For non-clinical work that is real work
A library for ICF-credentialed coaches working with adult clients in transition.
Coaching has always lived alongside therapy without being it. Your clients are not in crisis. They are at thresholds: career changes, relationship evolutions, midlife recalibrations, the slow work of figuring out what’s next. The reading material that fits that register has been rare.
The midlife client redesigning a career. The new empty-nester rebuilding a sense of purpose. The recently sober client building a different life around it.
Transitional.life is non-pathologizing literary material. It doesn’t treat your clients as ill, and it doesn’t treat them as in need of fixing.
Featured Companions for this work
- Realizing You’re Ordinary — When special becomes average
For midlife clients.
- Getting What You Wanted — When achievement doesn’t satisfy
For successful clients in stall.
- Leaving Your Industry — When expertise becomes irrelevant
For career-pivot clients.
- Becoming Less Ambitious — When wanting less feels like failure
For ambition recalibration.
- The Comparison Trap — Other people’s happiness is not your failure
For social-media-era shame.
The clinical concept lookup
The clinical lookup is structured around transitions, not pathology. Coaches use it as a quick reference for the right Companion to recommend at the right point in a client’s arc. Recognized concepts are flagged as clinically relevant; coaches honor scope-of-practice in deciding when to refer.
Questions
- Am I overstepping scope of practice by sharing these?
- The booklets are literature, not treatment. Sharing reading is within most coaches‘ scope. Use of the clinical concept lookup is a matter of professional judgment.
- Is this appropriate for group programs?
- Yes. Programs of up to five group leaders fit Small Practice; larger programs scale up.
Reading for thresholds.