Dr. Fauser Coaching

Services

Grief, life transition, retirement, caregiving, and spiritual coaching for adults seeking thoughtful support through meaningful seasons of change.

Reflective conversations for healing, clarity, meaning, and renewed purpose.

Therapy or Grief & Spiritual Coaching: Which Kind of Support Do You Need?

Life transitions can raise difficult questions. Grief, retirement, caregiving, spiritual change, loss, and major life transitions often affect far more than daily routines. They can touch identity, purpose, relationships, and your sense of meaning.

Many people wonder whether they need therapy or whether coaching would be helpful. The answer depends on the kind of support you are seeking and what feels most appropriate for this season of life.

A Different Kind of Conversation

Grief and spiritual coaching focuses on reflection, values clarification, meaning-making, life transition support, purpose exploration, and thoughtful movement through change.

The important question is not “Which is better?” but “What kind of support best fits what I need right now?”

Coaching Services

Each service is shaped around reflective conversation, practical insight, and respect for your unique story, beliefs, and life experience.

Grief & Loss Coaching

Support for those navigating the death of a loved one, anticipatory grief, divorce, illness, caregiver loss, retirement, or other life changes that bring sadness, uncertainty, or disorientation.

Spiritual Reflection & Meaning

For individuals seeking deeper reflection around faith or doubt, purpose, calling, spiritual transition, discernment, and integrating spirituality with everyday life.

Retirement & Life Transition

Guidance for navigating retirement adjustment, caregiving transitions, midlife or later-life reassessment, rebuilding routines, and discovering renewed purpose and connection.

Caregiving & Identity Support

A supportive space for those carrying caregiving responsibilities, changing family roles, emotional fatigue, and questions about identity, boundaries, and meaning.

Purpose & Life Direction

Coaching for adults feeling stuck, uncertain, or ready to clarify values, explore what comes next, and reconnect with inner strength and direction.

Faith Questions & Discernment

Respectful conversation around faith, doubt, spiritual questions, religious change, personal values, and discernment without pressure or judgment.

Coaching and Therapy Are Different Forms of Support

In some situations, individuals benefit from both therapy and coaching. Understanding the difference can help you choose what is right for your current needs.

Therapy

Licensed mental health providers are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and significant emotional distress. Therapy can be important care when clinical mental health support is needed.

Grief & Spiritual Coaching

Coaching does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. It focuses on navigating life change, meaning-making, spiritual reflection, values clarification, practical planning, and thoughtful movement through transition.

What Sessions May Include

Reflective Inquiry

Gentle questions that help you name what you are experiencing and clarify what matters most.

Values Clarification

Support for identifying your values, needs, boundaries, and next steps during change.

Meaning-Making

Space to explore meaning, faith, identity, purpose, and the story you are carrying forward.

Practical Planning

Simple, thoughtful planning for routines, decisions, goals, and daily life after transition.

Supportive Accountability

Encouragement to move forward at a pace that respects your grief, energy, and readiness.

Resilience & Renewal

Conversation focused on hope, growth, inner strength, and renewed connection with life.

Session Format

Sessions are designed to be flexible, private, and supportive. The pace and frequency can be discussed during an introductory conversation.

Complimentary Introductory Conversation

A brief introductory conversation gives you space to ask questions, discuss your goals, and explore whether coaching feels appropriate.

Zoom or Telephone Sessions

Coaching sessions are offered remotely by Zoom or telephone, allowing privacy and convenience from your preferred setting.

Flexible Session Frequency

Clients may choose weekly, biweekly, monthly, or individualized scheduling depending on needs, goals, and life circumstances.

Important Note: Coaching Is Not Therapy or Healthcare

Coaching services are not psychotherapy, psychological treatment, healthcare, crisis intervention, legal advice, financial counseling, or medical treatment. This practice does not diagnose, assess, or treat mental health disorders or medical conditions.

If clinical mental health care, emergency support, or another professional service would be more appropriate, referral recommendations may be discussed.

Begin the Conversation

If you are navigating grief, transition, spiritual questions, or a search for renewed meaning, I invite you to reach out.