My Journey to Coaching

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I have some exciting news to share! As many of you know, for the last 3 years, I have been working towards my coaching certification. I recently finished that process and am now a Certified ACC-level Coach through the International Coaching Federation! It's been a long and rewarding journey!

With Pick It Up Coaching I am now working with people beyond the realm of organizing. I'm still offering on-site organizing services in a limited capacity to past clients, but the focus of my business has shifted to coaching.  Read on for more information on this journey!
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The Journey from Organizing to Coaching

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​Since 2010, I have been helping people create spaces in their homes and businesses that are functional and beautiful — and it’s been a joy! My clients are amazing and I love supporting them in my role as a professional organizer. However, at some point, I realized that to truly help my clients, we needed to move beyond dealing with just the physical ‘stuff’ in their lives. I saw patterns of behavior that were working against them but I didn’t know how to help.

Then came Covid, and for the first time in ages, I had time on my hands. On a whim in 2020, I took an eight-week coaching class designed for professional organizers. It was life-changing! By the end of that class, I knew coaching was in my future. It connected the dots between our mindset and the actions we take and gave me a new framework for working with clients. For the last three years, I have worked toward the goal of becoming a certified coach. This has involved 90+ training hours, 150+ coaching hours, assessments, recorded calls, mentoring, tests and more. In February of 2024, I became an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

I now incorporate coaching into all the work I do with clients and am amazed at the profound impact it can have on people's lives. I currently split my time between on-site organizing work in San Francisco and coaching work with people all over the world. I genuinely love supporting people in these different ways!

Becoming a coach put me on a path that has opened up my world and I’m excited to share some of what I have learned with you. I invite you to explore my upcoming blog posts on my new website Pick It Up Coaching, with the hope that they will open something up for you as well.