I am confident you will not be disappointed in Maya! Her resource base is constantly growing & if…read moreshe does not offer what you need, she's happy to help you find it. It's easy to see that her true goal is to help people, whether that is directly with her or other resources. For example, while she does offer her own DBT class, she knows it's not the best fit for everyone & even promotes other DBT classes! Who does that?! Someone who truly wants to help. Maya does this. I started Maya's DBT class in late July & love it! I have been in two other DBT programs & Maya is by far the BEST of the three. The culture she sets up in class is open & promotes participants to share deeply on the material. Her insights are informative, making connections between topics & skills, which give everyone "ah-ha" moments. Maya is direct, encouraging, & shows us how to be powerful within ourselves to make effective decisions as well as changes in our perspectives & behaviors in a meaningful & lasting way. Her approach is unique & highly effective. I love her set up of everything. In addition to class time, she holds extra time after every class for people to further clarify points or get extra support & sets up extra time on other days for the same purpose (for free!). I also started 1:1 coaching with her to get myself in order & specifically to address and reduce my borderline personality disorder traits. Our goal is to get my symptoms so low that I no longer qualify for the diagnosis. Thus far, we have had three of eight sessions and I am already experiencing positive changes. She has given me extra times of support for free throughout the class & now with coaching. She does this with everyone! Maya works had to ensure you get the resources you need & make effective progress towards reaching your goals, whatever they may be! She gives tons of extra bits of resources constantly as things come up in class & during extra support times. Thank you so much, Maya! I look forward to continuing our work together.

Maya has changed and helped me transform my life! She has taught me skills and tools that have…read moremade a tremendous and positive difference in my life in an incredibly short time. She is the best teacher and coach I have ever had and she is an incredibly gifted and talented communicator. I owe her a huge debt of gratitude. I am so happy and free now and she has helped gently guide me to a life where I thrive!!! I cannot say enough good things about her and I highly recommend her and her services. I continue to learn and grow with the skills and tools she continues to teach. I feel incredibly privileged and blessed to learn from her.

Took the PM Bootcamp here and it was a great decision! I previously took a two week Bootcamp course…read morethrough work at a different place and this one was a perfect recap for what I learned as it gave a great high level view of project management. Learned a lot from the different people which was nice in the class as well! Gave different perspectives! They also spoil you at this place! The food is fantastic and miss the fridge of drinks!!! Great experience!!

When I began working with Laila, I was struggling, unemployed, and in a difficult place…read moreemotionally. The profound gift that Laila brought was the depth of presence that she carries. She listened astutely to everything I shared and also read between the lines, helping me articulate that what I needed to focus on wasn't even actually my career- it was my own personal growth and mental and emotional health. Her questions and carefully developed worksheets are truly holistic, providing an opportunity to reflect broadly on what a more aligned life looks like for you and all your dreams, passions, fears, etc. Yet, as I got clearer on what I needed, I still was unemployed. Laila recognized my immediate need to become financially stable, introducing me to the concept of "transition jobs" and helping me identify what type of work I would be able to do in order to sustain myself while having the time/energy/resources for the deeper personal development I knew I needed. Though it was a difficult process, and I needed a whole support system of friends, counselors, and Laila's holistic approach, I got to work applying for transition jobs. We worked together to create a series of resumes for my different skill sets and Laila honed the language used to describe my experience. She had example resumes and resources that helped me bring life back to my resume, which I had grown deeply disillusioned with. While applying to transition jobs, Laila advised me to apply to as many as possible so I could have the upper hand in making my decision. Still in a very low place, I took the first offer I was given. As Laila could have predicted, I didn't last long (only a couple of weeks). The whole experience helped me realize that I wanted something between a transition job and my dream job, a little more in alignment with who I am. Ultimately, I was given three incredible offers, and Laila helped me negotiate which offers were right for me as well as coached me in negotiating compensation for my skills. If you are somebody who, like me, struggles with imposter syndrome and fully claiming your value, Laila enthusiastically supports you in advocating for yourself. I never imagined I could get the offer I ended up accepting- I am earning the highest hourly wage I've ever earned in a part-time job with full benefits doing the kind of work I want to do (work not usually highly compensated). Throughout the whole process, I always felt I had somebody at my back who believed in me and was available to talk through each interview and the challenges of surviving in such a tough economy, but I also had somebody to celebrate each small win with. Thank you, Laila, for your presence, your attunement, your perseverance toward joy, and your fluffiness! Your support was deeply needed during a very difficult time and brought insights that will change the trajectory of my life. I hope that more people, especially those like me who struggle to live in the system as it is, can work with you to bring meaning to their lives (while also learning to cover the basic costs of getting by)! I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to work with you.

Laila is a seasoned career coach who understands individuals. She knew I had a very eclectic…read morebackground and helped me translate that into a stellar plan for defining and transitioning into the career path I've been on for many years now. I highly recommend her as an empathetic passionate career coach.

