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Personal Narrative: My Interview With A Client

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This was my first meeting with my client, Michelle. Michelle has agreed to seek out a life coach to help her with her struggles of feeling incompetent. She seeks more out of her life and is trying to find where she fits into the realm of God’s plan for her. I explained to Michelle what a life coach does in assisting her in making changes in her life. We went over the policies and procedures of us working together and I explained each of our roles in the coaching relationship. Michelle is a middle age woman who has been married for 20 years. Michelle has 2 children, a son and a daughter, both of whom are now away at college. Michelle finds herself and her husband “empty nesters” and feels there is more she can be doing with her life. Michelle was born in Michigan but grew up in the Georgia. Her parents are not living and she does not have a fantastic relationship with her in-laws. Michelle …show more content…

I gave Michelle the Graph of Life tool (Collins, 2009) to complete during our session. After Michelle completed the tool we discussed why she placed the values she did on those things that were scored. I then asked Michelle to continue the assignment by scoring where she would like to see each area of her life, and place them in order of importance. Michelle and I then discussed her results and focused on what she thought was the most important areas that she needed to begin with. Michelle felt that her personal spiritual life, personal life fulfillment, and current ministry needed to be a priority in her current situation. This exercise broke Michelle’s areas of focus on her life down so she can begin to make small steps in discovering what God’s plan for her life will be. She can work on small segments of her life as oppose to trying to “fix” everything at

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