Frequently Asked Questions

I’m Kimberly Dillavou.

I am an educator, empowerment life coach, author, mama, unshakable optimist and dedicated to helping people like you to create and live a life they absolutely love.

Here is a list of some of the common questions people ask before they begin coaching with me.

If you do not find an answer to a question you have, please feel free to contact me.

I promise, if you contact me, there will be no obligation to commit to anything.

What Is Coaching?

Coaching is a creative partnership that concentrates on where the client is now and devises a personalized plan of action to help them maximize their full potential. It is an ongoing professional relationship that helps produce lasting, extraordinary results in their life.

What is Empowerment Life Coaching?

An empowerment life coach helps you discover and overcome what is causing the mental blocks and reframe your negative thinking patterns. They also assist you in:

• Nurturing confidence and self-esteem
• Develop an action plan to accomplish desired goals and dreams
• Adopting a growth mindset
• Identifying and utilizing inherent strengths and values
• Overcoming any negative self-imposed rules

What will I gain with Empowerment Life Coaching?

You will:

• Deepen your understanding by analyzing your challenges and obstacles
• Discover what’s important to you
• Identify and transform negative thoughts that hold you back
• Discover new perspectives and increase self knowledge, as well as self-confidence
• Create a vision and plan for living an authentic life
• Develop action steps to begin living an authentic life, on purpose
• Remove roadblocks and barriers that prevent you from living their best life
• Deepen the connection with yourself

Where do the sessions take place?

Coaching session take place over Zoom.

How do you coach?

I focus on helping you identify, question, explore and reframe negative thoughts and conflicting emotions so that you can stop living in survival mode and start living life on purpose.  I will use positive psychology and strategies to help you shift negative thoughts, along with a variety of tools to help you establish emotional control to help you live a happier and more confident life.

I honor each client as an expert in her life. I believe that each person already possesses everything they need to be creative, resourceful, and whole.

What is your coaching style?

My coaching style is based on conversations that help you maximize your full potential. The questions guide and lead you to discover and uncover the answers you are seeking. This method helps to bring an awareness to the root causes of situations and provides an opportunity to uncover the “real” problem that is presenting the issues.

Together we create an action plan that best works for you so that you can reach your desired results. I do this by utilizing time-tested, evidence-based, action oriented principles and methods to create lasting and measurable results.

What happens during a life coaching session?

Coaching sessions last between 45 minutes and 60 minutes. Together we will challenge your stories, assumptions, and judgments. We will discover your unique gifts, values and strength. We will dig deep into problems and issues, discover what is holding you back, and find desirable solutions so you can have lasting results.

What is the main goal of Empowerment Coaching?

Helping you break through and overcome overwhelm, fear, self-doubt and negative thought patterns so they can take action towards living a purposeful, meaningful, and balanced life.

What coaching model do you use?

My Empowerment Coaching model includes the following five elements:

• Acknowledgement – Understand what has power in your life and the assumptions, and fears that hold you back.
• Acceptance – Understand how experiences have changed you.
• Awareness – Become mindful of your actions, judgments, and stories.
• Action – Create an empowering action plan.
• Appreciation – Appreciate the new knowledge you gain from experiences and circumstances.

Is coaching the same as of therapy? No

Life coaching focuses on clarifying, setting, and achieving goals. It also helps the client identify obstacles and problematic behaviors in order to create an action plan to achieve desired results. 

Therapy focuses on past traumas and issues with mental health and how the past has impacted it.

How do you help me become my best self?

How I help you become your best you is by:

• asking questions and having you brainstorm
• encourage your self-discovery
• holding you accountable
• helping you create an action plan
• assisting you with the follow through of the action plan
• supporting and holding space for you throughout process
• motivating you to push forward

What does you program focus on?

The 12 week Unlocking Your Best You Program™ helps you:

• Identify, question, explore and reframe negative thoughts and conflicting emotions
• Discover your values and strengths
• Unlock a greater sense of inner peace and calm mind
• Take control of your emotions
• Boost your self-confidence and self-esteem
• Increase your personal power
• Move beyond feeling stuck in life
• Develop a greater sense of gratitude
• Walk in freedom and purpose
• Create a roadmap for your self discover journey

What steps do I need to take to help me become a better version of me?

I use a 5 step process that includes positive psychology and strategies to help you shift negative patterns and thoughts, along with a variety of tools to help you remove overwhelm and establish emotional control.

They are:

• Discover
• Uncover
• Build
• Claim it
• Live It Out

Within the 5 steps, you will:

1. Identify your internal beliefs, goals for the future and what you believe is stopping you from achieving them.

2. Once these blocks have been discovered, we will get to work in helping you overcome them.

3. As transformation takes place, you will start to experiencing an increase in self-confidence and self-worth and feel ready to take on the world.

Please feel free to contact me if any of your questions are not included in the frequently asked questions listed.

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Would you like to unlock your best you?

If you are a woman who is ready to explore the benefits of coaching and how I can help, please fill out the questionnaire. I will get back with you within 24 – 48 hours via email to schedule your free discovery call. The call will be 30-45 minutes long.

There is no obligation to commit to anything during the call. Absolutely no strings attached!