Whether you come to TransformationWorks for success coaching, career evaluation or for psychotherapy, your first contact will usually be a brief (5-10 minute) telephone conversation with Dr. Gayles. Call 713-667-6047 to speak with Dr. Gayles about the help you are seeking and to schedule an appointment for your initial consultation.

The initial consultation session is 50 minute appointment in which you and Dr. Gayles will discuss your needs, challenges, problems, and/or concerns and how TransformationWorks can best meet your needs and help to reach your goals. This session will usually be conducted face-to-face at TransformationWorks.

If you are seeking Success Coaching at TransformationWorks, the initial consultation will focus on reviewing your particular business/professional challenges and environment, focusing on your development priorities, clarifying the coaching process, and establishing a collaborative coaching partnership. You will also receive the success coaching packet that contains the coaching agreement and a variety of assessment tools and feedback instruments that will help us get off to a strong and focused start.

Over an initial period of 90 days, we meet for two to three 30-45 minute sessions per month to do "the work" of coaching. These are process and progress sessions, either face-to-face or by telephone. In these sessions, we work on the goals you have set. At each session, we discuss your accomplishments, challenges, and opportunities. Action plans and strategies are developed during most sessions to move you further toward your goals. Feedback on outcomes and action plans from previous sessions are discussed and the "next steps" are detailed.

Approximately every 30 days, we review your process and progress. We assess whether you are reaching your goals, and how well the coaching process is working for you. This is a time that we make course corrections, as needed, to enhance the effectiveness of our work together. And when your goals are achieved, you may decide that you are complete or we create new "stretch" goals to keep you firmly on the path of professional or business growth and development.

Because the right Career Choice is one of most important contributions to your quality of life and sense of well being, TransformationWorks offers a 4-step approach to your career change needs.

The Initial Consultation for Career Counseling focuses on gathering personal and employment information, as well as exploring the values, interests, experiences and abilities that relate to your career goal. In addition, emphasis is placed on uncovering any psychological issues that are affecting your goal attainment.

The Comprehensive Career Assessment step involves completing a battery of career and career-related tests. Test results are combined in a comprehensive, written report that provides a thorough analysis of your specific career interests, stylistic preferences, and values, beliefs, and attitudes.

Generating Options and Making Choices is the third step in the career change process. Information acquired during the initial consultation and the assessment stage allows you to develop a list of career alternatives. Your options are researched and explored in order to make an informed choice. Anxieties around success, failure, change, interviews, and exams are dealt with as needed.

Making and Implementing Plans is the fourth step of the process. A plan of action is developed to reach your career choice goal. You are assigned to take the actions necessary to achieve you selected career goal. This may include further training or education, learning how to conduct a job search, or how to present yourself on paper and in person to a prospective employer.

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In the initial consultation, we will talk about the problems or concerns that are prompting you to seek psychotherapy. I will begin to gather background information about you in order to understand your concerns within the context of your current life and your life history. And finally, we will formulate an initial plan for working together based on what you would like to be different in your life as a result of doing the work of therapy.

Following the initial consultation, we will usually meet once a week for a period of months to work on your problems or concerns. My goal in working with you, as your therapist, is to help you resolve your problems better and make healthier life decisions. I will offer you insights and help you choose what is best for you. I will utilize a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches to help you develop creative pathways to healing, personal growth, and transformation.