Life & Business Coaching
I'm here to help you find them — with honesty, empathy, and thirty years of living proof that real change is possible.
Work With Me My Story"Most coaches have studied the answers. I've lived them — and spent thirty years putting them to work in my own life. That's the difference."
Meet Amy — Founder
I didn't arrive at coaching through a textbook. I arrived through the hardest years of my life — doing the deep, painful work of understanding why I was in so much pain, and deciding that if my life was going to continue at all, something had to fundamentally change.
What followed was three decades of putting that work into practice — not just studying it, but metabolizing it. Building a life I actually wanted. Learning that emotional honesty and forward momentum aren't opposites — they're partners.
Now I help others do the same. Not by handing them answers, but by helping them hear the ones they already have. My style is genuine, direct, and deeply empathetic. I'll call you on your blind spots — gently — and I'll never pretend I have a formula for your life.
I'm currently completing my coaching certification with Martha Beck, whose core belief mirrors my own: the answers lie within you, and our job is to help you excavate them.
Lived Experience
These aren't credentials on a wall. They're the results of the same inner work Amy now helps her clients do.
Amy learned to see her parents clearly — what they could offer and what they couldn't — and found a way to genuinely enjoy them without needing them to be different.
She rebuilt her relationship with her children in a way that broke patterns that had run through her family for generations — for herself, her parents, and her kids.
Amy packed up and moved across the country — not because it was safe, but because she saw the possibility in it. No job. No guarantee. Just belief in her own capacity to figure it out. She did.
Recognizing the limitations of her first marriage, Amy made the hard choice to leave — knowing that staying would mean living a fraction of the life she was capable of.
She went back to school for something completely different, graduated, and within a year launched her own company — built entirely around her values.
Amy founded and led a 200-person company, building a culture that deliberately rejected toxic business norms. She called out practices she didn't believe in, grew it to a successful eight-figure exit — then walked away when it no longer felt aligned, because she knew herself well enough to know when to move on.
My Approach
I listen without presuming your path looks like mine or anyone else's. My job is to understand where you're getting stuck, not to talk at you with a script.
If we're working together and I don't see forward momentum, I'll tell you — gently, but clearly. You deserve honesty over comfort. That's my obligation to you.
You have to fully feel the hard stuff — and you also have the capacity to move forward. Both are true at once. We'll hold both.
You won't hear "speak your truth" or "be authentic" from me. I want to define what those things actually mean in your specific life — concretely and practically.
I offer perspective. I trust your instincts. What resonates, take it. What doesn't, leave it. You're the expert on your own life — I'm here to help you remember that.
Bring all of it — vulnerable, ambitious, exhausted, hopeful. The goal is for you to feel like you came home. Real and true, without the performance.
Who This Is For
"When people don't understand that they hold the key to building the life they want — that's the problem I most want to solve."
— Amy Doherty
Work With Me
I work with a small number of clients at a time, 1:1 only. Choose the format that fits where you are right now.
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