Coaching & Consulting Services
Serving Waterloo Region and Surrounding Communities
Including Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding townships (Wellesley, Wilmot, Woolwich, Wellington)
REMOTE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS OF ONTARIO
Welcome to Limestone Counselling, Coaching & Consulting, the private practice of Leanna Callum MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker.
I may be the Coach/Professional for you if:
- You are looking to build skills and reach personal or professional goals that have proven to be difficult to reach.
- You want to make and reach personal and or professional goals but don't know where to start.
- You struggle in leadership roles in either the work environment or in your role as a parent.
- You identify as neurodiverse and/or struggle with executive functioning in your personal and/or work life.
- You have a history of trauma that gets in the way of reaching goals and performing in the workplace.
- You want to find work that you enjoy and/or progress in your career in a way that better utilizes your strengths.
- You want to better understand, value and encourage all types of diversity and strengths in the workplace.
- You want to increase collaboration and increase relationship harmony and health in your workplace community.
- You want to better understand trauma, mental health and neurodiversity in the workplace setting.
- You want to engage in and promote positive leadership and a healthy climate and culture in your workplace.
- You are in a leadership role and are working to create positive change in your organization.
If you would like to find out more about me click here.
To find out more about how our services can help you reach your personal and professional coaching and consulting goals, click here to book your free 15 minute introductory call, where we will discuss,
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- The areas you identify for change and your overall goals,
- How engaging our services will facilitate a process to better understand barriers to change and develop solutions to overcome identified barriers, and
- Providing answers to questions about our approach and the coaching and consulting process.
Services Covered by Extended Health Benefits
Personal and Professional Coaching * Professional Development * Consulting
We do not provide crisis services.
If you are in crisis, please call 911 or your local crisis services.
Personal Coaching
Personal coaching includes life, parent/family, various skills and performance coaching. Personal coaching focuses on creating a vison, developing clear personal goals, increasing awareness and planning to accomplish the defined goals. Coaching provides support to increase the focus and accountability needed to persist with reaching the defined goals and vision. Unlike many personal coaching services, Limestone utilizes a bio-psycho-socio-cultural education and approach supported by a social work and psychotherapy focus to provide a more thorough and tailored approach to personal coaching. This approach allows for the assessment of additional factors impacting goal achievement and provides support for clients to address any root psychological barriers that may be in the way of personal goal achievement. Book a 15-minute phone call to further discuss how this service might fit for you.
Please reach out using our contact form with any questions about our Personal Coaching.
Life Coaching
Life Coaching Services are focused around assisting individuals who are struggling to find focus and clarity and are having difficulty taking action to formulate steps and take action to reach goals.
- Life visioning
- Planning steps for goal development
- Addressing barriers to goal development
- Practical preparation for goal achievement
- Identifying barriers to goal achievement
- Accessing support for reaching goals
Personal Skills Coaching
Personal Skills Coaching Services are focused around helping individuals by improving self-awareness and confidence, refining communication and social skills and increasing competence in approaching life's demands with increased capacity for success.
- Functional inquiry (asking important questions)
- Building emotional intelligence and empathy
- Improving executive functioning (ie. planning, time management)
- Addressing procrastination and avoidance
- Building resiliency
- Building perseverance
- Creative problem solving
Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching is focused around increasing connection and healthy attachment/relationship functioning between caregivers and children of all ages through positive affirmation of emotion, positive coregulation, positive psychology and strength-based approaches, reducing conflict and stress and addressing unique challenges in parenting.
- Parenting visioning
- Collaborative parenting
- Step-parenting collaboration
- Parenting unique children
- Emotional intelligence/attunement
- Attachment and emotion focused parenting
- Coregulation coaching
- Building connection and belonging
- Child advocacy
Family Coaching
Family Coaching Services are focused on helping families formulating and following through with positive family culture goals focused on positive coregulation, connection and belonging by building skills and utilizing collaborative conflict resolution practices throughout the lifespan.
- Family visioning
- Blended family visioning
- Collaborative family meetings
- Caregiver role challenges and advocacy
- Positive family culture creation
- Fostering connection and belonging
- Emotional Intelligence/attunement
- Coregulation coaching
- Family goal formation
- Empathy building
- Functional communication
- Adult and extended family conflict
Developmental Independence
Developmental Independence Coaching Services are specifically designed to address concerns with assisting individuals who may be struggling with tasks of emerging adult individuation and reaching personal goals related to independence.
