Life Plus Work Coaching
We help you put the pieces together.
Coaching helps you identify & explore key influences and themes in life and work, focusing on actions and outcomes.
Read more to learn about our approach and how we work with you.
Career Coaching and Clinical Expertise
Susan Jewkes Allen is the founder and lead coach at Life + Work Coaching. Susan and her team have graduate degrees in clinical practice, counseling, or organizational behavior with post-graduate specializations and credentials in life coaching and career development. Our strong clinical and organizational behavior backgrounds allow us to support our clients in assessing strengths, identifying barriers and developing strategies to move forward discovering possibilities and realizing success.
Specialized Knowledge
Our career development and life coaching credentials provide the specialized knowledge and experience to expertly guide your career discovery and planning process.
We offer assessments to help identify strengths: personality, skills, interests and values using a variety of tools.
Strengths Based Assessments
We are certified providers of the MBTI®, Strong Interest Inventory®, FIRO-B™, TKI and a variety of Skills and Values assessments to facilitate your identification of the core professional/personal qualities, attitudes, characteristics that provide the foundation for finding your best work and building a satisfying life.
Your Life + Work: Themes & Dreams
Career and life coaching considers the larger questions about your life and work; your motivations, your challenges. We take into account the “big picture” and understand the importance of family and relationship dynamics. We spend time looking back at influences, themes, and patterns in your life, and work with you through the internal process of transition: facilitating your process as you determine what you want to leave behind and what you want to take along on your next steps forward.
Life-Work Integration Coaching
Planning & Action
Our approach to coaching is action and outcome focused. We work with you to identify and prioritize what is important and plan the steps to take to get you where you want to be. Life-Work transition coaching is about how to bring the elements of your life together into a coherent whole – creating a life that works.
Strategies for Success
Coaching can also include problem-solving around how to overcome barriers and how to apply your strengths to realize your goals moving forward. We can help you develop techniques and utilize tools for expanding your creative and entrepreneurial potential, as well as incorporating the mindset and habits that will maximize your professional effectiveness.
Client Focused
At Life + Work, we tailor our approach based on your immediate priorities, as well as exploring where you are now in the context of where you have been. While our focus is on your livelihood, we are prepared to address whatever you need to make progress in discovering, creating and succeeding with your life-work goals. It is not unusual for us to integrate both your life and work in the course of a session and this is where our skill and experience can serve you best.
Read more about Susan Jewkes Allen.
Career and life coaching are not substitutes for psychotherapy.
While we may identify and reflect upon important life themes in our work together, we do not provide the extended process and deeper healing work that occurs in psychotherapy or analysis.
We are able to offer cognitive tools and techniques for dealing with work-life challenges and can work collaboratively, when appropriate, with a clients’ psychotherapist, psychologist, analyst, physician or other health care provider.