Life Coaching & Individual and Couples Therapy / Counseling
Carlos Durana offers wellness and life coaching sessions as well as telephone consultations.
Wellness or Health Coaching:
As your personal wellness or health coach, my job is to help you attain your desired level of optimal wellness (your wellness zone) so that you can feel better, happier, have more energy and control of your life. This is done by:
Establishing a supportive and encouraging relationship with you.
Using tools to help you explore your needs and your definition of wellness.
Empowering you to find the best pathways to make desired changes in your life style.
Helping you draw upon your resources, strengths, and motivations.
Determining your readiness to change level.
Creating a personalized plan, setting goals, developing strategies and monitoring progress.
Covering areas of interest to you. These may include nutrition, fitness education, health management, work/lifebalance, stress management, relationshipenhancement, alternativemedicine, motivation enhancement, etc.
Life Coaching:
Life coaching is now a commonly used term in the field of coaching and a new rapidly growing profession. Life coaching addresses specific projects, situations or transitions in your life or profession, and it assists you in clarifying and discovering a source of action to achieve specific goals. Through coaching, you may feel empowered to make positive life changes that may result in the enhancement of quality of life, confidence, workperformance and well-being.
“A coach is a person who supports and directs another person via encouragement and asking questions. It differs from a mentor in that a coach rarely offers advice. Instead, they help the client to find their own solutions, by asking questions that give them insight into their problem. The major benefit of a personal coach is that they hold their client accountable. So if the client has agreed to a plan of action, their obligation to the coach will motivate them to complete their plan.
When a person coaches an individual client, the initial task involves the coach and client working out a mutual understanding of the scope of work and documenting that understanding in a coaching contract. Then the coach helps the client to prioritize their current needs and looks for ways to address any improvements.
Coaches tend to specialize in one or more several areas: career coaching, transition coaching, life or personal coaching, executive coaching, small business coaching, systemic coaching and organizational or corporate coaching.
Most life coaching is to help individuals reach individual goals. Coaching people to enjoy better relationships with parents, partners and children, or with team members and managers, need skills, experience and maturity that younger coaches lack. Systemic coaching increases the adaptability and survival potential of relationships. Systemic coaching helps people attain relationship goals and their individual goals. Individual coaching can be embedded within relationship coaching.” Wikipedia
Dr. Carlos Durana offers individual, relationship, and couples counseling as well as telephone consultations. His approach is based on a resource model of growth and healing.
Effective counseling/therapy provides a safe and supportive workspace where you, the client, can experience and think through problems, experiment with potential solutions and gain information and skills within the context of a helpful and caring relationship. Dr. Durana’s model:
Utilizes your strengths and resources to generate solutions and growth.
Is based on self acceptance and positive regard for self and others.
Assumes that we can change most easily from a position of strength.
Is practical and educational, emphasizing ways to help oneself in everyday life
Uses research evidence to guide effective practice.
Is flexible in choosing the therapeutic method that best fits you.
Is holistic in nature by acknowledging the importance of the connection between body, mind and emotions
To read more about Dr. Durana’s views on therapy and different approaches used by him:
