Amber changed my life! She is an amazing life and career coach! I went to her when I was trying to transition from a job to a job in a new field that I was passionate about (Product Manager @ a B2B company to a PM at a B2C company). Switching jobs is not easy, switching jobs to a different field is DEFINITLEY NOT EASY. Amber met me where I was and gave me support via meditation techniques, networking techniques and frameworks to make my transition. She is an expert in time and energy management (which is a term she taught me!). I successfully made my transition, I got an offer from my dream company (Getaround). I ended up turning them down and started my own business instead & I still use techniques that Amber taught me. She is Kind, understanding but still kept me very accountable. Thank you Amber! read more

Amber was great! I came to her with a personal and professional dilemma and was well on my way to making a decision when the pandemic happened. Priorities shifted and we ended up tackling some habits that I wanted to change and inefficiencies in my career. It's an ongoing process, but I can definitely say that my sessions with Amber opened up my eyes to new possibilities and kept me honest with my goals. Totally recommend! read more

I highly recommend Amber for life and career coaching! I was considering a very difficult career decision that involved a lot of risks, and she helped me to organize my thinking and make the right decision for the right reasons. Once I moved out of my old job, she was right there to help me with a variety of different things pertaining to my next career move. She gave me solid advice about resume and cover letter writing, business planning and development, and communication strategies for both job appications and marketing a small business. I am very happy with where I am now, and if (and when) I need coaching again, I will definitely reach out to Amber. I also want to note that I spent significant time shopping for a life and career coach, and I settled on Amber because she seemed to have the most experience and an approach that worked well for me. I would highly recommend her! read more

I worked with Amber last year, which was my first time working with a coach. Amber definitely exceeded my expectations, and I would absolutely work with her again. She listened to what I needed but also provided me with direction and gave me tools to work with. read more

I reached back out to Amber in 2020 when I began contemplating whether it was time for a career change, and received the same high-quality service. She provided multiple resources to explore career options, while simultaneously helping me focus on work-life balance techniques. I'm now well on my way to getting the education and experience needed for my new career, and Amber's guidance was critical. read more

I have worked with Amber on and off over the last year. Being a coach myself I am picky to say the least and I highly recommend her! Amber was particularly helpful when it came to taking actionable steps to better understand who my customer base is, how to market to them and how to be more strategic about how I use my time. I highly recommend Amber if you need help with strategy and taking action! read more

My time with Amber was focused on discovering my style of leadership and how I want to show up at work. We were able to discover these attributes, because Amber is an excellent listener, and picks up on key words from my descriptions, and hones in on that. She gives excellent perspective on situations that come up at work, and offers alternative ways to view things. Every session with her was actionable, and she kept me accountable by assigning homework in which I had to demonstrate the traits and actions in situations that occurred that week. One particularly impactful session, she walked me through a visualization exercise in which I was able to see myself in 6 months, and that session really gave me a lot of understanding on what I need to do, and how I was going to accomplish my goals. I've worked with coaches previously, and none of them come close to the kind of impact that Amber had on me during our time together. Best of all, I didn't feel like I was talking to a therapist, I felt I was talking to a wise and funny friend. She was completely down to earth, and approachable. I will be consulting with Amber again in the future, and I look forward to it. read more

I met Amber about 4 years ago, at Promatch in Sunnyvale. Her presentation on Life Coaching inspired me to call and make an appointment with her. Since that first meeting, Amber has helped me work through two work layoffs, some serious financial problems, more than a few relationship breakups and family issues. She has helped me identify ways I could potentially resolve the above problems, with role-playing, by suggesting "homework" assignments, and by encouraging me to look within myself. Amber has helped me to restore my self-confidence and "positivity" on numerous occasions and to realize that I DO have wonderful qualities which help me to contribute to the world I live in. Thank you, Amber, for helping me be the person I am today! -Gaelen- read more

