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The first few Individual Coaching sessions are used to determine what changes the client wants to achieve, either professionally or personally. Subsequent sessions deal with formulating a plan to get past the barriers and monitoring progress towards the desired goals. Creating sustainable change takes time, so clients should normally expect to work with Helena for 3 to 6 months.

Individual Coaching sessions can be conducted in person at Helena's downtown Vancouver office or elsewhere by arrangement, or over the phone. If clients have sufficient privacy at their workplaces, they may prefer phone sessions for the convenience of not having to leave the workplace for the session. Also, there is an additional benefit that some clients find it easier to discuss their issues on the phone than face-to-face.

To find out more, please contact Helena for a brief complimentary information session. The session usually takes about 15 minutes and is conducted over the phone. Helena will send you more information about Life Coaching for Lawyers, and some testimonials she has received from clients, plus a questionnaire for you to complete for the Discovery Session, which is the next stage if you are interested in proceeding.

 

Things You Should Know

"The pervasive disenchantment among lawyers and the concomitant attrition rate among law firms can be remedied. The solutions will be found not by increasing compensation or perks, but instead by using more valuable, but less tangible rewards. This will require changes in law firm culture -- greater emphasis on positive sum games and cooperation -- as well as reforms at three levels: individual, firm wide, and institutional." - "Why Lawyers are Unhappy" in Lawyers Weekly

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What's Coaching?

I provide a structure to help you through the process of deciding whether you truly want to make the transition out of your current profession. If you decide to stay in practice, we will find work-life strategies to help you fit your profession into your life rather than your continuing to try to fit your life into your profession.

 

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Helena's Story

 Between 1979 and 1995, I tried to make the practice of law work for me on three different continents, in different-sized law firms, but I still felt as if I were in jail doing a life sentence. I made a lot of money, but I spent a lot of money too -- to compensate for the fact I never had enough time to relax and catch up with myself. I was burned out and miserable, but I kept going because I didn't know for sure there was another path.

 

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