Provide practical information, accessible research, and easy-to-use tools to identify and pursue your goals, alleviate challenges, answer questions (e.g., whether or not to stay together) and improve relationship satisfaction and effectiveness.
RELATIONSHIPS
Reconnect, repair, and renew:
Rhona has been helping personal and professional relationships thrive for more than fifteen years. She coaches diverse Relationship Systems—any grouping of two or more people—with a focus on couples, including parents, as well parents with their adult children, and business partners. Rhona offers practical guidance and tools to improve communication, and shift from disconnection and disruptive conflict to greater fulfillment.
In her work with couples, Rhona helps clients find effective ways to reconnect and deepen connection, and delivers practical communication and conflict skills around diverse topics, including but not limited to: compatibility, finances, division of labor (e.g., housework, childcare), trust, conflict avoidance, commitment, (loss of) attraction, sex and intimacy, personality and other differences (e.g., politics, religion, neurodiversity), life transitions and goals, relationship anxiety or distress, work-home balance, parenting, and extended family and friendships. Business partners seek Rhona’s assistance with organizational struggles, team-conflict (including conflict avoidance), hiring strategies, alignment of leadership styles among the senior team, and employee management.
Whether personal or professional in nature, Rhona knows that even the best relationships are hard at times, and benefit from productive and empowering ways to tackle disconnection, poor communication, unskilled fights, conflict avoidance, and relationship anxiety, stress, or stagnation. Rhona’s coaching style is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Gottman method, attachment theory (especially, Sue Johnson’s EFT model), and The Couples Institute’s developmental model of differentiation. She draws on insights from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, organizational development, and life and executive coaching, and views your relationship through a strengths-based lens to impart advice and tools as applicable to your personal as professional bonds.
Rhona believes in the importance of strategic planning for relationships, and helps clients take a deep dive into their values to facilitate that visioning and growth process. With her assistance, you shift from unskilled conflict and negative communication to greater collaboration, connection, understanding, negotiation, goal-setting, and fulfillment. Rhona’s job is more guide than consultant, more facilitator than expert. Much as you yearn for a coach (or therapist* or consultant) to “fix” your relationship once and for all—or, better yet, fix whoever you’re in relationship with—Rhona will:
Tailor coaching to your unique personal or professional relationship and the priorities most meaningful to you.
Share insights, research, and skills applicable to every relationship, not just the one you address in coaching.
Explore differences–for example, around finances, sex, commitment, attraction, housework, religion, neurodiversity–to clarify next steps, increase respect, empathy and connection, and enhance personal and relationship satisfaction.
Rhona is a graduate of the Center for Right Relationship’s Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching program and is certified by the Coaches Training Institute (now the Co-Active Training Institute). She is also a Gottman Workshop Leader for The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and an Educator for the Gottman Bringing Baby Home program. Rhona completed: BeAbove Leadership’s Seven Levels of Human Relationship training, Sue Johnson’s Hold Me Tight workshop, Level 1 of the Couples Institute’s Developmental Model training, and the ND Compass Training for Professionals (a program for therapists and relationship coaches who work with neurodiverse couples). Rhona is a provider for the Enhanced Gottman Relationship Check-Up, an online assessment of couples’ strengths and challenges, and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation.
* Rhona provides online coaching. In-person, online, virtual or remote Relationship Coaching is distinct from yet overlaps with Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling. While seasoned Relationship Coaches can capably help you resolve many relationship challenges, Rhona refers out to, collaborates, or consults with qualified therapists (including couples therapists), marriage counselors, psychologists, or psychiatrists when clients grapple with active addiction(s), mental illness, childhood trauma, or abuse. For more information on the overlap between individual and relationship coaching and therapy, including couples therapy and marriage counseling, please see the FAQs.
