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 The Owner of Life Essentials is Dr. Alison Miller
Alison offers her clients public speaking, training, life coaching, dissertation coaching, and seminars. She has been featured on ABC and FOX news in Chicago as an expert on stress, coping, and meeting life goals and the NBC daytime reality series Starting Over as a psychologist. Alison has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and has been a featured speaker for O, The Oprah Magazine and SELF Magazine. She has been interviewed by Chicago's WGN radio and her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain's Business, and Time Out magazine.
Alison has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor's in psychology from Cornell University. She is a published author in the field of psychology and the author of the forthcoming book, The Dissertation Coach to be published by the American Psychological Association.
Alison is passionate about coaching people to live the lives they desire. Her clients benefit from her direct yet gentle approach to learning new skills, identifying limiting beliefs and behavior patterns, and making positive life changes. Alison strives to create collaborative coaching relationships of safety and openness that help her clients identify important life goals and create a path towards meeting those goals. She seeks to promote the personal growth of all her clients by helping them gain insight, change beliefs and attitudes, take action, engage in new behaviors, and live their lives according to their own values.
Alison is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the American Psychological Association. She lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and two children.
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Read Crain's Chicago Business featuring Alison
Lauren Ginsberg is a partner at Life Essentials
Lauren is our newest member to join the Life Essentials Coaching team. We are expanding our services to meet the demand in Chicago and now the East Coast as well. Lauren is based in New York City and holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University and a license in Clinical Social Work. She later received a post-masters’ certification and served as an adjunct faculty at the New York University School of Social Work.
Lauren brings over twelve years of experience from the non-profit sector, city government and her own private psychotherapy practice. She has extensive experience in working with clients in areas of managing stress, enhancing relationships and improving health and wellness. Currently in training as a yoga instructor, Lauren’s work often brings clients to a place of change faster through incorporation of mind-body techniques.
Lauren strives to create a coaching practice informed by her clinical and leadership skills in helping clients identify what they really want in life and create a course toward making their goals a reality. She recognizes clients as the experts in their own lives who arrive at coaching with a desire for substantial and lasting change. Lauren works in partnership with her clients to uncover new perspectives and create unforeseen options and opportunities.
Lauren is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the National Association of Social Workers. She is a native New Yorker and currently resides and practices in Brooklyn, NY.
Dr. Bibiana Adames is a partner at Life Essentials
Bibiana Adames offers life coaching and dissertation coaching. She has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.
Bibiana is a talented and experienced psychotherapist who transitioned to becoming a highly effective coach. Born in Colombia, South America, she has lived in the U.S. for over twenty years and now resides in Chicago, IL. Bibiana is fluent in Spanish and English, and considers herself to be bicultural. She has extensive experience working with people from various cultural groups, and understands and coaches people in a way that honors their personal background.
Bibiana views coaching as a collaborative partnership through which she and her clients discover the clients' maximum potential. She works with her clients to explore their wishes, clarify their goals, and create and implement plans to attain their objectives. In the process, Bibiana provides her clients support and encouragement in a manner that is genuine, straightforward, thoughtful, firm, non-judgmental, and structured.
Rosie Guagliardo is a partner at Life Essentials
Rosie works with clients to address all realms of life based on their priorities. She uses a holistic approach as part of the change and growth process. She aims to help her clients feel more alive and energized as they seek to live life according to their own vision.
Rosie has had a successful 13-year career in marketing and advertising building brands such as McDonald’s, Unilever, and Anheuser-Busch’s Adventure Parks. She is highly skilled at strategic thinking and developing creative solutions for both business and personal challenges. In her business career and as a coach, Rosie helps clients identify important goals and stay on course to achieve them.
Rosie is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute recognized by the International Coaching Federation as an accredited coaches training school and continues to receive training from organizations such as Coachville. She graduated with a bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences from Northwestern University where she majored in Psychology and International Studies.
Rosie’s multi-cultural background has given her the gift of seeing and valuing different perspectives. Here keen awareness and sensitivity to the impact of individuals’ culture, family background, and personal life story on their lives is integral to her work as a coach. Living in Italy with her Italian family helped her develop the skill of of identifying solutions for challenging situations while remaining compassionate to all perspectives.
James Baird is a partner at Life Essentials
James has been a personal and team coach for over 10 years, building, leading and managing teams and individuals focused on both short-term project results and long-term goals. He is a master of personal transformation distinctions, supporting his clients in creating the results they want and being who they want to be in the world. His primary source of expertise comes from years of study and practice with a worldwide educational corporation and a premier provider of powerful transformational programs. James’ experience includes: Coaching individuals and groups working on a wide range of issues, training and developing people to coach and lead various programs, managing the production of seminar and training programs, providing both onsite and remote office management and multi-site logistics. James has a warm hearted personality and the kind of ruthless compassion to inspire his clients to win. He instinctively knows how to have others open up and get to the heart of the matter of the challenges they face. He is committed to helping clients create major breakthroughs in their personal and professional lives. James lives in Chicago.
Jennifer Diamond, Ph.D.
Dr. Jennifer Diamond coaches people through transitions including parenting and divorce. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Northwestern University in 1997. She has practiced psychotherapy with adults, children, adolescents, and families, and has received post-graduate training in child and family therapy at the Chicago Center for Family Health. Jennifer is training in Divorce Mediation at Northwestern University and interning in advanced Divorce Mediation. She lives in Chicago with her husband, twin daughters, and son.
Life is full of transitions that can leave us feeling afraid, uncertain, and even incompetent. Jennifer believes those feelings often cloud our ability to see that times of transition are actually opportunities for improving our lives. Jennifer helps clients move away from fear toward creating a new vision of themselves and their lives. Part of her work in assisting clients to create and realize this vision, involves helping them connect with the part of themselves that remains constant even during times of change, and helping them observe themselves without judgment.
Divorce can be a grueling transition fraught with loss. Jennifer helps clients involved in divorce manage a variety of tasks including identifying and effectively communicating their needs during divorce negotiation, creating a post-divorce life and identity, managing relationships with step families and ex spouses, and addressing concerns about parenting plans, co-parenting, and custody.
Jennifer was inspired to coach parents at the suggestion of friends, family and acquaintances who turned to her over the years for parenting advice. She knows firsthand that parenting is challenging work that involves constant transitions as children pass through different developmental stages and new children are added to the family. Jennifer empowers parents with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to turn those challenges into opportunities for growth and learning. Among the most important skills she imparts are parenting mindfully rather than reactively, and focusing on strength and resilience in both yourself and your children. Jennifer has an expertise in working with parents on the myriad of issues related to divorce, as well as those specific to raising twins. Because the well-being of parents is essential to the ability to parent well, Jennifer helps clients find balance in their lives and in their relationships with significant others.
Jennifer works with clients at all stages of parenting including those expecting their first child. She works with single or married parents, previously married parents, and parents who have never been married. She will also work with groups and non-parent caregivers.
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