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12200 Fairhill Road, Floor A3
Fairhill Partners Collaborative Campus
Cleveland, OH 44120
Phone (216) 325-1000
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Life Coaching

In an effort to provide additional resources to those connected to adoption in our community and beyond, Adoption Network Cleveland is pleased to offer Life Coaching in our array of services. 

Life Coaching is a powerful conversation between a trained coach and a client who is ready and wanting to focus on personal and professional growth.

The Life Coaching service offered through Adoption Network Cleveland seeks to help clients recognize obstacles that may be preventing them from realizing their life’s goals or dreams, and then focus on achieving that goal.  Adoption Network Cleveland is contracting with JJ Rett, a Certified Coach, Adoption Network Cleveland volunteer, and late discovery adoptee to provide this service.

If you are interested in the Life Coaching service you can receive a free “sample session” of one half-hour. This will give you the opportunity to better understand what is involved in a session and if it is a good fit for you.

To set up your free half-hour trial session, contact:

Ty Cliffel, Program Director, via ty.cliffel@adoptionnetwork.org.

According to a 2003 University of Sydney study, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral life coaching can be an effective approach to creating positive change – enhancing mental health and life experience while helping to facilitate goal attainment. Life Coaching can be especially impactful for anyone who may have experienced trauma in their life or finds themselves struggling with a clear path forward. It can help with virtually any aspect of someone’s life, whether it be personal or professional.

JJ received her coaching certification in 2024 from the New York City-based organization, Upbuild. She discovered the effectiveness and magic of coaching through a workshop in 2023 and knew intuitively that coaching was the modality she would use to serve others, especially those connected to adoption. Coaching can be a wonderful tool to use for goal-setting or acquiring new ways of approaching obstacles, and it can also help us discover who we are without being restricted by the limiting beliefs of who we think we should be.

She deeply values Authenticity, Connection, Truth, Belonging, and JOY. She will create a safe space for each client to explore their habits, understand their identity, and become aware of their own unique power. Her practice is deeply rooted in compassion for all and the belief that each client is capable of achieving what they dare to envision for themselves.

About JJ Rett

JJ has been a member of Adoption Network Cleveland since 2015 when we ROARed! She is a late discovery adoptee, born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and gives credit for much of her healing journey to Betsie Norris and the incredible staff at ANC. From the opening of Ohio’s closed records, then working with an ANC-recommended, adoption-informed therapist, to attending ANC support groups and writing articles that began as therapeutic journaling, ANC has been with JJ every step of the way. She has been in reunion with both sides of her biological family since 2015 and 2016. Now that she is a Certified Coach, she is filled with gratitude to share her passion with other members of the adoption constellation as they navigate their own journeys forward. In 2023, JJ, her husband, and their three children returned to her hometown of Dayton, OH be closer to both her adoptive and biological families.