DEPTH MENTORING
Creative Collaborative Life-Coaching
SERVICES
WELL BEING MENTORING
Your sense of wellbeing and quality of your relationships matter!
Your sense of well-being and the quality of your relationships matter.
Well-being Mentoring is a focused, short-term personal development process designed to help you meet yourself where you are—with honesty, compassion, and practical steps forward.
This work is for individuals ready to take a closer look at specific concerns, unmet needs, emotional challenges, or relational patterns. You may be seeking clarity, support, or meaningful change in one area of your life—or across several. Whatever brings you here, this space offers a grounded and collaborative approach to personal transformation.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Well-being Mentoring integrates tools from evidence-based psychological practices, coaching frameworks, and mindfulness-based strategies. It holds a therapeutic space where you can:
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Identify what’s working—and what’s not—in your day-to-day life
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Explore the emotional and behavioral patterns that shape your experience
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Clarify your values and align your actions with them
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Gain tools to regulate emotions and improve communication
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Develop new, more adaptive responses to challenges
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Build healthier, more authentic relationships—with others and with yourself
This is not therapy, but it draws on therapeutic wisdom. It’s not just coaching, but it is goal-focused. It’s a collaborative space where the work is both reflective and practical.
MY ROLE
As your mentor, I walk alongside you—attuned, present, and supportive. I help you:
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Understand your inner and outer challenges more clearly
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Identify your true needs, priorities, and longings
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Map out what’s getting in the way of your growth or connection
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Implement grounded, sustainable changes that support your well-being
Together, we’ll co-create a path that respects your pace, honors your complexity, and draws out your inner resources. Change doesn’t happen all at once—but each insight and small shift creates momentum.
IS THIS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Well-being mentoring may help you if you are:
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Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected
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Struggling with boundaries, communication, or people-pleasing
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Facing a life transition, burnout, or decision-making paralysis
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Desiring to feel more emotionally present and grounded
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Ready to explore a pattern that keeps repeating
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Seeking support that’s holistic, compassionate, and grounded in real-life tools
You don’t have to do this work alone. Whether you’re navigating a challenging season or seeking deeper alignment in your life,
Well-being Mentoring offers a space to pause, reflect, and grow—
with support!
IN DEPTH
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Your uniqueness matters!
You are not here to fit a mold—you are here to unfold.
Your story, your patterns, your pain, your gifts—all of it matters.
If you are ready to commit to a long-term process of personal development, this journey invites you into a deeper relationship with yourself.
It is a path of self-exploration and integrative transformation. Together, we will move beyond surface-level change and into the depths of your unique internal world, where lasting growth becomes possible.
THIS WORK IS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU:
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Reconnect with your innate empathic intelligence
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Embrace and heal the core stories that have shaped your life
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Become more emotionally available for joy, love, and authentic connection
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Align with your inner knowing and creative uniqueness
DEPTH MENTORING: A TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESS
Through a personalized, integrative approach to coaching and mentoring, you will be supported in understanding your personality imprinting—the core patterns you’ve developed in response to early relationships, cultural expectations, and survival needs. These imprintings often create habitual inner rhythms that guide your emotions, choices, and sense of self.
As you begin to gently unlearn what no longer serves you, space opens for something more truthful to emerge. You will gain clearer access to your authentic self—not the adapted version shaped by fear or external expectations, but the part of you that already knows who you are and what you are here to express.
PERSONAL GROWTH AS CULTURAL RENEWAL
Our inner lives are not separate from our social lives. The culture we create in relationships—both with others and with ourselves—has a deep impact on how we experience the world.
Depth mentoring honors this interconnection by integrating perspectives from psychology, somatics, mindfulness, and multicultural awareness. It invites you to explore yourself not as a fixed identity, but as a plurality of cultures, stories, and possibilities. From this vantage point, you are not just healing for yourself—you are participating in the transformation of collective awareness.
By embracing your inner diversity and honoring the complexity of others, you cultivate a presence that naturally fosters inclusiveness, equanimity, and depth in your relationships.
A UNIQUE INVITATION
This is not quick-fix coaching.This is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and realign with the truth of who you are becoming.
If you feel called to grow—not just to improve, but to transform—this process offers a grounded and compassionate container to support your evolution.
Let’s walk this path together!
CREATIVE COACHING
FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Bring collaborative creativity into your work!
Are you longing to feel more fulfilled, inspired, and aligned in your professional life?
Whether you’re feeling creatively blocked, professionally stagnant, or simply sensing that your current path no longer reflects who you’re becoming — this creative coaching process is designed to guide you toward meaningful transformation.
