Life Coaching Melbourne is a coach consortium and client-referral service providing screening and support for those seeking the best coaching services in Melbourne. Here are some of our coaches in our network:

Dr Julia Ahrens

Life, business, well-being and executive coach

Julia specialises in:

• Life Coaching
  
  • Increase your overall sense of happiness and life satisfaction
  • Obtaining a better work-life balance
• Career Coaching
  
  • Find the career that is right for you or change your career direction
  • Improve your communication and presentation skills
  • How do others perceive and experience you?
• Leadership and personal development
  
  • Presence and confidence through better communication and emotional intelligence
  • Develop your time management skills
  • How to reduce stress and enhance performance
• Diet and well-being coaching
  
  • Lose weight, increase your fitness and improve your health to have more energy
• Dissertation and Study Coaching
  
  • PhD, Master or Bachelor thesis assistance
  • Improve your study skills
  • Time management coaching for students and student life
  • Find out or change what you want to do with the rest of your life

Julia combines life coaching, career coaching and well-being coaching to help her clients from a holistic point of view as well as focus on specific areas for improvement. Clients describe Julia as enthusiastic and energetic; she motivates and challenges people perform at their best while also being sensitive and engaging to any problems, concerns and/or issues. A core element of her approach is that Julia supports clients while they go through the process of finding their direction in life and career, and provides the structure to get from A to B. Julia works with organisations as well as with individuals, delivering one to one coaching as well as seminars for much larger groups. She started her own business as a freelance consultant at the age of 23 and worked for many global consultancies which involved work with large companies such as Microsoft, Daimler Chrysler and T-Com.  Julia is a global player, born and raised in Germany, she has worked and studied in North America, Canada, Spain, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Australia. Julia has spoken at numerous international conferences and received many awards for her work including Oxford & Harvard University Scholarships as well as the Endeavour Australia-Europe Award from the Australian Minister for Education, Science and Training.

Julia’s qualifications and training (condensed):

• PhD in Communications
• Master of Arts (Business, Communication & Law)
• Graduate Studies in the Psychology of Coaching
• Certified Life & Business Coach
• Certified Communication Coach
• Certified TV Presenter
• Certified Exercise And Fitness Coach
• Certified Nutrition Coach
• Studied and worked at Harvard University (US) in collaboration with Oxford University (UK), Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Monash University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the University of Western Sydney, University of Bielefeld (Ger), University of Lüneburg (Ger), and the University of Siegen (Ger).

Sandy Ewing

Life, Career and Dating Coach, LCM's Team Leader

Sandy specialises in:

Sandy's passion, knowledge and inspirational outlook has helped hundreds of people gain breakthroughs with a variety of personal and professional goals.  Everything comes back to a healthy attitude and how well we connect with others.  For the past 22 years Sandy has gained invaluable experience, insights and focused her training on the human mind and personal evolution. During the last 8 years Sandy has become a leader in her chosen field of professional life coaching specializing in communication, relationship building, finding your passion, goal achievement and work/life balance. For a period of time, as a single mother of two and owning a business, she had first hand experience in mastering work/life balance whilst maintaining effective communication with all those she cares about. Staying focused on being a good role model with a healthy attitude, being compassionate and maintaining a willingness to continually learn and grow, keeps her being her best, so that she can best to help you too! If you are only managing through one of life's many transitional phases or if you are going through a period of uncertainty, or even if you have a desire to have your own special someone in your life (who is right for you), Sandy can help you put the right people on your “radar” and make opportunities unfold.


Sandy’s qualifications and training (condensed):

• Life Coaching Certification - Personal Success Australia, 2001
• Life Coaching Certification – Pentangle Pty. Ltd., 2003
• Meta States/Neuro Semantics Coaching Certification, Weibke Koch, 2003
• Coach Mastery – The Coaching Institute, 2004
• NLP Trainers Training Certification - Christopher Howard Companies, 2004
• NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Results Certification – Christopher Howard Companies, 2005
• Understanding the opposite sex Workshop - PAX International Training (USA), 2008
• Training and Assessment, Certificate IV - Vitreous Education, in progress

 George Lahanis

Life, executive, business and leadership coach and
Workshop facilitator

George specialises in:

