We were lucky to catch up with Dr. Joanne Royer, Ph.D., P.C.C. recently and have shared our conversation below.
Dr. Joanne, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
What a fabulous question to be asked. I am 63 and to be honest, it’s only within the last few years that I have become clear what my purpose is. I believe that finding one’s purpose is a journey and it’s never a straight road from Point A to Point B. I coach my clients that wisdom comes from our low life points, not from happiness. Meaning, within the struggles, challenges, hard times, and mistakes (I prefer the word “missteps”), that’s where our wisdom comes from. Most of us want to be happy but when we are in that state, we aren’t looking within ourselves to gain wisdom from it. Sad but true. I’ve acquired a lot of wisdom and still acquiring it. It’s been a journey to figure out who I am, what I offer, and what feeds my joy. I’ve learned to pay attention to what my heart is saying to me versus my mind. The heart has my answer, my thoughts, not so much. With this wisdom, I offer an invitation to my clients to listen to their heart versus their mind, My mission and purpose within my work at this stage is to coach clients on how they have power over their thoughts, not the other way around. That has become my purpose. Ultimately I hope that my clients can recognize their daringness, their strength, their resilience, and their purpose when often, for years, they empowered Self-doubt. Today, I continue to find my purpose in seeing and hearing my clients talk about the strength they have come to see within themselves.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Leveraging my 30+ year professional career as a licensed psychotherapist, I own a coaching practice that focuses on empowering women, many navigating anxiety, to replace Self-criticism with Self-compassion.
My clients are self-aware, motivated women who want to move forward, and have a vision but need support navigating through procrastination fueled by Self-doubt, second-guessing, and thought-spinning that keeps them awake at night. I provide both individual and group coaching that is all virtual. Why? Because you have 10 places to be during your day why spend one of them meeting in an office when you can meet in the convenience and privacy within the location of your choice?
One of the coaching programs that I am most proud of and passionate about is called “Just Write About It”. I don’t know about you, but I am most comfortable within a writing platform. I can think deeper, dig deeper, be a bit more vulnerable and transparent through writing, as at times, I can fall a bit short in trying to verbally articulate it. I’m learning very quickly that I am not alone in this and have met many wonderful new clients through this medium. We meet initially to set up coaching goals, I provide the prompts and then clients submit each week, their writings. I then coach them through my response. 3 weeks of writing and 1 week of virtual face-to-face to tie it all together. I love this ability to connect on a deeper level (and I hear my clients do too!).
We meet during a day and time convenient to you. A laptop, desktop, or phone, is all you need.
Aside from holding several clinical degrees, I have elevated my coaching practice in being a part of the International Coaching Federation, the gold star of the coaching profession within the United States, and have received their certification as a Professional Certified Coach (P.C.C.).
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
3 fundamentals that I practice every day:
1. – Respect each client when they walk through your door and thank them for the knowledge they have given you when they leave.
2- You are already good enough in what you bring to the table. Stop wasting emotional and mental time questioning yourself.
3- Listen more, talk less (still a work. in progress!).
Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
In the early 1990s when I was a newly licensed therapist working in a residential treatment facility, long before managed care and insurance regulations were service gatekeepers, and I was blessed to have a multi-disciplinary team of equally creative and passionate professionals to work with. The power of a multi-disciplinary approach and a holistic focus on one client’s care was powerful.
Today fast forward I seek to recreate that experience. I look to collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to offer a holistic wellness approach that is tailored specifically to the client’s needs, partnering and collaborating with naturopaths, functional medicine professionals, physical therapists, culinary chefs/nutritionists, functional trainers, and the like, to work together offering a boutique type of service that shares a common denominator – the client.
I’d welcome connecting: drjoanneroyer@gmail.com
775-432-6252
Contact Info:
- Website: https://joanneroyerphd.com
- Other: 775-432-6252
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