Jamie's best quality is caring for her clients. She has knowledge, experience, empathy and compassion for her client's situation. Before I did personal effectiveness and wellness coaching I was confused and full of anxiety about how to achieve my goals. I had little confidence in my abilities and myself. Today, my confidence has grown and my life is influenced by positive thoughts, self-reflection and the present experiences. I am not anxious any more about how to achieve my goals. I am more confident in my abilities and communication skills. As I keep learning and practicing, my confidence builds and everything else improves. I have been recovering from anorexia nervosa and now I feel happy and my eating habits are more regular...and I do not stress about food and meals any more. I am comfortable with my food and nutrition choices. I get helpful advice, positive reinforcement and unconditional support from Jamie. She listens and teaches me to recognize and understand the positive changes that are affecting my life. Jamie has taught me new ways to deal with the many stressors in my life. She also has given me new tools of coping methods in my head. I feel healthy and happy enough to start regular exercise again. (J.S. Quincy, MA, 7/2010)

Personal effectiveness coaching was was much more than my superficial, rah-rah biased attitude. Jamie brings to coaching a high level of intelligence and knowledge with breadth and depth, wit and a positive attitude that is infectious. She is able to connect with a wide range of people, making each person feel individually heard. Her ability to form an alliance is a real asset. She is very well informed...highly intelligent and enthusiastic about her work. Her positive slant on everything was refreshing and it instilled in me that the huge task in front of me was possible to accomplish. I know that a commitment to this process along with positive thinking is very significant and powerful. (G.V. Boston, MA, 4/2010)

Jamie truly understood my cicumstances, wow. She is a great motivator! I changed my way of eating...I lost 20 pounds and I now exercise 3x's per week. I sleep better, manage stress better and my self-esteem is high. Jamie is very knowledgeable and by involving myself in personal effectiveness coaching I got more than I ever expected. (G.S. Quincy, MA, 4/2010)

 Jamie is able to truly explain her role as a wellness coach. She helped me see the flip side of worrying about a problem. She understands my situation extremely well and the excellent quality of the advice was very valuable. Jamie's caring attitude motivated me to be more positive and use a different way of seeing my issues. I am more productive doing chores and my exercise habits have improved. I still am working on losing losing weight, improving my eating habits and creating a compelling reason to want to do this. This was a new experience for me. I understand wellness and personal effectivness coaching and find it to be very beneficial! Jamie understands me and uses her positive, upbeat attitude toward living to help me improve. (J.B. Wellesley, MA, 3/2010)

Jamie is very knowledgeable concerning issues and... in ways in which to solve or alleviate problems. She is very helpful and more importantly offers realistic advice. Especially in her attitude, she is non-judgemental.  Another strength, Jamie understands my circumstances and personality type. Sessions are informative and easygoing. Jamie is an excellent motivator. Her kindness and positive attitude makes me want to change b/c I want to, not b/c I feel I have to. (W.L. 48 year old male; Marshfield MA, BP went from: 144/98 -117/76, 2009)

Jamie you were great. I have much higher motivation to keep up both exercise and nutrition. You did an excellent job staying on track with me. My BP dropped significantly! My coach's best qualities were motivation and the ability to make me think about the motivations behind why I am doing what I am doing. My self-esteem is stronger. Jamie was very helpful with new ideas on exercising and eating. (M. W. 30 year old male; Boston, MA BP went from 152/89 -126/84, 2009)

Jamie is a good coach. She motivates me. She supports me. Jamie lets me speak and tell things. I can go for runs now. (B.M. 31 year old male; 148/93 - 118/80)

Jamie has been persistent in helping me with my wellness. I am not the easiest patient to get focused. Although I am at the Benson Henry Institute, Jamie has continued to stay in touch and to offer advice. I find her advice to be a great compliment to Benson Henry. Her advice on cognitive behavior has been spot on and helped me to deal with a very stressful situation. At the end of my 13 week program at Benson Henry, I will be making more use of Jamie. It is a service that is very beneficial. (E.C. 43 year old male; BP went from: 153/92 -140/92, 2009)

Jamie, wellness coaching provided the impetus to my lifestyle changes and made me realize how out of control my eating habits and life and exercise were. Thank you for asking how I am doing. I am down 56 pounds in five months since we first met in June and I am running 5 miles at a time. I ran my 5K on Thanksgiving in 39:45. I don't require any check-ins any more.  I have developed a large support network and I will be okay without monthly check-ins. Of course if I have questions, Jamie, I will not hesitate to contact you. (K.G. 29 year old female; BP went from: 152/105 -140/85, 2009)

Jamie is near perfect. This program has been so helpful and continues to be. I would recommend this to everyone. It truly has made me a better person - physically and emotionally. I wasn't motivated to care for myself, now I am - this is a terrific program! I honestly didn't have any idea how good this could be for me. Everyone should do this. (J.R. 48 year old female; BP went from: 152/93 -130/93)

Jamie is a good coach. She gave me the good confidence and support. She does her job perfectly. Thank you for helping me find myself better. I know how to value myself now. I couldn't see myself, I was always thinking about others. Now I am different. I have more motivation for doing the important things in my life. Now I can say I walk five days/ week. My self-esteem is better. I eat less than before and healthier. (F.R. 47 year old female; BP went from:141/84 -123/73)

Jamie's advice was appropriate and helpful and the coaching methodology was effective. Coaching helped me feel more secure and motivated to focus on addressing some things I needed to do. My energy shifted from negative to positive. It freed up a lot of stagnant energy. Managing stress is much improved by addressing the relationship to my thoughts and taking control of them. Self-esteem improved especially turning around anger and frustrations into their underlying values. (J.L. 53 year old female; 115/73 -104/69)

I am doing wonderful. I will say that my stress level has been reduced a great deal after our last session. I want to know what your three month vision is for yourself. My vision is to be more focused in finding a new job. My main focus will be to lose some weight and reduce my stress level. From time to time I do look at the cards we wrote up.  What habits/activities do you want to be doing in three months? I have started going to the gym several times a week. I will continue that schedule throughout the spring.What results do you want to achieve? I would love to lose 10 pounds and maintain that weightWhat strengths will you draw upon to be successful? Being positive even if I don't lose any weight, ensure that I do not gain any weight also.Who do you want to be? (List three things you value about yourself.)...being respected, happy and appreciated have a wonderful day. (B.F. 45 year old female; 172/102 -128/76)

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you. Anyway, I am doing pretty well. My back has been in good shape and I have been running a lot...about 20 miles a week, and still swimming once or twice a week. I am signed up for a half marathon at the end of March so I am training for that.  Hopefully that goes well and then I'll do a marathon over the summer or in the fall. The goal I set for myself is to run a marathon before I turn 30 next November. I have a friend that is a tri-athlete/marathon runner so he has been encouraging me and I have been running with him. He is starting a triathlon team and wants me to join. I have lost a few pounds. The other day I weighed in under 190 pounds. I was happy.  Most of weight loss has occurred over the holidays so the stress and extra food hasn't hurt me because of the increased running. I've found that once I got beyond running 3-4 miles at a time I am really enjoying it and looking forward to the next run. I am only running every other day and on the off days I am just looking forward to the next run and can't wait to get back out there. It is becoming addictive. I guess that's it for now. Happy New Year!(E.A. 30 year old male; 141/91 - 128/73)