Individual Coaching
Coaching is designed to add velocity to what you're up to. Align with your life purpose, achieve inner peace, and connect with your deeper self. This process enhances relationships and promotes a deeper sense of meaning and fulfillment in life.
What does coaching offer for you?
Health
Optimize your health with my unique holistic, heart-centered, approach to wellbeing.
Relationships
Cultivate a relationship with self and others that nourishes your soul and fills your heart with love.
Finances
Overcome unique financial challenges and bust money beliefs. Create a financial future that honours you.
Neurodiversity
Neuroaffirming, soul giving, unshaming, meet-you-where-you-are coaching by me, your autistic coach.
How do I know if you’re the right coach for me?
What can I expect from our relationship?
True partnership! You are always the boss of you and you drive the coaching agenda.
If you think about successful partnering, neither party has authority over the other. Respect and trust is continuously generated during the course of the relationship.
I’ll evoke your answers from deep within you vs give you one-size fits all answers or sell you “3 easy steps to achieve success” Ugh!
It might help to think about us standing side by side, elbow to elbow, looking at the horizon that is your future, together.
What's unique about your style of coaching?
A client once said I’m like a “doctor for the soul”. That comment really moved me and caputured something I’d never quite been able to describe. I am ontologically trained and have done a lot of training working with abuse and trauma. I’m also a process oriented facilitator which means that I work with the soma (body) unshaming, in addition to using cognitive based approaches.
What sets you apart from other coaches?
I’m just as comfortable talking all things spiritual and celestial as I am at talking all things corporate. I’m quirky, sometimes funny and my body is like a tuning fork, able to pick up on the most subtle of your non verbal cues. It’s kind of freaky at first but when you begin to resonate with the deep wisdom hidden in your blindspots, you’ll fall in love with the process.
Have you ever failed to deliver on a client's objectives?
Use of the word “failed” is a whole coaching session unto itself! That being said, I’ve never had a client complete and say, that was not worth my time or investment. In my own life and pursuits, I don’t describe anything that I do that doesn’t turn out as a failure. I do edgy, exhilarating, scary things every day in my business. I post, comment and provide my perspective on topics that are sensitive, write transparently, launch programs, make offers, reach out to client potentials who have never heard of me before, pitch ideas and proposals to organizations and connect with folks that I really want to work with. Sometimes all I hear are crickets. Could I call that evidence of failure? Sure but I’m less worried about failing than I am about stretching and leaning waaaaay into the uncomfortable because I know this is where success truly lives and it stokes my vitality.
Should I wait until I have more time and resources to spend on this?
I’m never a fan of saying, “it depends” but in this case, “it depends”. For example, if you’re about to pay coaching fees instead of your mortgage, stop, that’s not safe or ethical. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, like you’ve never got enough time, money, joy, satisfaction, support etc. This is the perfect time to get supported and gain perspective through coaching! If in doubt, book an intro session, let’s work it out in partnership.
Despite being highly skilled, I often doubt my abilities. I feel lost and anxious. Is this all there is to life?
Sometimes, our bodies signal our desire for a deeper sense of purpose and spiritual connection. This provides an amazing opportunity for us to explore your beliefs and core values and to align or realign your life to your deepest calling.
I'd like to retire in my 40's but I'm afraid that this desire is based in hype.
There is current hype surrounding this idea but there's also the very real possibility to cause what you want with intention. It may take some bumpy transformative moments in coaching but they'll be worth it when you reach your retirement goal. Anything you say you want, dream it, commit and then take action. This endeavour is about self discovery and staying present to what really matters to you.
I feel disconnected from my partner, we're constantly arguing.
This is one of my most favourite and successful coaching engagements: supporting folks to develop better communication, skills and strategies to rebuild intimacy and trust. I've even participated in several wedding vow renewals after turning around the divorce train. Yay to love.
I'm feeling overwhelmed by a major life decision - I've been offered the chance to move abroad for a job opportunity.
It seems as though we humans play by a set of rules that we design for ourselves as we navigate life. Those rules limit us, cause overwhelm, stress and anxiety. What if you lightened up on those rules? What if those rules could be rewritten to include exotic travel, a job that resonates deeply and brings adventure? I love challenging clients ideas of rules and permanence. We sometimes forget that we have the ability to design our worlds with our words!
A simple process to achieve the extraordinary.
Expand your horizons and reveal new possibilities for you and your life.
Schedule a 1-on-1
This is your opportunity to experience the magic and power of ontological coaching. Walk away with insight, momentum, clarity and inspiration. Experience the difference between this and other forms of coaching.
See If We're a Fit
Coaching is best engaged in when you determine I'm the right fit for you. It’s good practice to have sessions with several different coaches before choosing. Select the one that has you somewhat uncomfortable and yet intrigued to explore more.
Reach Your Goals
What you truly desire may be somewhat buried underneath circumstances and stories. What are you resisting, avoiding and/or thinking you can’t have? Together we will shift the stories and change your life.
Supporting individuals
That you are here on my website indicates that we are meant to intersect in some way. I love that life is serendipitous that way.
The trust-based relationship that Tracey created allowed me to see myself and begin to understand my motivations. I couldn’t be more grateful for Tracey’s time, candour, compassion and clarity in bringing this leader to a new understanding of my role and myself.
