Alida Schuyler MS, PCC, is a leading expert, trainer, speaker and consultant for Recovery Coaching worldwide. She is President of Recovery Coaches International and Director of Crossroads Coaching. Her company provides consulting and coaching services to select treatment centers on the cutting edge who wish to be known for protecting their patients' investment in treatment. Alida Schuyler provides private coaching to select individuals.

My coaching and hypnotherapy practices reflect my vast life experience. Like most of us, I am not easily classified. I come from a well-educated, blue-blood family that wound up farming in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky. I've lived in large, elegant houses and in shacks without plumbing or electricity. My recovery from addiction began in 1983 and continues to this day. I moved to the great Northwest in 1995.

My Training

I tell people I am dangerously over-educated! After graduating from Berea College with a B.A. in psychology and earning an M.S. in Library Science, I was drawn to be a healer. I returned to college to take premed classes and even logged some time in medical school. Impatient to start working as a healer, I switched to massage school and started coaching on the side. I opened my first healing practice as a massage therapist in 1998. At the same time, I studied energy and consciousness under the tutelage of Rev. Jacque Metheany in Michigan, and was trained in coaching at the Academy of Coach Training. I am certified by International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. My hypnotherapy training began in 2000 at the Wellness Institute and I became certified in 2004 as an advanced clinical hypnotherapist. All of this education and training informs my practice and provides reliable depth to my services.

My Style

I combine insight, intuition, and an ear for nuance with humor, joy, and deep respect for the human experience. I have the courage to strongly meet my clients in either their joy or pain. Many find my approachable manner soothing and at the same time remark that I ask a lot of them. My strong faith in my clients and my deeply grounded strength as hypnotherapist and coach comes as a result of my vast personal experience, my education and training, and an inspired spiritual outlook.

Philosophy of Care

• I believe in providing appropriate coaching for each client, referring him or her to others when a problem is beyond my level of skill or scope of practice.
• I believe that accurate assessment includes the willingness to see the dark as well as the light and to call things by their right name without judgment.
• I believe in practicing what I preach and so am personally committed to life-long learning and maintaining habits of good health.

Professional Ethics

As a professional coach, I have made certain commitments:

• I agree to uphold the professional ethics of coaching and to empower, inform, and offer choice to my clients.
• I agree to maintain strict standards of client confidentiality.
• I agree to cultivate and maintain appropriate sexual boundaries.
• I will promptly refer clients to others when I cannot help them.
• Further I agree to listen to my conscience and my intuition, to speak the truth compassionately, to listen deeply, to honor differences of culture, race, spirituality and religion, sexual preference, and life style choices.
• I agree to make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts no matter how small, and to work towards self-transformation while working with others.