About Coach Anne

Coach Anne is a Certified Cognitive Coach (CCC) providing coaching to clients of all neurotypes, and specializing in working with neurodivergent (autistic, ADD/ADHD, etc.) adults of all ages. Her experience with neurodivergence is both professional and personal, as she is a late discovered autistic and neurodivergent woman. This lived experience of neurodivergence is something that informs every aspect of her coaching work. She helps her clients create lives that are in line with their values and celebrate their authentic selves.

 

What is Coaching?

Coaching is an active process where the coach and client work together collaboratively. The client states what they would like to work on, and the coach serves as a sounding board, accountability partner, and mentor, helping the client identify the action steps needed to achieve their desired goals.

Clients Best Suited To Work With Coach Anne are:

• Clients who are ready to take the actions needed to improve their lives. This means they’re no longer thinking about it, but ready to act!
• Clients who wish to cultivate chutzpah (the audacity to believe in themselves and their unique abilities, even in a rapidly changing world that was not built for them).
• Clients interested in creating intentional lives of their choosing: Think FIRE movement (Financial Independence Retire Early), living authentically and true to their values, and coming up with creative ways to create the life they want, even if it is significantly outside the mainstream.
• Clients who want to slay their debt! Coach Anne has done this successfully herself and while this might not be an overnight process, it is so satisfying once clients achieve freedom from debt.
• Clients who want to learn how to engage in frugality as a sport to create lives that limit their dependence on capitalist systems.
• Clients who are ready to learn any skills they may not yet possess in order to achieve their goals. This includes learning how to plan, organize their time, set respectful boundaries, etc.
• Clients who are ready to put in the time and effort required to achieve their goals. They understand that real change takes time and does not happen overnight, and they know this change is worth it.
• Clients who already embrace who they are and who want to create lives that celebrate their unique minds and identities.
• Clients who seek an accountability partner in a coach who will help them stay on track toward achieving their goals.
• Clients willing to be honest about any fears, doubts, or anxiety they might experience throughout the coaching process so that these concerns can be immediately addressed and worked through proactively.
• Clients who are willing to take ownership of creating the lives they want: Not the lives others may want for them.
• Clients who are open to respectful and constructive feedback and ready to make the changes needed for them to achieve their goals. This includes discarding unhelpful mindsets that no longer serve them and replacing them with healthy, growth mindsets that do. 

Next Steps

Prior to starting services, Coach Anne conducts a brief, complimentary phone or Zoom call, usually no more than 30 minutes in length, with each prospective client to determine what their goals are, assess their readiness for coaching, and ensure it feels like a good match for her to work with them. If it feels like a good match for both coach and client, Coach Anne sends the client the coaching contract. Once she receives the client’s completed, signed, and dated coaching contract, the first coaching session will be scheduled. All coaching sessions are conducted via Zoom, and Zoom links will be emailed prior to each session.

Coach Anne is kind, direct, thorough, and provides detailed session summaries and progress notes via email. 

With clients’ permission, Coach Anne often serves as a member of her clients’ support teams by collaborating with their therapists, psychiatrists, educators, and other related professionals to ensure the highest quality client care and to improve overall client outcomes. 

Anne’s goal with every coaching session is to help her clients feel truly seen, heard, and understood. She has been coaching professionally since 2018.

How Long Does Coaching Take? 

The length of time it takes for each person to see the results of their work varies from person to person. Initially, when a client first begins working with a coach, it is helpful to meet weekly for several sessions in order for the client to begin obtaining traction toward their goals. At this stage, the client and coach are identifying internal and external obstacles, and the client is learning new skills.

Once clients have gained self-awareness and momentum, they may wish to meet every other week to maintain their motivation and practice new skills between sessions.

Once clients feel they are making good progress, they may wish to cut back to coaching sessions to once a month to maintain their gains. This allows them to test their new skills, and determine which areas they feel confident in, and which areas they may need more support.

Once clients have met their goals, they may choose to meet for quarterly “check in” sessions. This allows them to review what strategies are working well and what may need to be to be tweaked in order to keep them moving forward.

Anne’s Credentials, Professional Liability Insurance, and Code of Ethics

Anne obtained her life coaching certification from World Coach Institute, an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited coach training program, her Certified Cognitive Coach credential, Credential #CCC22578096, from the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), which meets the credentialing needs of professionals who work with individuals with special needs and cognitive differences, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Central Florida. She regularly adds to her coaching knowledge and skills through continuing education. Anne abides by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) code of ethics, and maintains professional liability insurance through Alternative Balance/Citadel Insurance Services, LC.