I found Arlene Fairfield while searching for someone to help me reassess my work life and figure…read moreout how to make adjustments to spend more time doing things that I love, and make more income. My meetings with Arlene have been fun and productive... even as we dug pretty deeply to unearth habits of mine that were undermining my goals. Our sessions were weekly at first. The first six or eight were pretty intense... not threateningly so but in a "the challenge is on" kind of way. Over the course of those I found myself heading in new directions so encouraging that it made sense to reduce our meetings to a month or more in between. I was seeing huge improvements in my time management. My productivity was growing and the "noise" of distractions was receding to the point that I could look at my career with more clarity and start to make informed changes. At this point we've had perhaps a dozen sessions together. We're not done with the process, but I'm clearly going through a transformation that is exciting and very promising, so we've put it on pause for a bit to see how things play out. It's been a long time since I was so excited about my career and eager to work each day, and I've never felt so productive on a sustained basis. My meetings with Arlene have been the single key ingredient to making it happen. I can't compare her to others--I've never before worked with a personal coach--but I can say that I am a pretty exacting person in terms of whom I work with, especially when the stakes are so great and so personal. And I'm seriously overeducated, so my standards can be annoyingly high. :) Arlene is astute, professional, and a terrific communicator. She's also friendly and a fundamentally good person, with a worldview that is much more "lift all boats" than "zero sum game". I'm very grateful to have found her, and grateful that she is putting her skills to helping other people as well. We'll all be the better off for it.

Arlene did a fantastic job guiding me through my career change…read more I came in knowing that my current role was not a good fit, and unsure how to transition into my next position. Over the course of the four months that we worked together, she helped me to identify my existing strengths, target job areas that would better suite me and market myself in a way I did not know that I was capable of. Arlene's approach is very personalized to her client's situation and needs. In the first session, we established a specific goal relating to my job situation. She helped me work towards this goal and adapted her approach with me as my needs evolved and priorities shifted. Arlene is a very intentional listener and quite talented in the area of empowering others. After each session, Arlene writes up a summary of the information covered. This includes topics discussed, realizations made and things to focus on before our next meeting. I thought that this was especially helpful because it made my progress tangible and was encouraging to keep moving forwards. I would highly recommend Arlene to someone looking to shift directions in their career or simply find more fulfillment in their professional life!

I was fortunate to work with Kara. She is amazing at what she does. She will do whatever she can to…read morehelp you succeed. She helped me with my Resume and LinkedIn and I've been seeing results from that, whereas I was struggling before to even receive a response from an employer. They are very good at what they do and I am recommending them to everyone I know.

We worked with NWES from our son's middle school years through high school. He received support for…read morehis math courses. The coaches that our son worked with were consistently excellent. He developed strong relationships with all of them. The rest of the team is excellent too. Everything about the place makes getting help easy. Can't recommend strongly enough!

Our family has worked with NWES for the last 4+ years. We started when our son needed a proctored…read moreexam for the online ed advanced Algebra class he took over the summer before starting high school and he continued to work regularly/weekly with NWES tutor Jason on various things for which he needed guidance over the 4 years in high school. Their sessions were centered on strategy and learning how to organize and develop good study habits and while content teaching was a part of it, our son's growth into a confident student was the most important benefit. The last session with Jason is next week. Our son will be graduating from Ballard High School next Wednesday (with straight As) and in fall he is starting at UW Engineering - majoring in MechEng and Industrial Design. My husband and I are very grateful to Greg and Jason for all the support in last 4+ years. It was really great to know that even though our sone would not really listen to us, Jason will likely get through him and point him in the right direction. It was wonderful to work with NWES. finding them was one of the luckiest accidents!

I started working with Heather because I knew I needed help. I had little self-awareness of how…read morebadly I was treating myself, and the negative things I was telling myself about my life. I immediately felt Heather's calming and empathetic spirit the moment we started to talk. She listens and cares so deeply, and she gave me a sense of peace from our very first session. Finally, someone that gets me and cares so much - that she will beat these messages into me until even I will listen. She is a bright light in my life I know I can count on to always support me, to just "get me" and remind me of really important reminders in life. My greatest lessons from my sessions with Heather are life changers. The first is that loving myself and treating myself with kindness is the very first priority in life. The other is that everything is happening FOR me - not TO me. That no matter what happens, I can turn it into something good. She has helped me reframe the way I see things from my past and present so that they empower and not disempower me. Most recently, during this COVID19 crisis, Heather's teachings have brought back to front of mind the importance of being kind and gentle with myself when I slip into moments of fear, to comfort my inner child and to be purposeful and intentional about how I use this time. To live a life that is in alignment with my true desires, my values and how I most want to feel, I must pay attention. And to deeply appreciate the gift that it is to be alive, to see it as sacred and treat it as such. What I love about working with Heather is that she genuinely cares. There have been times where I text her with something I am going through and she is there. As a great friend would be. She has an intuition that sees me on the inside and knows how to push or remind at the exact right time where I need to tune in. I don't think I could ever find a more motivating and caring person to have by my side. I recommend if you are questioning the process or not sure, reach out to Heather and ask the questions. She is a pure gift that was added to my life - and I am so grateful!

all the deep dive inner work I have done over the last 12 months has been - well- DEEP!!! Thank you…read morefor helping me peel back a bit more of that onion. The additional work I was able to do with you and through the group you created to support people over the Holidays added so much more. The group environment was fantastic. I think we all helped each other a bit as well. Your talent and ability to write, read people, understand and feel Energy is truly a gift for this planet! If you are looking for personal growth, and to go really deep and get to the bottom of your 'stuff', Heather is the one to do it!

I enlisted Halimah's guidance upon being laid off from a job that wasn't much fun. She helped me…read morere-gain my focus and come up with a game plan for what was next for me. One of the most valuable experiences I've ever had. The changes I made in my life were the right ones and I'm so glad I made them. Halimah's knowledge, experience and empathy allowed me to have an experience that was eye-opening, fun and effective. I highly recommend working with Halimah if you're looking to change careers or your life. Thank you, Halimah!