Coaching is a process that helps people tap into their inner purpose and passion and connect that with outer goals. Coaching is a very unique profession. It utilizes the best of therapy, consulting, mentoring, and even friendship, to create a unique client-helper relationship. This relationship is a powerful alliance - a partnership to help clients manage their lives, create more fulfillments, and live their dreams. Coaches are trained to listen and observe, customize their approach to the individual client's needs, and to elicit solutions and strategies from the client. Coaches believe that the client is naturally creative and resourceful and that the coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective, the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results he or she desires. 

YPCoach works primarily with adolescents:

“High School” Years (age 13 – 18) youth who are looking for ways to overcome specific age-related issues and challenges such as peer pressure, stress from school/parents, getting into and the transition to college, leadership development, and specific gender related concerns. 

“College” Years (age 19 – 21) young people who are trying to balance the sense of independence while continuing to focus on academics, social life and confronting bigger adult-oriented challenges. Many issues facing these individuals are freedom, financial exploration, living situations, and the power of choices.

“Graduate” Years (age 22 – 24) This component of adolescence is most often overlooked. These are well-educated, well-intended individuals who are either about to graduate, or recently graduated and seeking an entry level position with an organization. This person is trying to adjust to new responsibilities and expectations of adulthood, and is seeking a social environment for, fun, dating, and marriage and wants to set goals and opportunities for success.

Parents are often worried or confused by changes in their adolescents. Each adolescent is an individual with a unique personality and special interests likes and dislikes. For each individual there is a movement towards independence, however they struggle with a sense of identity, and feel awkward or strange about one's self and one's body. YPCoach takes a holistic approach and focuses on a number of areas that help make up the core values and ethics of a person.