I can't recommend Amber highly enough.. I was introduced to Amber when my husband bought me a package with her for Christmas. I wasn't quite sure what a "Life Coach" would do for me but I soon realized that she was transforming the way I not only did things but how I thought of myself. She has helped me with tangible aspects in my personal and professional life that would not have developed without her guidance. As a mother and business owner I have found Amber to be a great asset to helping me with the areas I would like to improve. She listens to what my goals are and helps me develop achievable ways to tackle them so that I can make them happen. From this experience I have found new paths that have opened up because of her style of coaching. I believe that she has enriched my life which makes it a pretty darn good Christmas present! read more

Amber is fantastic. What makes her great is she is very calm and she kept me focused ( as I can be a little high strung) . I enjoyed the homework she has given me because I succeed best when I am held accountable. I would highly recommend anyone to Amber who do truly serious about making a change in their life / career. read more

Amber is an amazing life coach. She is very empathic and professional. My sessions with her helped me truly move forward with life. She has a versatile tool box that can help anyone gain clarity, make great change, and create next steps while having a supportive ear by your side. read more

As a business owner, I need support sometimes on the emotional side of things, and sometimes the practical. have had a couple sessions with Amber, one a coaching session to help sort out some emotional issues affecting my business; and a consulting session to help me expand marketing ideas for my business. In both sessions she was extremely helpful! She seems quite comfortable and competent working in the different roles of coach and consultant, easily navigating the emotional and practical. Even a couple sessions has made a big difference for me! read more

I highly recommend Amber as a life/career coach. In our work together focusing on career transition, she's provided exceptional value in her ability to assess situations quickly and offer concrete tools, processes and plans of action to enable successful growth, change and resilience. read more

I had just 3 sessions with Amber but learned of a tremendous amount of skills, techniques and great resources from her for my career development and general work/life balance goals. Amber is reliable, friendly, professional, a great listener, very inquisitive, and really puts you at ease. I enjoyed working with her and look forward to continuing to put everything I learned to practice! I definitely would recommend Amber to anyone but would suggest more than a handful of sessions if possible. read more

I've been working with Amber for nine months now. With Amber's help, I have been able to advocate for my self-worth, gain a work-life balance, and figure out a self-fulfilling career that matches my core values. More importantly, I gained self-confidence. Everyday I wake up grateful in every aspect of my life. I have been able to use my intuition, perspective and attitude to navigate through life's different situations. With Amber's guidance, I have learned that happiness is a choice that takes a lot of work. read more

As a therapist, I wanted some help developing a new off-shoot of my practice that required marketing expertise and help with business planning. I had interviewed a few other coaching and was put off by how much they talked and how little they listened! Amber really knows how to listen. She has such a patient, grounded, yet totally engaged way of working. I felt like she was able to give me all the space I needed to think out loud (which is how I work though my ideas and dilemmas). She offered just the right amount of inquiry, support, and encouragement to keep me chugging along. In my work with Amber, I was able to to clarify my goals, narrow my focus and generate a ton of cool ideas which I am plugging away at with great results. read more

I had 3 sessions with Amber during a time when I had to make an extremely challenging life decision. She helped me weigh all my options and we narrowed in on my strengths and core values to ensure that I was making the decision with these aspects in mind as well. She also helped me with my resume and within one day of changing it and applying for a new job, I was immediately asked to come in for an interview, and offered the job the next day. read more

I worked with Amber during a big transition time in my life. I was deciding between a career shift and going to graduate school. She helped me focus in on what I'd like to contribute to the world and navigate balancing work and personal commitments. Amber is a great listener and was able to reflect back to me my own experience. I can especially recommend working with Amber if you are at a point of transition in life and want someone who is action-oriented. read more

Over the past year I have worked with Amber, and with her coaching I have achieved challenging career objectives, improved personal and professional relationships, and found greater balance in my life. She helped me through several career and life transitions and with her guidance I have gained greater insight into my life. Her objective and reflective approach enabled me to change negative habits and patterns that were limiting me from previous successes and create appropriate professional and personal goals. Her techniques allow your strengths to be realized, your journey to be appreciated, and a greater sense of purpose to be obtained. I am a more confident and fulfilled individual today as a result of Amber's coaching! read more

