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Glenn Stevenson is a life coach and psychotherapist with more than a dozen years experience. He is known as an expert in people’s sense of self. His coaching specialties are self-esteem enhancement, relationship improvement, and helping clients find careers that they love. As a psychotherapist, he specializes in reducing depression and anxiety. Glenn is gifted at insight into people’s problems. He combines an excellent ability to analyze with a comforting capacity to be supportive and empowering. He sees things from many sides and in depth, even as he makes people feel accepted, comfortable, and able to open up to themselves. Glenn holds a license as a clinical social worker, is certified as a job and career transition coach, and has taught The Power of Self-Esteem and The Power of Purpose courses in the nonprofit “More to Life” Program. He graduated from some of the country’s top colleges and universities—Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin, and Smith College (graduate program). Glenn is a career changer himself. Before becoming a therapist and a coach, he completed a Ph.D. in natural resource economics. He worked to solve energy and environmental problems and to foster economic development in third-world countries for many years. He has published articles and a book in economics (Common Property Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has lived and worked in Europe, Africa, and Asia, adding further to his experiences and his understanding of people. While working as an economist, Glenn discovered more of himself through the “More to Life” personal growth program. He also began to hear from others of his gifts at working with people. People say that he “hears others,” that he is “unpretentious, genuine, and sincere,” that he is “kind,” and that they come away from interactions with him feeling “grounded.” Glenn is especially thoughtful and does not have a “quick on the draw” style. With newfound gifts and a passion for working with people, Glenn left behind his career as an economist. He went back to school to get a Master’s degree at Smith College and become a therapist. In the early 1990s, he began practicing as a therapist and eventually became a supervisor of other therapists working with children, adolescents, and families in Southern California. Later, in a private therapy practice, because of his expertise in people’s sense of self, he began specializing in reducing depression and anxiety and in improving relationships with adults. In 2001, Glenn added coaching to his practice. He continues to work on relationship and sense of self issues. He has added job and career transition, because work is also a way in which people express themselves. Glenn wants people to be authentically, confidently, and serenely more of who they really are. He wants people to know their unique qualities and to apply them in joyful ways. Glenn has coach-specific training from the Institute for Life Coach Training and has been an officer of the International Coach Federation-Orange County Chapter. |
Glenn is also a gifted workshop leader. He presents such workshops as:
He has presented at such venues as the Mariposa Women’s Center, Saddleback College, the Learning Light Foundation, and the Cordelia Knott Center for Wellness. People say he is good at “getting everyone on board” in a workshop setting. They say, “Glenn does not just present or perform, but he is with you, humble, genuine, and a really neat person to learn from.” Glenn wants all people to know their own value, to learn how to live with contentment and gratitude with the way things are, and yet also to have the direction and motivation to go fowards toward important personal goals. He has done these things for himself, and he now brings them to others. |