- Goal formation and steps to attainment
- Improving executive function (ie. planning, time management)
- Addressing procrastination and avoidance
- Building resiliency
- Building perseverance
- Building flexible thinking
- Growth mindset
Coaching for Coaches & Athletes
Coaches and Athlete focused services are focused on helping coaches leverage positive psychology and positive leadership to support athletes in healthy wholistic goal achievement and to assist athletes in nervous system attunement, goal visioning and achievement through positive mindset and increased awareness of misaligned self-talk and building success strategies.
- Polyvagal application for coaches
- Nervous system regulation for athletes
- Visioning for athletic success
- Positive self-talk for athletes
- Goal planning and steps to attainment
- Dealing with injuries and barriers
- Building confidence and dealing with setbacks
“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
~ Marianne Williamson
Professional Coaching and Consulting
Professional coaching and consulting services focus on individual career development, professional self development, effective professional skills development and use of self in the professional setting. Professional coaching and consulting provides focus to outline and accomplish professional goals by building awareness and supporting the achievement of identified goals through relevant education and application of the bio-psycho-socio-cultural approach. Professional coaching and consulting services may also combine psychotherapy services where personal blocks to professional goals may exist. One area that specifically utilizes psychotherapy is the area of professional use of self where personal triggers and reactions in the professional setting may impact the professional’s function in the workplace.
Limestone’s professional coaching and consulting focuses on providing service to various human services professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, social work, social service work, healthcare, first responders, teachers/educators, childcare providers and leadership and management/executive professionals. Book a 15-minute phone call to further discuss how this service might fit for you.
Please reach out using our contact form with any questions about our Professional Coaching and Consulting.
Career & Professional Development
Career and Professional Development Coaching and Consulting can help with planning and following through with career development throughout the lifecycle including career choice, transitions, moving into leadership roles, interfacing with staff, clients and the public as well as gaining confidence in the application of diversity and mental health concepts and application in the workplace.
- Career visioning, goals and development
- Business visioning, goals and development
- Bio-psycho-socio-cultural education for professionals
- HR coaching and consulting
- PR considerations for responding to online reviews for business owners
- Arts based consulting
Professional Skills & Performance Coaching
Professional Skills and Performance Coaching Services help address specific skills and competency based deficiencies identified by the individual and/or the workplace as needing improvement. These areas may need to be addressed for role competency, moving into leadership or management roles and/or as part of workplace remediation planning.
- Active listening and effective communication
- Assertiveness, boundaries and conflict management
- Flexible thinking and problem solving
- Leading effective teem meetings
- Professional workplace goals
- Bio-psycho-socio-cultural education
- Neurodiversity and trauma-informed workplaces
Professional Use of Self
Professional Use of Self Coaching is helpful for professionals looking to increase their self-awareness and increasing effectiveness of interactional patterns in the workplace. This service is an insight oriented process that focuses on healthy relationships, self regulation, personal power, awareness of bias' that considers experiences and impacts of diverse groups in the workplace setting with workers, clients, students, children, elderly, patients and communities in the public. This service is provided to all types of professionals in Business and Leadership, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Social Service Workers, First Responders, Healthcare Workers, Teachers and Education Staff and Childcare Providers.
- Transactional Analysis and dynamic interaction in the workplace
- Polyvagal self and other awareness and co-regulation
- Building trust and engagement
- Emotional Intelligence/Attunement
- Trauma informed approaches
- De-escalation of reactivity and conflict
- Transference and counter-transference
- Marginalization and oppression impact
Psychotherapist and Social Worker Coaching and Consulting
Psychotherapist and Social Work Coaching and Consulting Services are focused on providing support, guidance and professional development to professionals looking to focus on their own practice goals, professional skill building and self-care needs.
- Private practice coaching and consulting
- Professional use of self
- Process based service approaches
- Trauma informed practice
- Theory application
- Recognizing and responding to transference and counter transference
- Power, privilege and bias awareness
- Identifying and dealing with vicarious trauma
- Self care and burnout prevention
- Social work in the education setting
A Note About Services for Psychotherapy and Social Work Professionals
Services are not considered to be clinical supervision or case management services. Services are intended to focus on the development of the professional and their professional practice. A clinical supervision or case management relationship would require a separate teaching agreement be negotiated. Limestone does not currently provide clinical supervision or case management services.