• Defining your purpose
• Achieving your goals – the Goal Achiever Program
• Changing your thinking
• Focus – coaching that utilizes tools specifically to help you stay focused
• Success training for managers and executives
• Results focused coaching for individuals and business owners
• Work/life balance
• The Born Rich Program delivery

George also works with groups and runs workshops tailored to suit the needs of each client or group. George comes from a business background, having owned 3 successful hair salons and has learnt first-hand the importance of setting the right goals for all areas of you life, staying focused on your desired results and maintain balance along the way. George has work with a number of corporations, running tailored workshops for team development and performance.   Some of George’s experience and knowledge comes from being a National Manager for a fortune 500 company here in Australia. George is a Bob Proctor trained Success Coach and incorporates this valuable training in to all his coaching, whether it is for individuals or groups.

George’s certification and training:

• Bob Proctor Coach accreditation
• Anthony Robbins Mastery training
• Franklin Covey – 7 Habits graduate

Sandra Ryan

Life Coach, Master NLP Coach, Time-line Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Swedish Relaxation masseur

Sandra specialises in:

• Performance coaching (executives and business professionals)
• Couples coaching
• Teen coaching
• Life coaching for balance and personal growth
• Addictions, phobias
• Communication/rapport building
• Life Partner Profiling.

During her 20 years in the corporate world, Sandra embarked on her own personal development journey and began mentoring other people to become peak performers. Being passionate about my own life has led my journey into professional Coaching. I love what I do and there are plenty of laughs and fun along the way which make the journey that much more enjoyable.

Sandra has been involved in volunteer and charity organisations for most of her adult life and has a deep passion for disadvantage people gaining the most from their lives.

As a certified NLP Practitioner, Performance Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist, and a member of the International Coaching Federation and the American Board of Hypnotherapy Sandra’s coaching methodology is unique and subtly life changing.  This could be changing your relationships or finding that special someone, dealing with addiction and phobias, achieving health and fitness or financial goals.

Qualifications and background:

• Cert IV Life Coaching
• Advanced Practitioner in Coach Mastery
• Master Practitioner/Coach in NLP
• Master Time Line Therapist
• Registered/Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
• Swedish Relaxation Massage Therapist
• Diploma of Financial Services (Superannuation)
• Member of the American Board of Hypnotherapists
• Member of the American Board of NLP
• Member of the International Coach Federation

Mike Palmer

Life and lifestyle coach

Mike specialises in:

• Lifestyle coaching
• Balancing career goals with “life” goals Showing you how to truly live the life of your dreams
• Effective negotiation strategies in both business and personal arenas
• Overcoming all types of obstacles and challenges in life and “thriving” as opposed to merely “surviving” during difficult times
• Success & Lifestyle Seminars

No matter what challenge or obstacle you are currently facing, Mike Palmer has strategies and techniques to show you how to not only “survive” your current situation but how to learn valuable life lessons that will help you “thrive” at the end of it all. Mike has pushed himself through some of life’s toughest challenges including: His Black belt gradings and instructor gradings in 3 different styles of martial arts; A horrendous car accident that left his partner at the time with a broken neck in 5 places and in a wheelchair for life; A close family friend who was an accountant for one of his company’s and embezzled $80,000 and nearly bankrupted the company; Having a $1,000,000 a year contract stolen from one of his companies by way of underhanded means. Yet, despite these challenges, Mike has managed to not only “keep it all together” but to rise above these challenges and live a lifestyle that many people can only dream of, including traveling world, inspiring many along the way through his coaching.

Mike has completed the following training and courses:

• A certificate in clinical hypnotherapy
• The full Anthony Robbins “Mastery University”
• Training by Jay Abrahams, Dr Denis Waitley, Chris Howard and many more…

So, if you are looking for new strategies and techniques to take your life to the next level and, if you are after proven tools to help you overcome current challenging circumstances, then contact Mike and find out how to turn your nightmares into your dreams!

• Leadership styling & skill development
• Communication & rapport building (great for sales people and managers)
• Work/life balance
• Career coaching & selling yourself
• Health & fitness goals
• Performance & productivity
• Dating, flirting & relationship coaching (Sandy is the creator of the Fabulous Fllirt Coaching Program)
• Vision & purpose discovery
• Coaching for newly divorced and separated people