LIFE COACHING WITH
DR. BREN
Feeling Stuck?
Discover Balance, Purpose & Growth with a Spiritual Life Coach
Perhaps you're feeling lost, stuck in old patterns, or simply craving more meaning. You're not alone—and change is possible.
As an Integral Coach and Depth Psychologist, I meet you with compassion and powerful tools to help you overcome what's holding you back and step into a life that feels authentic and fulfilling.
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
— Nido Qubein
Dr Bren explains her Unique Integral and Depth Coaching Process
What is Life Coaching?
A Holistic Approach to Personal Development
“Coaching, when it’s deep and true, isn’t about fixing—it’s about uncovering. It’s a return to the inner self you were always meant to live from.”
— Dr Bren
Life coaching with Dr. Bren is a structured journey designed to help you attain personal growth and self-mastery. But this isn't your typical life coaching.
Most life coaches focus primarily on goals and action plans. That's helpful, but it's not enough for lasting change.
My approach as a spiritual life coach goes deeper. I combine psychological knowledge with spiritual understanding to address the whole person—mind, body, heart, and spirit. We explore the deeper dimensions of your life experience to create sustainable transformation, not just temporary fixes.
This process isn't about simply overcoming obstacles or checking off goals. It's about reconnecting with your authentic self and discovering how to express that self more fully in the world.
Through powerful assessment tools like the Enneagram, MBTI, and Natal Astrology, we'll understand your unique personality structure, natural gifts, and underlying patterns. This gives you the clarity and direction needed to live a fulfilling, purposeful life.
You'll develop the awareness and skills needed to create lasting positive change in all areas of your life—relationships, career, purpose, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual connection.
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
— Pema Chödrön
Your Life Coaching Journey
Working with Dr. Bren through individual therapy and coaching, you'll move through a carefully designed process that builds self-awareness, clarity, and the capacity for meaningful action.
"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Intake Interview
We begin with a deep conversation about your current life and potential areas for growth. This is an open, exploratory dialogue where I listen deeply to understand what's truly going on for you—your challenges, aspirations, and what brought you to coaching.
After our conversation, I'll send you a comprehensive questionnaire based on Ken Wilber's Integral AQAL (All Quadrants, All Levels) framework. This assessment maps all facets of your life—from daily habits to core beliefs and critical life passages—giving us a complete picture of where you are and where you want to go.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." — Rumi
Personality Assessments
The next phase of your online counseling involves gaining deeper insights into your personality structure through various assessment tools. These assessments reveal your natural tendencies, strengths, and growth areas, providing a map for your personal development:
Enneagram – Identifies your core motivations, fears, and behavioral patterns, helping you recognize how you may have grown separate from your "soul seed" and offering pathways to reconnect with your authentic core
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – Reveals how you perceive information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you
Natal and Transit Astrology – Your birth chart reveals unique traits, challenges, and opportunities. Transit charts offer insight into significant events and psychological lessons, helping you align with life's timing
Gene Keys – This transformative system blends astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and genetics to explore your Life's Work, Love Profile, and Vocational Journeys, guiding you from ego-driven patterns to your true, multi-dimensional self
These tools provide multiple perspectives on your inner landscape, creating a comprehensive understanding of who you are and how you operate in the world.
"If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself." — Lao Tzu
In-Depth Coaching Process
Building on the insights from your assessments, Dr. Bren employs an integral life coaching approach inspired by the work of James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West. This methodology goes beyond traditional individual therapy to create lasting transformation through embodied learning and practice.
"Real change happens when we commit to living differently, not just thinking differently." — James Flaherty
The coaching process is centered around making powerful distinctions—seeing nuances and patterns previously invisible to you—and integrating these insights through deliberate practice. Each online counseling session creates a space where you can:
Observe your current way of being with compassion and clarity, identifying both limitations and strengths
Develop self-generating practices tailored to your specific growth edges that continue long after formal coaching ends
Engage in somatic learning that addresses not just your thinking but your embodied patterns and reactions
Create new narratives that support your development and open possibilities previously unavailable to you
Build competence systematically in areas essential to your growth and fulfillment
Integrate multiple perspectives (cognitive, emotional, somatic, spiritual) for holistic development
Between sessions in this therapy for individuals, you'll engage in carefully designed practices that build your capacity for presence, awareness, and new action. These aren't simple "homework assignments" but rather opportunities to embody new ways of being in your everyday life. The practice element is crucial—real transformation happens not just through insight but through lived experience repeated over time.
