Valentina Petrova Coaching & Consulting

I highly recommend Val to anyone in a crisis situation who needs a calm logical step planning ally, who will NOT let you fall into the emotional abyss and WILL help you reach clarity and attain goals via a PLAN. This kind of logical planning is NOT what one gets in regular counseling.

I first met Val when I signed up for her 200 Hour Yoga teacher training in the fall of 2016. I was in the middle of a confusing relationship with a man who flipped ( think Jekyll-Hyde), and getting counseling at the Women’s Shelter for non-physical, but definitely emotional abuse. When that relationship went into crisis shortly after the yoga teacher training class graduation in late spring 2017, I naturally turned to Val (actually Val reached out to me as she knew something was wrong & she cares). Val is like my grandma, she has “eyes in the back of her head”…

What did Val offer that my MSW counselor didn’t? Logic. Clarity. Help making a logical step by step plan. NOT dwelling on the emotions. And also Val provided the occasional kick in the butt, as I tend to get overwhelmed emotionally and feel frozen/ unable to take effective action.

After that issue was resolved in 2017, a similar issue came up again. I was hesitant about approaching Val for help again as I was afraid she might see me as an idiot for having re-engaged with that same man. Nonetheless, I knew I needed Val’s clarity and logical plan making. Val is not judgmental, though as I said she WILL kick you in the butt when needed…I have words from Val that I have memorized, they are so important to me: “ At this point, you either get over your aversion to doing battle with him, or you loose the battle. Most importantly, stop making excuses for how he treated you.”

I was emotionally distressed & conflicted, paralyzed with fear & anxiety, and unable to logically figure out steps to take and do them. I “could not see the forest for the trees” to reach any clarity. Valentina is very intelligent and logical, and she helped me in coaching ways a regular therapist cannot, taking action step by step with a clear goal of standing up for myself.

Val helped me stay on task by having weekly email check-ins for the most difficult parts, along with more sporadic sessions for the last 8 months or so.

I also recommend Val highly to anyone who feels stuck in their life, whether in one part of your life or overall. Val will help you ferret out what is really going on in a LOGICAL way. And then a plan can be made. This is ACTION oriented help, and with wise action ( Val’s wise guidance) problems get sorted out.
In Gratitude to Val, ~KMB More...

2019 and 2020 hadn’t been great years for me. I use the word ‘hadn’t’ instead of ‘haven’t’ because I’m back on track, and a big part of that is that I have a life coach, Valentina Petrova.

I was going through a painful divorce in early 2019 and was encouraged to seek out and see Valentina by, surprisingly enough, my ex-wife, who was concerned about me. Valentina walked through my grief with me, unpacked it and presented it to me in a different light, none of which I had been able to do on my own. In fact, she even encouraged me to write a song about it (funny that my life coach has to tell me, a pro songwriter, to write about it). That song, ‘No Place To Go’, written with Chris Pierce and Annie Bosko, was very cathartic and has been known to make people cry (even a life coach).

Enter 2020. Like almost everyone, I was totally unprepared for what happened- the pandemic, the lockdown, the isolation, the fear and the anxiety. I lost all three of my businesses, and 100% of my income. I exited another relationship. I lost all of my fitness and quit eating healthy- I gained over 20 pounds. At times I spiraled into depression (for the first time in my life). My blood pressure and lab tests alarmed my regularly calm and cool doctor.

And then my beloved companion, my border collie Gracie, had to be put to sleep.

Valentina reached out to me to help. In the past six weeks she’s helped me turn much of this around. She’s got me hiking (I’m averaging 6.7 miles a day), she is advising me on finances, encouraging me to eat better and live healthier. I’ve dropped 21 pounds since Sept 2, I’ve totally changed my diet, I started swimming again. She’s walked me through my grief once again and out the other side. I have tangible, achievable hope again. I am suddenly feeling like I am the king of the world.

If you’re looking for help and guidance in all aspects of your life, I cannot recommend Valentina Petrova highly enough, now more than ever. More...

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Reply from Valentina Petrova Coaching & Consulting

WOW! Thank you for your review! I watching people transform! Keep up the good work. It takes two of us - YOU and me, to do all this!