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Learn How Coaching Can Help You

Learn How Coaching Can Help You

“You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.” Psalm 16:11

About

Learn How Coaching Can Help You

Learn How Coaching Can Help You

“You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.” Psalm 16:11

The path toward a life-giving marriage

When your marriage is a mess and there’s constant tension between you and your spouse, you may feel desperate and unsure if you’ll ever experience the peace that God intended and that you desire for your relationship. 

Sometimes an unbiased mediator–a marriage coach–can help you achieve the transformation your relationship needs. A coach can help you and your spouse form a deeper understanding of each other, build the relational skills you need for a great marriage, and grow the faith and character necessary to use those skills.

Path of Life Coaching provides Christian coaching services and courses to help you experience a life-giving marriage full of peace and love. With an office in Christiansburg, VA, we serve couples and individuals in the New River Valley in person and can serve those in other locations through virtual sessions.

Our Office

Book in-person coaching in Christiansburg or a virtual session.

Meet Your Coach

Nick specializes in Christian marriage coaching and has guided dozens of couples toward a better marriage.

Frequently Asked Questions

Christian coaching is meeting with a coach for sessions in which you work through issues in your life from a Biblical point of view. Your coach helps you establish specific goals, identify obstacles to those goals, and then form personalized plans to overcome the obstacles and live the life you to which you feel called. Coaching is not considered part of the mental health field, but it does equip and empower people to have great marriages and happy lives.

In counseling, a healthcare professional can diagnose behavioral, mental, and emotional disorders. Counseling will often spend significant time looking into a person’s past in an attempt to resolve traumas, problematic beliefs, as well as resultant relational issues, feelings, and physical responses.

While counseling focuses on your past and on diagnoses, Christian coaching starts in the present and is oriented toward the future. This outlook is because Jesus has redeemed us from our past, and has freed us in the present to pursue those aspects of our redemption that we have not yet attained, but will certainly attain in the future.

Path of Life specializes in marriage coaching; however, we also offer individual Christian coaching as well as premarital coaching.

Sessions can occur virtually by Zoom or in person at our Christiansburg office for those located in the New River Valley. Sessions are 50 minutes long. The frequency of sessions depends on your specific situation and goals. Some clients find weekly or bi-weekly sessions to be most helpful, while others opt for once a month.

My Story to Becoming a Coach

Struggles in my own marriage led me to want to help others

I got into marriage coaching because my marriage needed help. Three years into marriage I was angry, bitter and judgmental, and that’s just what my wife could see on the surface! I did have one thing going for me: I knew that, if we were going to make it, both my wife and I would need to become like Jesus. Well, it was obvious to me that my wife didn’t care about becoming like Jesus, so I basically said: “Fine! If you don’t want to be like Jesus, then I’ll be like Jesus, and I’ll be better than you.” Yes… I decided to become like Jesus to spite my wife. I’m embarrassed.

The good news is that Jesus is full of mercy. It turned out that my wife really was trying to be like Jesus, and in giving up my expectations of my wife, and seeking to grow in Christ myself, I was doing the exact things I needed to do to have a great marriage.

I have a Masters of Divinity with an emphasis in Biblical Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, PA. I am passionate about taking what I’ve learned through my studies and through my own marriage to coach  couples and individuals. Since 2017, I have helped guide dozens of couples from a place of tension toward building a life-giving marriage. I have produced a number of free resources on a variety of marriage topics that you can find on my TikTok and YouTube channels, and I also host a Christian marriage podcast.

When I’m not helping couples build an awesome marriage, you can find me either lifting (powerlifting – not Crossfit, that’s way too much cardio), playing legacy board games with friends (Gloomhaven is still my favorite), getting ice cream with my wonderful and beautiful wife, or taking my boys to the park!

Testimonials

Hear from Path of Life’s clients.

“I couldn’t talk to my husband for fear of being yelled at or criticized, especially about parenting our kids. I was afraid of his words all the time. I felt like our marriage was hopeless, but I didn’t believe in divorce, so I thought this would just be our life together. I wanted to feel heard, understood, known… to be happy, to be loved. It felt impossible.

Starting to meet with Nick gave both my husband and I the freedom to say what we felt and wanted without being interrupted or told we were wrong. Immediately I felt the relief that whatever happened during the week, someone would be there to help us. I felt empowered that someone believed in our marriage and that it could be really amazing. Nick talked a lot about being ‘for’ each other, and while we still have minor spats and issues, it is night and day a different relationship in which I truly feel like we are ‘for’ each other. If we’re for each other, we both win. I grew in the ability to give grace. My husband’s demeanor is markedly calmer and more patient. I can tell him what is honestly in my heart instead of feeling I have to hide it.

If you’re still on the fence about marriage coaching with Nick, throw the fence in the wood chipper! Seriously. Marriage coaching is the best decision we have ever made for our family as a whole. Nick is patient, compassionate, insightful, wise, and loves the Lord. Everything you want and desperately need in a marriage coach.”

MJ, Path of Life client

“The first few years of marriage were hard… really hard. We spent days walking on eggshells around each other. Neither of us knew what would set each other off. We wanted peace and happiness together, but our marriage was so tense. I felt like a huge, HUGE FAILURE. I remember trying and trying and it seemed like everything I did made things worse. It seemed like my wife would never respect me or be happy with me. I felt really alone and really angry.

We started working with Nick and it was like we both could breathe for a second. Just having an unbiased mediator helped us both feel like we could finally be heard and not judged. Our first few meetings with Nick was like an Emergency Room Triage. He was able to give us some tools that helped us stop the bleeding and not be stuck in such negativity.

Eventually, my wife and I were able to look past the hurt, anger and fear that caused us problems, and get a new perspective on each other, but also on what actually mattered! Now, our marriage isn’t perfect, but we really enjoy each other.”

H, Path of Life client

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