New Life Counseling, Coaching and Consulting Services
Counseling | Consulting | Personal/Professional Coaching
Counseling
New Life provides outpatient counseling services at two locations, one in Ankeny and the other in West Des Moines, Iowa. With over 55,000 combined hours of face-to-face counseling experience, our staff offers individual, family and group counseling for all ages. Some areas of our counseling specialties include:
- Premarital
- Marital
- Infidelity issues
- Children’s issues
- Anger management
- Pre- and Post-divorce issues
- Dating (also dating again after loss)
- Blending Families (second marriages)
- Co-dependency issues
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief
- Enhancing self-identity/self-esteem
- Parenting
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Child and adult ADD/ADHD
- Sexual Addiction (pornography)
- Building Healthy Relationships
- Coping with Life’s Transitions
- Spiritual issues
- Physical, Emotional, and/or Sexual Abuse Recovery
- Plastic Surgery emotional preparation
- Caring for aging parents
Appointments
- Session time will be based on your preference (a traditional 50 minute session or a 75 minute session) which will be scheduled ahead of time.
- During our first meeting, the fee structure, payment arrangements, and session expectations will be discussed as well as providing us with an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.
- If there is any reason circumstances prevent a traditional appointment, other arrangements may be made prior to scheduling the appointment.
Payment
- Charges are based on an individual session basis as you choose.
- Some insurances are accepted. Please contact one of our staff to discuss insurance requirements and restrictions of diagnosis, if you are interested in pursuing insurance reimbursement.
Consulting
Our team of professionals offer a combined 65 years of experience in corporate/business, church, organizational, consultation as well as group educational experiences. A number of seminar and workshop topics are available to serve the needs of your organization or staff.
- Time Management
- Effective Communication Skills Building
- Effective Teamwork
- Building a Positive and Productive Corporate Culture
- Staffing & Hiring Good Candidates
- Decision Making
- Motivation
- Effective Leadership (Management/Supervision)
- Defining and Writing Job Descriptions
- Writing Accurate and Effective Performance Evaluations
- Preparing for Career Advancement (career planning)
- Balancing Work, Home & Self
- Organization at Home and Work
- Management Enrichment
- Building Couple Intimacy
- Blending Families
- Building Family Communication Skills
- Parenting with Love and Discipline
- Building Healthy Boundaries in Private or Corporate Relationships
- Life Enrichment Through Building Self-Identity/Self-Esteem
- Organization of Non-For-Profit Organizations
Consultation Contracts
- Consultation session time will be based on your needs and preference, which will be scheduled ahead of time.
- During our first meeting, the fee structure, payment arrangements, and consulting expectations will be discussed as well as providing us with an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.
Payment
Charges are based on an individual contract that meets your specific needs.
Personal/Professional Coaching
Life/Professional Coaching is one of the newest aspects of self-improvement and life enhancement. The key to successful work is finding a coach that is knowledgeable in life issues but also is qualified to address emotional health issues if and when they enter the dialogue. As is often the case, our health (emotional, physical and spiritual) has a direct impact on our personal and professional relationships and successes. Our team is not only nationally certified to provide mental health counseling, we also have accumulated over 40 years of corporate service experience. Our combination of knowledge and experience offers a complete, unique and well-balanced approach to the enhancement of life through the life coaching experience.
If you find any of the following questions that apply to your life circumstances, you may need to consider life coaching as a viable way to assist you through a productive change process. Are you experiencing:
- Job/career burnout
- Failed relationships (personal and/or professional)
- Lack of motivation/direction
- Indecisiveness or uncertainty in personal and/or professional life
- A longing for deeper/richer personal/professional relationships
- Deeper spiritual growth and experiences
- Intimacy issues or concerns
- Lack of confidence
- Inability to effectively communicate thoughts or ideas
- A disjointed or disconnected family life
- Career doubts
- Not being considered for desired promotions
- A feeling of being overwhelmed or not knowing what to let go of in life
- An inability to effectively manage time and/or resources
- A frustration with family members, clients, colleagues, coworkers, etc.
- An overall sense of being stuck in life or life situations
- An overwhelming sense of the current demands of life becoming too much to handle (work, relationships, parenthood, extended family, etc.)
Coaching Contracts
- Coaching session times will be based on your needs and preference, which will be scheduled ahead of time.
- During our first meeting, the fee structure, payment arrangements, and coaching goals will be discussed as well as providing us with an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns you may have.
- Coaching sessions maybe scheduled face-to-face, telephone, or via email.
Payment
Charges are based on an individual contract that meets your specific needs.

