Imagine having someone walk alongside you, helping you discover new ways to move through obstacles and achieve attainable goals.
What Catholic Coaching Is:
Catholic Coaching is a collaborative, forward-focused process that helps individuals gain clarity, navigate decisions, and move through everyday challenges with greater intention and peace.
Coaching supports clients in reflecting on their current situation, identifying obstacles, exploring new perspectives, and discerning practical next steps—while remaining attentive to faith, conscience, and values.
In Catholic coaching, prayerful awareness and openness to God’s presence may be invited into the process, supporting calm, clarity, and discernment.
The coach does not tell clients what to do, but instead partners with them through thoughtful questions, reflection, and accountability, trusting the client’s capacity to choose responsibly and freely.
What Catholic Coaching Is Not:
Catholic Coaching is not therapy, counseling, medical care, or mental health treatment. It does not diagnose or treat psychological conditions, process trauma, or replace professional clinical care when needed.
Coaching is also not spiritual direction, pastoral counseling, teaching, mentoring, or consulting. While faith and prayer may be present, coaching does not provide sacramental guidance, confession, doctrinal instruction, business advice, or expert recommendations about what a client should do. In keeping with a Co-Active coaching approach, coaches do not prescribe solutions, evaluate plans, or direct outcomes.
Coaching focuses on the present and future—supporting clarity, decision-making, perspective, and growth in daily life. Coaching respects the client’s freedom and conscience, while honoring the distinct boundaries of other helping professions.
What makes Catholic Life & Mindset Coaching Unique?
Catholic life and mindset coaching is rooted in the Roman Catholic Church’s theological, moral, and sacramental tradition, as articulated in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. While each GIANNA Coach brings her own background and professional training, our shared foundation is grounded in the teachings of the Roman Catholic faith—not in New Age spirituality or self-directed religious frameworks. Christ-Centered Orientation Catholic coaching recognizes Jesus Christ as the source of truth, freedom, and authentic human flourishing. Coaching conversations are oriented toward aligning one’s life more fully with His teachings, as understood and safeguarded by the Church. Integration of Faith and Reason In keeping with the Catholic intellectual tradition, we affirm that faith and reason work together. Catholic coaching honors prayerful reflection alongside practical discernment, recognizing both as essential to sound judgment and growth (cf. Fides et Ratio). Moral and Ethical Clarity Catholic coaching respects the moral teachings of the Church and supports decision-making informed by a well-formed conscience, virtue, and responsibility, in harmony with the natural law and Catholic moral theology. Dignity of the Human Person Every person is created in the image and likeness of God and possesses inherent dignity (CCC 1700). Coaching affirms this dignity while encouraging the responsible development of one’s gifts, duties, vocation, and state in life. Life of Grace Catholic coaching acknowledges that true and lasting transformation is ultimately sustained by grace. Prayer and the sacramental life—especially the Eucharist and Reconciliation—are recognized as central sources of spiritual nourishment and renewal, while always respecting the freedom of the individual. Relational and Communal Awareness Human flourishing is relational. Catholic coaching recognizes the importance of family, community, and service, encouraging responsibility toward others and participation in the common good, consistent with Catholic social teaching. Hope, Mercy, and Ongoing Conversion Rooted in the hope of the Gospel, Catholic coaching supports perseverance through difficulty, trust in God’s mercy, and openness to continual conversion of heart, recognizing growth as a lifelong journey.