In addition to seeing people in person at my Sarasota location, I also work via Zoom/Google Meet with people nationally and internationally.
As we work together, you will come to understand who and why you are at the deepest levels, as well as have a better understanding of your current circumstances.
Life coaching is the process of helping people identify and achieve personal goals. Life coaching helps you learn how to make choices that create a fulfilling, effective, and balanced life. The coaching process addresses specific personal projects, business successes, general conditions, and transitions in the client’s personal life, relationships, or profession by determining what is going on right now, identifying what any of your obstacles or challenges might be, and selecting a course of action that will make your life more of what you want it to be. The coaching relationship continually gives all the power back to you, the client. We know that you already truly know the answers to every question or challenge you may have in your life, even if those answers appear to be obscured, concealed, or hidden inside.
Hello and Welcome.
I’m Darlene, a Professionally Certified Life Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, speaker, and transformational guide. I’m a graduate of Bennett-Stellar University, received my paramedic training through George Washington University, and Fire Science studies through the University of Maryland. Before entering the coaching and wellness field, I served in the United States Marine Corps and worked as a firefighter and paramedic in the Washington, D.C. area. Today, I bring together decades of professional training, real-world experience, and a deep understanding of human transformation to help people move through change, reconnect with themselves, and create lives that feel meaningful and fully their own.
With Love,
Darlane
Darlene Coleman is a Professionally Certified Life Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, speaker, instructor, and creator of the Rise & Thrive corporate wellness series.
Her background includes military service, emergency medicine, Fire Science, mortgage lending, personal transformation, and nervous-system-informed wellness.
Darlene is a United States Marine Corps veteran and former firefighter/paramedic.
She is a graduate of Bennett-Stellar University, received paramedic training through George Washington University, studied Fire Science through the University of Maryland, and has completed specialized training in behavior change, emotional regulation, communication, and personal development.
Darlene brings practical tools, warmth, and real-world insight to organizations seeking resilience, communication, self-awareness, and employee well-being.
The coaching process is a focused conversation combined with techniques designed to move you out of your state of confusion, limitation, or fear to where you aspire to be.
It addresses personal and business goals, emotional and physical health, addictions, relationships, and transitions in the client’s personal life.
Through close examination, I help you discover what your obstacles or challenges might be, then choose a course of action to make your life become what you want it to be.
A variety of modalities are included in this process.
Rei-Ki means “life-force-energy.” There are many different names for this life force and energy field, such as Chi, Prana, Qi, Higher Power, God force, or spiritually guided life force energy.
Reiki is administered by “laying on hands” in a variety of placements and is commonly used for stress reduction and relaxation and can also promote healing.
Reiki is performed with you lying on a massage table, fully clothed in a pleasing environment. Essential oils, Tibetan singing bowls, and guided visualization may also be used during your session.
If you find yourself regularly stressed out, Reiki may be the therapy for you.
The BAUD is a sound based device that helps to disrupt the circuits of Trauma that get held in the nervous system of the brain and body.
It is helpful with a variety of different personal issues.
When you first hear about EFT you may find yourself feeling skeptical at first…until you experience it.
EFT is a meridian based therapy that some texts say has been around in one form or another for thousands of years and is used to help neutralize fear based emotions.
At the most basic level, the building blocks of life, our bodies are comprised of systems of energy. Every thought you have has an electromagnetic or energetic consequence, creating physical symptoms in the body.
The basic premise of EFT is that the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption of the body’s energy field.
To better understand how EFT works you would first need to know a little about the brain. If you were to think of the organ of the brain itself, it would be like the hard drive in your computer.
Every time you have a thought, especially one where a negative emotion is attached, it is like loading software onto your brain, and a neural pathway or program is formed.
These negative thoughts land in a part of the brain known as the “amygdala,” the part of the brain associated with fear.
Over time, these pathways become bigger and stronger until they form patterns and become part of your subconscious. These unconscious fear-based programs can become a filter through which you see and live your life.
Research has shown that by tapping on the energy meridians of the body while associating into a particular feeling, a signal disruption occurs and a neutralizing effect happens.
New, healthier pathways are created, and a cessation of anxiety is experienced. This technique has been shown to be especially effective when used on PTSD patients.
A special technique called “Tearless Trauma” allows one to process and experience a release around particularly traumatizing events without necessarily having to rehash painful details.
In a critical review published in the American Psychological Association’s journal Review of General Psychology, researchers found positive results associated with EFT.
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Caregiving can challenge the most resilient among us. If you have found yourself in the role of caregiver, feelings of overwhelm and stress are quite common.
