I have a passion for helping people who are experiencing internal and relational disharmony move toward a place of wholeness and freedom to enjoy a life filled with love, joy, peace, and hope. Carol McBay is a Certified Life Coach with over 10 years of experience specializing in spiritual and mental health. She received her Professional Life Coach Certification from the International Coaching Federation and the Association of Christian Counselors. Her area of specialty includes faith-based mental health with focused training in trauma-informed care and coaching, marriage and family, life recovery, and grief and loss. Carol is dedicated to offering strengths-based support to help clients develop a healthy balance in life with movement toward joy, peace, and freedom. She is passionate about empowering, encouraging, and motivating clients as she gives guidance in decision-making, offers support in navigating mental health difficulties, and assists in establishing a recovery plan. She enjoys helping those who are motivated, find ways to obtain and maintain stability, manage difficult symptoms, rebuild relationships, and find purpose for living. She is responsive to those who will benefit from a referral to a mental health professional by assisting those clients in finding resources for professional care and treatment. For those in professional care, she enjoys helping them manage symptoms, build support for recovery, and work on life goals such as relationships, work, and education. Her approach to coaching is action-oriented with an emphasis on helping clients improve life and reach goals for the future. She helps clients create a clear plan of action while honoring values and making principle-based decisions, using current strengths to achieve future goals. Carol has a vision of hope for her clients that leads to spiritual and mental wellness.