Christian Life Coaches

Bethany Cain is a Certified Christian Life Coach with a gift and heart specifically for Young Adult Women and Teen Girls.

Bethany has a private practice in El Dorado Hills, CA. She often connects via telehealth on Zoom or Skype and can meet you for walks or at Starbucks if you are in the surrounding area!

Bethany is warm, friendly, open and a positive role model for young women! Bethany's focus is on a young girl's relationship with herself, with others and with God. She creates a safe and accepting space for young women to explore their feelings, needs and thoughts without judgement.

She encourages their strengths, positive values and potential in the process. Within the connection of the relationship young teens or women can face their challenges and explore tough questions.

Young Adults, Young Married Women

Young Adults often find themselves navigating through transition and change. They are often confronted with new responsibilities, such as pursuing a higher education, starting a career, or maintaining stable relationships. These transitions, combined with societal expectations, personal insecurities, and fear of failure, can affect their emotional well-being. The pressures can feel overwhelming, leading to increased stress and emotional struggles.

Forming and maintaining meaningful relationships is essential in this stage of life, and young adults often face dilemmas related to dating, friendships, romantic love, and family dynamics. Coaching can enhance relationships and social inTerrictions. By exploring relationship dynamics, communication patterns, attachment, and conflict cycles, you can develop healthier ways of relating to others. This empowering process can lead to more fulfilling friendships, romantic relationships, improved family dynamics, and a deeper connection with God.

Bethany provides a safe and encouraging space to explore relationship patterns, improve communication skills, and assess and grow in attachment and enneagram styles combined with biblical principles. She offers a secure and comfortable environment to explore and gain deeper insight into your thoughts, emotions, dreams, fears, and behaviors through open and honest conversations and exercises.

This increased self-awareness enables you to identify and challenge negative patterns, build healthy relationships, make wise choices, develop effective coping strategies, communicate effectively, and ultimately, have a closer relationship with God.

Education and Experience

Bethany Cain has her B.S in Liberal Studies from Sonoma State University. Her certification as a Certified Teen Life Coach is from the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). She has many years of experience counseling and discipling with adolescence in churches, youth groups and Young Life. She has worked on staff at both Mt. Hermon Christian Camp in Santa Cruz and Mt. Gilead Bible Camp in Jr. High and Sr. High ministries. She has also recruited, trained, supervised and counseled college staff counselors. Bethany has led small girls' groups, taught Bible studies, discipled teenagers and spoken publicly to groups of teens.

Personal Life

Bethany is married, has 4 young children and attends Vintage Grace Church in El Dorado Hills, CA. In her free time, she enjoys being with her family, fitness and nutrition. She also loves all outdoor activities such as backpacking, paddle-boarding, camping and white-water rafting.

Specialties and Topics

• Increase self-esteem and self-awareness
• Formation of healthy personal boundaries
• Improve decision-making ability
• Enhance relationships with parents & siblings
• Increase positive communication skills
• Develop positive coping skills
• Challenge negative self talk & critical thinking
• Create skills for new friendships and handle mean girls/bullying
• Increase personal responsibility
• Encourage authentic self
• Decrease family conflicts
• Support grief & anger around parents' separation/divorce
• Improve study habits and work ethic
• Balance on social media and screen engagement
• Increase healthy choices around boys, dating and sex
• Create a positive body image
• Encourage organization and time management skills
• Understand choices and consequences
• Expand future dreams, purpose and goals
• Increase positive self-expression and self-acceptance
• Support identity and gender form
• Decrease depression and anxiety
• Develop leadership skills
• Strengthen relationship with God
• Integration of emotional and biblical principles

Youth

Are you struggling with school, friends, boys, dating and life balance? Anxious about "fitting in?" Or are family relationships with your dad, mom or siblings more strained during this season? Do you have a difficult time managing stress, time or finding your own inspired way of organizing your life? Maybe your over critical of your appearance or find yourself feeling down and moody?

The Process

Through in person one on one sessions or telehealth, Bethany equips young women using strategies, tools, processes and exercises to increase a young lady's self-understanding, self-acceptance and self-worth. Sometimes there are assignments if desired, journaling questions, book readings, worksheets or specific art projects depending on the age or what is needed. Bethany not only empowers young women to deepen self-awareness and bring change to desired areas, she also helps them to meet their core needs and values when they are in internal conflict. Bethany is excellent at helping young women challenge their negative thinking and renew their mind. She is open to praying together if this is something that feels comfortable and is desired.