This developmental process empowers you to move beyond intellectual understanding to embodied wisdom, creating sustainable change that becomes increasingly self-generating as you progress. You'll develop the capacity to coach yourself, making the benefits of your work with Dr. Bren extend far beyond your formal coaching relationship.
Core Tools & Assessments
"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
— Eckhart Tolle
Dr. Bren utilizes a variety of powerful tools inher life coaching practice to illuminate different aspects of your personality and potential:
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The Enneagram identifies nine distinct personality types through professional Enneagram tests, each defined by unique motivations, fears, and desires. By discovering your dominant type through these Enneagram tests, you gain profound self-awareness and insight into your behavioral patterns and growth areas. This system helps you recognize how you may have grown separate from your "soul seed"—your true self—and offers pathways to reconnect with your authentic core.
"Your essence is neither good nor bad; it is your original face, the original you." — A.H. Almaas
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This renowned personality assessment, an essential tool in individual therapy, inspired by Jung's Psychological Type theory, identifies 16 personality types based on preferences in four dimensions: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving. Understanding your MBTI type provides valuable insights into how you perceive information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you.
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." — Carl Jung
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Through natal astrology, Dr. Bren creates your birth chart as part of her spiritual life coach services, revealing your unique traits, challenges, and opportunities. This celestial map provides self-awareness to navigate relationships, career, and personal growth with greater clarity. Additionally, transit charts offer insight into significant events and psychological lessons, helping you align with life's timing and embrace your journey with purpose.
"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more." — Carl Jung
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This transformative system, offered through our online counseling platform, blends astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and genetics to inspire self-discovery. Based on your birth details, your Hologenetic Profile explores your Life's Work, Love Profile, and Vocational Journeys. Dr. Bren uses these insights to guide you from ego-driven patterns to your true, multi-dimensional self, unlocking your highest potential through mindfulness and awareness.
"Genius is the rare ability to envision the invisible within yourself and coax it into being in a way that serves humanity." — Richard Rudd
These assessment tools offer a multi-dimensional view of who you are.
The Enneagram reveals your personality structure and false self that developed through loss of contact with your true essence.
Astrology illuminates your soul lessons and how they unfold over time.
The MBTI shows how your mind functions—how you perceive, construct, interpret, and orient to the world.
The Gene Keys provide a glimpse of your genius future self and highest potential. Together, they create a comprehensive map of your journey from who you've been to who you're meant to become.
"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr Bren interviewed by Eileen Hutchinson
of WispaWorldWide, a former client
The Benefits of Life Coaching
Transform Your Relationship with Yourself and Your World
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin
Dr. Bren's life coaching approach offers unique benefits that address both practical outcomes and deeper transformation:
Self-Discovery – Gain profound insights through individual therapy into your true nature, unique gifts, and authentic purpose
Integration of All Life Dimensions – Develop harmony across mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of yourself
Purposeful Living – Move from feeling directionless to being guided by a clear sense of meaning and intention
Enhanced Decision-Making – Make choices aligned with your authentic values rather than external pressures
Emotional Intelligence – Develop greater awareness through therapy for individuals and mastery of your emotional responses
Relationship Enhancement – Improve connections with others through deeper self-understanding
Navigating Transitions – Move through life changes with greater grace, clarity, and confidence
Breaking Through Limitations – Identify and transform patterns that have restricted your growth
Personal Empowerment – Develop the confidence to create the life you truly desire
Whole-Person Transformation – Experience growth that honors all aspects of who you are
This comprehensive approach to spirtual life coaching doesn't just help you achieve external goals—it fundamentally transforms how you experience yourself and engage with the world. By addressing both practical strategies and deeper awareness, Dr. Bren's coaching creates sustainable change that continues to unfold long after your formal sessions conclude.
