Essential Clarity

Freya Q. Schafer, Ph.D.

EFT Life Coach

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


Life Coaching helps many different people achieve their goals:

  • Are you a woman over 40 facing transitions, looking for passion, meaning, balance, health and fitness in your life?
  • Do you want to fully realize your potential as a Leader -- either at work, in your community or in your family life?
  • Are you a Baby Boomer who faces mid-life challenges, career changes, retirement or a new purpose in life?
  • Are you facing complex career choices?
  • Are you stuck with the same old problems year after year? (not enough time, unsatisfying career, crazy family schedule, money issues, suboptimal health, etc.)
  • Are you a foreigner who is new to America and wants to successfully integrate into this country's culture?

Life coaching can provide you with the support and tools to gain greater clarity, formulate a practical plan and achieve your goals.

Life Coaching is a proven process that is successfully applied to many different life situations:

Life Coaching for Women over 40

Women over 40 face a variety of challenging issues such as: returning to work after an extended absence; children are growing up and women need to find something to satisfy their own needs; finding ways to develop a healthy life style; being overwhelmed; trying to un-clutter their lives; searching for meaning and a purpose in life. Life coaching helps you to redefine your life and create a vision for your future. It provides you with tools to get back in control and achieve balance in your life. Freya and her team of Essential Clarity Life Coaches can help you to reclaim your life.

Being herself in her 40s Freya encountered several of these issues herself. Four years ago she uncluttered her life. She started with cleaning out her house to create space for new ideas and positive events in her life. She took time for self-assessment and created a new vision for her future. She used the tools she learned during her education as a Life Coach to set new goals and stay focused. Today she lives a satisfying life.

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Rise to your full potential as a Leader by gaining Leadership Skills

Leadership is not just a natural talent -- it is a complex skill that can be learned and mastered. Life Coaching provides an array of effective techniques to evaluate your leadership potential, identify your leadership style, and develop the skills you need to successfully lead others at work, in your community or at home.

Freya Schafer, Susan Westbrook and Andrea Glavas all have special training in Experiential Leadership Skill Development and can help you to identify your critical areas for growth, strengthen your innate leadership abilities, and provide you with insightful guidance on your path to Leadership success. They are especially skilled in empowering women to rise to their leadership potential and gain the competitive advantages needed for success in career, community and family.

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Helping Scientists achieve success

The proven tools and techniques of Life Coaching are especially suited to helping Scientists and Technical Professionals meet the complex challenges of their jobs.

By working with an Essential Clarity Life Coach, Scientists can

  • Balance their professional and personal lives
  • Improve time management and increase efficiency in office work
  • Improve interactions with their lab staff
  • Gain leadership skills needed to be successful in their career
  • Develop powerful communications skills

Freya Schafer, PhD, brings over 12 years of experience as a successful research scientist to her portfolio of Life Coaching skills. Freya intimately understands the many challenges Scientists and Technical Professionals face in their careers.

She is able to creatively apply the tools and methods of Life Coaching and Leadership to the issues that accompany a career in science. She is especially skilled in helping women in science find solutions to the additional hurdles and problems that they face on a daily basis. Freya’s ability to guide Scientists to recognize their strengths and deepen leadership skills, make her an ideal Life Coach for professionals in the Science field. Back to top

Living the life you want: Baby Boomers redefining retirement

Many Baby Boomers regard retirement as transition to anther work-life. They are looking for work that is more in tune with who they are and what they love to do. But this desire often opens a can of questions:

  • What will I do when I no longer have an office to go to?
  • Who am I once I have been stripped of my titles and positions?
  • What will get me out of bed in the morning?
  • What do I really enjoy?
  • What do I want to be when I am grown up?
  • What else is there?

Baby boomers facing retirement often don't know how to answer these questions. Your Essential Clarity Life Coach will help you to discover how to fill your time with worth-while pursuits and achieve your vision of successful retirement. Don't count the days until you retire. Now is the time to make your dreams a reality and lay the foundation for success.

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Essential Clarity Life Coaching for "ADD" Clients.

Providing tools and skills for balance and focus

Working with an Essential Clarity Life Coach can be an effective way for ADD/HD clients to gain skills in navigating the routines and responsibilities of everyday life. Susan Westbrook, one of the Essential Clarity Associate Life Coaches, has a specialty in helping ADD clients to develop better strategies for enjoying the many positive aspects of the way they experience the world. If you have ADD, you will find that the tools of Life Coaching can help you to regain control of your life.

If you have been diagnosed with ADD/HD, or if you experience what we call an "ADD point of view," then you may be overwhelmed by the myriad of responsibilities and tasks you face them each day. You may also be accused of day dreaming, have a reputation for leaving tasks unfinished, or may have difficulty maintaining consistency in daily routines and procedures.

