David Scheel Solution Focused Happiness & WellBeing Empowerment Coaching

My interest in helping people began with my own healing journey after a period of deep depression following a divorce. I was so despairing of life I felt as if I could not ever feel better or hopeful or motivated or inspired to do anything. I turned to spirituality because I wasn't employed well enough to afford healthcare that would cover expenses of therapy. I found a church that was helpful and the leader was a gifted counselor. Within two years I felt spiritually restored and my life was restored as well despite the fact that the relationship wasn't reconciled. I was so impressed with how profound the relief was that came that I wanted to help people in the same way. That was in 1988. I studied all the spiritual counseling and counseling psychology books I could get my hands on and eventually went back to school in 1995. By 2021 I had transferred from Cairn University In Pennsylvania to CIIS in San Francisco, California and studied Integral Studies with an emphasis on Transpersonal and Integral Psychology. I also became very aware of the importance of the engagement of mind/ body (emotions and body sensations) in the therapeutic process. I began working as a mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) counselor with PRC Baker Places, (formerly Baker Places) Acceptance Place, an up to ninety day treatment facility in 2006. That same year I discovered NLP and began training in Transformational NLP in Marin, (NLP Marin). NLP Marin also had a Family Constellation facilitation training which I completed as well as the Master Level NLP certification program by 2010. All the while, I had been practicing with the clients I worked with in the recovery program. By then I had launched my private coaching practice and have been growing it ever since. I continue to learn new modalities that add ongoing value to the skills I have developed over the years. And I am grateful to be able to have realized my dream to be able to give the same level of transformation experience that I was so desperately in need of myself once upon a time. I had no idea life could be so rewarding and rich. I look forward to sharing my experience with you.

I offer a free initial 45 minute phone consultation to make sure we both feel like we're a good fit to work together. Once we agree to begin working together, I invite you to begin to invest $125 each 90 minute session of your new life transformation. I can't accept insurance at this time but if you seek a psychotherapist that can charge your insurance for therapy and they recommend hypnotherapy sessions for you, they can refer you to me, and you may be able get reimbursed for some percentage of out of pocket costs for our sessions if you have a flexible spending account as part of your employers health insurance benefits. It's worth looking into. If that doesn't work, I am willing to work with what you can afford and offer a true sliding scale based on your income and expenses if that's needed.