Client Success Stories
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Dr Bren is a gifted and compassionate coach. Bren is always fully present and brings 100% of her resources: impressive intellect, training, research and business experience to every session. She accurately assesses and diagnoses situations and delivers feedback with love and empathy. The result is that I always feel like I've been heard by someone who "gets me" and has my best interests in mind.
-By Chris A., Executive Coach and HR Professional
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I went to Dr. Bren after a car accident left me in a state of uncontrollable anxiety and depression. After 6 short months Dr. Bren coached me through my fears and worries and gave me the tools to combat these things on my own, and I've never felt better about my self-worth. I highly suggest Dr. Bren!!!
- Andi P., Producer
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As a foreigner from another country in a new school, my first few months here in LA were very tough and traumatic for me. Dr Bren was my life saver and provided unconditional support from the moment GO. She deeply cares, is intuitively accurate and has this penetrating wisdom that has allowed me to understand myself better and get to the root of my fears. Working with her really allowed me to let go and focus on what is most important for my life.
- Marcelle S., Director
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Pricing Options
Individual Session
Perfect for exploring if life coaching is right for you
1 hour @ $175.00
Designed for those committed to deep inner work
Provides ongoing support for personal growth, transformation, and self-discovery
Transformation Package
Perfect for those committed to deep inner work
12 coaching sessions @ $1,800
By purchasing this package, you save $300 compared to booking sessions individually
Provides ongoing support for personal growth, transformation, and self-discovery
4 Days of Micro Coaching with Dr. Bren
Move from the Analytic to the Symbolic — one soulful message at a time.
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Begin Your Journey Today
Are you ready to discover what is life coaching and how it can transform your life?
Dr. Bren offers a supportive, insightful space for your transformative coaching journey through online counseling.
Take the first step toward self-mastery:
Book your initial life coaching session today
Begin your personalized assessment process including Enneagram tests
Start your journey with a spiritual life coach
Contact Dr. Bren today:
Phone: (919) 407-0999
Email: bren@drbren.com
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FAQs
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The Integral Intake Interview involves a comprehensive assessment of your life using Ken Wilber's AQAL model. This approach examines multiple dimensions of your experience, allowing you to identify your primary perspective and areas for growth.
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Personality assessments provide valuable insights into your unique traits, motivations, and patterns, allowing Dr. Bren to tailor your coaching program to effectively support your personal development. These tools create a roadmap for your growth, highlighting both strengths to leverage and areas for expansion.
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The Gene Keys system combines astrology, the I Ching, and genetics to explore 64 archetypal keys, allowing you to uncover your potential and facilitate personal transformation. Based on your birth details, it creates a unique profile that illuminates your life's work, relationships, and vocational path.
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Dr. Bren combines life coaching with spiritual understanding, empowering you toward self-mastery and authentic living rather than only addressing symptoms. While traditional therapy for individuals often focuses on healing past wounds, this spiritual life coach approach emphasizes forward movement and the actualization of your potential.
"The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, it is about undoing the obstruction to what you already know inside your heart." — Richard Rohr
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Dr. Bren's holistic life coaching approach can significantly help individuals seeking to clarify their life purpose, develop emotional resilience, improve relationships, understand personality patterns through Enneagram tests, and navigate life transitions with greater ease and clarity.
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Life coaching with Dr. Bren is a structured journey combining psychological knowledge with spiritual understanding. As a spiritual life coach, she helps clients achieve personal growth and self-mastery through a holistic approach that addresses mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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Enneagram tests provide valuable insights into your unique traits, motivations, and patterns. These assessments are integral to Dr. Bren's individual therapy approach, creating a roadmap for your growth and highlighting both strengths and areas for expansion.
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Yes, online counseling with Dr. Bren maintains the same depth and quality as in-person therapy for individuals. The virtual format allows for greater flexibility while maintaining the intimate, supportive environment essential for transformation.
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