Essential Clarity

Freya Q. Schafer, Ph.D.

EFT Life Coach

Helping you gain freedom, achievement & success
using proven EFT and Life Coaching techniques


How does coaching work?

  • Start with a Free Sample Session to experience the power of coaching for yourself.
  • Schedule a one-time 90-minute Orientation Session where we evaluate your needs and set practical goals for your personalized coaching process.
  • In weekly 40-minute sessions you and your Life Coach make progress towards your goals.
  • Or sign up for a 5-session Coaching Package to address a specific issue


The coaching process is simple and highly effective

Life Coaching uses proven techniques and procedures to support you in your life transitions, and to help you live a successful life.

Key elements of Life Coaching include:

The coaching process is a collaboration between equals

The coaching partnership is solely focused on you and your goals. Your Life Coach is there to support you in a non-judgmental way, help you get in touch with your strengths, formulate a practical plan and help you achieve your personal goals. The coaching session is a time just devoted to you and your success in life.

Coaching is deceptively simple, but it works

After the Free Introductory Session and your Orientation Session, you have one session a week with your coach, usually by phone. Or you can choose a 5-session Coaching Package, also by phone. Phone sessions reduce traveling time and cost and provide you with the opportunity to receive coaching at a convenient time, in the familiar comforts of your home or office.

The CLARITY™ model: A step by step approach to finding solutions

CLARITY™

Clarify your goals
Look inside
Assess your situation
Research resources
Implement action plan
Transform fears and obstacles into opportunities
You succeed!

We developed the CLARITY™ model to provide an effective phased approach to finding solutions to your life problems/challenges. Our Essential Clarity Life Coaches follow this outline to address specific issues and help our clients successfully meet their challenges.

  1. Clarify your goals: The clearer you are on your goals the stronger the desire to take action. The more specific your goals are the more clearer the path on how to achieve them. This increases motivation and opens your mind to new possibilities. CLARITY coaching helps you to create a clear picture of your goal and keep it in front of your mind.
  2. Look inside: You are your biggest resource. Many solutions are waiting for discovery inside you. Sometimes they are hidden by beliefs that are not useful or old perspectives that could be updated. CLARITY coaching helps you to peel away the layers that cover your resources and set them free.
  3. Assess your situation: Step back and review your situation objectively. Ask yourself what needs are met and what is missing? What are the obstacles and hurdles I have to take and what opportunities are there? CLARITY coaching helps you to use your creativity to find new opportunities and solutions.
  4. Research resources: Pose questions that need to be answered in order to reach your goal. Then find resources that can answer these questions. Network, ask for help, and look in any available place to find answers. CLARITY coaching helps you to stay motivated during your research and points you to resources you might not have thought about.
  5. Implement action plan. Steps one through four help you to develop / design an action plan. During this stage it is important to create action steps that are big enough to carry you forward and small enough that they are achievable and you do not hesitate. CLARITY coaching will help you to set deadlines and define measurable results -- both crucial factors for implementation of a successful action plan.
  6. Transform fears and obstacles into opportunities: Address your fears and hesitations and work through them. Much energy and motivation is lost when you get stuck in fear or halted in front of obstacles. Overcoming fear and obstacles often results in a boost of self-growth and energy. CLARITY coaching helps you to step back and look objectively at your fears and obstacles. Many fears and obstacles will just disappear. Your coach will help you find your core strength to address those fears and obstacles that are of real concern.
  7. You succeed: The CLARITY model is a tool that helps you to be successful. CLARITY coaching helps you stay focused, motivated and in action to speed up the process.

Setting goals and evaluating your strengths

The Orientation Session jump-starts our coaching relationship. In this 90-minute Orientation Session we evaluate your needs and strengths, design our alliance together and set initial goals. We discuss how you want me to coach you and what techniques and processes will help you achieve your goals. Most of this session will be discovery – this is when your Essential Clarity Life Coach learns who you are, what you wish for in your life and what values and goals are important to you. After this we will meet every week for a 40-minute coaching session.

Emotional Freedoms Techniques: Clearing the path to achieving goals

Freya is one of the few Life Coaches who is certified and uses EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to help clients clear emotional blocks and fears in a short time. This proven tapping technique removes disruptions in the energy system caused by negative emotions. Once the energy can freely flow through your body, fears and intense emotions are dissolved. The combination of Life Coaching and EFT has proven to be powerful. Life Coaching helps uncover your emotions and fears that hold back your progress and EFT removes them in a painless and speedy fashion.

Making progress every week - On-going coaching

Continuity in coaching is important: Most of our coaching clients take three to four sessions a month to make fastest progress towards their goals. Weekly sessions keep you focused on your goals and result in continuous progress. Although less sessions per month can save cost in the short term, it will most likely take you more time to reach your goals. Because change happens over time, a three-month commitment to the coaching process is minimum. This allows time for the coaching relationship to develop most powerfully and for Freya to develop an effective strategy for helping you to achieve your goals.

