Mental Health Coaching

Where psychology meets the daily grind

As a mental health coach, I’m here to accompany you on your journey towards the future you envision.

Together, we will navigate the necessary steps to get there.

Whether you’re grappling with mental health challenges, facing addiction or recovery, navigating tough environments, feeling overwhelmed, or facing other obstacles—known or unknown—rest assured, there’s a path forward.

With compassion and expertise, I’ll help you unlock your potential, overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals. Let’s embark on this journey together, empowering you to thrive and flourish along the way.

New Paths Mental Health Coaching



Let’s talk…

Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Sexual Health

MENTAL
We all move through life with many different highs and lows, in many different realms of our lives.
Sometimes, we can get stuck in a way of thinking that keeps us from living the life we want to live. Forging new nuero-pathways, new lines of thought does take hard work, but it is so worth it!
Or sometimes, our mental conditions might cause our day to day living to be very challenging. Things can feel helpless, maybe like you’ve done all you can, and you don’t know what else to do. We can work together to really break down the day to day and strategize your success story based off of the very unique build of who you are.

EMOTIONAL
People often need space to tend to their emotions, or they are tired of overcoming them, or they are facing something new. Emotions can feel very overwhelming and all-consuming and keeping them in check can be exhausting.
Meeting with a coach is one of the first and best ways you can give yourself some space and take the first steps to healing.

SPIRITUAL
Working out your spiritual beliefs, making them your own, and growing into them can feel lonely, tiresome, unstable, or many other things! In the quiet and safe space of my office, we can talk through your beliefs, values, and journey to make your spirituality your own, in your own strength.

SEXUAL
Our sexuality is both a very big part of our lives that is both very personal and also socially trending. Our sexual health, whether it’s about our own identities, patterns, or relational experiences needs as much support as any other element of our health. Meeting with a coach can give you the safe and discreet space to truly think about, talk through, and work out your sexuality.

Relationship, Family, Marriage Support

All relationships are complex! Whether you are looking for support within your family of origin or your in-laws, a person you are dating or a person you are married to, a friendship, or a lost relationship, let’s talk. We can talk through the many different layers or complications that may be at hand and strategize your way with and through them or simply just hold the space to talk about them.

ADHD, Personal or Family Support

ADHD is a very relevant and significant experience for those who have ADHD and for those in relationship with someone who has ADHD.
To the one who is diagnosed with ADHD: finding your way through a world not designed for an ADHD mind causes significant stress and other co-morbid issues. There are ways to be successful in this world, but it does take personal awareness and advocacy, and working with mental health coach can be life-changing.
To the one in relationship with someone who has ADHD: your experience is valid. You need as much support as your loved one. As a spouse, there are ways you can operate in your relationship that will bring the most health to both of you, and your own health is needs to be a focus. As a parent, trying to do best by your ADHD child multiplies the energies demanded as a parent.
ADHD in the household needs a great amount of support, and meeting with a mental health coach can be very impactful in receiving the support you all need.
Check out some ADHD stats here:
ADHD Statistics (2023): How Many People Have ADHD? (cfah.org)

Goal Setting

Envisioning a specific future for yourself is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. Taking that vision and breaking it down into smaller and reachable goals and then staying focused on those goals takes significant resources. Doing anything different than what you have always done comes with many pitfalls, valleys, and mountains. Having an extrinsic supporter, an accountability outside of yourself can make the exact difference you need to reach your goals.

Clinical Therapy Support

Clinical Counseling can be life changing, but sometimes it might just not seem like it’s enough. For the time in between sessions, we can talk about how to get through each day, each thought, each stressor. Clinical therapy will help you root out and heal past trauma and diagnosing mental conditions. Living with that trauma and those conditions often needs additional support, and coaching can bring the hope of your future to the actions of today while working with or around your clinical therapy.

Addiction and Recovery

There is a life where you live free and empowered. Just because you’ve been on one path, perhaps over and over again, doesn’t not mean you cannot take a different path.
Being in recovery of an addiction can feel like a full time job, and sometimes needs all of your attention. There are strategies and lifestyles that aid that recovery, and there are things that make the addiction feel undeniable.
Being in an addiction can feel like you are enslaved and finding the way out can feel impossible. But it’s not impossible. Get started now, you can get the help you need.

Suicide Prevention

For every individual looking at the end of their life, there is hope, and there are other options. There is a story beyond those darkest of moments. Let’s talk.

Erin McDowell New Paths

Frequently asked questions

What is a life coach?

A life coach is a helps individuals clarify their goals, overcome obstacles, and create positive changes in their personal and professional lives through guidance, support, and accountability.

What is a mental health coach?

A mental health coach is someone who has special training with mental health challenges and works with individuals in navigating those challenges in their daily lives or in the pursuit of their goals.

How is therapy and counseling different from coaching?

Therapy typically focuses on addressing past trauma, unresolved emotions, and diagnosable mental health conditions through in-depth exploration and treatment.

Mental health coaching will focus on the present and the future, staying cognizant of past traumas, unresolved emotions, or diagnosed mental health conditions. Instead of focusing on healing, coaches will focus on daily living and future goals.

How do I get started?

Since it is best to feel comfortable with each other, I advise scheduling the free 20 minute Get to Know Each Other Session” session.
We will talk about how I can help and if we are a good fit. From there we can make a plan on what to do next.

If you would like to jump in right away, schedule a full session. I will contact you with a few intake forms to help us make the most of our time together.

Can I see a therapist while seeing you?

Absolutely! Therapy and coaching often go hand in hand. Often people will see their therapists to heal trauma and mental health conditions and then see their coaches in between sessions to work out how to live their lives around those conditions.

Just therapy- good.
Just coaching- good.
Both- good!

How often do I need to meet with a coach?

There really is no way to guess how many sessions will get you to where you want to be. In times of extreme stress, once a week is very impactful. Once or twice a month is helpful to keep moving and refocusing. And sometimes, all someone really wants is a single session.

How much does coaching cost?

A one-hour session is priced at $105.

You are welcome to apply for the Accessible and Affordable Services grant, which utilizes an income-based sliding scale to tailor the price to your financial circumstances, making it more manageable for you.

Don’t let financials stop you from getting the help you need. Apply today.

Will my insurance cover coaching services?

It is dependent on your insurance, and often insurance does not cover mental health abundantly. However, often your HSA or FSA does cover mental health coaching services.