Coaching Services
Clarity. Strategy. Accountability. Forward Movement.
Coaching is designed for people who have a specific goal in mind and are ready to move toward it.
While counseling often creates space to understand, process, and heal from experiences that are impacting your life today, coaching is primarily future-focused and action-oriented. You may already know where you are—and have a vision for where you want to go—but need support creating the path between the two.
Maybe you want to write a book, improve your health, strengthen your relationship or parenting skills, build a business, make a career change, grow as a leader, or navigate a significant life transition.
Your coach helps you clarify the goal, identify what may be getting in the way, create an actionable strategy, and provides the structure and accountability to help you keep moving forward.
What Coaching Can Help With
Coaching may be a good fit when you are looking for support with:
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Parenting and family goals
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Teen and young adult development
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Health and wellness goals
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Relationships and communication
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Life transitions
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Purpose, calling, and intentional living
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Accountability and follow-through
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Personal or professional goal setting
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Leadership and executive development
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Career transitions
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Business development and startups
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Mindset and confidence
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Performance and accountability
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Creating effective systems and strategies
Coaching is collaborative, practical, and highly personalized. Rather than diagnosing or treating mental health conditions, coaching focuses on identifying where you want to go and helping you develop the tools, strategies, and accountability to move toward that goal.
Hollie Jo Hepler
Executive, Leadership & Organizational Coaching
Hollie Jo is Barefoot’s coach specializing in executive, leadership, and organizational coaching. She works with executives, women leaders, teams, and organizations seeking to grow professionally, strengthen leadership capacity, and lead with greater confidence and effectiveness.
Her coaching focuses on areas such as identifying performance gaps, strengthening mindset, improving performance management, developing effective systems and strategies, strengthening team dynamics and workplace culture, and creating greater accountability toward individual and organizational goals.
Hollie Jo’s work can be customized to support the specific goals and needs of an individual leader, team, or organization.
Hollie Jo Hepler
Executive, Leadership & Organizational Coaching
Hollie Jo is Barefoot’s coach specializing in executive, leadership, and organizational coaching. She works with executives, women leaders, teams, and organizations seeking to grow professionally, strengthen leadership capacity, and lead with greater confidence and effectiveness.
Her coaching focuses on areas such as identifying performance gaps, strengthening mindset, improving performance management, developing effective systems and strategies, strengthening team dynamics and workplace culture, and creating greater accountability toward individual and organizational goals.
Hollie Jo’s work can be customized to support the specific goals and needs of an individual leader, team, or organization.
Meet Our Coaches
Larea Kwakye
Business, Young Adult &
Parent Coaching
Larea works with entrepreneurs and individuals who want support bringing an idea or business to life. She also has a heart for teens and young adults who are seeking greater clarity about who they are, what they are called to do, and how to move boldly toward their future.
Larea also partners with parents who want practical tools for supporting their children and teens as they grow in confidence, independence, responsibility, and purpose.
Julie Mangus
Christian Leadership & Life Transition Coaching
Whether facing a career transition, leadership change, personal relationship crossroads, or a season in which what worked before no longer seems to fit, Julie helps clients slow down long enough to identify what matters, clarify where they are headed, and take intentional steps toward what comes next.
Her coaching combines thoughtful exploration with practical strategy and accountability, helping clients move from uncertainty toward greater clarity, confidence, and purposeful action.
Counseling or Coaching?
Not sure which is right for you?
Counseling is clinical mental health care provided by trained mental health professionals. It may involve healing from trauma, addressing anxiety or depression, navigating grief or relational distress, understanding patterns from the past, and improving emotional and psychological well-being.
Coaching is future-focused, goal-oriented support for people who want to create change, accomplish a specific goal, strengthen performance, navigate a transition, or intentionally move from where they are toward where they want to be.
What needs understanding, support, or healing?
Counseling asks:
Where do you want to go, and how do we help you get there?
Coaching asks:
If you’re unsure which service is the best fit, reach out to our team. We’ll help you determine the most appropriate next step.