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Renée Haas
(805) 306-1595
info@midlifecoach.org
Renée specializes in life coaching for those facing midlife transitions. She is available for phone and Skype sessions for clients anywhere in the world.
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 I bring a unique blend of professional experiences to my work as a Certified Professional Coach. Early in my career I was a writer and manager in the corporate world, and I currently work as a licensed therapist in addition to coaching. Together, my skills help clients both with strategic life planning and with generating the insight and energy necessary to achieve their targeted goals.
I began my career as a journalist, working initially for community newspapers, then for the largest-circulation daily newspaper in Orange County, Calif. After that, I moved into the corporate world. I worked onsite in corporate communications for major retail, foodservice and financial services companies. At one point, I was Public Relations Manager for nearly 700 7-Eleven convenience stores in Southern California and Hawaii.
After that, I opened my own business as a freelance corporate communications consultant and writer, working with national and international firms.
During this entire time, in addition to devoting myself to work and family, I was doing various forms of volunteer work related to psychology. I first became transfixed by the field of psychology when I was a young journalist and wrote a series of articles about the chronically mentally ill. In the 1990s, I took on a life-changing volunteer assignment: I became a paraprofessional counselor for a nonprofit mental health agency and fell in love with the work. So I decided to take the plunge and change careers. I went back to graduate school, earned a master's degree in clinical psychology from esteemed Pepperdine University, completed a 3,000-hour internship, passed two arduous licensing exams and became a licensed marriage and family therapist with additional certification in anger management. Whew!
As I worked to establish my private practice, I started networking extensively with other local professionals. While interacting with these successful, high-functioning individuals, I realized that many of them either didn't want or didn't need therapy. But they often did need some outside assistance in helping them improve their quality of life in a goal-focused way, without exploring either their emotions or their pasts as they would in therapy. They needed a life coach!
So I began exploring the life coaching field and doing additional training to augment the coaching skills I had built over the years as a businessperson and therapist. During this time, I was quite shocked to learn that life coaching is an unregulated field, so literally anyone can call themselves life coaches without having any relevant training or experience. Since I am a Certified Professional Coach, you can trust that I have studied hard to learn the many skills needed to help my life coaching clients achieve their goals.
I thoroughly enjoy working as both a life coach and a therapist. I relish the deep emotional work I do as a therapist. And I derive tremendous satisfaction from seeing the people I coach catch fire with enthusiasm about a newly articulated goal and then see that goal actually come to fruition. It's electrifying!
Although I love where I personally stand at midlife, I could have used a good life coach to help guide and accompany me to the various milestones along the way. I would be honored to have the opportunity to work with you, as we celebrate life and all it has to offer you.
Education
M.A., Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University
B.A., Communications, California State University, Fullerton
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