"Tools of Change" depicting six concepts: practice  mistakes  love (smiling heart), adversity (storm cloud with lightning and rain), vulnerability (plant sprouting from cracked ground), and patience (series of phases of a moon).

A Life Coach - why work with me?

Most people come to coaching at a crossroads. Something important has changed... or needs to change.

Sometimes it is good news... a new role or job that you wanted and got…an exciting new relationship has begun… or an achievement and goal that you have been working towards for a long time has been realized. Unexpectedly, you feel overwhelmed. The thing is, even positive change can unsettle your sense of who you are and what matters.

Sometimes it is the hard stuff... loss and grief, stressful transitions like aging, the end of a close relationship, major health issues including burnout and exhaustion.

Other times, it is less about specific changes and more about patterns that will not loosen. You keep trying to move forward, but the same obstacles keep returning. Not always because you do not know what to do, you just feel completely out of alignment. Sometimes something deeper keeps getting in the way and it’s hard to define. And that is often the moment when people realize they cannot untangle it alone.

They need someone to talk to who is not their partner, not their friend, not their colleague. Someone with no stake in what they decide. Where they can say the actual thing and think out loud without managing anyone else’s feelings in the room.

Life Coaching supports a brand new direction. You want to create something new. A business innovation, develop an idea or creative project, fine-tune your way of living. But the leap feels too large, and you cannot yet see how to begin.

Whatever brings you here, I offer you a safe non judgemental place free of the history and constraints of family, friendships and work.

I will be your thinking partner to mindfully pay closer attention to help you clarify what should come next. I support the perspective that change is not something separate from your life, it is your life. I can help you meet those changes with more awareness, steadiness, and courage.

Click on this link to learn more about a key practice that is integrated into my Life Coaching approach: mindfulness.

How we would work together

Most people begin with three conversations.

From there, if it feels like the right fit, we usually continue for three, six, or twelve months.

The work changes as your life changes.

One week we might be preparing for a difficult conversation. The next we might be making sense of a decision, reflecting on what happened, or noticing a pattern that's only just become visible.

Between sessions you'll have access to my private coaching portal. It's where we continue the conversation through reflections, notes, practices, and messages. Some of the most important moments don't happen during our scheduled sessions, and the portal gives us a way to work with them when they do.

The work is personal, responsive, and shaped around your life. We move at the pace your life requires, not the pace a programme demands.

Investment varies depending on the length of the work, and we can talk through what makes sense in the first conversation.

If the questions you are facing have more to do with midlife, you can read more here.

My commitment

Confidentiality and Privacy.
Honesty.
Deep listening.
A willingness to tell the truth... and help you find yours.

Ready to begin?

If something in your life is asking for a clearer look, start with a conversation.


transformed deep spiritual truths into practical formulas for daily living. 
David has the rare ability to create a completely safe space. I am deeply grateful that our paths crossed at the perfect time. In only 3 sessions, together we were able to zero in on my soul purpose.

I am now deep into a new project that is filling me with joy and passion. David has a profound gift. I can’t recommend him highly enough!
— Michèle Duquet - Soulful & Unplugged - Toronto, Ontario.
I was stuck in a rut and needed help. I turned to one of Vancouver's top life coaches.
I started working with David at a time when I was feeling ‘trapped’. I hadn’t booked any work in months and was going through a rough bout of depression. I felt like David immediately understood me and designed a plan that worked incredibly well for me. My coaching was customized perfectly to fit my needs, and the goal setting and ‘homework’ he gave me was explorative and eye-opening. In the last four weeks of our coaching cycle together, I booked 4 jobs, not to mention feeling so much more free and liberated and excited about life again.

I have said this to my friends about my work with him and will say it again to anyone even remotely interested and considering life coaching... Best money I’ve ever spent. Total game changer for me.
— Debs Howard / Actress - Vancouver Island, British Columbia