You may be feeling sad, irritable, angry, or depressed. You could be suffering from exhaustion or weight gain. The constant strain and worry can cause headaches or other physical symptoms which could then lead to self-medicating.
In short, high levels of stress over a long period of time can have serious and long-lasting effects on both your mental and physical health.
However, you may be so focused on your loved one that you do not realize your own health and well-being are suffering, and the thought of doing something for you can feel selfish.
Now is the time when you need it the most.
Some of the best strategies as a caregiver are to accept help, find connection, and get support.
My Self-Care Coaching Package can provide that.
Click on the following link for information about my group coaching package for caregivers:
For Parkinson’s caregivers: Parkinson's Lifestyle Management
When you are wanting expansion in your spiritual consciousness, these sessions are based and centered on the exploration of the ego and include reading assignments.
Phone sessions are also available.
When people hear the word “hypnosis,” they immediately think of swinging watches, spinning spirals, and mind-control that they see in the movies.
Hypnotic trance exists in many different forms in everyday life, for example when you are watching your favorite TV show, reading a good book, or daydreaming.
We become hypnotized all of the time without our awareness, into particular mindsets.
Many of these mindsets are created when we are children and learning to navigate the world around us. Powerful post-hypnotic suggestions can stay with us for years, especially in areas where self-esteem is concerned.
Often, the job of the therapist is to de-hypnotize the client.
I am certified in “Ericksonian” style hypnosis, which uses indirect suggestions. Indirect suggestions are much harder to resist because they are often not even recognized as suggestions by the conscious mind.
Hypnosis helps to open and relax the mind, works on many different topics, and enables a space for healing to occur.
Special pricing for Coaching sessions is offered to Veterans who are in need and cannot receive VA coverage.
We are also a non-VA, VA approved facility, and you may be able to have your services covered.
There are quarterly Skype/Face-time meetups where we will tap together as a group.
Check the calendar for dates and times.
Your words and thoughts are powerful. Very powerful. This is not speculation; it is a reality.
The basic premise of NLP is focused on the “language” of our thoughts and how that language is stored in the brain. The specific language we use reveals our inner, subconscious perceptions or beliefs around our problems and the world at large.
If our language and our perceptions are inaccurate, as long as we continue to talk and think in that same way, the underlying problems will persist.
In other words, our attitudes are, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy and a way of remaining stuck.
Our words and thoughts create our own version of reality.
“The phrase ‘Neuro-Linguistic Programming’ describes the process of how personality creates and expresses itself. Put simply, we are all made up of a neurology that conveys information about our environment to our central nervous systems and brains.”
As we continue to grow from a rather infant brain into a more complex adult human, we tend to filter, distort, and magnify the input we get from our environment such that it matches the elaborate program we evolve to explain our life experience.
In the early 70s, Richard Bandler decided for his thesis project that he wanted to develop models of human behavior to understand why certain people seemed to be excellent at what they did, while others found the same tasks challenging or nearly impossible to do.
Along with his then professor, John Grinder, and using inspiration from pioneers in the fields of therapy and personal growth, they began to develop systematic procedures and theories that formed the basis of NLP.
They studied three top therapists: Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton Erickson.
Their goal was to develop models of how these people got the results they did. They sought to identify and model the patterns that produced these results and then to teach these models to others.
These patterns became the underlying structure of NLP, with names such as meta-model, sub-modalities, reframing, language patterns, well-formed conditions, and eye accessing clues.
NLP allows you to change the language and beliefs that you are holding, thereby allowing you to create new, healthier, productive patterns.
As your Coach, I work from the philosophy of enhanced self-awareness, responsibility, and action, while providing tools and techniques to help calm the nervous system. I currently offer 3 package options as well as concierge services for those who need a customized offering. Click below to learn more about my coaching packages, pricing, and booking process.
I am a Professionally Certified Life Coach and Spiritual Mentor, as well as a former Paramedic/Firefighter, United States Marine, and Trauma survivor.
I am now offering my “S.T.A.R PROGRAM” Tools and techniques to help regulate your “Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Response” to first responders.
Blue Skies Healing Retreat
Think of your life as an experience you are having and each day you wake up to a new experience. Yes, there are some elements of your life that often appear the same…i.e. your house, your job, your spouse… those things aren’t necessarily changing every day… and those elements are your manifested creations you have brought with you thus far. However, there are other elements of each day that are brand new, and you get to help create those parts, and what you create today will affect and build your tomorrow. What you create, depends on your level of conscious awareness, or in other words, how present, and self-aware you’re able to be at each moment of the day. Your level of conscious awareness affects your mood, your choices, and ultimately, your actions. So, you can choose by default, to let things “happen” to you, OR you can learn to consciously create your life.
