Loree Lynn Smith-Pope, BA, MS, LPC, LSAPT, CPC, NCC 

Psychotherapist, Certified Business and Life Coach

With over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, Loree Lynn Smith-Pope is also a Certified Professional Life and Business Coach.

 Blending her knowledge of people and practical skills, she applies finely honed skills to motivate individuals and businesses to visualize, dream and expand their capacity to accomplish their goals.

Ms. Smith-Pope graduated Adrian College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and sociology.  She subsequently served as a VISTA volunteer and then worked in various programs throughout Pennsylvania involving at-risk, dual-diagnosed and substance-abuse adolescents.  She later graduated from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, earning a Master of Science degree with a concentration in marriage and family.

Loree has held positions ranging from director of an outpatient mental health clinic, head of an
intensive case-management program, to various clinical and supervisory positions working
with the chronic mentally ill and substance-abuse populations.

Among other professional credentials, Loree holds the following certifications:

• Board-Certified Professional Counsellor

Business and Life Coaching

As a business coach, we will identify and clarify your goals so they are measureable. In a typical session we will paint a picture of what success looks like when it is optimally accomplished. Creatively, from the greater picture of where we want to be, we will organize it into steps so they are more easily accomplished.  Each successful step towards our goal will serve to motivate us and the team. As momentum grows the team will begin to develop a greater sense of self and confidence with each other and the process.

As a life coach, Loree helps you identify your strengths and capabilities, and the challenges you face at this time. Together we will conduct an assessment to determine how you perceive your life as it is now.  Key areas that we will address include: relationships, professional, financial, fun, spiritual, and health and well-being.  A goal is to ensure your life is in balance, and to identify and develop your life's dreams and goals.  When the assessment is complete a Vision Statement will clarify your desires, as if you had already achieved them. We will also develop a concrete action plan, for converting your dreams into reality. With each action step you will find a sense of greater self confidence, and greater control over your life and destiny, resulting in the desire to be more successful. Together we will identify the roadblocks and develop ways to overcome them;. With the commitment you gain, you can be the person you want to be.

When we cease to change, we die. You can take charge of your life, destiny or business by investing in yourself. Together, we will discover your life purpose, your focus and your passion. As a Life/Business Coach I can assist you in identifying your hidden talents. You can learn how to meet your challenges, overcome them and emerge with greater self confidence.

You can learn to be gentle with yourself, and know that any setback is also an opportunity for growth and success.  Greater awareness can show you how to hear your own subtle messages, which either support or sabotage your goals. Through this new learned skill, you can learn how to resolve conflicting beliefs and experience the “WOW” of life and all its sweetness.