Gretchen Hillhouse

Life Coaching

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined" Henry David Thoreau.

Gretchen has trained in Human Behavioural Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Advanced Life Coaching and her
coaching is informed by her previous career as a visual artist and award winning designer and business person.

Her interest in life coaching evolved from seeking coaching training to better serve the emerging designers, artists and business people who approached her for mentoring. She found her ability to think-outside-the-square and to explore new possibilities served a wider range of clients and she now enjoys working with people from a wide range of backgrounds as they create change in their personal and professional lives.

With a perspective of “working with the willing well” and making conscious the internal wisdom inherent in us all, the coaching process enables clients to:

Indentify values that underpin your choices
Clarify new directions
Set and achieve goals
Find solutions to previously unsolved issues
Create life-long tools that can support you to achieve meaningful change in whichever area of life you wish to focus.

Gretchen has a special interest in working with people through change and life transitions and coaching people in new venture creation:

“I really enjoy seeing the results coaching brings in a very short time to people who have a sense that there is more to life than their current circumstances  and feel that there is a greater  version of themselves waiting to be expressed . Coaching is great for people who are experiencing dissatisfaction in some area of life and would like to create some significant change  or want to be more passionately engaged in life and have a greater sense of purpose.
I’m also really excited by how effective coaching is in building success and achieving the previously unachieveable.”

Gretchen approach to coaching and to life is to embrace it in the spirit of gentle adventure. She loves guiding her two sons toward fully fledged manhood and is a keen sailor and bushwalker. She takes great delight in bringing to her clients the skills enabling lives to be lived more fearlessly, joyfully and fully.

Qualifications:
Member of The Coaching Institute of Australia.
Certificate of  Advanced Life Coaching.
Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner
Advanced Practitioner of Human Behavioural Therapy
Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment
Certificate IV in Business
Diploma of Jewellery Fabrication and Metalsmithing
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours).