You deserve to live with clarity and balance, feeling confident, capable and valued.
Live with a clear sense of direction and purpose, no matter how winding the path becomes.
Live with clear and effective strategies to achieve your goals and create, restore, and maintain balance in all areas of your life.
Live clear of limiting beliefs and the past that’s holding you back.
Live with a clear awareness and understanding of yourself.
Live with a clear relationship to your Highest Self and Intuition.
Live with clear and healthy boundaries.
Live with a clear mind, body, heart, and spirit.
Integrative Wellness & Systems of Self
When one system is in or out of balance, it can affect the others.
Integrative Wellness is the use of a variety of disciplines, perspectives, practices, and techniques to achieve or move towards balance in all systems of self.
The Live Clear Process: A Clear Path for You
You shouldn’t have to spend years working with me to feel empowered, confident, and clear.
Introductory Phone Call: 15-minute call to learn more about you, why you are interested in coaching, introduce myself and my approach, and to field any initial questions you have. We’ll figure out the best coaching plan moving forward for you.
1st Session: Self-Discovery and Exploration (Client Intake Session)
2nd Session: Life Balance Assessment and Personalized Integrative Wellness Action Plan with actions to move towards your goals, balance, and clarity
Moving Forward: Follow-up and/or intensive sessions to facilitate techniques and exercises tailored to your specific needs, interests, and goals; to reflect on your journey and implementation of your Action Plan; and to make adjustments if necessary
You can choose to do as many or as few follow-up sessions as you would like. Some people want to do a 5-session intensive to breakthrough a significant barrier and see quick and powerful results. Some choose to do the first two sessions and go off on their own with occasional check-ins and support. Some individuals have a longer-term goal in mind and want the added benefit of regular life coaching over the course of several months or even a year. It’s your path to create!
What we do Together
Gain Clarity
• Embark on a process of self-discovery and exploration
• Uncover your stories: the narratives, conditioning, and forces that shape our beliefs about ourselves and the world
• Assess what is in and out of balance in all systems of Self (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual) and the associated areas of life
• Understand how the systems of Self and areas of life are connected
• Identify, choose, and prioritize S.M.A.R.T. goals, strategies and exercises for achieving your goals
Clear, Balance and Align
• Release limiting beliefs and stuck emotions that may be holding you back through techniques such as Emotional Clearing Method™ (ECM)
• Rewrite and embrace more empowering narratives and beliefs
• Remember your own inner wisdom, gifts, and power
• Implement new skills, tools, and strategies that move you towards balance and wellness in all systems of the self and areas of your life
• Feel empowered and encouraged to move forward in life with greater clarity, confidence, and balance, knowing you are capable of achieving your goals
Erich Keyser, M.A., ILC
My life is a rather wandering and winding adventure of self-exploration and growth, which held many moments of feeling lost and unclear. I have over a decade of experience across higher education, consulting, community-based research, and athletic coaching.
I journeyed from being a resident advisor in college, to an environmental and social science researcher and consultant during and after graduate school, where I worked with Indigenous nations across Canada and the United States. I’ve had the privilege of serving students as a college instructor and a Track & Field coach. I even had a short stint in public service with the USDA Climate Hub.
On first glance, one might wonder, “how does all of this relate to wellness and life coaching?” Great question!
At the core of my professional experience, and at the core of wellness and life coaching, is listening to and building trust with others. It’s about human connection and embracing who we are, our messiness, perceived flaws, gifts, and the stories and experiences that shape us. I’ve spent this time honing my ability to listen deeply, ask powerful and curious questions, get at the heart of the matter, and help people learn and develop new skills and knowledge to learn more about themselves, make informed-decisions, and achieve their goals.
Over the past 15 years, I also experienced what happens when our lives fall out of balance, when we lose our sense of self, our clarity, and how this impacts our overall wellness and wellbeing. I have been committed to my healing and transformational journey towards greater wellness, balance, and clarity, and I continue to do so. I am looking forward to the opportunity to walk alongside you on your journey.
If you’d like to learn more about my philosophy for life coaching, you can read it here.
We are perfectly flawed and beautifully imperfect.
We are enough, we are whole.
Every perceived flaw and imperfection is a gift, a chance to learn, to heal, grow, and to better love and accept ourselves and others. We are ever-changing and transforming. We don’t need to be anything or anyone else other than who we are.
