About XAS Consulting, LLC

What is Mental Health and Physical Health Coaching?

Mental health and physical health coaching is a vibrant area of healthcare. Mental health professionals are knowledgeable and skilled in their practice and incorporate physical health coaching techniques into their range of services. Optimal health is an integrated lifestyle and mindset process. Mental health and physical health coaching can be a profound and practical way to help clients make meaningful changes to their health and outlook. Xiomara uses a coaching toolbox with key skills such as how to create an organic personal wellness plan, how to build client rapport and give constructive feedback, and how to apply different coaching models effectively. She picks up the reins of mental health and physical health coaching for her clients and provides integrated health diagnostic services, preventative healthcare, customized treatments and Do It Yourself (DIY) healthcare exploration in partnership with her clients.

Professional mental health and physical health coaching helps clients improve their overall health and well-being through coaching. Clients develop emotional competence and confidence necessary to support behavioral and emotional changes that will improve their lives and help them feel happier. Unlike clinical counseling, coaching does not involve a diagnosis or treatment of a clinical disorder. Instead, coaching focuses on lifestyle changes and personal growth.

Coaching is a professional relationship between a client and a coach. The mental health and physical health coaching process helps the client develop the emotional competence and emotional confidence necessary to support personal cognitive, behavioral, and emotional change. It facilitates the creation and development of personal goals and skills that can lead to a purposeful, rewarding journey through life. It does not involve a diagnosis or treatment for mental disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric or Psychological Association. Mental health and physical coaching is not a substitute for clinical counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, substance abuse treatment, or psychiatric treatment when a diagnosed disorder is present.

Benefits of Mental Health and Physical Health Coaching

• It provides personalized needed and continuous support.
• It helps clients identify their strengths and work on their weaknesses.
• It assists to guide the client and help him or her to build self-esteem.
• It helps to contribute to a safe environment and can help a person out of isolation.
• It can help a clients develop strategies for overcoming problems and improving their quality of life.

A mental health and physical health coach is there to help a client develop pragmatic solutions to problems and help with problem solving, how to get life back on track; develop a plan to accomplish goals with an action-oriented plan. They develop and implement practical healing and coping strategies.

The mental health and physical health coach helps clients with specific lifestyle issues such as diet and lifestyle issues, relationship concerns, mood issues, to name a few. Coaches can work by phone; others work from the clients’ home or their own home or office. Coaching helps give clients strength and determination to succeed.

Reasons Someone Might Work with a Coach?

Coaching is an option for support for mental health and physical health challenges such as:

• When there is something at stake (a challenge, goal or opportunity), and it is urgent, compelling, exciting or all of the above.
• There is a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence, or resources.
• A big stretch is being asked or required, and it is time sensitive.
• There is a desire to accelerate results.
• There is a need for a course correction in work or life due to a setback.
• An individual has a style of relating that is ineffective or is not supporting the achievement of one’s personally relevant goals.
• There is a lack of clarity, and there are choices to be made.
• The individual is extremely successful, and success has started to become problematic.
• Work and life are out of balance, and this is creating unwanted consequences.
• One has not identified his or her core strengths and how best to leverage them.
• The individual desires work and life to be simpler, less complicated.
• There is a need and a desire to better organized and more self-managing.

Through mental health and physical health coaching, XAS practices an integrative approach to mental health and physical health and embraces the opportunity to work in partnership with clients.

XAS welcomes the opportunity to work with you in addressing your mental health and physical health needs in order to support you in making the necessary changes you need to achieve overall balance and health in your life.

Xiomara believes that an integrative approach to mental health and physical health is vital to a well balanced, healthy lifestyle and a sense of fulfillment and happiness. Real integration involves communication and cooperation between Xiomara and her clients in order for them to be able to honestly assess their needs and develop a plan that they can easily implement in their lives to help them achieve professional and personal well being.

A well balanced, healthy and happy life as a result from an effective coach/client relationship. A well balanced, healthy life is a result of an individual’s hard work in the areas of mental health and physical health that helps them become balanceed and whole, and be able to move forward in their life in positive and fulfilling ways.

This website contains information that describes ways in which XAS specializes in and illustrates capabilities that can be implemented easily by individuals. Ultimately a well balanced healthy life must incorporate changes that create and sustains both mental health and physical health.

The first session with a mental health and physical health coach can be in person, but subsequent sessions are typically conducted by phone or electronically.

Mental health and physical health coaches are a good fit for clients who are not comfortable in seeing a clinical mental health counselor or psychologist but would like to work with someone who has mental health and physical health training.

Coaching is beneficial for individuals who, for one reason or another, are hesitant about getting into psychotherapy or clinical counseling yet are willing to see a coach for support and guidance.

Someone with a recognizable, treatable, and diagnosable clinical disorder needs to see a different kind of professional. Xiomara can provide those services as well, she is a clinically trained mental health professional. However, if someone believes they have issues that coaching can handle then they should see a professional coach.

When it feels as if you’re just going through the motions in your life, it becomes hard to feel good or excited about anything. This is no way to live and no one wants to feel this way all of the time. You might not know how to make the changes you need to make or maybe what you have tried to change so far had not worked. This is the kind of situation I can help you with.

• Are you tired of focusing your life on taking care of everyone except yourself?
• Is your health starting to suffer as a consequence of putting yourself last in your list of priorities?
• Do you toss and turn at night worrying about dealing with despair?

You are not alone. Many adults feel just as you do. It is possible to get your life in balance and feel productive and happy again.

XAS would Like to Help.

When it feels as you’re just going through the motions of your life, it is hard to feel good or excited about anything. Xiomara knows that you don’t want to feel like this, and she understands you may not know how to change, and what you’ve tried so far hasn’t worked. Many of her clients visit her for just this type of situation.

If your days are filled with career anxieties, it’s hard to give it your best when you feel stuck or scared to try something new. Xiomara can coach you through this difficult time.

When you’re taking care of children, a significant other or aging parents, it can feel like your own life has gotten lost. Xiomara can coach you back to owning your own choices and taking the time you deserve.

When you’re ready for a change, Xiomara can make it easier for you. Email her for a brief chat about how coaching will work for you. xasosa@xasconsulting.com