Want to see if life consulting is a good fit for you?
What my clients are saying:
I left every session with more clarity and understanding of myself, my gifts and talents and my genuine desires.
“Kerri was able to clearly articulate what I was struggling with (‘a comedown from toxic productivity’) very quickly which felt like a sigh of relief for me. I suddenly could name things I was finding difficult, which allowed me to take authority of them and truly give it all to the Lord. I left every session with more clarity and understanding of myself, my gifts and talents and my genuine desires. I was able to see myself as God made me, not under any societal expectations or misconstrued notions of how I thought I ‘should’ be. It was grounding to also be able to identify my weaknesses and where I have room to grow, as well as what strengths and virtues I can continue to cultivate.
Now I am going to be intentional about the rhythm of my days, especially after identifying the lack of balance from our first exercise doing my life inventory. I’m also going to embrace working interactively with God, listening to how He wants to work through me throughout all ages and stages. I feel equipped to grow in prudence and gratitude with tangible tools I can take onward.”
The great breakthrough is being able to see a more positive future for myself.
“I didn’t know what to expect when I first started, but after a couple of sessions I found myself releasing so much that I had suppressed for years. My goal was always to do what I had to do in these sessions so I could become productive and joyful again. Things changed for me after each session. Whatever we discussed in a session I prayed on that week and all I can say is that each week I could see clearer and I was getting stronger. I knew that I was going in the positive direction that I prayed for. What was the most helpful to me was the fact that when I spoke, Kerri was able to pick up on some unhealthy beliefs that I had that were holding me back from believing in myself. The great breakthrough is being able to see a more positive future for myself.”
I feel that Kerri is attuned to me - to who I am and who I am trying to become.
“It is no exaggeration to say that I shudder to think where I would be right now were it not for my work with Kerri. The changes and calibrations she has helped me to make have helped me to take greater possession of myself and my life. As I am growing, my life is becoming more and more aligned with my purpose and I am becoming more fulfilled. With her help and support I have been able to take great leaps of faith that have propelled me forward.
Kerri is gifted with a listening, open and receptive heart, coupled with keen insight and wisdom. I feel that Kerri is attuned to me – to who I am and who I am trying to become. In our work together I have felt understood, supported, encouraged, challenged…like I have a trusted and very dear companion on my journey who is looking out for my best interests and is helping me to navigate and face what life is presenting to me so that I can stretch myself and reach towards my highest good.”
What I can help with:
Life Overwhelm / Uncertainty
Discern your priorities and get things in order in a way that works for you
– There is no one-sized-fits-all system of life that works for everyone
– I can help you learn to know yourself, so you don’t waste time or get frustrated trying to live according to someone else’s way of doing things
– Once you know yourself (your tendencies, your gifts & talents, and season of life), you can find a rhythm of life that works for you, not against you
– Discerning your priorities allows you to peacefully say yes and no to the demands on your time, talent, and finances that do or don’t align with that discernment
Life Change / Big Decision
Approach the decision with clarity, peace, and confidence
– If you aren’t sure about changing careers, changing location, or even changing something like your child’s schooling, it can take more than a pro & con list
– Maybe you’re thinking about starting your own business, getting a different degree, or beginning a long-distance relationship, but you aren’t sure if it’s the right thing for you or the right time to try
– It can be hard to sort through the sometimes biased but well-meaning advice given by family and friends: often it’s helpful to talk to someone outside the situation
– We’ll explore your “why” and the many factors that accompany big decisions: your situation in life, core priorities, goals, trade-offs, and that feeling in your gut you can’t quite name
– I’ll help you learn to discern so you can hear God’s voice and the desires of your own heart
Family Culture
Discern how you want your family to live so you can thrive together
– Every family is different, but every thriving family shares some key qualities
– Parents who live intentionally help their children to do the same
– You can discern, discover, and decide how you want your family to live. What’s important to for you to hand on to your children?
– By stepping out of survival mode and into intentional living, your family can begin to thrive
– I’ll help you establish good habits and patterns of life that respect the uniqueness of your family
– Spend your valuable resources – time, energy, and money – building what matters most
Why Life Consulting?
Overcome overwhelm
Living without purpose and peace is exhausting. It’s overwhelming to never be sure if you’re doing “the right thing” or even just the best thing for your life right now. It’s frustrating to listen to the voices of experts who don’t actually know you: when you try to implement their systems in your life, you can end up feeling like a failure.
Live Intentionally
When you start living intentionally, peace follows. You can let go of guilt about what you feel like you “should” be doing, because you’ve taken the time to intentionally discern your purpose(s) for this season of your life.
Discern your purpose
“Finding your purpose” doesn’t necessarily mean deciding the one thing you’ll do for the rest of your life. (That’s a bit overwhelming.) It simply means discerning your priorities for now and choosing to live accordingly. It means setting aside other voices so you can listen to God and the desires of your own heart.
