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Elizabeth Huang

I help clients reconnect with themselves, build a strong sense of identity, and integrate losses (whether death-related or not) into their lives. Together, we work toward achieving clarity, emotional balance, and a renewed sense of purpose to move forward with confidence and intention.

Life/Grief Coach & Death Doula

San Jose, CA, USA & Online

I offer a range of transformative coaching services tailored to help individuals navigate life’s challenges (including end-of-life transitions) while cultivating personal growth, clarity, and emotional resilience.

My approach is multidisciplinary and tailored to your unique needs. Together, we’ll work on creating awareness, acceptance, and aligned actions in the areas that matter most to you. We’ll explore different aspects of your life—including the somatic (body), emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and unconscious—so we can address your goals holistically.  

Emotional awareness coaching is focused on helping you better identify and understand your emotions. You will become more attuned to your emotional states, leading to greater self-awareness, improved relationships, and a deeper sense of well-being.

Emotional awareness coaching may focus on the following:

1. Understanding Emotions
2. Emotional Exploration
3. Developing Emotional Intelligence

Life transitions are pivotal moments or periods of change that alter the course of one’s life. These can include:  

1. Personal Transitions:
 - Marriage, divorce, separation, or breakups.
 - Becoming a parent or transitioning into empty-nesting.
 - Coming out, transitioning, or other personal identity shifts.
 - Relocating to a new city or country.
 - Adjusting to retirement or aging.

2. Professional Transitions:
 - Changing careers or starting a business.
 - Coping with job loss, layoffs, or promotions.
 - Shifting from full-time work to freelancing or consulting.

3. Emotional Transitions:
 - Coping with grief, loss, or major life upheavals.
 - Reassessing priorities during mid-life or other milestone ages.
 - Recovery from burnout or other health challenges.

4. Other Major Transitions:
 - Adapting to life after a major illness, injury, or disability.
 - Shifting into post-graduation or post-schooling life.
 - Reinventing oneself after a major success or life peak.

Communication development coaching ocuses on helping you gain deeper insight into your inner world—thoughts, emotions, values, beliefs, and desires. We will peel back layers of societal conditioning, limiting beliefs, and self-doubt to uncover the authentic self.

Communication development sessions may focus on the following:

1. Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses
2. Developing Self-Awareness
3. Improving Clarity and Confidence
4. Active Listening Skills
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Nonverbal Communication
7. Emotional Intelligence in Communication
8. Assertiveness and Boundary Setting
9. Overcoming Communication Barriers

The life review process offers a profound opportunity to reflect, find meaning, and work towards acceptance of death. It is not only an emotional release but also a healing process that provides an enriched sense of self and purpose.

Life review sessions may focus on the following:

1. Reflecting on Key Life Events
2. Exploring Unresolved Emotions
3. Acknowledging Contributions and Accomplishments
4. Identifying Personal Values
5. Forgiveness and Reconciliation
6. Celebrating Relationships
7. Understanding Life’s Purpose and Meaning
8. Creating a Legacy
9. Spiritual Reflection
10. Addressing Fears and Anxieties About Death

Life purpose coaching is for those who are feeling lost, stuck, or bound by society, family, or work.

Life purpose sessions may focus on the following:

1. Self-Discovery and Exploration
2. Identifying Passions and Talents
3. Clarifying Core Values
4. Aligning with Personal Vision
5. Understanding Life Lessons and Challenges
6. Setting Meaningful Goals
7. Overcoming Obstacles and Limiting Beliefs
8. Living in Alignment with Purpose
9. Finding Balance and Fulfillment
10. Leaving a Legacy

Emotional regulation sessions are focused on helping you better process, express, and respond to emotions. You will become more attuned to yourself and others, leading to stronger social skills, increased resilience, and greater life satisfaction.

Emotional regulation coaching may focus on the following:

1. Reconnecting with the Body
2. Overcoming Emotional Avoidance
3. Aligning Emotions with Goals

Self-exploration coaching ocuses on helping you gain deeper insight into your inner world—thoughts, emotions, values, beliefs, and desires. We will peel back layers of societal conditioning, limiting beliefs, and self-doubt to uncover the authentic self.

Self-exploration sessions may focus on the following:

1. Identifying Core Values and Beliefs
2. Understanding Emotional Landscape
3. Clarifying Goals and Desires
4. Uncovering Limiting Beliefs
5. Reconnecting with Creativity and Play
6. Aligning with the Authentic Self
7. Exploring Past Experiences
8. Fostering Intuition and Self-Trust

Work/life balance coaching addresses the unique challenges you face when juggling professional responsibilities, personal relationships, self-care, and passions. We will work on strategies and tools to help you manage competing priorities, minimize stress, and create a lifestyle that feels aligned with your values and aspirations.

Work/life balance sessions may focus on the following:

1. Clarifying Values and Priorities
2. Time Management Strategies
3. Setting Boundaries
4. Stress Management and Emotional Resilience
5. Workplace Optimization
6. Personal Fulfillment and Self-Care
7. Navigating Transitions
8. Improving Communication
9. Eliminating Guilt and Perfectionism
10. Cultivating Presence and Focus

Grief support/processing helps you cope with the complex emotions associated with loss. This process is not just about grieving the loss of a loved one, but it also encompasses a wide range of losses, such as the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, or the loss of personal identity or dreams.

