About Lissy
Meet Lissy
Lissy Gloeckler PhD, is a certified life coach, and intuitive, educator, speaker, entrepreneur and owner of Blue Ridge Life Coaching.
Background and Education
Lissy spent her early years growing up in western Massachusetts with her parents and 4 siblings. She went to college, married and moved to western NC in 1984 with her family. She has a son, a daughter and two granddaughters.
Lissy has a bachelor’s degree in teaching; a master’s in special education and a doctorate from the University of NC at Greensboro in curriculum and instruction. She worked in higher education at UNCG and East TN State University teaching, and coaching students, interns, and teachers for over 20 years.
While at UNCG Lissy studied and researched the topic of self-regulation of emotions and behaviors and became a national speaker on this topic. Her research focused on how adults could help children learn these early skills. What she discovered along the way is that the adults needed the information and help as much and sometimes more than the children.
Her work shifted to helping adults learn about the impact of chronic stress on the brain and body, the practical “how to” of regulating emotions and behaviors, how habits form, how patterns of communication develop and how routines shape our daily lives.
Life Coaching
The journey then led Lissy to life coaching. She became a certified Life Coach through Mindvalley, an International Coaching Federation (ICF)-accredited coaching program.
What began as a desire to help adults better support children to learn self-regulation, evolved into a passion for helping adults better understand and support themselves. Lissy brings the synthesis of her teaching, research and passion for working with people to her life coaching practice today. Whether one-on-one coaching, group coaching or workshops, her excitement to engage with people in supporting their goals, their ideas, their new chapter or season in life is the best that it gets.
Additionally, having experienced a number of shifts in her own life and times of needing to start again, start over, find a new path makes Lissy a coach who has experienced what she aims to share with others.
So, whether you have a goal you want to pursue, an unrealized dream that is still waiting to be born, or a desire to create a life that feels more aligned with who you are or want to become, whatever brings you to coaching, it is never too late to do or have what you have always wanted. Sometimes the first step is simply to listen to yourself.
Now is the time.
Life Coach Credentials
Other areas of interest/classes taken
Beyond Coaching
Lissy lives in the mountains of western North Carolina and can be seen walking the local greenways and hiking the mountain trails year-round. She is also an active volunteer with the local food bank and at a homeless shelter, where she teaches Life Skills classes. She enjoys spending time with her family, knitting, reading and visiting with friends.
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