Creative Coaching is an integrative and art-based process rooted in depth mentoring, imaginative exploration, and expressive techniques. It draws from a rich blend of modalities—narrative practices, guided visualization, art-making, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and creative dialogue—to help you uncover deeper insight into your calling and direction.
WHY CREATIVE COACHING?
We often recognize the need for change through feelings of doubt, restlessness, or dissatisfaction. These feelings aren’t signs of failure—they are invitations from within.
Underneath hesitation or confusion, there’s often a quiet voice of truth—an idea, a vision, a spark. You may not know exactly how to act on it yet, but you know it’s there. In Creative Coaching, we treat that inner spark as sacred and worth exploring.
This process is about helping you listen to your own creative intelligence—and bring it to life.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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Clarify your purpose and rediscover what truly matters to you in your professional life.
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Access your creative imagination through art-based and expressive practices tailored to your goals.
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Identify and develop a new project or path—whether it’s launching a business, redefining your role, or infusing your current work with greater meaning.
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Reignite your sense of leadership by connecting your inner truth to outward action.
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Explore blocks, doubts, or inner critics in a safe and affirming space, using creative methods to move beyond them.
You don’t need to be an artist to benefit from creative coaching. This is not about performance—it’s about expression, insight, and innovation.
CREATIVE TOOLS MAY INCLUDE
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Visual journaling
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Found object collage
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Metaphor-based storytelling
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Role-play or character work
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Somatic and movement-based inquiry
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Intuitive painting or drawing
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Inner parts dialogue
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Dream-work and symbolic exploration
Every session is co-created with you, honoring your learning style, values, and aspirations.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Creative Coaching for Professional Development is for individuals who are:
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At a professional crossroads or seeking new direction
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Transitioning careers or preparing to launch a passion-based venture
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Leaders or entrepreneurs seeking deeper purpose in their work
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Creatives or professionals who want to merge imagination with strategy
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Burned out or uninspired, ready to reconnect with what they love
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Coaches, therapists, educators, and healers seeking integrative growth
WHY NOW?
Because it’s never too late to align your work with your heart.
Now is the time to explore, develop, and act on an idea that brings long-term fulfillment. You deserve to live and work in a way that reflects your true self—where your voice, gifts, and inner vision guide your next chapter.
Bring your creativity, your questions, your vision.
Together, we’ll shape what’s next!
Let’s Begin!
My mentoring core values are:
Presence
Integrity
Compassion
Awareness
Curiosity
Imagination
Wisdom
Sessions can either be face-to-face,
or on Zoom to accommodate the international community
CONTACT
Anthea Nelson, Ph.D
Testimonials
“I had a truly, transformative experience working with Dr. Anthea over the last 2 years. She is a deeply grounded, wise, practitioner who uses many modalities in herwork to facilitate personal transformation.
I love the way she works on all levels; the psychological, the spiritual, and the physical.
Because of her ability to work multi-dimensionally, she facilitates lasting transformation of old patterns at the highest soul level. She has been a midwife to me through a major initiation process in my life and helped to birth my authentic self. I love her wise, visionary, playful approach to the work.”
Jeannette Hawes, Papillon Designs, Santa Barbara, CA ~www.JSAtelier.com
"Dr. Anthea has been my best support through life’s transition into retirement and through many medical surgeries. From breast cancer to knee replacement and shoulder repair after a traumatic fall.
I have been able to rely on her calming healing energy to strengthen within me my own healing powers. An amazing intelligent woman, who is here to help and heal to the best outcome for her clients.
I bless her each day in thanksgiving for her being there for me over the last 15 years!
I have not had to take pain medication before or after surgery because of her health abilities.
~ Margaret Mary, Santa Barbara, CA
My experiences and working with Dr. Anthea have been wonderful.
We have been able to uncover and heal traumas from my past into my present day. Anthea has helped me work through Issues to help me grow into the woman I am today, to become the best version of myself.
I thoroughly enjoy my meetings with her. I am very appreciative to those opportunities.
I have discovered more about myself and have become a better and stronger person than I ever have been. I have learned to create peace within and how to ground myself in moments of anxiety. Times where I have felt lost, with her guidance, I've been able to find myself again and feel free of any crippling anxieties.
I am deeply grateful for those
moments of transformative experience. "
~ Elizabeth Taibi, Buffalo, NY
I am so blessed and grateful
for all that I shared in my journey of healing through storytelling.
I believe life has given me
a great gift through Dr. Anthea and this has brought a joyful smile through every cell in my being.
Dr. Anthea brings a wonderful combination of gifts, knowledge, and wisdom gathered thriugh study and her own life experiences.
~ Mary K, Santa Barbara, CA