Grief support/processing sessions may focus on the following:

1. Creating a Safe and Supportive Space
2 .Exploring the Emotional Experience of Grief
3. Addressing Unfinished Business or Regrets
4. Exploring Emotional Expression
5. Tools for Coping with Intense Emotions
6. Grief Rituals and Ceremonies
7. Reconnecting to a Sense of Purpose
8. Support for Difficult Dates and Anniversaries
9. Development of Resilience

Pet loss sessions are designed specifically to assist you in dealing with the emotional and psychological impact of losing a pet. Whether your pet is missing or has passed away due to illness, old age, an accident, or euthanasia, the grief experienced can be all-consuming.

Pet loss sessions may focus on the following:

1. Acknowledging the Depth of the Bond
2. Processing Grief and Emotional Expression
3. Understanding and Navigating the Emotions of Grief
4. Honoring Your Pet’s Memory
5. Addressing Guilt, Regret, and Shame
6. Coping with Loneliness and the Empty Space
7. Navigating the Decision to Adopt Another Pet
8. Supporting Families Through Shared Grief
9. Coping with Unfinished Business
10. Moving Forward with Healing

Whether the relationship involves romantic partners, family members, friends, or colleagues, rekindling relationships coaching provides tools, strategies, and a safe environment for fostering communication, healing emotional wounds, and re-establishing trust and intimacy.

Rekindling relationship coaching may focus on the following:

1. Emotional distance or boredom over time
2. Miscommunication or unresolved conflict
3. Loss of trust due to betrayal, hurt, or misunderstandings
4. Physical separation, such as long-distance relationships or life transitions
5. A lack of intimacy or connection due to daily stresses or personal growth differences
6. Addressing past hurts and misunderstanding
7. Building emotional intimacy
8. Developing healthy conflict resolution skills
9. Rediscover joy
10. Maintaining boundaries and individual growth

Going no-contact may arise from toxic, abusive, or unhealthy relationships with a romantic partner, family member, friend, or colleague. Coaching focuses on helping you process the emotional complexities of the no-contact decision, rebuild your self-worth, and navigate life with confidence and resilience.

No-contact coaching may focus on the following:

1. Understanding the Decision to Go No-Contact
2. Setting Clear Boundaries
3. Addressing Emotional Challenges
4. Navigating Guilt and Self-Doubt
5. Healing from Emotional Impact
6. Building Resilience and Coping Strategies
7. Creating a Support System
8. Rebuilding Identity and Self-Worth
9. Handling Challenges and Relapses
10. Empowering Future Choices

Burnout is often associated with professional environments but can also affect caregivers, parents, students, or anyone dealing with chronic stress or high-pressure situations. Coaching supports you in managing stress, developing sustainable habits, and regaining balance and joy in your personal and professional lives.

Burnout coaching sessions may focus on the following:

1. Understanding Burnout
2. Self-Awareness and Stress Triggers
3. Energy Management
4. Reducing Brain Fog
5. Building Resilience
6. Time Management and Prioritization
7. Boundary Setting
8. Rest and Recovery
9. Developing Support Systems
10. Mindfulness and Stress Reduction
11. Reconnecting with Purpose and Passion

Unlike post-loss grief, anticipatory grief often involves feelings of dread, fear of the unknown, or even guilt for feelings of loneliness over a loss that hasn’t happened yet. Anticipatory grief coaching will help you navigate these unique challenges while fostering a sense of purpose, connection, and emotional preparedness.

Anticipatory grief sessions may focus on the following:

1. Emotional Awareness and Processing
2. Coping Strategies
3. Strengthening Connection with Loved Ones
4. Legacy and Meaning-Making
5. Planning and Preparation
6. Managing Anticipatory Anxiety
7. Addressing Ambiguous Loss
8. Self-Care and Resilience Building

These services are designed to help clients reconnect with their emotions, allowing them to rediscover their true selves, their desires, and their sense of identity. By cultivating a strong sense of self, navigating external changes and achieving goals becomes more effortless and aligned.

Results clients can expect: - Decrease in loneliness - Lessened fear/discomfort towards death - Confidence to embrace change and move forward intentionally - A balanced and fulfilling life aligned with personal values and goals - Improved emotional well-being and resilience - Clarity and purpose in navigating life’s transitions - Deeper, more meaningful relationships

The services I provide

I take a holistic, non-pathologizing approach to coaching, recognizing that emotional dysregulation, feelings of hopelessness, or exhaustion are often natural responses to life’s challenges rather than signs of pathology. While I don’t ignore the role of pathology, I believe labeling these experiences as purely clinical can limit the individual’s potential for long term growth and healing.    My multidisciplinary approach is personalized to meet your unique needs. Together, we’ll focus on cultivating awareness, acceptance, and aligned actions in the areas that matter most to you. By exploring all aspects of your life—including the somatic (body), emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and unconscious—we’ll work toward your goals in a way that fosters balance, integration, and lasting transformation.

Why choose to work with me?

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