Education & Certifications
• Certified Integrative Life Coach – Integrative Wellness Academy
• Certified Reiki Level II Practitioner – Pathways Healing
• Adult Mental Health First Aid Certified – National Council for Mental Wellbeing
• USA Track & Field Level I Coach – US Association for Track & Field
• M.A. Geography – University of Guelph
• B.S. Biology & Religious Studies – Ursinus College
Personal Experience & Areas of Focus
• Burnout and Stress: helping you create greater balance in your life to relieve feelings of stress, burnout, and overwhelm
• College Athletes: performance anxiety, overcoming injury, facing failure, managing expectations, transitioning to life after competition
• Artists and Creative Entrepreneurs: maintaining balance and overall wellness on your journey, imposter syndrome, effective goal setting and timelines, overcoming limiting beliefs
• Career Exploration: job challenges, identifying vocational alignment with Self, creating a job transition plan
• Personal Finances: understanding your values and relationship with money, developing balanced money habits, budgeting, saving, and goal setting
• General Wellness & Life Goals: empowering you to clear what’s blocking you from achieving balance and your goals in life and moving forward confidently with enhanced knowledge, self-understanding, and skills
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching? How does it differ from therapy and traditional life coaching?
Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching draws on a variety of disciplines and techniques to help individuals move towards greater balance in wholeness in all areas of their life. In doing so, it seeks to assist in clearing old, unhelpful, and outgrown limiting beliefs and stuck emotions that may be preventing you from achieving greater balance in your life, as well as your goals.
This coaching style uses a holistic lens, understanding people as having physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of who they are, which are innately interconnected. An issue in one aspect of self may have an influence or be connected to an imbalance or issue in another aspect of self. Our lived experiences and social conditioning can have significant impacts on our sense of who we are, in addition to affecting the sense of balance or imbalance in our lives.
Therapy focuses on the clinical treatment of mental health concerns, such as depression, anxiety, or addiction, and may include working with a licensed therapist, counselor, or psychologist. Therapy often helps you understand what from your past is contributing to challenges you are experiencing in the present and which may be preventing you from achieving certain things in your life. A helpful article that discusses the difference between these titles can be found here, written by Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Therapy can be an extremely beneficial modality and I strongly support working with professional, experienced, and licensed therapists, especially if you have significant mental health concerns; I personally have found it helpful in my own healing journey. Wellness and life coaching is not a substitute for therapy or professional medical treatment.
Traditional life coaching focuses on helping individuals define and achieve clear goals in their life. It often helps people bridge the gap between where they currently are and where they’d like to be in some aspect of their life; this may be in relation to their physical health, fitness, career, relationships, or personal development. Traditional life coaching tends to focus on behavior change to achieve your goals.
Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching falls in the middle of the spectrum between therapy and traditional life coaching. It helps you clear whatever might be blocking you from your past, so you can lovingly accept and embrace who you are today, and more effectively define and work towards your goals. Ideally, you will walk away feeling encouraged and empowered, with a greater sense of self, having learned new knowledge, skills, and framing that you can carry with you on your journey and use maintain balance, achieve your goals, and live the life you always felt meant to live.
How much does a coaching session cost?
You can find more information on the cost of individual and group coaching sessions and packages on the Work With Me page.
I offer a sliding scale, as I believe that Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching should be available for everyone. We all come from different experiences, and social and economic challenges or systemic barriers shouldn’t keep someone from being able to access support that can help them on their journey and achieving their goals. If you have questions about this, please feel free to contact me.
How long is a coaching session?
A Client Intake Exploration session (first session) takes about 90 minutes to two hours. A second session, which includes a Life Balance Assessment and creation of your Personalized Integrative Wellness Action Plan typically takes 90 minutes to two hours. One regular follow-up coaching session is 60 minutes. I like to put some buffer time around that to allow for a more organic flow to our sessions.
What are you like and what should I expect in a coaching session?
You can always expect that I will treat you with kindness, respect, and dignity. I will do my best to show up authentically, to meet you where you are at, to be present, empathetic, and to listen while refraining from judgment. I seek to create a space where you feel safe to be who you are. I have made plenty of “mistakes” in my life and I’m sure I still will, so I have no room to judge. It’s okay to be vulnerable; it is courageous. I will do my best to avoid any pretenses of perfection and check my ego at the door.
