Coaching with Meryl
“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.”
-Sadhguru
Coaching Philosophy and Information
I believe the body is as valuable a pathway to shift perspective and explore emotions as the mind. I have witnessed amazing transformation in people, including myself, when their physical form is re-aligned and when they have the opportunity to move. I have also witnessed profound change with shifts in perspective, focus, and belief in self. Our aim with this practice is to create opportunity to explore both routes.
I use Solution Focused Brief Coaching, which I like to call Heart Talk, because it aligns most closely with my values and beliefs. Many coaches focus on problem solving. However, Heart Talk doesn’t see problems. It sees opportunity, resilience, human spirit, and ability. This is what I strive to highlight for each client so they see themselves as the hero of their own story and can move forward in choice, awareness, and love.
Sessions are 45-50 minutes of talk exploration with the option to incorporate movement if desired. Movement may look like walking in nature while we talk, some kind of play or activity, or simple yoga movements to open the body prior to talking.
Evening and Weekend Appointments Available
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Adolescents
Dear Adolescent,
You do not need to be fixed!
Love, Your Inner Self
P.S. Clean your room ;)
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my time as a school therapist in a special educational behavior program, it’s that adolescents are amazing! They are smart, resilient, capable, and loving. Though they don’t always recognize that in themselves or show it with their behaviors. Adolescence is a transitional growth period where we are experiencing changes in our brain, developing independence from family, and exploring how we fit into the world around us. Is it a surprise that this can be a challenging time?
My goal as a therapist is to help adolescents to see how amazing they are, to recognize their abilities, communicate their needs in appropriate ways and to make choices that align with their heart. Through using solution focused brief therapy, a conversational approach, clients are able to verbalize what they are working towards and discover inner strengths and resources to experience a future that is consciously in line with what they want to create.
As with all therapy offered through The Inner Perspective there is opportunity for movement which can aid in the therapeutic process. This can be incorporated through games, walks, and yoga. Movement will be tailored to individual needs.
Adults
Dear Adult,
You do not have the be the victim of your circumstances.
You are not a leaf floating on the wind.
You get to choose, to decide, to create.
Love, Your Inner Self
There is always more to discover, to experience, to allow yourself to create. Your past and current realities do not have to dictate your future. How you are responding to your current reality, how you are seeing your current reality, that will have an effect on your future. The Inner Perspective was created to serve those looking to create a different reality; to help people shift their energy, connect more deeply with themselves and others, and set up the conditions for change. In our session we will use Solution Focused Brief Therapy and potentially movement explorations to accomplish the following:
Take a deep look at what we want and why we want it. What is the essence that we want to experience? We will find clarity of our goals and hopes and take that information into our explorations. We’ll look for how we are experiencing this state currently or in the past and what strengths and resources we have to create more of what we desire.
Shift how we are looking at past experiences by plucking out the lessons and successes. We will explore how we can shift the meaning we have given to our past experiences and how we can consciously use new meanings and responses to inform our future experiences.
Create! What does having that look like? We are going to create this experience in real time through words and physical experience.
It is my vision that each client with whom I work takes from therapy a new perspective. I want them to leave therapy feeling confident in themselves that they have the skills and means to navigate their challenges and create the relationships and experiences that make them feel that life is worth living!
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Mental Health Policy
Coach Meryl Sykes is a licensed mental health professional in the state of Florida. However, Meryl Sykes only provides coaching services to clients of The Inner Perspective. Coaching is not a substitute or alternative for mental health counseling, psychoanalysis or examination, or other mental health services. Do not delay diagnosis or treatment. Do not postpone appointments, go without or adjust medications, or otherwise rely on coaching as a substitute or alternative for mental health care.
In the event the coach deems, in the coach’s sole discretion, that coaching is not appropriate for you, coach will notify you of the termination of the coaching relationship. Coach is unable to provide therapy services to you.
As a licensed mental health professional, coach will provide certain therapy-style documents to you at the start of the coaching relationship, although therapy will not be provided. These documents are intended to explain how certain aspects of a mental health setting may carry over to the coaching relationship.
For example, while coaching is not subject to any privilege, coach does strive to keep communications confidential. However, there are certain instances, usually pertaining to self-harm or harm to others, that coach will abide by mandatory reporting rules typical of mental health settings.
Coach does not provide letters for ongoing court cases or other purposes.
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