Scott Armstrong
Vista Radio
Through my work with Tracey, she has helped me realize my strengths, unique abilities and how to be aware of my reactions in specific situations. She has also been instrumental in helping me develop an action plan which has been invaluable in moving our business forward.
Ross Borland
Vessel Liquor
Tracey has been instrumental in creating tangible goals and building a toolkit for approaching leadership and life opportunities. I’ve gained significant growth from our sessions.
Megan Loach Tomulka
Tracey sees possibility and magic everywhere and shows up with that perfect balance of feisty challenger and unconditional loving support. There’s no one I would rather have in my court and partnering with me to create this fully expressed, magical life I get to live.
Fannie Watkinson
Fannie Watkinson Coaching
Tracey has illuminated the path to a sophisticated, intelligent, well-balanced way of being. She has inspired me to build a business worth playing for.
Ian Johnson
Oak Bay Capital
When I first reached out to Tracey, I was feeling personally unhappy and professionally stuck. What a gift it has been for me to meet her and work with her, her impact on my personal and professional wellbeing has been profound.
Lauren Wilkins
Luftgekühlt
Tracey is both passionate for coaching, and compassionate with her clients. She deeply cares about what her clients need and the curiosity and enthusiasm she brought to each session was both consistent and contagious
Nora Delay
What a gift it was to me every week. Asking me to do that for myself was always humbling and hard to do but a meaningful exercise. She empowered trust, empowered me and I always wanted to be able to give this back to her.
Terri Chalaturnyk
Tracey was my coach while I was in the AC Coaches Training Program; she was professional; reliable and brilliant at listening and reflecting back to me my way of being.
Janice Cain
Manifestation Coach
Tracey is a strong and courageous coach. She is able to be gentle and fiercely committed in the same conversation. She is a well rounded human being and I recommend her highly. If you are looking for the structure and support to go to the next level, Tracy will partner with you to go there. It is an honor to know her.
Hans Phillips
Consultant/Guide at Ontoco
Frequently asked questions
Questions provide us with answers but seldom address the fear motivating the questions. We’ve got both covered.
What does a typical coaching session look like?
We meet for 60 minutes, during which we establish progress from our previous session. We then clarify and explore your new coaching request. We coach and meet the request for approximately 20-30 minutes and then wrap up, ensuring you’ve got some good takeaways and things to implement and integrate. If that sounds mechanical, you’re right. There’s a lot of magic that happens in that 60 minutes, insights, awareness, and those wonderful aha moments.
Do you specialize in any particular areas?
In my law days I loved family law and so it was no surprise that in my early days of coaching, I specialized in communication and relationships. I still love this work and it threads through my work with teams and entrepreneurs. I’m a coaching generalist and very versatile. I enjoy a variety of coaching engagements and projects to work on. I think that’s a credit to my ontological training and also my age, lol!
How do you handle situations where a client is not making the desired progress?
This happens often, sometimes clients make progress but it’s not the kind of progress they imagined when they first engaged. A client who engages to become more confident with their money actually discovers it’s the experience that having money brings them that is the real goal. If a client is not making any progress we explore other resources and/or professionals that might better support them. I also measure progress often and hold the client lovingly accountable to maintain their practice areas and actions.
Can you provide examples of how you’ve helped clients achieve their goals?
I think this question is best answered via the client testimonials you’ll see on many of the pages. I’ve also maintained a strong, consistent coaching practice by client referrals, I’ve spent very little on advertising so I think that’s also a good indicator that I’m supporting clients to achieve their goals.
What is your coaching background and experience?
I love this work and the clients I get to work with. Coaching is my passion, a calling and the ultimate way to spend my life. I think this actually matters more than my background and experience because I think it’s what informs my unique coaching style. But please check out my “About Page”, it’s full of my life’s adventures, education and ongoing professional development.
Resources and insights
I've extracted the gold from the unique situations I've encountered in my own life and through the lens of the many people I've served along the way.
Autism: From Diagnosis to Advocacy
Just a few short years ago I was officially diagnosed with autism. I didn't really need the diagnosis and I…
Retire and Escape to Portugal
Is it me or did the merry-go-round called life just hit warp speed? If you’re reading this from a tiny…
Somatic Coaching and Un-Shaming
The Body Contains Intelligence I've always loved working with the third domain of my ontological training... the body. In the…
Courses to help you reach new heights
Jam packed with thoughtful stories to jump start your self awareness and shift your perspective. Open a world of possibility and breath life into your weary heart. Tips, tools and resources to guide you to the extraordinary life waiting for you.
Bring back your childlike wonder
COMPASSIONATE CURIOSITY
Think back to when you very small, exploring and discovering the world. Observing with pure curiosity, bringing a childlike wonder to every stone you unturned, every bug you examined.
Bring back that curiosity as you become an observer of your thoughts and actions. Let go of blame, judgment, harshness or criticism and regard yourself and your behaviours with compassion and kindness.
How we see and experience ourselves, others and the world determines what we see as problems, possibilities and/or solution. This process can deliver remarkable insight and lead us into a whole new way of existing.