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“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul .”
- Carl Jung

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Hi, I'm Darren

Thank you for visiting my site. It takes great courage to consider change, and the world needs more courage these days, so I’m honored that our paths have crossed at this part of your journey.

I’ve been where you’re at. There are many reasons why one seeks a coach, but to me the main reason is that we’re seeking something we know is missing.

My story is not unique. 

At 13 I developed clinical depression and anxiety when my parents divorced, and for 30 years I teetered between suicide and breakdowns. I would cry at work and spend weekends in bed. Pharmaceutical drugs made me numb, and therapy provided occasional breakthroughs only to fall again and start over. I constantly felt less than, a failure, ashamed and fearful that I just couldn’t get better. I was angry and regretted past I could never change. I was stuck in a victim mentality that damaged all my relationships. I tried to forgive and forget but I couldn’t and the idea created even more internal conflict. 

In 2012 my mom passed of Stage 4 Stomach Cancer. I had been her caregiver and was consumed by grief. A part of my heart had died with her. Five months later my brother kicked me out of a business we had built, and I felt a deeply betrayed, abandoned and scared. I grieved for seven years until 2019 when my father died, and I broke. The regret of never telling him how much I loved him overwhelmed me, and I knew then I was in danger. If I did not find something immediately, I would take my life because I could not break further. 

And that’s when I found the path toward healing. It appeared by chance, but it wasn’t random. There is a path that presents itself but we have to be ready because it is not easy. It’s the hardest thing. It requires courage, determination, faith and surrender, but it proves itself to you through healing, wholeness, unburdening and empowerment. And love. And it puts things in perspective so that one day we realize that our suffering wasn’t just part of the journey. It was the most critical part.

The world needs love and courage and healing today more than ever, and I would be honored to find it with you. 

Coaching Services

Integration Coaching

Integration coaching is an exploration of our experience to bring the unconscious to consciousness, so we can process difficult experiences of the past, put them into perspective to heal and integrate suppressed parts of our experiences that may be limiting us to heal and find harmony and become our authentic selves.

Psychedelic Journeys

Prior to your journey we talk about why you’re seeking a profound experience now and explore how suppressed trauma may be possessing your life, helping you allow the experience to come up for healing during your journey. Afterward we discuss integrating your newfound insights to heal more and live more freely and authentically.  

Grief & End of life

When faced with our own mortality we tend to soften and become ready to have deeper conversations.  This is a good time to resolve the past and let go of grudges and attachments that no longer serve us. Coaching at this time is to create space to say what you need to say and perspective to forgive ourselves and others and to find important meaning in our experience. 

Family & Relationship

Family trauma cuts deepest, shaping our lives forever. We unconsciously expect our partner to heal those wounds, but risk projecting our limited beliefs on to them, hurting those we love and ourselves. 

We can’t change others, but we can change ourselves. Relationship Coaching uses the special bond shared with a loved one as the foundation to confront yourself through relationship challenges to heal for each other and yourself. 

Authentic Leadership

There are many guides and books about leadership, but you can’t be a great leader by becoming someone else, only by becoming yourself. How can you ever be able to lead and inspire others consistently if you don’t know yourself and your own inspiration?

Authentic Leadership Coaching is about discovering you, and all your limited parts, and how to connect to your greatest strength, your Authentic Self, and to tap into its profound inspiration, energy and vision to inspire yourself and others. 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is integration Coaching?

Integration coaching is a profound journey towards realizing your authentic self by understanding your unconscious shadow, patterns, and beliefs to  transform the barriers that keep you from being your authentic self and connecting with others. Through meditation, awareness, and self-reflection, integration coaching guides you on a path of self-discovery, helping you integrate your body, mind, and spirit to connect with yourself, loved ones and to live in the present moment.

You can read more about the coaching process here

How is this different than therapy?

Integration coaching and therapy are similar but differ in goals. While therapy works to bring balance by addressing specific traumas, symptoms or emotions, integration coaching seeks to go beyond that, creating a space for you to embrace your totality – unconscious, conscious, good, bad or otherwise – to discover the boundless, loving, courageous potential of your being. Therapy generally looks to heal or reframe fragmented parts, behaviors and experiences to become productive in the world again. Integration coaching is about embracing all of yourself to become whole and transform your experience with the world and others. 

What Are The Fees For Coaching?

Coaching services range from $50/hr to $125/hr based on one’s financials resources, allowing people to get support within a flexible fee range. As long as a person wants to do this important work, I think coaching should be available, regardless of financial circumstances. The first call is always free though to see if you think we’re a fit and to learn more about how I work with clients. 

How can we get in touch for coaching?

To schedule a call just click on the Book a Free Call button above or my calendly link to set up a call on both our calendars. The first hour long call is free to get to know me and for me to know you, and to see if we are a fit to work together. 

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Testimonials

Coaching with Darren has been wonderful. He's helped me become a more aware person and feel a deeper level of empowerment. I’ve been working with Darren for over two years and I’ve drastically transformed my life. The biggest impact has been with my relationships. We worked together to set boundaries and to learn how to be my own biggest advocate while also continuing to be compassionate to others. The most valuable insights I’ve taken from coaching with Darren is that I’m a soul too, that the judgement I have in others is also within myself and that I have the strength to overcome any obstacle that I come across.
Sam B.
Working with Darren was absolutely and essential at the stage where I was in my journey with integrating aspects of myself that I've only just become aware of. Darren pays a great deal of attention, in a very inquisitive way to the speaker such that the speaker feels listened to, but also a bit challenged sometimes. The greatest insight I learned is that, while it's a personal journey, I don’t have to figure it out alone, as it can be very dangerous. These journeys have been taken by countless people time and again, and there is a great deal of philosophy and literature out there that can help guide the way. Darren recommended books and movies to watch, which I have found extremely insightful. I'm still going through the list of books that he recommended to me. The second insight is a constant theme with Darren where he often tackles some issues head on, and attempts to break them down and get to the root of them, whether financial or emotional. I learned from this that even when things are overwhelming, I can often, especially with the help of others, try to break them apart and get to the root of them to attempt to alleviate or limit suffering, or even resolve them.
Moshe L.
My time with Darren was truly one of the most transformative times in my life. I love his coaching style and the way he challenged me when he felt I could use a push and the way he intuitively knew when it was time to just listen. He not only helped me through my personal issues but gave me amazing leadership while preparing for professional endeavors. Darren has the biggest heart and you can feel the love and support in each call. He helped me through the most difficult and challenging time in my early recovery process when I finally got clean from my heroin addiction. The impact he made during that time was nothing short of profound.
Chelsea F.
Darren is an amazing coach who does not sugar coat anything. He’s impactful, loving and raw. I love how he has resources or other teachers or books for any question or topic! He is loving, compassionate and very good at keeping you on track. I enjoyed his questions because he makes me think outside the box and sometimes question my own beliefs. I gained so many insights and he led me to so many amazing resources that expanded my knowledge greatly!
Rosa D.
Darren is an incredible listener. He understood and could relate to me sharing about what I was struggling with from teen years and childhood. He was empathetic and knowledgeable about how we deal with past pain and trauma, helping me realize (and ultimately forgive) my parents and others because they are just humans, dealing with their own pain and trauma, just like me. I was able to stop taking things so personally. My trauma and pain make me the unique empathetic human I am today. By integrating it versus fighting it or ignoring it enables me to be a happier, less anxious and depressed person.
Molly H.