Wende Gotthelf

Wende Gotthelf is a certified life coach who helps teens, young adults and adults build resilience. She works with people facing major life transitions such as divorce, loss of a loved one, career changes and children leaving for college. She teaches a resilience framework built on reframing optimism and finding inner value. She also offers outdoor coaching in parks, beaches and nature trails. She lives in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego.

What Wende helps with

Wende helps clients handle change and stress with more confidence. She works on mindset, self-esteem and relationships.

• Moving through divorce, loss and other major life transitions
• Career changes and relocation
• Adjusting when children leave for college
• Reframing patterned mindsets and limiting beliefs
• Building confidence by choosing optimism during change
• Raising self-esteem and self-awareness
• Building healthier, more resilient relationships
• Social, family, school and career challenges for teens and young adults

Who Wende works with

Wende coaches teens, young adults and adults. Teens and young adults often come with social, self-esteem, family, education or career challenges. Adult clients are often working through a major life change such as a career move, relocation, divorce or the loss of a loved one.

How Wende works

Wende teaches a resilience framework. Clients find and use their hidden strengths to move through and plan for life transitions. They reframe optimism, find inner value and grow through hard times. She also offers outdoor coaching in parks, beaches and walking trails. She uses evidence-based methods to build self-awareness and motivation, and to outline clear action steps toward goals.

Background and qualifications

Wende Gotthelf is a certified life coach. She has lived in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego for 32 years. She now uses that framework to coach adults and young adults through change.

Wende Gotthelf pricing

Programs and services

• Outdoor nature-based coaching
• Complimentary discovery call

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