LIFE AND CAREER COACHING IN RECOVERY
You’ve invested in your recovery. Now you may be asking what comes next for your work, your education, or the life you want to build. Together, we’ll reconnect with your strengths, explore possibilities, and build practical skills for moving forward with confidence. Whether you’re returning to work, choosing a new direction, or rebuilding after time away, we’ll make space for both your hopes and your concerns, at a pace that respects your recovery. Coaching complements your treatment and recovery supports with a focus on your next steps in life and work.
HOW WE WORK
Start with a complimentary conversation. If coaching feels right for you, we can explore your next chapter together.
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Discovery Call
A complimentary 25-minute conversation to ask questions, discuss the service, and explore whether we’re a good fit. No obligation.
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Begin coaching, agreed together
If we decide to work together, we’ll agree on the focus and coaching arrangement before beginning. The work may center on a specific skill or decision, or support you through a broader transition.
As we work, you won’t just make a plan. You’ll build a toolkit: ways to make decisions, tell your story, test possibilities, prepare for difficult conversations, and keep moving even when you don’t get everything right. That’s how confidence grows—through practice, evidence, and increasing trust in yourself.
WHAT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU
The work is personal, but it’s also practical. Depending on where you begin, you may leave with:
A clearer understanding of your strengths, values, patterns, and non-negotiables
Language that helps you explain your experience and recognize the value within it
Practical tools for decisions, conversations, applications, interviews, and change
A realistic plan, with support as decisions become action
Greater agency and stronger evidence that you can trust yourself
WHY TELOS
Telos is a Greek word for purpose—the end toward which something is moving or becoming.
A major transition can unsettle the roles, plans, and expectations that once gave life direction. But losing the old map does not mean there is nothing to guide you. Beneath what has changed are values, strengths, experiences, and longings that still point somewhere.
Telos Coaching helps you recognize that direction—and turn it into choices, language, and a practical path forward.
THE EXCAVATION
Through guided reflection on your meaningful experiences, setbacks, values, and aspirations, we explore the threads that have shaped your life—and the possibilities ahead. Together, we develop a fresh understanding of your story, with a personalized written reflection to support your next steps. The Excavation includes a deep reflective exercise, a 90-minute guided conversation, and a personalized written reflection. It is included in the signature coaching package and in education packages.
MEET YOUR COACH
I’ve spent more than 20 years helping people make consequential decisions about education, work, and the lives they want to build. I’ve worked with students and professionals across more than 50 countries, from people taking their first professional steps to senior leaders in consulting, finance, education, and public service.
My career has included leading international education and coaching organizations, developing training for government ministries, working with people in recovery, and helping people shape pathways into universities including Harvard and Stanford. I’m a certified Jungian coach and certified hypnotherapist, with an MA in Diplomatic Studies, a background in somatic work, and training in trauma-informed approaches, including Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry.
I understand transition personally, too. My own life has included two international moves, professional reinvention, single motherhood, and rebuilding after a family separation. Telos grew partly from the support I wish I’d had then: a place that could honor the depth of what had happened while helping me recover my agency, develop practical tools, and begin building again.
My role isn’t to prescribe a life for you or do the work on your behalf. It’s to help you hear your own direction more clearly, recognize the value and capability you already carry, and develop the tools to move forward as the author of your own life.
20+ years of experience • Work across 50+ countries • Certified Jungian Coach • Certified Hypnotherapist • MA in Diplomatic Studies
A THOUGHTFUL FIRST STEP
Begin with a complimentary Discovery Call
A complimentary 25-minute conversation to ask questions, discuss the service, and explore whether we’re a good fit. You don’t need to have a plan before we talk.
No obligation. University and referral partners are welcome to email Charli directly.
Telos Coaching · Career, education, performance & life
A practice for courageous transitions