Find Freedom
When you’re realistic about your own situation, gifts, and energy levels, you’re free. Free to stop living someone else’s life; free to say no to what drains you so you can say yes to what brings life; and free to be fully the person God made you to be.
How It Works
Life Consulting is an opportunity to sit down, talk through your thoughts & questions, and
get advice & encouragement in figuring out your next step.
In each 60 minute session, we’ll explore your priorities, the things that might be holding you back, and how to overcome them. Together, we’ll create a uniquely-tailored plan to help you move forward with purpose and peace. Sometimes I’ll offer you worksheets or other exercises to help you in the time between our sessions.
Some clients like to meet weekly; others prefer meeting every other week. The choice is yours.
Sessions take place via an audio call. (I’ve found that most people feel much more comfortable when they don’t have to worry about being on camera, so we’ll meet with video off.)
Your Investment:
Individual Consultation
1:1 session with Kerri-
Each 60-minute session is 1:1 and takes place via an audio call
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Meetings are weekly or bi-weekly (client's choice)
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(Clients who have already purchased a package can purchase a single session for £65)
Group Sessions
1:1 session with Kerri-
Gather 4-6 others who want to pursue the same direction
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6 Live Virtual 60-minute Sessions (Weekly or Bi-Weekly). I'll break open a topic, and we'll start applying it right away
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Time for Q&A + worksheets plus enrichment exercises
Workshops, Talks, & Retreats
I’d love to work with your local group or community, either in person or virtually. Mostly I speak about issues related to discernment, but if it’s on the blog or in an email, I’m happy to share more!
Popular Topics:
- Discernment in Practice: What Is It, and How to Do It
- Common Mistakes in Discernment and How to Remedy Them
- What is Vocation? (and Why We’ve Probably Got it Wrong)
- Work-Life Balance: What Are We Striving For?
- Letting Go of Mom-Guilt, Perfectionism, and The Things That Hold Us Back from Peace
- Come Alive: Embracing Creativity (Even and Especially When You’re Not ‘Artsy’)
- Ordinary Life and the Path to Peace
Get in touch for availability and rates.
Frequently Asked Questions
While Life Coaching can take many different forms, it’s ultimately modeled off of the work of an athletic coach. There’s a timeline of some sort where you are brought from point a to point b.
In contrast, Life Consulting doesn’t require you to do drills or fill your early mornings with phone calls to check up on you. Instead, it‘s a place to talk through your ideas and receive thoughtful feedback, helpful suggestions, and insight into how to discern your next step.
You might even discern that you don’t feel like now is the right time to make a move at all. Life Consulting offers an opportunity to sort out your ideas wisely – not just to make a change for the sake of it. If you do decide to set goals, we can create a plan to help you meet them. Life Consulting provides encouragement in moving forward — no yelling or whistle-blowing, literally or figuratively!
Another difference in approach is that Life Coaching usually operates on the belief that the client already has all the answers within him or herself. Life Consulting recognizes the truth that while we may know more than we give ourselves credit for, no one has all the answers. Instead, Life Consulting helps the client discover the answers that he or she is seeking.
Generally speaking, counselling or therapy involves analysis of past experiences and behaviors: the focus of Life Consulting is to be realistic about the present and positive about the future. (If it becomes clear that a client might benefit from analysing his or her past, I will happily recommend a professional counselor/ therapist.)
Life Consulting from a Christian perspective is truly unique.
A Christian perspective on the world informs the whole of life, from the types of choices we make, to how we go about making them. Christians believe they have been created for something more, something beyond the self. At the same time, Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). Life Consulting from a Christian perspective integrates the call to something more with having life to the full.
The great challenge with “self-help” is that it is both true and false. A Christian perspective realises that each of us can grow and change of our own accord – but not solely through our own strength. We need help: both divine and human! While no one can make a decision for you, you can draw on the wisdom and insight offered throughout the centuries.
Being Christian helps us to recognise that not all decisions are the same: some choices will harm ourselves and others. Life Consulting offers a space to discern choices that will bring life and goodness to ourselves and those around us. It recognizes that decisions are not made in a vacuum, and that our decisions will be wiser if we seek trustworthy guidance.
Of course, you don’t need to be a Christian to seek Life Consulting! If you find yourself recognising the values above, Life Consulting might be a good fit for you.
Spiritual direction can have an element of ‘obedience’ between the director and the directee: that is not the case with Life Consulting. You are always free to take or leave anything that comes up in a consult.
Spiritual coaching tends to operate on the model that the coach has special “divine insight” into your life. The goal of Life Consulting is to help you gain insight into your own life. I’m not a medium – just a fellow human being who has learned a lot about discernment and can help you learn to discern better.