Healthcare and First Responders Professional Coaching and Consulting
Healthcare and First Responders Coaching and Consulting Services are focused on providing support, guidance and development to professionals looking to build on their awareness of factors impacting their workplace cultures and their experiences as helping professionals including mitigating mental health impacts, self-care, and burnout prevention.
- Bio-psycho-socio-cultural considerations
- Diversity and mental health considerations
- Professional use of self
- Polyvagal applications in exceptional situations
- Transactional Analysis and dynamic interaction considerations
- Trauma informed approaches
- De-escalation of reactivity and gaining compliance
- Marginalization and oppression considerations
- Process-based approaches
- Positive influences on culture and climate (systems approach)
- Active listening, effective communication and conflict management
- Power and bias in the helping professions
- Identifying and dealing with vicarious trauma
- Self-care and burnout prevention
Human Service Professional Coaching and Consulting
Human Service Professional Coaching and Consulting Services are focused on providing support and development for professionals working in one on one, group and institutional settings and are centred around healthy workplace cultures and healthy care environments by supporting client/patient centred care.
- Bio-psycho-socio-cultural education
- Diversity and mental health education
- Professional use of self
- Polyvagal application and co-regulation
- Transactional Analysis and dynamic Interaction considerations
- Trauma informed approaches to care
- De-escalation of reactivity and gaining compliance
- Marginalization and oppression impacts
- Co-regulation and positive influences on culture and climate
- Active listening, effective communication and conflict management
- Power and bias impacts
- Positive based approaches to client/patient based care
- Communicating and working with care partners
Education and Socialization Professional Coaching and Consulting
Education and Socialization Professionals Coaching and Consulting Services provide support, guidance and professional development to educational professionals (teachers) and professionals working with children in education and socialization settings who are interested in building their capacity for creating healthy climate and cultures focused on healthy child-centred education and care.
- Child focused, strength-based positive approaches to childcare and education
- Professional use of self in childcare and education
- Proactive based polyvagal application for positive coregulation
- Attachment based classroom management
- Creating and contributing to a positive climate and cultures in the classroom and school setting
- Active listening, effective communication and dealing with conflict and difficult situations
- Power, privilege and bias awareness in the education setting
- Effective class meetings
- Neurodiversity in classroom
- Diversity and equity in the classroom
- Trauma informed classroom management
- Polyvagal application for classroom management
- Shifting from a punitive behaviour focus to a supportive diversity focus
- Parent communication and effective collaboration with parents and the school community
- Flexible thinking and creative problem solving in the classroom
- Trauma informed and mental health sensitive classrooms and schools
- Supporting child focused wellness
- Self care and burnout prevention for teachers and helping service professionals
Management & Leadership Coaching and Consulting
Management and Leadership Professionals Coaching and Consulting Services provides services that support functional healthy workplace climate and cultures by employing strength-based, positive psychology approaches through supporting positive leadership, diversity, mental health and wellness in the workplace.
- Positive/strength-based leadership approaches
- Professional use of self in leadership
- Proactive based polyvagal application
- Creating and maintaining positive climate and cultures
- Active listening and effective communication
- Team building and project management leadership
- Leading cohesive teams (autonomy, diversity and collaboration)
- Leading effective team meetings
- Power and use of self in leadership
- Process based leadership
- Creative problem solving
- Dealing with difficult situations and managing conflict
- Trauma informed and mental health sensitive leadership
- Supporting workplace wellness
- Neurodiversity and trauma-informed workplaces
“For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.”
~ Millard Fuller
Organizational Coaching and Consulting
Organizational coaching and consulting services focus on supporting change on a systemic level within organizations. Change is focused on supporting higher level functioning and healthy human friendly environments. Organizational coaching and consulting supports positive change by building awareness through education utilizing the bio-psycho-socio-cultural model and the application of theory to support the achievement of the identified goals.
Organizational Coaching and Consulting provides education and support to individuals in Management and Leadership roles that helps them to develop ongoing assessment and intervention skills focused on supporting healthy organizational goals through use of self, systems thinking, functional education and support for staff who may be experiencing various challenges in the workplace environment. Services are focused on drawing on the strengths of staff and developing skills that encourage healthy workplace environments including the development and implementation of practices and policies that support healthy environments.
