Trusted by Thoughtful, Self-Aware Clients Ready for Change
Change doesn’t happen overnight—but with support, insight, and a safe space to grow, it does happen.
Here’s how coaching with Jef helped clients reconnect with their values, realign their spaces, and rebuild their lives—from the inside out.
Life Coaching
“Jef's manner is supportive and collaborative. He offers a variety of tools to help you get where you want to be-- not where he thinks you "ought" to be. Life coaching helps you become the best version of you-- and Jef is there to provide guidance and insight.”
—Charise O.
“I've often found myself struggling with clarifying goals and completing projects. As someone who typically "feels" their way through career, finance, and personal goals, I was intrigued when Jef told me about his coaching methodology that included identifying my inner compass, listening to my body, and moving forward in confidence.
“Through our weekly sessions, Jef thoughtfully and intentionally walked me through clarifying personal goals, and he helped me break down roadblocks to success, self-sabotaging inner messages, lies I believed and other prohibitive thought patterns and motivations. I found it very easy to open up to Jef and to vividly describe the elements of the mental exercises he guided me through. I learned valuable insights about where and when my body holds stress when faced with challenges. I learned how to visualize outcomes and talk with my inner self to gain motivation for completing goals. I learned to identify and listen to my inner guide. And while I gained these skills, I also came around to shifting my mindset to believe truth, to seek out clarity, and to believe in positive results.
“Jef's relational style of coaching, his openness and non-judgemental posture quickly gained my trust, helped me to easily open up, and get brutally honest with myself. It's apparent that Jef cared for me during this process, and it's clear that he cares for each of his clients, and wants the best possible outcome. He is a natural communicator, and interviewer, which means he has an effortless way of asking questions that spoke to my heart.
“The time I've spent being coached by Jef has helped me achieve small and large goals this year—which has been easily the most challenging year of my life. Because Jef helped me tap into my inner compass, overcome untrue beliefs, and clarify goals, this year (2020) has been a year of thriving and succeeding.”
—Jennifer W.
“Jef has the uncanny ability to listen to me, take me through some exercises if pertinent, and then distill my issue into the exact thing that I could not pinpoint myself. He is compassionate and honest without being prescriptive. Instead, Jef has led me through my thoughts and taught me how to listen to my body such that I can create solutions in my life. While he has suggested possible solutions, he has never said I “should” do something, and he always asks if what he has said sounds correct. I am appreciative of the help he has given me in overcoming my creative blocks and in rethinking my approach to relationships. I have and will continue to recommend Jef to friends and family.”
—Marissa M.
“My professional life is split between working as a non-profit executive during the day and being a novelist in all the hours between. Jef Blocker’s coaching techniques have served me greatly in working through my frustrations as I traverse these two very different worlds.
“Through his amazing listening ear, sensitivity, and coaching techniques, he has provided great supports in guiding me through a few creative blocks—techniques I have been able to replicate on my own in the day-to-day. Being a creative himself, Jef has been a great asset in helping me move my creative projects forward. Through my time with Jef, I have experienced several epiphanies along the way—realizations about my process that has shifted my approach and creative outlook in very positive ways.”
—Robert G.
Health & Wellness Coaching
“At the time I reached out to Jef, I was in the aftermath of a huge relocation. I’d been feeling stressed and neglectful of my health and wellness for a long time. I knew I needed to start down a different path, but I felt stuck. Jef helped me see how much I was standing in my own way, how the extra-high expectations I put on top of anything I tried almost had me stopped before I ever got started. His gentle positive manner, sense of humor, and unfailingly kind invitations to reframe my thinking again and again helped me shift to a kinder, more positive relationship with my body over time. If you’re looking for someone wise to help you reconnect to your body’s wisdom and move forward in your wellness journey, Jef’s wonderful!”
—Diane D.
Mindfulness Coaching
“Jef is a thoughtful and caring person with a calm, soothing demeanor, and he will work with his clients to identify areas or projects to focus on and make progress. He is a great listener and communicator who offers useful feedback and suggests various approaches to concerns and issues, including developing a mental-emotional toolkit to build resilience and self-confidence. Working with Jef was an extremely helpful and rewarding experience for me. With his help, I gained greater self-awareness and insight, and learned new tools and strategies that are useful in both professional and personal contexts. I highly recommend taking the opportunity to work with him.”
—Sansanee S.
Feng Shui Coaching
“I received a feng shui consultation from Jef in 2023, many years after moving into my home (I wish I had known Jef sooner!) It involved drawing a floor plan of the home, answering a series of questions, and then having a debriefing conversation with Jef that was incredibly informative and interesting. He also provided a detailed report that has enabled continued reflection over time.
After the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, my husband and I hunkered down in our small condo. With each passing year, it felt tighter and tighter, and that feeling of constriction extended more broadly as well: I felt stuck trying to figure out our next steps in terms of careers, location, and family, and I couldn’t shake a “Groundhog Day” feeling of stagnation. Doing the feng shui consultation prompted us to make small changes to our home that had outsized impacts in terms of helping it feel a little lighter, brighter, and more expansive. That feeling snowballed and, after finally installing new windows in our home in 2024 (which I had mentioned to Jef during the consult that we needed, as they were extremely foggy and dirty, and Jef had replied that clean, clear windows would bring in abundance and clarity), it kicked off a year of huge change: we sold our condo, moved cross-country, adopted two dogs, had a baby, and bought a house. Phew! I was drawn to the feeling of lightness, brightness, and expansiveness when we first toured this new house, so I am already feeling good in our new space, but I look forward to enlisting Jef on another feng shui consultation to optimize it further!”
—Elizabeth M.
“I hadn't been happy in my home for a long time, but I hadn't had the time or the interest in doing anything about it. When Jef told me about feng shui, it seemed like an opportunity to learn something new as well as do something about the rut I felt like my living conditions were in. I was on the verge of a major life change and this seemed like an important part of the decisions I was facing.
“The process of reviewing my house was revealing. It made me think about my space, what I wanted from it, what worked, and what absolutely didn't. I thought about what I could change, what I didn't want to change, and what I had to work around or through. I found drawing the floor plan a great exercise: it gave me a different perspective on the space and made me focus on it and how it all fit together. I began to see that while it maybe wasn't perfect, it could be improved and I could look at it differently.
“Jef helped me look at the spaces in the house that I didn't use, didn't feel good about, or just didn't know what to do with. We made some minor changes in furniture arrangement and colour that shifted the entire mood in the living room; it became a room I could relax in instead of the path from the kitchen to the office. Based on those changes I made a simple adjustment to the dining room furniture and began to enjoy eating all my meals there rather than at my desk or in my bedroom reading chair.
“In addition to giving me different ideas about the house I currently lived in, the process also inspired me to review what I wanted from a home and what I wanted my relationship to that home to be. A year later I sold the house in preparation for moving into a smaller, urban space that required less maintenance and attention. The things I learned in the feng shui experience with Jef loomed large in my search for my new home; now I live in a space that perfectly reflects who I am and where I want to be.”
—Jo N.
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