Testimonials
I feel deeply honored to work with clients around the world, from my neighborhood to the other side of the planet. Here they share some of the value they have received through our work together.
May their experience inspire yours.
Big Life Changes
Susan Drouilhet is an incredible coach. Our work together has had an enormous positive impact on my life. She has seen me through big life changes, publishing a book, finding a job, and getting in touch with my creativity. Her techniques teach you to access your own wisdom, reach out for help, and feel empowered to live the life you want to live. Anyone who is facing important decisions, making a shift in their personal or professional life, or just seeking a new perspective will benefit from Susan’s amazing coaching services.
Julie Ward, Writer
Oklahoma, USA
Inner Knowing Leads to True Motivation
I have had the great privilege of being coached by Susan Drouilhet over the past 10 years, and it has been a transformative experience for me professionally and personally. I, too, have been a professional coach for the past 25 years. I have been coached by top-notch coaches around the world. And I consider Susan to be the best of the best.
Her understanding and integration of coaching theories into practice are solid. Seeing me as a whole and resourceful person, she never resorted to advice or recommendations. Instead, she took me on a path into my knowing. Mining from me insights that truly motivated me to change, evolving me closer to the person I want to become. This is coaching at its best!
Susan is the perfect partner to take with you as you grapple and work to develop your full human potential. She has mastered the art and science of coaching, which, combined with her intellect, wisdom, and compassion, makes one lucky to have her as a coach.
Sara Miller, PCC and Physician Coach
Arkansas, USA
Growing My Life’s Work
Susan is a master gardener, exquisitely tuned to the ecology of the self: its seasons and cycles, as well as the potential of each and every seed that one brings to her and the conditions that will help it flourish. Through her gentle process of inquiry, and her genuine sense of humor and playfulness, she helped me articulate to myself my highest aspirations, and – truly as if by magic – helped me begin to grow my life’s work, work which indeed feels alive in me and in those with whom I am in relation. And what’s more, she did this through fostering a community of care and belonging, supporting us in sympoiesis, a mutual becoming and “making with” that was always kind, generative, and great, great fun.
Anne Wenzel, Contemplative Conceptual Teaching Artist
Arkansas, USA
New Perceptions
I always come away from individual and collaborative sessions with new ideas, feelings, and ways of seeing. I am amazed by and grateful for the way Susan helps me find my way to just the thing I need to ponder, especially when I start a call with no clear goal or point of focus. I have felt cared for, nurtured, stimulated, and challenged in all the best ways. The possibility of living life with more spaciousness and light is real for me in ways it has never been. Susan guided our group to create something magical together. I could not have anticipated just how meaningful and life-shifting this journey would be.
Sandy Tarabochia, Professor
Oklahoma, USA
Humor and Insight
Susan brings presence, insight, humor and accountability to whatever arises in the self-discovery process. As a witness and guide, she offers a lovingly neutral yet curious and steadfast gaze, inviting me (as I’m able) to hold myself with the same unconditional regard. Throughout these often uncomfortable and humorous excavations, Susan reminds me that I am embodied and can stay connected and curious rather than unintentionally bypassing the powerful truths residing within. Our work has deepened my sense of rootedness, increased my capacity to manifest in the world and enhanced my ability to experience energy. I am deeply grateful to Susan for our time together.
Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh, Qigong Practitioner, Student of Life
Missouri, USA
Safety Leading to Profound Change
Susan’s coaching has been life-changing and life-affirming for me. Susan guides me to a feeling of total safety from which I have been able to unravel past trauma and grief in a way that I have never been able to do before this time. Her intuitive knowing has helped guide me to places I didn’t even know I was holding onto stories and emotions. Her guidance is leading me more and more into trusting myself and my own abilities for healing. I find clarity when held in her field of safety to recognize and understand my own patterns and how to work with them. I have profound gratitude for Susan.
Robin Boal, Marine Biologist and Plant Pathologist, Hiker, Paddler, Gardener
Washington, USA
Energy and Healing
I have been coaching with Susan for 3 years now. She was the lead teacher and coach at the Chi Center in New Mexico at that time.
Her innate understanding of human nature, how our minds work, and how working with our energy systems creates healing has been vital in helping me move forward from a really difficult anxious state which was affecting my whole life. She is always wise and quietly compassionate. Holding a safe space for me to understand exactly what is going on within me! A true gift.
