INTRO
Life & Relationship Coach
at FilomenaDBcoach, LLC
I am a counselor and trained coach that found the motivation to become a life coach to pursue a deeper meaning in helping people. Continuously strives to find the means to facilitate and encourage the growth of relationships, giving support to flow any relational issues, increasing strength, and improving the quality and purpose in people’s life.
ABOUT ME
Many things have happened to me in my life but building a new life in the United States in my forties was the best! I am originally from Brasil, and at home, we speak Portuguese. I am a city girl, and I used to say that I would never leave the city that I loved most - São Paulo. However, when my husband got a relocation offer, just God can explain, but I accepted all the unknown changes right away to live in a small city in Michigan State. Because of this big step in our lives, I put my career of 18 years in Managing Customer Services operations in standby and used my free time to improve my English communication skills and to keep myself well updated in the most critical issues around my new life. I was satisfied until came this need to figure out a way back to the workforce. I was looking for a second career, and in my quest for a new path, I wanted to benefit from my bachelor's degree in social communications that I got in my twenties.
I am a believer and a person of faith, so just identifying my utter expectations was not enough, I needed to find my calling and follow the path that God has prepared for me at this time in my life. In this process, I met many interesting people who supported and helped me to get here.
Even with all the experience in Marketing, I decided to come back to school and got certified in Housekeeping Management hoping that it could let me get back to working with people from different areas and backgrounds. However, before I put my hands-on hospitality, fortunately, my husband got a promotion that required us to move to Dallas, Texas.
Going back to living in a bigger city was the incentive for me to embrace the challenge of joining a master's program in the field of helping people, an area that has been my passion and calling since the beginning of my professional life. As a full-time student of the counseling program, in 2016 I majored in the Master of Arts in Counseling. Among several pieces of training and workshops, I was also certified as an Anger Management Specialist-I. From this, I can enlist many incredible experiences as a practicum student and later as a volunteer in a church-based Counseling Center. However, things were not entirely clear to me. As a counselor, we see clients only within the professional standard. I was missing the right energy and the fun in training, developing, managing, and relating to the people around me.
Even though I already said it, I am very grateful for all the incredible people who have crossed my path to the new career, is it important to mention a fantastic supervisor that I had during my work as a counselor. He was the one who planted the seed saying that I was a good coach and should focus on relational issues. So, in 2018 I took from the Institute for Life Coach Training - ILCT two courses, the Coach Approach and the Introduction to Relationship Coaching.
Since then, I have found myself investing all my time and knowledge to serve as a life coach, preparing myself to offer coaching services, tools and techniques to anyone who wants to invest in their future just as I did. Nothing brings me more pleasure in life than helping a person see that their possibilities are limitless just like mine. People just need to adjust, change or implement a new worldview in their nature to get the best of their life.
These days we are living in New Jersey. I have a marriage of more than 30 years. I am retired by the Brazilian system. In 2010 we became US Citizens. And we have a daughter who graduated in film production, married and works in Vancouver-BC.
Every obstacle on this journey was a motive to keep me going, and it feels good to find a purpose and keep answering to my calling at this stage in my life!