Before your first session, we will have a free 15 minute consultation phone or video call. This allows me to know what you are looking for in a wellness and life coach and what you want to focus on. Just as importantly, it allows you to learn more about me, my approach, and ask any initial questions you have to make sure this is the right fit for you. If it is, wonderful! If not, no problem. I will fully respect that and will try to recommend others who might be a better fit.
Your first session is always a Client Intake Self-Discovery and Exploration. I will give you a chance complete your Client Intake Self-Discovery and Exploration survey either on your own before our first session or during our first session, whatever works best for you. Either way, we will review it together in the first session. This will go into a fairly in-depth background of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your life. I will walk at your side as you explore these elements of your history and who you are, shed light on why you are here for Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching, and gain clarity on where you want to go.
Your second session is when we identify what appears to be in and out of balance in different areas of your life, illuminate connections, and choose how we want to address the things you want to work on. We will create a personalized Integrative Wellness Action Plan with actions and a path forward towards achieving your goals with greater balance, wellness, clarity, and confidence.
In subsequent sessions we will track your progress and engage in reflections, exercises, and techniques aligned with your specific interests, needs, and goals. We may make adjustments to what you’ve been working based on what has been effective for you.
Expect that we will work together in partnership. I’ll serve as a guide, but you choose the direction and actions. This is your journey. I am here to support you on the way but not to give you answers or quick fixes. You already hold all the answers, sometimes we just need help uncovering them. In so many ways, you get what you are willing to put into this process. The more committed you are to the work in and outside of our sessions together, the more you will witness the healing and transformation that can occur.
What are the four aspects of self and areas of life?
The Four Aspects of Self are Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual, and the different areas of life are associated with them.
The Mental system is the area of our thought life, our self-perceptions, beliefs, and patterns.
The Emotional system includes our feelings and emotions, relationships with self and others, and our unconscious mind.
The Physical system includes not only our physical body and health, but also the physical things we have or don’t have in our life such as money, a house, career. and other things we tangibly create in our life.
The Spiritual system is our True Self or Highest Self; it includes our connection to whatever higher power we might relate to, whether we define that as God, Higher Self, Collective Unconscious, Energy, Universe, or some other definition. It includes our personal development and growth, and other aspects of how we manifest or practice our spiritual life (activities, rituals, beliefs, etc.)
The four primary areas of life are: Career & Finances, Family& Relationships, Health & Wellness, and Self-Development & Spirituality. These are associated with the aspects of self, and all can have an impact on each other when they are in or out of balance.
What does it mean to be in or out of balance in the four aspects of self?
Balance and imbalance will look different for everyone depending on who they are. You probably already have an intuitive understanding of what it feels like to be in or out of balance in life, which is unique to you. Some examples are below, but these are by no means an exhaustive list.
Balance in the mental system may include: peaceful thoughts of self and others; decisions in alignment with your authentic self, clarity in life and your goals with effective actions towards achieving those goals.
An imbalanced mental system may include: negative and racing thoughts; poor self-image; criticism and judgment of yourself and others; inability to focus or make effective decisions; focusing on, obsessing over, and/or amplifying negative emotions; lack of clarity on your values and goals.
Balance in the emotional system may include: ability to regulate emotions; strong and fulfilling relationships with self and others; emotional stability; optimal immune system function.
An imbalanced emotional system may include: depression; mood swings; trigger responses and inability to regulate emotions; dampened immune system function (frequent illness); challenges in other areas of life.
Balance in the physical system may include: optimal energy and physical strength in your body; overall healthy and balanced body and its systems (optimal bodily functioning, weight, sleep, etc.); general sense of stability and safety; external success which could be in one’s career, finances, etc.
An imbalanced physical system may include: significant weight gain or loss; sleep issues; fatigue and lethargy; illness and disease; injuries; loss (of physical things such as belongings, money, etc.); instability in life (e.g. finances, housing, job, etc.).
Balance in the spiritual system may include: a sense of inner peace and contentment; living and acting from a place of alignment with one’s Highest Self and sense of purpose; sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world; a sense of wholeness and completeness; ability to give and receive openly and without expectation; a strong sense of community; strength and harmony in other aspects of self (mental, emotional, physical).
An imbalanced spiritual system may include: lack of purpose or clarity in life; conflict and a sense of mixed messages when making decisions which lead to non-ideal outcomes; anxiety, depression, or other mental illnesses; limiting beliefs that cause a disconnection; isolation, separation, and a sense of being alone; disharmony and challenges in other systems (mental, emotional, physical).
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