Coaching with Laura:

I am a Career/Life Coach, practicing Creative Art Therapist, and Fine Artist. Coaching allows me to use my talent and passion for helping people succeed by unleashing their creativity. Coaching is ideal for clients that are motivated to create enduring change in their lives. I help them create the change they dream about by:

• Helping them to identify what holds them back and to move past it. 
• Showing them how to leverage their creativity.
• Enabling them to develop a strategy to achieve their goals.
• Supporting them in taking their personal and professional lives to the next level. 

Coaching is different than therapy. In my coaching, I connect and guide clients to their own insight and solutions, rather than the treatment of emotional problems. What are the common elements? My skills of compassionate listening and empowering clarification.

Why I started Creative Visions Coaching, LLC . . .

Creative Visions Coaching embodies what I've learned in my life and career. In order to become your vision, you must live your life as that vision. To live fully, you must actively participate in your life rather than passively living it. I practice this in my daily life and I show people how to do it in their lives.

I work best with . . .

People who are motivated and who have learned one of life's biggest lessons--we are responsible for the results we achieve in our lives. I specialize in working with people in leadership positions and creative fields such as artists, creative arts therapists, designers, writers and professionals in entertainment. For example:

• Helping the organizational leader focus on the horizon instead of being bogged down by details.
• Supporting the Creative Art Therapist to successfully manage their business or private practice.
• Unlocking potential in the writer to complete their next work.
• Focusing the musician to create a career that is fulfilling on a financial and creative level.
• Helping the entrepreneur to make their vision for their business a reality.

My credentials and background . . .

Certified Professional Coach, Coach Training Alliance (CTA)

Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor

Cited in many publications

• Including: Cosmopolitan, Web MD, Gail Sheehy's Book, Middletown America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope, and David Friend, Vanity Fair's editor of creative development's book, Watching The World Change: The Stories Behind The Images of 9/11.

Appeared on television on the use of arts and healing

• CBS's 48 Hours, ABC News, and MSNBC.

Worked in private and public health care sector 

• In management, consulting and clinical positions.

Graduate Degree in Art Therapy, Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Art

Faculty and Guest lecturer

• In colleges and universities throughout the Northeast.
• Lectured on issues of advocacy, leadership and empowerment.

Professional Memberships and Activities

• National Arts in Healthcare Advocacy Advisory Council
• Past Chair, National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Association
• Member, Creativity Coaching Association
  

When I am not working...
I spend time in the art studio and enjoying the local arts scene in my community, which is filled with galleries, live music and theatre. I am also active in related to arts and healthcare.

I consider myself "bi-coastal" with a blend of East and West Coast mentality, having spent my childhood near San Francisco and my adult years in the Northeast. I currently live on the New Jersey shoreline, 20 miles off the tip of Manhattan.


                                        Creative Visions Coaching
                                                   (732) 208 - 3638