Andrea Meier, Ph.D., Recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence in Personal Coaching
Dr. Meier is dedicated to helping her clients live their best lives

BOULDER, CO, December 29, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Andrea Meier, Ph.D., Owner of Flourish! Personal Coaching, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in personal coaching.

With a professional history dating back an impressive 28 years, Dr. Meier serves as proprietor of Flourish! Personal Coaching, which provides individual and group coaching services. Dr. Meier's areas of expertise include career development, wellness coaching, adult ADHD coaching, doctoral coaching, and training program design. She manages one-on-one coaching with clients, runs programs for groups, and mentors other coaches. She primarily works with clients over the phone, providing information and extra support between sessions over the internet. She utilizes stress resilience techniques, positive psychology principles, and social intervention methods to enable her clients to discover how to invent fulfilling personal and professional lives.

Dr. Meier was a research professor in the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1999 to 2008. She has done extensive publishing in the areas of social work and public health interventions, specializing in the role of telecommunications technology to deliver interventions. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies in 1993, she served as a substance abuse counselor and unit supervisor at AdCare Hospital in Worcester, Mass. She was subsequently the founding director of a statewide program for professional training in substance abuse at AdCare Educational Institute. Until 2011, Dr. Meier was licensed as a clinical addictions specialist in North Carolina.

The highlight of Dr. Meier's career as a professor was conducting leading edge research on technology-mediated social support, including the telephone support groups and Internet-based support communities. As a coach, she particularly enjoys working with brilliant doctoral students. Her aim is to ensure that her doctoral clients "finish well" -staying passionate about the ideas that inspired their research, being focused and efficient while producing excellent dissertations, and believing that they can find meaningful ways to apply their expertise after graduation as they pursue their life missions. She attributes her success as a coach to her love of helping people live up to their potential and find joy in life, along with her curiosity, patience, compassion and lively sense of humor.

Dr. Meier holds a Ph.D. from the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also earned a master's degree in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Meier is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. She became certified as a professional coach in 2011. Her professional memberships include the International Coach Federation and the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Grillo Health Information Center (Boulder, CO) and Reiki for Peace (Israel). Looking ahead, Dr. Meier hopes to continue to help people while still finding time to enjoy her life and family. She also intends to continue doing public speaking, publishing, and conducting research on innovative approaches to coaching adults.

For more information about Flourish! Personal Coaching, visit http://www.flourishwithcoaching.com.

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