Dr. Mary Alice Hurd

Pilot Your Life Today!

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Since 2001 I have been coaching women and men to make the changes they want to accomplish and manage the changes that are thrust upon them so they can experience more success and joy in their professional and personal lives.

My Coaching Philosophy... Coaching is an active collaboration between you and me (a professionally trained coach) to identify and work toward goals that lead to greater fulfillment and balance in your professional and personal life.

Coaching clients are creative, resourceful and well. Coaching is different from traditional psychotherapy, which is based on the medical model that assumes that patients are dysfunctional, ill or wounded and need to be healed.

Coaching clients are capable people who hire a coach to assist them in identifying goals, developing plans, and making progress toward their goals. Through coaching, clients may identify obstacles that have gotten in their way in the past and develop effective strategies for handling similar situations.

Potential coaching clients may not think about having a coach until some problem or “glitch” occurs in their lives. For example, a significant change may occur in your life, a big opportunity may appear, or you start looking at your life and wondering, “Is this all there is?” Under the heading “Services” in this section I discuss examples of problems which clients face and find coaching is useful.

Some results of coaching are that clients learn how to make and follow through on a plan, make corrections in their plan when necessary and generate new ideas and strategies that will increase the quality of their lives.

I believe my role as a coach is to help my clients function optimally in important areas of their lives. To each coaching relationship, I bring my 35 years of experience as a coach, psychologist, and professor and my experience in working with individuals, groups, organizations and businesses. My greatest joy is assisting my clients to learn to pilot their ships so they experience more success and joy in their personal and professional lives.