Life is full of transitions.
I help you figure out what matters most, prioritize, and move forward.
Whether you’re facing a career change, retirement, a move, an empty nest, or any of life’s major phases, I work with you to identify what’s important, make a plan, and help you implement it.
Why Work with Ellen?
I came to this work because of a breadth of life experience, both professionally and personally. That breadth is what I bring to every client, regardless of what kind of transition they’re facing.
I worked for a long time in a role where I was the liaison between different groups: executive leadership, sales, creative, and legal. I loved the “people” part. I didn’t really care what the company did.
What I loved was being able to get different people to talk to each other and understand each other’s perspectives and priorities. To do that, I had to be a really good listener and pick up things quickly so I could figure out what the important questions were, who to ask them of, and what to follow up on.
I also worked with a life coach myself. I was raising a family and felt completely in charge at home, and then I would get to work and struggle to show up with that same confidence. There was a disconnect between being able to put myself out there in a way that felt confident and strong versus what I was experiencing at home. Coaching helped me bridge that gap. That experience is part of why I do this work.
I am also an artist, and that shapes how I listen, how I look at the world, and how I help clients look at their situations from a different perspective. It’s not about whether a client cares about creativity. It’s about the unique point of view I bring to every conversation.
Types of Transitions I Work With
Career Change
Whether you have been laid off, or you hate your job and want something new, or you are excited about a different career, but would have to start at the bottom.
Retirement
Whether you chose it or you are looking forward to it, were forced into it before you were ready, or took the package and now wonder why you feel so lost.
Relationships
Whether you want to leave your husband, your boyfriend just left you, you’re having trouble with your mother, or your best friend doesn’t want to talk to you.
Empty Nest
This is a bigger deal than most people expect. Your role and identity as a parent are so integrated into your life that when the children leave, everything changes. Your relationship with your spouse changes. How you deal with your children as adults changes. It upends your life.
Aging
How you think of your body changing. How you think of how you’re perceived in society as you get older. In many places, people become invisible. And ageism in the workplace is a very real thing that takes up an enormous amount of psychic energy.
New Baby or Relocation
The transition into parenthood changes everything about how you see yourself and your life.
Or a move you were not in a state to take, especially when it was a move your partner wanted, and you didn’t.
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