Individual

For individual clients, I offer Life Coaching and Stress Management sessions.

 

 

Life Coaching

 

Life coaching sessions can help you discover your direction and feel confident to pursue your dreams.

Not sure if life coaching is what you need right now? Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Your personal life:  

  • Do I feel derailed? Have I lost sight of my direction and goals?
  • Is there disconnect between where I am in life and where I want to be?
  • Do I feel disappointed or depressed about my relationships with family or friends?
  • Do I know the purpose of my life?
  • Am I consumed by stress in a transition (new job, new baby, move, divorce) or after the loss of a beloved one? 
  • Do I know what is holding me back from creating a life I love?

Your career:

  • Am I thinking of a career change?Is my work a constant source of stress? 
  • Is my work a constant source of stress? 
  • Is my career giving me a sense of fulfillment?

Your physical / medical condition:

  • I have/had a serious illness; would it be possible to heal faster and feel better?
  • Do I have physical signs of stress, such as back or neck pain, headaches, high blood pressure, or insomnia?
  • Have my attempts to treat chronic health issues with medication failed?
  • Do I put my own needs on hold to take care of the people around me?

If you answered yes to some of these questions, life coaching can help you feel better physically and emotionally, create a new vision for your life, and be successful in achieving your goal.

 

During each session with your individualized plan, I will help you:

  • Discover and understand your most important life values and strengths
  • Create a vision of a life you would love to live
  • Face life’s day-to-day challenges with a greater sense of purpose
  • Manage stress more effectively and develop a greater sense of inner calm
  • Learn how to overcome or block fears and hesitations that are holding you back from living a life you love
  • Learn how to combine your strengths and passions to make your professional and/or volunteer work more fulfilling

  • Become motivated and inspired to use your talents to benefit your own life and those of people around yo

I will introduce you to many useful tools, such as: visioning, goal setting, action plans, self-discovery, and relaxation/meditation exercises. As you grow and change, you will learn to use these tools to gain confidence, self-awareness, and overall health. You will start to feel comfortable just being yourself.

Among the topics we will discuss are your physical and emotional health, relationships, parenting, finances, grief, and spirituality.

 

Are you ready to transform your life?

Give me a call. Let’s work together to create a vision for you and your life, and make it a reality. 

 

Please note: if serious mental or physical issues come to the surface during the life coaching sessions, professional medical and psychological counseling will be recommended.

 

 

Stress Management

 

You may have been told over the years to deal with your stress, but what are you supposed to do “to deal” with it? Just like stress is different for everyone, so are the best stress reduction techniques. 

To create an individualized plan that fits your unique lifestyle, we discuss in depth what your personal needs are. Through a combination of stress management strategies and time-tested techniques, you will learn breathing and relaxation exercises that will help you release stress and other built-up emotions out of your body. It will enhance healing, and help you feel more peaceful and fulfilled.

As a courtesy, I encourage you to record the exercises in our sessions so you can better practice at home.

During our sessions we will:

  • Pinpoint your main life stressors (work, relationships, health, finances, etc.) and examine how they are holding you back
  • Increase awareness of where in your body you feel and store your stress
  • Develop an individualized action plan to utilize stress management techniques

 

Please contact me for more information, or to make an appointment.

 

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

—Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

 

“I can only highly recommend my coaching sessions with Joy. I gained far more from them than I ever imagined, on both a personal and professional level. The sessions are interactive, and conducted in a warm and positive manner, which encourages honesty and self-reflection, and extremely practical. Joy focused on my whole life and the way I live it; not just on me with the certain questions about my career. Her down-to-earth approach has been the most helpful and realistic coaching I’ve experienced.” —Chris, Arlington Heights

 

“Joy has a natural talent; she guides you with such warmth and gentleness and helps you look at things from a different prospective. She doesn’t provide the answers for you, just the skills to help you build the blocks to take control of your life. I went to Joy for coaching when I was unhappy with the way my life was progressing. I was stuck in a job I no longer cared for and had lost direction with what I wanted, and in fact liked, about myself and my career. This created so much anxiety and self-doubt. Joy helped me to set long and short term goals and brought much needed clarity to who I was and what I wanted from life. Now my anxieties are gone, my self-esteem improved.” —Annette, Mount Prospect

 

“Working with Joy has really been a wonderful joy. She helped me through a very rough personal time. Joy taught me a greater sense of self-awareness and acceptance, now I’m able to embrace the woman I am. She also showed me how to plan towards goals and activities that match my values, strength and vision. I’ll always be grateful for Joy’s insights and support.” —Katie, Palatine

 

“I am so very grateful to have had Joy Anderson guide me while I was recovering from a shattered femur in Regency Care Center of Monroe, Washington.  During that challenging time, Joy taught me different individualized relaxation techniques, which I use to this day.  These helped me tremendously to relax my painful body and worried mind.  It also helped me to increase my healing process as well as improve my sleep.  I looked forward to our sessions because her knowledge, positive attitude and loving demeanor made it so pleasant and easy to work with her. We built up a professional relationship during that time, and we worked together for many years until I moved to Texas.  I know my clients benefited and enjoyed her work.  Joy is a gifted professional who genuinely cares for people, especially those in need. I am honored to have worked with her and I highly recommend Joy.” —Debbie, Burleson, Texas

 

“I was so tired of going for years to the doctor with the same health issues. A friend recommended me to see Joy and try her stress management strategies and relaxation exercises. I was very skeptical about it before starting –imagining it would be full with new age jargon. But in fact, it was the total opposite. Joy listened to my personal and professional needs. She is very skilled at offering relaxation and meditation exercises that are perfect for my needs. I listen daily to her recorded exercises at home or at work. One last note, I have hardly seen a doctor anymore; my stress related health issues are gone.” —Marc, Chicago

 

“I want to thank you, Joy, for what you’ve taught me during our classes.  Your meditations have been so beneficial to me and I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to record them during the classes.  You have a gift in that your voice is very soothing and your warm personality automatically brings relaxation when we’re having a personal conversation. I noticed that I’m feeling so much more relaxed, focused and at peace throughout the day.  For me to feel this way is a small miracle because I’m a very anxious person.” —Theresa, Mount Prospect

 

"After experiencing heart problems, I started sessions with Joy. Had I known how I would be impacted by those sessions, I would have started them before my health crisis! Working with Joy not only taught me how to identify the stressors in my life, but she provided practices to address and move through them. Her peaceful presence and exceptional ability to listen and guide conversation allowed me to grow in self-awareness and overall health. I cannot more highly recommend a professional to work with for personal growth and wellness. There is no need to be in a crisis to benefit from working with Joy!" — JoAnne, Chicago