Life Coaching
Empowered Living with Gentle Accountability
Life can feel overwhelming when you’re navigating change, chasing a goal, or trying to figure out what’s next. At Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, our certified life coach offers supportive, goal-oriented guidance to help you gain clarity, build momentum, and create meaningful change in your life.
Whether you’re feeling stuck or ready for a fresh start, we’re here to help you take the next right step.
Individual Sessions
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about what’s next, a life coach can help you reconnect with your purpose and move forward with confidence.
Life coaching is a practical, forward-focused approach to personal growth. Your coach serves as a guide, motivator, and accountability partner—someone who believes in your potential and walks beside you as you pursue your goals. Whether you want to improve your well-being, navigate a life transition, or rediscover your passion, coaching can help you take aligned action.
Life coaching is available as a single session or through ongoing support.
Grateful Gatherings: Group Sessions
We hold grateful living as an engaged mindfulness practice, grounded in both wisdom and science, which supports our ability to see the wonder and opportunity in every moment, and motivates us to act boldly with love, generosity, and respect towards one another, ourselves, and the Earth.
Grateful Gatherings are an opportunity to cultivate a space where we can explore grateful living as an orientation to life. These Gatherings take place in person or on Zoom, hosted by our Certified Life Coach, Valeria Chow.
Learn more at Grateful.org ~ a Network for Grateful Living is a global organization offering community-based and online educational programs and practices which inspire and guide a commitment to grateful living, and catalyze the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility.
No Cost Event – Donations are appreciated
Meet Our Life Coach
Valeria Chow, PhD is a certified Health and Life Coach through the Health Coach Institute and The Life Coach School (Tools). She is passionate about helping others discover the wisdom they already carry within—and creating sustainable, joy-filled change through habit transformation and heart-centered guidance.
Valeria draws from a rich tapestry of personal and professional experience, including international travel, ethnic dance, art, spirituality, trauma healing, and grief recovery. Her holistic, compassionate approach meets clients exactly where they are.
“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”
– Steve Maraboli
Common Areas of Focus
Support tailored to your life, goals, and personal growth journey.
Wellness & Weight Loss
Create sustainable routines that support your physical health and energize your daily life.
Body Confidence & Self-Care
Life Purpose & Career Transitions
Clarify your goals and take bold steps toward a career or calling that aligns with who you truly are.
Stress Management & Boundaries
Learn how to protect your peace, manage overwhelm, and set healthy boundaries that honor your values.
Healthy Habits & Emotional Healing
Break free from old patterns, build new rhythms, and find healing from past wounds that still impact you today.
Relationships & Grief Support
Navigate relationship challenges or loss with compassion, clarity, and tools for emotional resilience.