You set the agenda: Co-Active Coaching is 100% customized to your needs

Every coaching relationship is personalized to help you achieve your specific goals. Freya and her team of Life Coaches will draw on a variety of "Co-Active" techniques, processes, assessments and strategies designed to help you discover and implement solutions to the challenges you face. "Co-Active" means that your Life Coach works with you to evaluate your situation, assess your qualities and strengths, examine choices, suggest additional resources, and design a practical plan of action.

Each coaching relationship and coaching session is unique, specially designed to facilitate your growth. You set the agenda and you make the choices. Your Life Coach is there to help you gain insight and clarity about yourself and your situation, coach you to make the best possible decisions, and provide support to achieve your goals.

"I was never good at sports and I don't like the concept of a 'coach'!"

The term "life coach" certainly draws on the sports model of a professional who helps athletes develop their performance skills. But the similarities stop there. Your life coach is not going to be a "rah-rah, go-get 'em tiger!" type of trainer who pushes you to achieve and excel, even at the expense of your well-being. A Life Coach is dedicated to your overall well-being, and is specially trained to facilitate your personal growth and help you achieve goals that you set. Your Essential Clarity Life Coach will certainly cheer you on, but will also draw on a vast array of personal-growth techniques to help you move to the next level of personal development and achievement.

Trust, Commitment, Accountability and Celebration

Clients trust Freya and her team of Essential Clarity Life Coaches because we observe 100% confidentiality to assure your complete privacy and she provides a supportive, judgment-free environment.

We are also 100% committed to helping you achieve your goals, develop your personal power and enjoy the success you deserve.

Accountability is one of the powerful advantages brought by a coaching relationship. Weekly sessions usually culminate in specific action steps for you to take. Knowing that you have to report back to your coach the next week drives you forward, keeps you focused and on track. Your Essential Clarity Life Coach will help you formulate your personal plan of action and achieve your goals.

Celebration! We often forget to celebrate our wins and reward ourselves for our successes. Your Life Coach acts as your private cheerleader who cheers you on all the way to the finish line. She is there to remind you of your achievements and to celebrate your successes with you.

We coach world-wide: Coaching on the phone

Coaching over the phone might sound very distant but in reality it is very personal and effective. It is estimated that over 85% of Life Coaching is done over the phone -- that's thousands of hours every month!

Our clients live all over the world. We worked with clients via phone or skype in North America, South America, Europe and Sri Lanka. Most of our Essential Clarity clients who live in the same town as their Life Coaches prefer the phone to face-to-face coaching.

Coaching over the phone provides several advantages:

  • You can choose the environment that suits you best for coaching. Be it in your garden, office, living room, comfortable chair, on vacation...
  • Phone coaching is less distractive. Coaching is about listening deeply and speaking on the phone eliminates visual distractions and makes it easier for the coach to fully concentrate on the client. Emotions and unspoken words are easily detected. The environment we create with our clients via the phone can be described as personal, calm, fun, focused, easy going and confidential.
  • It is less time consuming: It eliminates navigation through heavy traffic and search for parking.
  • Phone coaching provides continuity. If your or your coach is on a business trip or visiting friends and family, you can still keep coaching appointments.
  • It is cheaper: No parking and gas fees and no additional time fees for the traveling coach.
  • As a client you have more flexibility in your choice of coaches. You are not restricted to coaches in your own town or own country. You can find the perfect match in any location around the world.

House/Office calls: I recommend phone sessions as they have proven to be both highly effective and efficient. In certain circumstances, a local client may desire an in-person session at a private residence or office. This generally adds $20 house call fee to the standard session fee, plus the rental cost for any facility rental if the session is not held at the client's home or office.

Coaching Packages versus Ongoing Coaching

Coaching Packages offer a time-limited coaching experience. They are also slightly cheaper than ongoing coaching. If you want to make progress in one specific area of your life, coaching packages are a good choice. However, focusing on one specific topic can restrict the dance between you and your coach. It often happens that distractive life challenges not directly related to the package topic come up during the week that need coaching. For example, a close relative dies, the company is laying off workers, a grant proposal was rejected, a person gave notice, a family member needs surgery…

When a client is in an ongoing coaching relationship these issues can be addressed when they appear. This helps the client to cope with life challenges when they appear. Ongoing coaching provides the client with a chance to restore his or her mental and emotional balance before returning to the overall coaching topic. Ongoing coaching also provides the continuity that is so important in coaching. Meeting with your coach every week keeps the learning alive, motivation high and your focus on your goals. This makes coaching successful.

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