About Terri
In Charge of Your Life
My goal is to help you re-imagine your life. With extensive experience in Life Coaching and a vast history of client success, my individualized positivite approach will help you imagine and attain your goals.
We think and make choices all day long. Our thoughts give rise to emotions, we have more thoughts in an emotional state, and we make more choices. Many of our thoughts arise out of habit - at an unconscious level. Even though unconscious, this "back burner" thinking can give rise to emotions, inform our choices, and impact the outcomes we experience. If you’re experiencing difficult outcomes – depression, anxiety, anger, broken relationships – it’s likely the result of these unnoticed, unchecked thoughts and the suffering they produce. Mindfulness, self-evaluation and investigation help us to notice our thinking and feelings and to be in charge of them, rather than run by them. You are in charge of your life. You have an opportunity to be more intentional in running it. We’re much more effective when we have a clear vision for our lives that we pay attention to and follow. I can help you create that vision, investigate your beliefs, and form a plan for living your best life.
The Coach You Deserve!
Terri Allen is a licensed mental health therapist and life coach with 20 years of experience helping people to solve their problems, heal their pasts, and discover their authentic, connected & empowered selves.
Life is a gift! Now is the time to invest in yourself.
Professionalism and Expertise
As a professional with 20 years of counseling and coaching expertise, Terri has the tools and understanding to help you create the life you imagine and get a renewed sense of self.
Taking the Steps
Committing to a healthier and happier lifestyle is just that – a commitment, and it’s a big one that will take a lot a dedication. My commitment is to provide you with accountability, understanding and loving support. You've never been closer to accessing your best self!
Fundamentals of Empowerment
You are in Charge of You
The only person whose behavior you can control is your own. Your current reality is the culmination of choices you've made over time in given circumstances. If you are not satisfied with your life, you can start adjusting the choices you make to get different and better outcomes.
Satisfying Your Needs
We are all trying to get some basic human needs met in order to feel content and fulfilled - the need for safety and security, the need to connect and belong with others, the need to feel empowered and accomplished, a need to feel that we are in charge of our lives, and the need to continue learning and growing. When these needs are met, we feel good; when they are not satisfied, we can become uneasy, stressed, depressed or anxious.
Others are in Control of Themselves
We are the only onces in charge of our lives, which means other people are the ones in charge of their lives. We take responsibility for our choices and happiness while allowing others to do the same for themelves. When it comes to our ideas about someone else's life, all we can do is give them information. What they do with that information is their choice.
External Control
It can be tempting to use coersive strategies like complaining, blaiming, criticizing, threatening, and nagging to pursuede other people to make the choices we want them to make, to use them to get our needs met rather than allowing them focus on their own need satisfaction. These external conttol strategies always lead to relationship strife. Trying to control others is exhausting because it is impossible, and it is a distraction from what we actually have control of - ourselves.
Personal Freedom
Understanding the power and truth of personal choice leads to empowerment, freedom, and improved relationships!
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
Amelia Earhart
