What is Coaching
Why consider a coach?
- You want to lose weight and dieting has failed you so many times.
- You're always tired and don't know why or what to do about it.
- You've just been told your blood pressure is high and you should relax.
- You try to stick to an exercise plan but keep making excuses.
- You have stress in certain areas of your life that is adversely affecting your health.
- You simply want to feel better and have more energy to get through the day.
- You have invested time and money in products and quick fixes only to be discouraged by promises that don't deliver.
Coaching is a process, not a product.
What are the benefits of working with a coach?
You will...
Coaching is not a substitute for psychological or medical care. If you have questions pertaining to your physical and/or mental health, please check with your doctor or health provider. Occasionally, people work with therapists and coaches simultaneously; these practices can complement each other. Coaching is confidential.
- Design your wellness vision based on your personal needs.
- Build a foundation for action steps based on your strengths and core values.
- Implement reasonable and specific goals to bring you close to your vision.
- Identify the challenges you may face incorporating new lifestyle behaviors.
- Create viable strategies to deal with these challenges.
- Reinforce these strategies with weekly coaching.
- Reach your goals; feel empowered, energized, and just great.
- Maintain your new lifestyle with periodic check-in sessions.
Coaching is not a substitute for psychological or medical care. If you have questions pertaining to your physical and/or mental health, please check with your doctor or health provider. Occasionally, people work with therapists and coaches simultaneously; these practices can complement each other. Coaching is confidential.
What's the difference between coaching and training?
Trainer: Teaches you how to exercise – what to do and how to do it.
Coach: Asks empowering questions to help you make decisions and take the needed actions to help you accomplish your goals.
Trainer: Reinforces what you’re doing correctly and corrects what you're doing wrong.
Coach: A coach is non-judgmental, supporting and guiding you, and offers you tools for motivation, goal setting, and self-discovery, but ultimately you do the work.
Trainer: You pay by the hour for each session or a group of sessions.
Coach: You pay monthly: includes weekly sessions, unlimited mail, text messaging and brief phone calls as needed at no additional cost.
Trainer: The trainer is the expert.
Coach: You are the expert; coaching only helps you apply this expertise.
Personal training can be incorporated as part of your wellness coaching program. Risa has been training clients for over 25 years. If you would like to include personal training into your wellness package, ask about details.
Coach: Asks empowering questions to help you make decisions and take the needed actions to help you accomplish your goals.
Trainer: Reinforces what you’re doing correctly and corrects what you're doing wrong.
Coach: A coach is non-judgmental, supporting and guiding you, and offers you tools for motivation, goal setting, and self-discovery, but ultimately you do the work.
Trainer: You pay by the hour for each session or a group of sessions.
Coach: You pay monthly: includes weekly sessions, unlimited mail, text messaging and brief phone calls as needed at no additional cost.
Trainer: The trainer is the expert.
Coach: You are the expert; coaching only helps you apply this expertise.
Personal training can be incorporated as part of your wellness coaching program. Risa has been training clients for over 25 years. If you would like to include personal training into your wellness package, ask about details.
What makes Count on Yourself™ unique?
As a health and fitness expert, Risa has worked with both healthy and not-so healthy individuals helping them improve their daily and long-term lifestyle habits and goals.
Her approach is highly personalized and programs are tailored to each client, including small group presentations. Count on Yourself programs always put the individual’s needs and goals first and foremost.
By maintaining several professional certifications and staying up-to-date with current health issues and data, Risa is prepared to motivate her clients, utilize their signature strengths and help them build a strong foundation of confidence. This makes lifestyle changes doable, and more important, sustainable.
Risa works with individuals, groups and businesses managing a wide range of health issues: obesity, cardiac, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, cancer, senior health, musculoskeletal limitations and much more. She has the experience, patience, maturity and compassion cultivated through years of experience in the industry.
If you're looking for a quick fix, this is not it. Working with Risa will help you change your thoughts and your actions and your health, and that doesn't happen overnight. This is an investment in your future – long term.
Her approach is highly personalized and programs are tailored to each client, including small group presentations. Count on Yourself programs always put the individual’s needs and goals first and foremost.
By maintaining several professional certifications and staying up-to-date with current health issues and data, Risa is prepared to motivate her clients, utilize their signature strengths and help them build a strong foundation of confidence. This makes lifestyle changes doable, and more important, sustainable.
Risa works with individuals, groups and businesses managing a wide range of health issues: obesity, cardiac, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, cancer, senior health, musculoskeletal limitations and much more. She has the experience, patience, maturity and compassion cultivated through years of experience in the industry.
If you're looking for a quick fix, this is not it. Working with Risa will help you change your thoughts and your actions and your health, and that doesn't happen overnight. This is an investment in your future – long term.
Steps to Getting Started
1. Schedule your free consultation by phone: 973-761-5758 or email. This is your time to discuss your lifestyle, health and wellness goals and, most importantly, what might be getting in your way and how coaching can help you overcome those challenges.
2. After your free consultation you will be ready to decide if this is a good fit. If so, the next step is to choose the number of months you are ready to commit to. The three-month program is recommended, best value and includes unlimited $99/hour for the year.
3. Set up your first 90-minute coaching session with Risa for a time when you are able to devote your full attention to YOU. This is a gift you are giving yourself –time to focus on what you want, what you need and will accomplish.
4. After scheduling this appointment, you will be sent the following documents to complete and return before your coaching session.
Personal Lifestyle Profile
Informed Consent
Price and Policy Agreement
5. Full payment is requested prior to your first appointment by either PayPal (the information is on my Registration page) or by check payable to:
Risa Olinsky, M.A., LLC
108 Baker Street – Suite 300
Maplewood, NJ 07040
2. After your free consultation you will be ready to decide if this is a good fit. If so, the next step is to choose the number of months you are ready to commit to. The three-month program is recommended, best value and includes unlimited $99/hour for the year.
3. Set up your first 90-minute coaching session with Risa for a time when you are able to devote your full attention to YOU. This is a gift you are giving yourself –time to focus on what you want, what you need and will accomplish.
4. After scheduling this appointment, you will be sent the following documents to complete and return before your coaching session.
Personal Lifestyle Profile
Informed Consent
Price and Policy Agreement
5. Full payment is requested prior to your first appointment by either PayPal (the information is on my Registration page) or by check payable to:
Risa Olinsky, M.A., LLC
108 Baker Street – Suite 300
Maplewood, NJ 07040
