Been skipped over for promotion? Tossing and turning at night? Not motivated to get the gym any more? Feeling irritable or cranky? Downright depressed? Confronted about a lack of romantic attention by your spouse? Any number of issues tip the balance in favor of someone being willing to pick up the phone and make the call for help. Making that call is the first step toward recovering your power and getting your life back on track. After an initial consultation with Coaching International's principal, Clare Bowen-Davies, you will be referred to the appropriate practitioner best trained to meet your needs.

Women are facing special concerns today - balancing the demands of working full time and being a wife and mother are especially challenging. We may have been lead to believe "we can have it all" and yet, perhaps we can't have it all at the same time! How best to have a full, rewarding, balanced life? These are issues we can help you explore and manage. While many of us don't like to think of these statistics, research confirms one in every three women have been sexually abused (and one in every five/six men have been sexually abused). It's not uncommon for professional women to be under tremendous pressure in their thirties and forties and suddently become flooded with memories of these past experiences and, as if out of nowhere, be compromised in their effectiveness. We can help in this overwhelming situation, we have experts in this arena. Read Rebecca's story.

The demands on our time in this technological age of instant messaging and insistent cellphones are persistent and unhealthy. Studies clearly show that when the body is under the constant stress and strain of such a pace, chemicals such as adrenaline are pumped in readiness for fight or flight (as if our lives are in danger), when all we're doing is trying to get through the day. Continuous exposure to such a state contributes to the body breaking down into states of illness and disease. Stress management may seem to be a jaded term and yet managing your stress is critical to having a long, healthy and happy life. If you'd like help creating a road map for your life, intentionally designing where you want to go, with whom and when, our coaches can assist you in this endeavor. Read Paul's story.

All that stress is enough to drive you to drink! And for some people, a drink at the end of a hard day is not a problem, and for others, when there's a history of alcoholism in the family and there are other vulnerabilities present, drinking at the end of a hard day can become seriously problematic. Sometimes it takes other people to notice when drinking has crossed the line from fun to not fun any more, it usually isn't the drinker themselves who can tell. We have experts who can advise on alternative strategies for unwinding at the end of a tough day, and who can determine whether the line has been crossed from social to problematic drinking. Alcoholism and drug addiction cause an enormous financial and social toll, causing DUI's, breaking up families, contributing to job loss - if you have any concerns here whatsoever, do not hesitate to call in complete confidence.

Marital bliss? Here's a hint: spend as much time planning the marriage as you do planning the wedding. What kind of partners will you be? Have you really explored your relationship with money? What about kids, how many, how far apart? Or perhaps you're blending families - even more reason to do lots of exploration with your sweetheart (as a reminder, more second marriages fail than firsts, and the current statistics give you fifty/fifty chance the first time around). We offer pre-engagement and pre-marital counseling to help you be as sure as you can be that this is really the relationship of your dreams.

In the world of reality TV and unreality movies, we may have formed ideas of how families "should" be together, relate to one another, and have some pretty interesting ideas about living "happily ever after." Since most of our own parents did their best but probably didn't give us the greatest of training in how to be parents and lovers, we offer communication training, parental guidance, family blending suggestions, and empty nest preparation. If things have already moved beyond these stages, we also offer divorce preparation strategies and divorce recovery tools. We liaise with local mediators and attorneys.