Barbara Flaherty, M.A., Transformational coach
dba Skillsets & Beyond
Ages Served: 18-65+
Appointments: Online
Change Starts Here
My Approach is to accompany you on your journey of personal growth towards your authentic self:
By learning about the paths humans travel, the mystic wisdom stories, practices, rites of passage and rituals that the ancestors knew were important for our formation as a human being.
By inquiring into your own heart, soul, spirit, life purpose and meaning, values, integrity, your creativity, your calling, and your hopes and dreams.
By learning about contemporary science, the process of cosmogenesis, and how it informs us about life and how it relates to the teachings & practices of the ancestors.
By exploring your challenges, where you are on your journey and the practical/ body/mind/spirit/ cognitive & emotional skillsets that may be helpful for you at this time moving forward.
By listening & responding;
letting your gifts & the needs of the earth & other beings call you to creative passion, your compassion, justice. What does that look like today for you?
The Process
Is It Time To Take That Next Step
Schedule a Free Consultation
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Goal Setting & Plan Development
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Personal Growth & Development
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Adjustment & Life Transitions
Only you will know when it is time to take the next step toward your goal. Schedule a 45 minute session at no charge to help you assess if personal coaching it the right fit for you.
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I Do & how i do it
Life Coaching: Focus on all types of personal growth and wellness.
Mindset Coaching: Focus on transforming negative mental attitude and beliefs into ones that are more useful.
Educational Coaching: Focus on academic development and success – supporting students and/or professionals in achieving academic writing goals: undergraduate, masters level thesis, dissertation for doctorate work . Experience working with English as a second language.
Creativity Coaching: Focus on encouraging creative thinking and helping individuals express themselves creatively and artistically, in all aspects of their lives. I work with writers, artists, finding voice, understanding unblocking, people who are wanting to experience different forms of creativity in different aspects of their lives.
Transpersonal (Spiritual) Coaching: focus on personal spiritual growth, finding a deeper sense of meaning and purpose, exploration of mystical and/or emergent psychic states.
I actively listen to understand, ask questions to deepen the conversation, co-create goals with you that are important to you, and recognize your strengths, and then I give hopefully useful feedback and ask what next action steps are right for you. I keep you on task to get where you want to go.
More About Me
For years, I’ve had the privilege of assisting people in those moments when life feels stuck—when the path forward seems unclear or out of reach. As an experienced life coach, I’m here to help you tap into your own inner wisdom and shift your perspective in ways that empower you to move forward with confidence, energy, and clarity toward a life you desire.
Whether you’re navigating challenges in your career, relationships, spiritual growth, or long-term recovery, I’ll be by your side as you uncover the tools and skills you need to create your new life or simply handle life’s ups and downs to more ease. Together, we’ll create space for growth and transformation, helping you find your center and move toward a more fulfilling, balanced life. Life is too precious to stay stuck in a place that doesn’t serve you. Let’s explore both new ways to break through the barriers that are holding you back—and the unfolding ways that assist you in stepping into the life you truly want to live.
Coaching Is Not Mental Health Counseling
Although my background involves years as a chaplain and dual diagnosis and recovery counselor, my work is now focused on life coaching, and I love it. Part of what I do is to provide classes on personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal skill development, which may seem similar to therapy. However, life coaching is different from therapy, which often focuses on problems rooted in the past. Life Coaching is present and future oriented and focused on goals. If mental health issues are causing high distress or functional difficulties, you will receive a referral to a licensed mental health professional to help you with those difficulties as we continue our work focusing on your personal, professional and spiritual goals within the coaching process.
A Creation Centered Process of an Individuals Sense of Meaning & Purpose
A Creation Centered Coaching practice is holistic referencing the wisdom traditions and ancient paths of the human journey of individuation as revealed in the Indigenous traditions, the mystic traditions of the great world religions, and the discoveries of contemporary science. It considers the hermetic questions of reality, identity, meaning & purpose, and action in relationship to ourselves, others, the sacred teachings, the Earth and the Cosmos.
It considers the four paths identified by the ancients that each person travels in their live: 1. the path of wonder, joy, beauty, praise, ecstacy and opening; 2. the path of suffering, letting go, a descent into emptiness and darkness that eventually can give birth to something new and unexpected even extraordinary may occur; 3. the path of creativity where we discover the capacity to bring forth something new into life through artistic engagement and creative engagement in multiple areas of our life; 4. the path where we ground the transformation in our lives in new and vital ways.
Transformative learning is not just the left-brain stuff. Children know this. They are out there running and jumping, singing, dancing, playing, creating, imagining, listening, and responding to their own hearts, bodies, and minds, the whole earth, its creatures, and the stars. The goal of opening more fully to our own path is to remember that spirit within us and to keep that spirit of awe, wonder, and gratitude alive within us, and act from this more profound wisdom. And the goal of transformative coaching is to assist in that process by encouraging creativity.
How We Can Work Together
Different Options