Private Coaching & Advisory

Create a Life That Reflects Who You Are Within

Liya's one-on-advisory work is custom-tailored to each client's needs. With a distinctive blend of business, leadership, creativity, and coaching acumen, Liya provides her clients with the guidance and support they need during times of stuckness to find clarity and wisdom within. Her unique approach is compassionate, judgment-free, and results-oriented.

Achieve Holistic Success

Many of us reach a point in our lives where we don’t want to or need to pay a high personal price to achieve more success. However, trying to put this realization into practice can be a difficult inner game. Inner voices that have been holding you back before can grow stronger during this time. If you're going through this, please know that you're not alone. We can work together to develop the skills you need to turn doubt and fear into a source of creativity and action. Let's collaborate to demystify these obstacles and achieve holistic success.

Create Work-Life Alignment

You’ve checked the boxes, made the money, and reached the “destination.” Yet, you’re feeling unfulfilled. Your personal experience is unique, but these feelings are not. This realization is your soul’s call to action. You finally have the time and resources to explore what it would be like to fully express the authentic you in your work, to be honored and acknowledged for your true talents and gifts, and to ready yourself for an adventure that has meaning and freedom. Let’s do the healing it requires to step into this bold new reality.

Are you finding yourself at one of these growth edges? I’d love to meet you, hear about your journey, and see if I can support you.

Testimonials

  • Working with Liya has empowered me to pursue my dreams

    “Working with Liya has empowered me to pursue my dreams of owning a thriving business that also allows me to be a present and loving mother. Liya's unique style of strategic and soulful approach helped me deepen my self-discovery process and gain insights that helped me make bold moves in a way that builds on what I have and works with my unique situation. I'm grateful that I am now living a dream I once thought impossible.”

    —Stefanie Hodinh, Founder & Owner, She Does Your Books

  • She helped me face and name the internal programming and conditioning that wasn’t serving me anymore.

    Liya’s guidance was pivotal during a time when I was ready to reinvent and recraft my professional life. She led me through the process of rewriting my values and priorities. She helped me face and name the internal programming and conditioning that wasn’t serving me anymore. Today, I have agency over my life. I have the courage to make difficult decisions based on my newfound values. And I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

    —Heera Kang, Program Manager & Writer

  • One of the most transformational sessions I have ever had

    “Working with Liya is truly amazing. This was one of the most transformational sessions I have ever had.”

    —Caroline Lee-Smith, Psychotherapist & Owner of Caro’s Creams

  • Truly transformative work.

    "Liya holds a compassionate space for deep awareness of self. I was able to access deep insight that I had previously been unaware of, and discovered a sense of equilibrium in my body and mind - a profound and gentle self-love that I had never experienced to this magnitude before. Truly transformative work.

    —Elyse Scott, Somatic Therapist & Healer

  • You truly are a gift to anyone that comes across you and your work

    “I am extremely thankful to you and your ability to nurture my soul. Thank you, Liya! You truly are a gift to anyone that comes across you and your work.”

    —Myrna Rivera, Coach

  • Liya is an exceptional coach.

    “Liya is an exceptional coach. During my career transition, I did a lot of research and worked hard to land a new role. By the time I called Liya, I had applied to hundreds of roles with little success. I felt stuck, and I wasn’t sure what I was missing. After just one conversation with Liya, she opened up my thinking. Every time we talk, I always leave the call, gaining a new perspective, with a clear strategy, and a set of action items that moved me closer to my goals. I’d go back out there energized, too. Her combination of experience, strategic thinking, action-oriented coaching, and ability to work with me at a deeper soul level is unlike anyone I’ve ever worked with.”

    —Tami Chen, Product Manager, edX

  • This work is the gift that keeps on giving.

    “I've seen a huge amount of growth in myself since our sessions. One thing I'm noticing a lot now is I'm so much more aware of my thoughts. For example, I notice if I begin to judge something or someone, my mind instantly shifts to a greater perspective, and the shift happens effortlessly. This indicates to me that those self-limiting unconscious beliefs, that energy held in my body, it's being dissolved,, those thoughts, that energy is no longer significant. And it's nearly a month since we had our last session, so this work is the gift that keeps on giving!”

    —Maria Tihema, Empty Nester In Career Transition

  • I highly recommend Liya James as a consultant, coach, and mentor.

    “I was fortunate enough to study with Liya… She pairs her extensive experience working with organizations to transform their way of working with her remarkable facility with people and a powerful knowledge of the creative process. I highly recommend Liya James as a consultant, coach, and mentor. ”

    —Ezra Nanes, Mayor of State College, Pennsylvania and Director Of Business Development, Account Management at AccuWeather

  • Liya has played a critical role in my career development

    “Liya has played a critical role in my career development… and continues to act as a sounding board for my career decisions… Liya instilled in me an amazing set of values that I use every day in leading, managing, and continuing to grow my own skills.”

    —Zoe Bridges, Director of Product Support at Airtable

  • now I have clarity to move forward to what the universe and I can create together.

    I kind of knew Liya before entering in to my exploration process, but what I did not know was that how deep, soulful and insightful journey I was taken into. Liya has simple, but elegant ways to guide my own inner thought process. As a result of our shared journey, now I have clarity to move forward to what the universe and I can create together.

    —Mikko Pekka Hanski, Investor & Board Member

  • Liya helped me to feel safe and supported when uncomfortable feelings arose

    “Working with Liya, I processed the feeling of not being seen and the survival mechanism of trying to pre-empt what other people want and what is going to happen. I started to surrender the feeling of weariness with the reassurance that I don’t have to know. Liya helped me to feel safe and supported when uncomfortable feelings arose, giving me the confidence to address issues that were once producing great fear and anxiety at work and at home. ”

    – Alison Richardson, Public Health Nurse & Healer

  • Her advice was clear and effective for me to produce results that exceeded stakeholder expectations

    “It was very obvious from day one that Liya is passionate about helping others achieve their potential… Her advice was clear and effective for me to produce results that exceeded stakeholder expectations… Liya is a person with a calling in life. Coaching and leadership are what drives her, and I'm positive that she will continue to impact a wide array of people and teams.

    —Brendan Milos, Senior Game Artist, Luminosity

  • Liya's guidance and nurturing nature taught me invaluable lessons

    :There are very few people I have worked with that were so incredibly knowledgeable of their craft. Liya is without a doubt one of those people. Her guidance and nurturing nature taught me invaluable lessons about user experience, client relationships, business strategy, leadership, and the list goes on. Liya is someone I hope to cross paths with again. I hope to someday mentor someone as she mentored me. Anyone who is lucky enough to work with Liya will have an unforgettable experience.”

    —Luis Gutiérrez, Director of Product Design, Consumer Experience, Stitch Fix

Clients report that after just a few sessions they are able to....

See more clearly their default operating system and automatic scripts limiting their thinking and potential.

Identify blockages for reaching their goals and gain skills to rewire limiting behavior and emotional patterns.

Heal past wounds and re-integrate parts that are firing off automatic scripts that no longer serve them.

Develop skills to gain clarity, confidence, and make decisions that serve them.

Develop their own definition of success based on their unique gifts and desires instead of worrying about what others expect of them.

Equip themselves with effective strategies, powerful tools, and unwavering self-assurance to create work that allows them to be firmly rooted in their personal values.

Would any of these results help you make progress in your unique situation? If so, get in touch!