Mary Lynne Coleman
About
Tools 4 Teens Life Coaching is all about INSPIRING and EMPOWERING teens and parents of teens. We inspire teenagers to realize their full potential and to BE their vision. We empower parents to be the best they can be by giving them tools to support their teen and build confidence.
Mary Lynne Fernandez is the founder of Tools 4 Teens Life Coaching. She is a Certified Life Coach from Coach Training Alliance. She is an active member of the International Coach Federation and Metro North Chamber of Commerce. She has a Master’s degree in Education and eight years experience as a teacher in Colorado. She has coached soccer, track, and volleyball at the middle school level. She also speaks Spanish, has volunteered for Intercambio de Comunidades, Dress for Success, and was an Americorps member in Denver, Colorado.
Often times, parents lose confidence and connection with their children during the teen years. When the teen years hit, the role as parent changes and often times parents don’t know what to do. Some parents react, some parents ignore, and some parents wait it out. The teen years can be challenging.
At Tools 4 Teens Life Coaching, we give parents the tools to enhance communication and improve family dynamics. We work together and support each other through the process. Parents learn the skills of being a coach to their teenager, which helps to create a loving, respectful relationship between parent and teen.
“I love being able to create smiles on a daily basis!”
-Mary Lynne Fernandez
We also work with teenagers. We help teenagers negotiate life. Many teenagers seem to be just going through the motions of everyday life. Some don’t really know why they are doing what they are doing – they have no purpose or skills to make their dreams a reality. We are a mentor and ally for teenagers. We listen and ask powerful questions. We work with our clients to motivate, create, and follow through on what is important to them.
When teens identify their strengths, realize their full potential and learn to like themselves, they then have the power to BE their vision.
All beings have what they need inside them. When we connect with our hearts, listen to ourselves, ignore negative chatter from our own “little gremlin” and the outside world, we then start to live the life that we are meant to live. We begin to RADIATE from our hearts. We all are born whole and healthy and have our own magnificence – we just need to LET IT SHINE!
At Tools 4 Teens Life Coaching, we work with teenagers and parents that are healthy and whole. We support teens and parents individually and in a group setting. Coaching is in person or over the phone.
What is Coaching?
Coaching:
• Works with a person’s present and seeks to guide them into a more desirable future
• Is a co-creative relationship – coaches support clients in discovering their own answers
• Stands with their clients and supports them in identifying challenges and obstacles, then works with them to turn those challenges into victories
• Holds their clients accountable to reach their desired goals
• Is a developmental model that assumes that the client already has the seeds of their own magnificence
• Is a professional contractual relationship of equals
Coaching is not therapy
Tools 4 Teens does not offer therapy. A list of recommended therapists can be found on the resources page.
See if coaching is right for you,
Contact Mary Lynne for a free consultation