Life Coaching
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a constructed alliance between a life coach and client. A life coach is a wellness professional who helps people make progress in their lives by assisting in clarifying and setting viable goals, identifying obstacles, and offering strategies for overcoming each obstacle holding them back. Life coaches are responsible for guiding their clients into their desired future. By exposing confusion areas and providing realistic methods and actions for positive personal growth and behavior modification, life coaches provide support for their clients to achieve long-lasting change.
As a certified life coach, Rev. Dr. Inell Richardson Claypool bases her instructions on sound biblical principles to help her clients advance into fulfillment and execute self-identified goals in their professional and personal lives.
What is
Counseling?
Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers individuals, families, or groups to achieve well mental health, wholeness, education, and career goals. A counselor assists clients with identify goals and potential solutions to problems which cause emotional and mental turmoil. Counselors seek to improve communication and coping skills, strengthen self-esteem, and promote behavior change and optimal mental health.
Counseling
Counseling
As a pastoral counselor, Rev. Dr. Inell R. Claypool’s heart is for her clients to become everything and all God desires for them to be before the world had its way with them. Through scripture-based methods, Dr. Claypool helps her clients to receive divine healing, know their true identity, pinpoint their God-given passions and to connect them to hope. Seeking God’s plan for each client, she uses her twenty-three years of experience to discern the roots and reasons of problems and difficulties, identifying nonproductive coping mechanisms, and helping her clients realize how their past affects their present and offering a plan of how they can move forward in the future
Meet Our Coach
Meet Our Coach
Rev. Dr. Claypool has abandoned herself to the Holy Spirit with healing, deliverance, signs, wonders, and miracles following. Her deepest desire is to see people fulfill their unique, God-designed destiny here on earth. She is a published author, practicing pastoral counselor, and active certified life coach through Light University. Rev. Dr. Claypool graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Human Development, and received her Master of Divinity degree in Theology and Pastoral Counseling from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Her Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Counseling was achieved through Rawlings School of Divinity.
Rev. Dr. Claypool has been employed as a mental health therapist in both New England and New York and has pastored churches in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Texas. She was ordained Elder in the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church thereafter, and is currently a member in full connection with the Upper New York Conference. Rev. Dr. Claypool is also a member of the LK10 community and is presently training to become a listed facilitator.
She has been active in several community organizations, including Courageous Conversations in Geogetown, Texas, and has developed and established several faith communities in New York and Texas as well.
Rev. Dr. Claypool has served on various boards in her denomination, which include vice chair of the Board of Ordained Ministry, cochair and pastoral mentor of Religion and Race, and president of the Rome Clergy Association. Rev. Dr. Claypool is the cofounder of Faithful Women, a ministry of prayer, fellowship, and support, which encourages women to hear and listen to God, identify their purpose, and move in His flow, using their gifts to make a difference in the lives of others and their community. She is currently partnering to bring SWIM (Supporting Women in Ministry), a California-based ministry, to Texas. Rev. Dr. Claypool has also been active in several community organizations, including Courageous Conversations in Geogetown, Texas, and has developed and established several faith communities in New York and Texas as well.
Our Testimonials
Our Testimonials
Kristen
Last fall God gifted me with a few months of visits with Inell during a time of major transition in my life. There had been years of trauma that threatened my joy and I was unable to navigate a way through. We met by phone thousands of miles apart. She would always start off with prayer asking the Holy Spirit to be present. She had a confidence that He was there and the miles between us dissipated along with all the distractions of the day and we were together in a holy place where she listened carefully and tenderly pulled out my fears one by one and brought them into the Light. She broke things down into manageable sizes, breaking down every stronghold, giving me little assignments that my brain could handle. She would rummage through my heart and pull out joys and confidences and strengths that I had forged along the way and showed them to me. You did this, you wanted this, you are never going to this place again she’d say. And I was like, how did you know that?! She burrowed into my soul and found my song and told me that I’ve been singing that song by myself for a long time, but now I needed to learn how to sing it with someone else. Not an easy road but Inell gave me a map of the joys and pitfalls and I am learning to navigate the way forward, so grateful to have had the pleasure of her company in this walk of faith.
Andrea Cooper
I am not the best with words. I wish I could show you the old me, 3 years ago versus the new me today. I am beyond where I was. I am free from past traumas and hurts. I feel loved and now know my value. Inell taught me that. I have never felt safe with anyone and didn’t talk much about my past (I honestly had it so buried I didn’t remember most of it) but with Inell for the first time in a long time or maybe even ever I felt safe to talk about what I needed to get off my chest. She helped me see everything that was buried. She helps you see things that you may be blind to and helps you work on the best version of yourself.
Rev. Dr. Robin Blair
Rev Dr Inell Claypool is such a spiritual woman, blessed with Holy Spirit keen, faithful insights, that I can only say walking with her on the journey has been a loving and supportive experience. Thank you, Rev Dr Inell!