Absolutely. Just like you expect confidentiality and professionalism from other trusted advisors in your life, like a doctor or lawyer, you can be assured that consults proceed with same degree of confidentiality and professionalism.
If you’re unsure about whether Life Consulting can help, get in touch: I can respond to your email situation or we can speak for 30 minutes at no charge and see if it is a good fit.
Consults vary widely, depending on a client’s situation, but the format is generally the same. We’ll connect over the phone and I’ll ask you about what’s on your mind, how your week has been, and the things you might want to talk about. From there, things get going pretty quickly! (I’ve never had a call go silent for lack of things to talk about.)
My job is to ask good questions and help you sort through your ideas. I can help you name the unspoken things going on in your heart, and encourage you to pray or work through your priorities and struggles in practice. Most of my clients like to take notes while we’re talking so they can revisit them later.
Usually clients leave the first consult with a lot to think about, and need some time to process what they’ve heard. I will usually provide you with specific, actionable activities to help you continue your discernment. Typically, clients find it helpful to have another consult one or two weeks later, in order to discuss their process. Depending on the situation, consults can continue weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly until a client feels confident proceeding on his or her own. (Sometimes, clients find it helpful just to have a “one-off” consult here and there.)
Most of us are all “zoomed out” these days! The truth is, video calls are not the same as in-person meetings. They change the way we act and react to others.
Some claim that we lose up to 90% of the non-verbal communication that we would get by meeting in person. When we can only see a person’s head and shoulders, we miss out on normal human body language, and so we concentrate extra hard to make up for it. What’s more, with even a slight delay the cues that are there are easily mistaken. It’s exhausting!
It’s especially important to feel relaxed and comfortable in a life consult: with an audio call, you can focus on what’s being said, rather than spending lots of energy trying to navigate video. The bonus benefit is that you can wear whatever you want! 🙂
Example 1
Client A has a decent job and enjoys her social life, but feels like something is missing. She’d like to get married and have a family at some point, but that doesn’t seem to be an option right now. She doesn’t have a specific issue or decision to talk about, but she feels unfulfilled and unsure about the path she’s on.
Before our first consult, I send Client A a “life inventory” worksheet – this provides a chance for her to pause and take stock of the different aspects of her life (spiritual, physical, social, emotional, etc.) and consider how satisfied she is with them. In our first meeting, we talk through her worksheet and the ideas it has raised for her. She leaves with some new self-knowledge, and that informs the rest of our sessions together.
In subsequent meetings, we explore what she’s struggling with, what’s bringing her joy, and what makes her feel most like herself. I encourage her to take certain things to prayer, and suggest journaling prompts that might help clarify what’s really important to her.
For Client A, Life Consulting is a chance to really learn to know herself and let go of expectations and demands that are not part of what she discerns is her life path right now. She comes away with a newfound confidence and peace in who God has made her, and her ability to discern well.
Example 2
Client B has some big life decisions to make. He’s been considering returning to school for a Master’s Degree in order to change careers, but needs to be able to continue to provide for his family.
In our first consult, we spend significant time discussing the “big picture”: the “whys” of this decision, and how his various future options might impact his current responsibilities. We clarify his priorities and main purpose, then consider how he might begin to discern his options in light of those priorities and purpose. I offer some practical methods of discernment for the client to do at home (individually and with his family), as well as suggestions for how he might begin to take some initial concrete steps in decision making.
In later consults, we discuss his ongoing discernment in light of his larger goals and create a list of actionable steps he can take to narrow down his options and discern each one individually. Ongoing meetings provide an opportunity for thoughtful guidance and practical advice as the client makes a decision.
For Client B, Life Consulting offers help in clarifying personal priorities, discerning options wisely, and making a good decision in light of his particular circumstances.
Example 3
Client C is the parent of a family. She loves her spouse and children but is worried about their family life and how separate they seem to be growing. She and her husband have considered the possibility of switching to home education, but are overwhelmed and unsure about where to begin.
Our first session entails an in-depth and thought-provoking discussion about the nature of family life and what that client’s unique family culture looks like. She leaves the session with many new ideas and several practical discussion topics to engage her family with, such as, What are their priorities as a family? What is the purpose of education for their children? What do they like and dislike about their current educational options? What kind of family do they want to be remembered as? If they had a family motto, what would it be?
Session two is an opportunity to consider the input of the whole family and how they might start to adjust their family culture in light of their priorities. We begin to discuss how various school options align with their family priorities and create a plan to discern those options, practically.
In the third session, we discuss the family’s progress in cultivating their unique family culture. Ongoing sessions provide encouragement as the family enjoys more enriching time together and help in making a good choice in education.
For Client C, Life Consulting offers an opportunity to gain insight and clarity about family life, a plan to cultivate a new and more purposeful way of living, and the encouragement to proceed in decision making by being well-equipped with information and methods of discernment.