Limestone’s organizational coaching and consulting focuses on work within the fields of education, health/human care settings and business professional settings. Book a 15-minute phone call to further discuss how this service might fit for you.
Please reach out using our contact form with any questions about our Organizational Coaching and Consulting.
Bio-Psycho-Socio-Cultural Education for Human Services, Education and Workplace Settings
- Trauma informed mental health and wellness in the workplace
- Neurodiversity in the workplace
- Attachment-based approaches in the workplace
- Shifting from a punitive behaviour focus to a supportive diversity focus
- Polyvagal applications for a healthy workplace
- Decolonizing the workplace
- Human positive workplace climates and cultures
- Deconstructing groupthink and ableism in the workplace
- Bias, marginalization, inclusion and privilege in the workplace
- Polyvagal application for sports and coaching settings
Education, Socialization and Care Settings Coaching and Consulting
- Healthy school and care setting climates and cultures
- Trauma informed climate and culture
- Proactive based polyvagal application
- Neurodiversity friendly climate and culture
- Social work in education and care settings
- Decolonizing education and care settings
- Shifting from a punitive behaviour focus to a supportive diversity focus
- Shifting fear based reactive systems toward curious supportive systems
- Marginalization, inclusion, ableism, unconscious bias and privilege awareness
- Identifying and addressing systemic groupthink
- 360 assessments of climate, culture and community function
- Policy and practices development
- Polyvagal and attachment-based classroom and care setting management practices
- Proactive mental health and wellness approaches
- Strength-based systems
- Collaborative parent/care giver and community relationships
- Socialization and care setting revisioning
- Education revisioning and reform
Healthcare and First Responder Setting Coaching and Consulting
- Healthy workplace cultures
- Strength-based cultures
- Trauma informed approaches to service
- Polyvagal based culture and climate
- Neurodiversity and mental health diversity
- Marginalization, inclusion, ableism, unconscious bias and privilege awareness
- Identifying and addressing systemic groupthink
- Policy and practices development
- Trauma informed and polyvagal application for in-patient and long-term care
- Trauma informed approaches to services (perceived safety and autonomy)
- Proactive based polyvagal application for healthcare and emergency service workers
Professional Workplace Setting Coaching and Consulting
- Healthy workplace cultures
- Strength-based cultures
- Trauma informed workplaces
- Polyvagal based workplace culture and climate
- Neurodiversity and mental health diversity in the workplace
- Marginalization, inclusion, ableism, unconscious bias and privilege awareness
- Identifying and addressing systemic groupthink
- Policy and practices development
- HR coaching and consulting
A Note on Scope of Service
Limestone provides coaching and consulting services to independent individuals. Client’s goals must fit within the scope of Limestone’s stated services. Where there is a request for service or client goal that falls outside the scope of Limestone’s services, clients will be referred to other specializing professionals and/or relevant community supports and services.
In line with our one-to-one service delivery model, Limestone does not provide group education services. Coaching and consulting services are provided within a wholistic human centred framework, as such, services are not focused on increasing the profit or productivity of businesses or organizations alone. Services are values driven, respect, diversity, human health and healthy communities focused. We believe that this approach provides an optimal approach to supporting profit and productivity in an ethical humanistic framework that balances human needs with business and organizational needs. At the root of this approach is the concept that ultimately people will function at their highest level when their humanity and communities are supported and that systems should support healthy human life. As such, Limestone does not provide traditional business model coaching and consulting.
Conflicts of Interest
Limestone may be restricted in the ability to provide services where there may be a conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest arise when there may be, or there is a risk of, dual relationships. Clients are asked to reveal any potential conflicts of interest at the onset of service requests and/or as they may become apparent during service delivery.
Coaching and Consulting Theoretical Foundations
Limestone relies on an expansive number of bio-psycho-socio-cultural theories that inform the delivery of coaching and consulting services. Coaching and consulting services are delivered with a process oriented, client centred, trauma informed, neurodiversity lens. With the use of an extensive base of theories, there is often considerable overlap in the foundations and application of various intersecting theories. Some of the core foundational theories and approaches that are utilized in service delivery are as follows:
Polyvagal Theory
Attachment Theory
Transactional Analysis Theory
Systems Theory
Neuroplasticity Theories
Conflict Theories
Diversity Theories