I’m Susan Farling, M.A.,  Coach and Author

I’m passionate about supporting people over fifty to move into the next phase of their lives feeling well

resourced, energized and full of positive anticipation for their futures.

I remember when I was five years old, looking out our living room window with my dad. It was his

birthday. He sighed and said, “I’m fifty. My life is over.”

I remember the shock that ran through my body when he spoke.

How could he say that? Couldn’t he see all the wonderful things around him – our dog, the mountains, the

ocean, me?

I couldn’t articulate how I felt then, but my father’s words have reverberated through the years.

So now I am delighted to support people over 50 to move into the second half of their lives with a sense of

possibility, potential, and inner peace as they design, create and enjoy their meaningful, flourishing,

vital lives.

My clients are women and men who are navigating  transitions, moving from the known to unfamiliar, uncertain territory. Large or seemingly small, the external changes they face demand internal shifts and growth if they are to be successfully met. My clients wisely recognize both the potential for positive transformations and the challenges inherent in times of  change.

The people I coach often have had successful, engaging working lives and have entered the third stage of their life, and are planning for retirement, or are retired. They’re feeling stuck, disheartened, irrelevant, and don’t know what to do next.

I use comprehensive, wholistic methods to help my clients confidently  create the purposeful, vital, joyful lives they want and deserve.

My own working life has taken many winding turns.

In my teens and twenties I worked a rich, instructive hodge podge of jobs. My formal education took me from an undergraduate arts degree, to training as a registered nurse, where I worked in acute care psychiatry and mental health for a decade. In my fourties, I obtained a masters in counselling psychology and was a founding member of a thriving counseling center where I enjoyed a thirty-year counseling and psychotherapy general private practice. Currently, my practice has expanded to incude an emphasis on retirement coaching and other third stage of life transitions.

I have a Masters degree in counselling, am a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and along with other

certifications, have been Certified as a Retirement Options Coach and a Virtual Coach.

Memories of both of my parents later lives fuel my desire to support my clients, and myself, to live meaningful, vital, purposeful,  joyful lives in our third stage of life.