I worked with Amber in weekly phone appointments for several months. I was looking for a life coach, because I wanted help transitioning out of a career that left me feeling chronically overwhelmed. In our appointments, Amber helped me to unravel that there was much more than just work contributing to my unsustainable lifestyle, including worries about family health issues, etc. She helped me to identify the issues I can control, the issues I can influence, and what is out of my hands. She also helped me to identify my core values. At first I was somewhat dismissive or reluctant to get into conversations about core values, because I was looking for specific strategies to get into a different line of work (eg. networking, etc.), and the core values conversation seemed too intangible to be helpful. However, Amber helped me to see that identifying core values is a necessary first step in order to ensure that any changes I make in my career, personal life, etc. will actually bring me satisfaction with my life. Amber had some specific suggestions to help with my work-life balance and sanity in the immediate, and she had some general questions and guidelines for making decisions in any situation. Like many a wise guru, therapist, mentor, or coach, Amber helped me to discover that everything I needed was already inside of me. She gave very little direct instruction and instead did a lot of listening, echoing, and asking guiding questions. This sort of teach-a-man-to-fish coaching demonstrated Amber's dedication to the principles of her practice, because it gave me a life-long internal coach and a guiding star of my core principles, but at the same time, she also worked herself out of a job. Some people would be able to do this kind of work by themselves with a good self-help book. I am not one of those people. By working with Amber for several months, I made tremendous progress on issues that I had been struggling with on my own for several years. Sometimes Amber assigned me homework, but as I progressed, she coached me to assign my own homework by asking, "What's the smallest possible step you can take to move yourself in that direction, and when is a reasonable deadline when you can have that done?" Just knowing that I would have that phone call with Amber at 4pm on Tuesday gave me the external accountability and the kick in the pants that I needed to follow through on tasks that I had wanted to do but found excuses to never get around to doing. When I tended to get overwhelmed with how much farther I had to go on major life projects, Amber genuinely celebrated my small steps in a positive direction. Her encouragement helped to keep me motivated, and her one-small-step-at-a-time approach was very effective with me, because one success gave me momentum to keep moving forward to the next success. At first I thought that I would have preferred in-person meetings; however, I quickly appreciated the benefits of phone meetings. You can't beat the convenience, and I believe that I made faster progress by working over the phone. On the phone, I felt safer to take risks, open up, and let myself be vulnerable. I am confident that Amber would be just as warm, empathetic, and encouraging in person as she was on the phone, but not having to face another person helped me to feel safe enough to get right to the heart of difficult topics. In the two years since I stopped working with Amber, I have recommended her to a number of friends and colleagues. I have often used my core values and Amber's guiding questions to coach myself through decisions. As a public school teacher living in San Francisco, cost was definitely an issue for me, but I was ready to make a big change, and I knew that I needed help, so I was ready to seek professional guidance and pay accordingly. What I have found in the subsequent two years is that working with a life coach is an investment that pays off in the long-term. I feel that I have received more than my money's worth in terms of the self-empowerment, sanity, and improved life satisfaction I now experience. My life isn't where I want it to be yet, but I have to tools to create the life I want, and I'm well on my way. One last word- working with a life coach is like anything else. It's not a magic pill. You get out of it what you put into it. You have to work the steps, etc. So when you're motivated and ready to put in the effort, give Amber a call. read more

Working with Amber for 8 months was life changing. Going into my mid 40's I came to her to seek help in building the next chapter in my career. What I didn't expect is that I needed guidance in my personal life as well. Every session was therapeutic and eye opening, however I had to work at it everyday to see the results and improvements. The homework Amber assigned during each session were relevant to push me forward, to get me to the place I needed to be and feel positive. Amber has a gift to closely listen, she's able to tap into your inner thoughts and formulate the root cause and suggest ways to work through difficulties. I've grown spiritually and healed mentally from our sessions. I'm a better person today through Amber's dedication and willingness to push me forward even on days I was struggling. Words and expression on this review does not serve justice to what I learned and experienced and to take away permanent positive changes and apply it to my daily life. In addition, Amber helped recreate my cover letter, referral letter, resume and update my LinkedIn page. I was ready and willing to make changes in my life - Amber was there to guide me in the right direction. She impacted my life in ways I did not expect, she provided knowledge and skills her website did not describe; ultimately the sessions were above and beyond my expectations. Amber will be a part of my life as I continue to grow as a person. read more