Using proven Life Coaching tools and techniques, our Essential Clarity Life Coaches can help you cope better with your special ADD point of view, make desired changes and achieve your goals.

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Career Choice Coaching

"What is the career that suits me best?"

We all ask ourselves this question at least once in our life. And many of us ask the same question again after 10 or 20 years in our first career. It is an intimidating question that tends to freeze up our brains.

Career Choice Coaching helps un-freeze your mind and opens you to fresh, new insights and greater clarity. We do this by breaking this big question into smaller questions that are easier to explore and to answer:

  • What are my values in life?
  • What are my interests and passions?
  • How do my personality traits and temperaments influence my work?
  • What are my skills and innate abilities?

With Essential Clarity's three-step system, you'll gain clarity and insight and narrow your choices down from a 1000 possible careers to a manageable size (5-10). Your Essential Clarity Life Coach will help you organize and prioritize your thoughts and clearly identify your abilities, desires and preferences. With these deeper insights, she helps you align your career choice with your talents, personality traits and preferences. The result: A well-suited career that brings you more satisfaction and success.

When considering a career change we often go through various phases: Being fed up with the present career ... starting to dream of a new career ... getting afraid to take such a big step ... visualizing ourselves sleeping penniless under a bridge ... finding support from other people who are excited about the same career ... mustering courage to push through our fears ... and finally becoming excited about all the possibilities before us.

Freya went through all these stages herself when she decided to transform herself from a research scientist to a Life Coach. Using the three-step system with the support of her own Career Choice Coach, Freya pushed through her own fears and come out successfully on the other side cheering and celebrating.

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Getting Un-Stuck

  • Are you stuck with the same old problems year after year?
  • Are you staying in an unsatisfying career?
  • Are you tired of working hard and not earning what you deserve?
  • Do you feel resigned and don't care what happens anymore?
  • Do you think it would be irresponsible to pursue your dreams?
  • Do you want to improve your health and fitness but cannot find the motivation?
  • Are you tired and unproductive most of the time and avoid doing what you should be doing?

These are all typical symptoms of being stuck. We have different reasons why we are stuck, the most common are fear, our belief system and lack of a powerful vision.

Fear is the number one culprit of being stopped. We think of all the possible worst scenarios that could happen if we make a change. Limiting beliefs hold us back from positive change. They restrict our possibilities. Another reason for being stuck in the same rut is lack of a powerful vision or the knowledge of our core purpose.

Life coaching can help you get un-stuck. Your Essential Clarity Life Coach will help you to:

  • Push through your fear
  • Identify and step away from the issue and get a new perspective
  • Break the problem down into small approachable steps
  • Question your beliefs and clarify your core beliefs
  • Develop a powerful vision
  • Identify your core purpose

As a Life Coach, we see being stuck as an opportunity. Being stuck gives us a wonderful chance to assess what we don’t like... and what we do like and then re-establish our core purpose and develop a powerful vision. Don’t miss the opportunity to overcome your challenges and live the life you want.

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American Culture Acclimation & Life Coaching for Foreigners

Immigration: Adjusting to the American Way of Life

Moving to America from a foreign country is challenging on many levels. Family values, work ethics, social traditions, and behavioral expectations – all these can be very different from what you were used to in your home country.

Your ingrained cultural habits may not bring you the positive results you expect, and you may feel less confident and less competent in your personal and professional life. Finding a way to maintain your identity as you adapt to new cultural situations and expectations can be stressful and confusing.

Life Coaching provides the tools and processes for moving beyond being a "stranger in a strange land" to becoming a self-assured, integrated member of American society – with the advantages of your unique foreign perspective.

Coaching helps you to identify the best traits from your culture -- and integrate them with those you find in America. Coaching also gives you ways to deal with the added stress of being a newcomer to the USA – and can help you discover a powerful new "international you".

Some of your culture traits – including hard work, focus, motivation, punctuality, networking, knowledge of language and a different perspective on the world -- can give you an important advantage over your co-workers. Coaching helps you identify, appreciate and adapt these cultural traits so you adjust more quickly to your new life in America, while maintaining harmony in your family.

Life Coaching gives you the techniques for staying open-minded in the face of all the new challenges and makes it easier to create your own niche in this land of opportunities.

When Freya immigrated to America from Germany in 1993 her goal was to become an American the moment she stepped of the plane. This helped her to immerse herself into the American culture and stay open–minded when cultural challenges arrived. Reading books on how America views German culture helped her to identify her special cultural traits and use them to her advantage. Soon she found ways to integrate both cultures in her life and created her own comfortable niche.

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