Thank you, Susan, for all your care and for the work you put into our group coaching sessions to make sure that we all experience new understandings and can find humor too in the twists and turns of life!
Sheila Hood, Mother, Model
Cheshire, United Kingdom
From Baby Steps to On-Stage Performance
Susan is a master of her craft. She has an incredible ability for listening to your thoughts, reflecting them back and helping you to organize them into practical and manageable steps. She also holds a magical talent for transforming goals from feeling heavy or frightening – into easy, light, fun and VERY do-able opportunities!! With humor, impeccable insight, and concise no-nonsense feedback, Susan has helped me move forward in my projects more than I ever thought possible! Thank you, Sue!
Rachel Hope, Dancer, Choreographer
Massachusetts, USA
Integrating Qigong with Daily Life
I began my Qigong journey three years ago and have progressed throughout this period with online teaching and practice sessions supplied by the Chi Center. This has given me a good foundation.
I have continued coaching with Susan both individually and in a group setting. These meetings have most certainly taken my and our practice to another level. The one-to-one sessions have been extremely supportive, giving me structure and immense reassurance. As day-to-day issues arise, it has been wonderful to have Susan’s wisdom and support to guide me through the challenges that life presents. She is a constant reminder to use the tools we have learned and to bring these into our daily lives. I cannot thank her enough.
Suki Lace, Managing Director of Care Home Group
Lancashire, England
The Power of the Group
Both the individual and group coaching have provided opportunities for reflection, enabling me to clarify my goals and move my project forward logistically. But even more importantly, the retreat was a validation of all my hopes, dreams, and efforts. The support of the group encouraged me to open more space for creativity in my life. And by engaging in creativity, I am seeing things in a different light. Thank you, Susan, and all our group members!
Susan Gateley, Family Nurse Practitioner-BC, Farmer, Community Builder
Arkansas, USA
Foundations for Creativity
I’ve spent the past two years selling and writing two books. Susan has helped me maintain the level of calmness and balance necessary to do such work. Her thoughtful, meditative perspective has helped me make changes to feel more centered and in control of my creative life.
Alice Driver, Writer, Journalist
Arkansas, USA and Mexico City, Mexico
Manifesting the Perfect Work
My own experience with Sue is still a bit difficult to believe. Shortly after working with Sue, the perfect job appeared. If she had not already had me thinking along those lines, I might not have recognized it.
I have a professional background in economics but about ten years ago I started teaching Yoga and Yoga therapy full-time. I retained an economist’s perspective on the world, but my personal interests had shifted to complementary and alternative medicine policy and entrepreneurial non-profit work.
Sue led me thru a series of exercises to help me identify the perfect work for me. In the back of my mind, but never vocalized or even written down, was working with a scholarly Yoga association for which I had written several articles. I thought that they could use a little help connecting with the broader political and regulatory environment of Yoga as a complementary and alternative therapy.
Shortly, this organization actually called me out of the blue and offered me a position. I have been the director of IAYT for three years now, and I still practice half-time as a Yoga teacher and therapist. It’s the perfect balance for me.
John Kepner, Executive Director Emeritus (2003-2020), International Association of Yoga Therapists
Arkansas, USA
Success in Business
When I began working with Susan, I needed help with the start of a business. I had the ideas but not the working knowledge to bring them to life. What I discovered, with Susan’s guidance, was that a person’s life habits determine the success or failure of a business. For me, my habits would have led to failure. Susan not only noticed this but also showed me how to change these habits. If I wanted to be a successful entrepreneur, I had to be an effective person. My business coach became my life coach.
As we continued to work together, Susan held me accountable and supported me to be my best. I knew she would call me on things I had put off and accomplishments I had failed to make, and would challenge me with more goals before our next meeting. Her insights, her motivation, her recognition and celebration of my achievements however big or small, her gentle guidance all spurred me forward. All the knowledge I gained and all I achieved happened by my own doing. I knew that the power lay within me to be successful. However, I would have remained blind to my potential had I not had Susan’s input along the way, helping to guide me along a positive and successful path.
Casey Milford, Founding Chairman, Free Geek Arkansas
Arkansas, USA