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Passion. Experience. Integrity.

Life Coaching

Life Coaching provides a way of partnering with clients in a FUN and thought provoking creative process that inspires individuals to maximize their personal and professional potential, which is particularly important in today’s uncertain and complex environment. 

Coaches honor the client as the expert in his or her life and work, and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole. This process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on work and life, while improving leadership skills and unlocking potential. 

This relationship is typically long term, during which coaches aid clients in creating visions and goals for all aspects of their lives, as well as multiple strategies to support achieving those goals. 

 

Find your inner life expert.

Debbie recognizes the brilliance of each client’s personal power to discover his or her own solutions when provided support, accountability, and unconditional positive regard.

Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
— Rumi
Debbie Cohn is a Board Certified Coach

 

Meet Debbie

 
 
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Debbie Cohn, MSc, BCC

Debbie Cohn is a Board Certified Coach trained at The Institute for Life Coach Training (ILTC), USA. She is a qualified group psychotherapist with the Institute for Group Analysis in London, UK. She has spent many years in the “helping professions” working with individuals and couples. She has extensive experience conducting groups and is a group facilitator at the Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands specializing in domestic violence, sexual assault, women’s issues, and bereavement. She earned a Masters of Science degree in psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Debbie also brings a wealth of her own "life experience" from working over 40 years as a marketing and advertising professional, a woman business owner, fund raising specialist, wife, mother, grandmother, and community philanthropist.

 

Education

  • BA Rollins College, 1977

  • MSc Birkbeck College, University of London, 2002

  • The Institute For Life Coach Training (ILCT), 2017

  • Board Certified Coach, CCE, 2018

Activities & Affiliations

  • Wholistic Therapy and Coaching Center of the Midlands, Life Coach

  • Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands, Group Facilitator for Women’s Trauma Groups. 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 803-771-7273 

  • One to One Women Coaching Women

  • National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists

  • American Group Psychotherapy Association, Inc.

  • The Institute of Group Analysis

  • The Institute for Life Coach Training

  • National Association of Women Business Owner

  • American Advertising Federation of the Midlands

  • Women in Philanthropy

  • Association of Fund Raising Professionals

  • South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SCCADVASA)

  • Columbia Museum of Art

  • Columbia Film Society (Nickelodeon Theatre)

  • Historic Columbia Foundation

  • Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative

  • Columbia Children’s Theatre