Happiness Coaching
You did everything you were told would make you happy—the career, relationship, home, and milestones—yet the feeling faded within weeks. That does not mean you are ungrateful, impossible to please, or destined to be unhappy. It is a deeply rooted survival pattern: when what once felt exciting becomes familiar, your attention naturally shifts toward what is missing, uncertain, or next. Happiness Coaching helps you interrupt this automatic pattern, which is unhelpful in modern life, build lasting well-being, and create a life that holds both aspiration and appreciation.
- Certified Happiness Life coach
- Action-oriented guidance
- Completely confidential
- Virtual worldwide or private in-person sessions
Happiness is a skill. Most people were never taught it.
You may have noticed that reaching the next goal doesn't make you feel as good as you expected, or for as long as you expected. Psychologists call this the hedonic treadmill: humans adapt remarkably quickly to both good and bad changes, and return to roughly the same baseline level of happiness—which is exactly why chasing the next achievement, purchase, or relationship rarely produces lasting change on its own.
That 40% is genuinely good news: it means your happiness isn't fixed, and it isn't something that finally arrives once your circumstances are perfect. It's a set of skills and daily practices that can be learned—which is precisely what these twelve structured sessions are for.
This program is for you if...
- You've hit milestones that were supposed to make you happy—the promotion, the wedding, the house—and the good feeling faded faster than you expected.
- You catch yourself thinking "I'll be happy once ___," and you've noticed the goalpost keeps moving every time you get there.
- Your life looks enviable from the outside, and you still feel a flat, low-grade sense that something is missing—and it's hard to even explain why to people around you.
- You compare yourself to others (in person or on social media) more than you'd like to admit, and it quietly drains your mood.
- You're ready to treat your own wellbeing as a real, worked skill—not a mood you're waiting to stumble into—and to invest real time and resources into building it.
Happiness work is not toxic positivity.
This isn't about forcing gratitude or pretending things are fine. It's structured, evidence-based work in the science of wellbeing, applied specifically to your actual life.
- Happiness Coach Certification
- Goal Success Coach Certification
- Master Life Coach Certification (MCLC)
- Professional Life Coach Certification
- Additional training in mindfulness, positive psychology practices, and yoga philosophy
Twelve sessions. A trained capacity for wellbeing.
Happiness research shows durable change comes from building new habits of attention and behavior, not from a single insight. Twelve weekly sessions give those habits time to become the way you actually live, not just something you practiced for a week and dropped.
Map Where You Actually Are
We assess your current happiness set point, identify your personal hedonic-adaptation patterns, and map your PERMA profile—where you're already strong, and where your wellbeing is quietly leaking out.
Install the Intentional Activities
We select and personalize the specific evidence-based practices—gratitude, savoring, strengths use, and others— proven to shift wellbeing, and build them into your actual week rather than leaving them as good intentions.
Work on What the Research Says Matters Most
Following the Harvard findings on relationships as the strongest predictor of wellbeing, we deepen the connections and sources of meaning and engagement that circumstances alone can't provide.
Outlast the Hedonic Treadmill
We build in variety and novelty—the specific antidotes to adaptation—and a sustainable rhythm, so your gains don't quietly fade back to baseline the way a single vacation or purchase always does.
3 Months · 12 Private Sessions
- 12 weekly 60-minute private coaching sessions
- A structured 4-phase wellbeing process—not generic positivity advice
- Direct email support between sessions to troubleshoot what's not sticking
- A personalized PERMA profile and intentional-activities toolkit
- A sustainable wellbeing rhythm designed to outlast the program itself
Space is limited to a small number of happiness coaching clients at a time. Begin with a complimentary discovery session to confirm fit before enrolling.
Common questions
Isn't this just "think positive" repackaged?
No. Positive psychology research is explicit that forced positivity or suppressing real emotion doesn't work and can backfire. This work is about building specific, personalized habits shown to shift wellbeing over time—alongside honest acknowledgment of what isn't working, not instead of it.
My life looks great on paper. Is something wrong with me for not feeling happier?
No—this is one of the most common reasons people start this work. Circumstances only account for a small slice of the difference in happiness between people. A good life on paper and a low-grade flat feeling can absolutely coexist, and it's exactly what the intentional-activity work is designed to address.
If happiness has a genetic "set point," can it actually change permanently?
The set point describes a baseline tendency, not a ceiling. Research on intentional activities shows people can shift their functioning meaningfully above their starting point and sustain it—the key is building practices resistant to hedonic adaptation, which is exactly what the later phases of this program focus on.
How is this different from therapy?
Happiness coaching is a collaborative, forward-focused, educational process—not psychotherapy, diagnosis, or a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. If something arises that calls for clinical support, referral to an appropriate licensed professional can be part of your larger support system.
What happens in the free discovery session?
We talk about where your wellbeing actually stands right now, what you've already tried, and what's prompting you to seek this work. It's also a chance for both of us to confirm this program is genuinely the right fit before you invest in the full package.
Happiness coaching is a collaborative, educational process.
Happiness coaching is a collaborative, educational, and development-oriented process, informed by research in positive psychology and behavior change. It is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, or a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.
If your needs call for clinical support, I encourage you to work with an appropriately licensed mental health professional. When appropriate and with your permission, coaching can exist alongside other forms of professional care.
Ready to feel as good as your life looks?
You don't need to have it all figured out before you begin. Bring the flat feeling, the moved goalpost, or simply the sense that you're ready to stop waiting for happiness to arrive on its own.
A discovery session is an opportunity to talk about where you are, what you're looking for, and whether this program is the right fit for you.
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