Dr. Michele’s style is very warm, interactive, and engaging.  She functions both as your personal advisor to help you clarify your objectives, visions and dreams, and guide you through any past issues which are impacting current choices.  Dr. Michele does not believe that coaching is about dwelling in the past, but rather that the past can serve as a significant reference point to help people better identify and understand their current choices.  She helps clients activate their own inner wisdom to serve as a guide in making self-supportive and purposeful life choices. 

“Each of us holds inside of ourselves a unique and very powerful life story.  Our inner story serves as a magnet, drawing situations and individuals to us which are in alignment with that story.  This is how people attract current relationships which, when examined, have very similar dynamics as past relationships.  We attract experiences, and choose partners, who mirror how we were loved as children, in both supportive, and unsupportive ways. 

When we experience trauma, either big events, or little events repeated over longer periods of time, there is a part of us which splits off, or hides, out of fear.  While initially this is a form of self-preservation or protection, as we grow, if we don’t recover these split off parts of self, they can unconsciously rule our relationships and other life choices.  Indigenous peoples would perform ceremonies called “soul retrievals” to help people re-integrate these split-off parts of themselves. 

Effective coaching functions as a type of modern day soul retrieval, in that it helps people recover and integrate these split off pieces of themselves and become more whole.  From this place of reintegration, we make more empowering relationship, career, and life choices.  It is my privilege to serve as a guide for the individuals and couples who are called to do this life-changing work.”  
-  Dr. Jeanne Michele