Listen to the episode Season 4 | Ep 59
On this episode of the Coaching Studio
In this episode of The Coaching Studio, Lyssa deHart welcomes Carrie Sackett, PCC, also known as America’s Loneliness Coach, for a deep dive into her unique approach to coaching. Carrie shares her inspiring journey from her first job as a retail sales clerk to founding the Center for Group and Couples Coaching. The discussion covers how Carrie’s experience in social therapeutics has shaped her methods for building relational skills, combating loneliness, and fostering emotional resilience. Looking at the role of groups in solving things like the Loneliness Crisis. The solution to people’s loneliness is unique to each person. We can’t prescribe the solution but rather we have to support people to build their relational muscles.
Listeners will learn about Carrie’s innovative use of theatre and improv in coaching, which helps clients build stronger connections and navigate uncertainty in an increasingly complex world. The episode also touches on the challenges women face in the corporate environment, the importance of self-trust, and how mentorship has influenced Carrie’s personal and professional growth.
Carrie offers insights into the power of social therapeutics in personal growth and the role of playfulness and co-creation in learning and development.
This episode is packed with valuable takeaways for coaches, leaders, and anyone interested in enhancing their relational skills and personal growth.
Carrie’s Book and Recommended Reading – Go check them out!
For 25 years, Carrie has been practicing a boldly transformative approach—social therapeutics—in the coach’s chair and outside the coach’s office as a Fortune 500 global change leader and award-winning employee engagement professional.
She specializes in group, couples and family coaching and founded The Center for Group and Couples Coaching to train coaches in this breakthrough method for emotional wellness and personal growth.
Carrie authored Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work (Routledge, 2024). She is a certified social therapeutic coach, somatic coach and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.
Carrie’s goal is to make emotional growth and relationship-building skills accessible to everyone, empowering individuals to become the creators of their lives.
About the Host
Lyssa deHart ditched her therapy practice to become a Leadership Confidence Coach. Along the way she discovered a passion for professional coaching and wanted to find ways to share that passion with the world. Come join her in discovering and meeting some of the most amazing professional coaches on the planet. Her goal is to inspire coaches. Lyssa is the author of Sticky Outcomes: at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, and Lasting Change, StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, The Reflective Coach - a 12 Month Journal, and Light Up: the Science of Coaching with Metaphors. Lyssa is an ICF MCC Coach, PCC Assessor, Certified Mentor Coach, and Coach SuperVisor. Lyssa uses her understanding of the ICF Core Competencies, combined with her knowledge of Neuroscience, to work with people to become extraordinary professional coaches. Let's Go!
