I honor and encourage you as you clarify what is important to you. I help you to see what your next step is and support you to take action based on your values. I celebrate your wins and acknowledge your willingness to grow.

I honor and encourage you as an individual

by hearing and seeing what is important to you. Together, we discuss what you want to do and what qualities you want to cultivate. We create a plan so you can make changes in your life with clarity and a sense of your own power. Both the coaching relationship and structure support you to go beyond goals and make shifts from the inside out. Explore

Individual Coaching

I support your most important relationships

by helping you learn to communicate with confidence, clarity and compassion. I help you use coaching tools—like the Awareness Wheel and the PIES Check-In—so you can reflect, see and understand what is true for you. I listen deeply to what you want and support you so you can establish healthy boundaries and ask for what you want. Engage

Couples & Families

Renée helped me discover more about myself in a warm, welcoming, trusting, and realistic environment. I came to her looking for help with my career. Our work together integrated work, family, and personal growth in an interesting and useful way that challenged my original expectations.

—Male Client, 41, Arts Administrator

Latest Blog Stories

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Resilience: Let it be. Let it go. Let it in.

Working with yourself to be resilient takes time and patience. Simplifying the process makes it easier. Here’s a helpful mantra from neuroscientist Rick Hansen that I’ve recently been working with: Let It Be. Let It Go. Let It In.

Developing Confidence through Connection

Navigating change requires courage, strength, and grace. I find if I schedule in time to decompress and don’t hold the expectation that I’ll work flat out 24/7 that I have more energy and can pace myself. I’m also happier and easier to be around. How do you keep moving forward and keep your balance?

Turning Tragedy into Opportunity

When tragedies happen, we have a choice. We can accept the situation, or look for the opportunity or gift in the experience. Everything takes its own time. Here’s how one family kept moving ahead.

Crossing Thresholds While Looking Back

What signposts and paths are you considering at this time in your life? How much do you consult your own intuition and past experience? How much are you motivated by fear and/or curiosity?

Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Ever feel embarrassed after making a mistake and then your Inner Critic continues to berate you after the fact? I have and it doesn’t feel good. There is another way! Cultivating a growth mindset helps you to be your own best advocate as you learn to trust in your abilities and talents. Learn how to build neural pathways to support yourself and make your life easier.

Have a Mother's Day: Considering the Privileges & the Pain & the Joy of Motherhood

I got to be a stay-at-home mom for 20 years and by the grace of BLM and the #MeToo movement I am very aware now of how privileged I have been and am. I feel privileged to have had so many moments with my daughters: taking them to nursery school for their First Days and volunteering in their classes; organizing themed birthday parties (the Teddy Bear’s Picnic stands out in my mind); and running a girls circle for all their friends out of our living room. I had the “full experience” as I saw it back then and I got to choose that.

Reinventing Yourself using Mini Habits

As we re-emerge from the weariness of COVID-time, we have an opportunity to rediscover and reinvent ourselves. Mini habits and reframing are two tools that can help you be who you really want to be.

Hope & Renewal: Contents in the Overhead Bin May Have Shifted

With the Virus now having influenced us heavily for over a year, we are beginning, slowly, to think about the transition back to “normal life.” But what is the new normal? What parts of any past pandemic struggles are you ready to let go of? And what will you take with you as your Lessons Learned?

We can reinvent and renew ourselves. Who do you want to be?

Authenticity: Owning Who You Are

Today is the longest day of the season. We are at the threshold. From today forward, the light begins to shine brighter and brighter until summer. Feeling grateful for the shift. What a year it’s been!

On Collaboration

Renée Riley-Adams, life coach and facilitator at Balanced Life Coaching, and Jessica Wakefield, MLDR, talk about the challenges and joys of working with another person: how together they connect to a wider range of people; combine their skill sets; work through failures; and use humor

The 4 A's: Awareness. Acceptance. Action. Adherence.

How often do you find yourself reacting to what someone else has said or done, experiencing anger or confusion before you even realize what’s happening? I want to tell you about a coaching tool that will help you to be more aware of how you respond in the moment. When you use this tool …

An Overall Sense of Well-being

I am not alone. This is the revelation I had this morning. Like the hot water bottle I sleep with on cold nights, I feel this reassurance radiating outwards, warming me with its simple truth. What’s funny is that, I am right now actually alone, at least physically …