborated with gifted people and served as an executive in noteworthy companies. Helping people, as well as companies, realize their potential and learn to thrive is my passion. Cottrell Coaching & Consulting is my platform to continue supporting clients as they explore the life they want. 

 When I talk about change and life events, I speak from experience. By the time I graduated from college, I had moved seven times, lived in eight countries, and attended nine different schools.  Like many people, I have experienced trauma, including being the caregiver for a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, watching from Union Square as the Twin Towers came down on 9/11, and coming to terms with childhood sexual assault. Clients each have their own experiences that inform their lives, in ways that both enhance and inhibit where they are now and where they want to be.

I understand what it takes to make peace with the challenges of the past and present, while creating a new future.