Wellness Coaching in Charleston, South Carolina
Gnosis Wellness Collective offers somatic, nervous-system-informed wellness coaching in Charleston, South Carolina and online statewide, with yoga, breathwork, and movement built into the coaching process. Our coaches work with veterans, first responders, military families, and professionals navigating burnout, transition, and loss.
Life coaching to help you understand what's happening beneath your patterns and experiment with new ways of responding.
What Is Life Coaching?
At Gnosis Wellness Collective in Charleston, SC, our trauma-informed coaching services are non-clinical and designed for individuals, leaders, and teams who are navigating loss, transition, burnout, or a sense of misalignment, and who want structured support that builds emotional resilience and goes deeper than generic mindset work. Coaching is best suited for people who are generally stable but feeling stuck, burnt out, or ready to move through a transition with more intention and support.
Our coaches use the ADAPT™ Framework alongside:
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Somatic and body-based practices
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The neurobiology of stress, emotion, and behavior
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Evolutionary, resilience, and positive psychology
Because coaching is non-clinical, it involves no diagnosis and creates no clinical record. For people holding security clearances, facing fitness-for-duty review, or licensed by boards that ask about mental health treatment, that distinction matters.
What Is the ADAPT™ Framework?
ADAPT is a five-stage framework for creating change, developed by Dr. Maia Gill and refined since 2009. It came out of work with veterans and their families, and it's the structure underneath coaching here.
ALIGN
The opening question is a simple one: what areas of your life are most important to you in this very moment? We identify the areas tied to your well-being and purpose and get clear on which ones actually matter right now, using the Aligning Purpose Scale and the Pathway to Purpose cards
DIRECTION
Out of those areas, pick the one you want to engage with currently. This is the prioritization step, and it's usually where motivation comes from, because you're working on something you chose.
APPROACH
Start engaging in that area. We build a Stepping-Stones Map of the micro-actions that would increase or decrease your engagement, and use IMOK, a weekly tracking system, to work through obstacles as they come up.
PURPOSE
Sustained engagement in the areas that matter is what puts you on the pathway. The tools work together here rather than separately, the scale, the cards, the map, and the weekly tracking all feed the same thing.
THERAPY
In ADAPT, therapy means whatever is genuinely healing for you: time in nature, relationships, meaningful acts, caring for your body. It's about connection between self, others, and environment. This stage is about what's therapeutic in the broad sense. It is not psychotherapy, and coaching here remains non-clinical.
Can Yoga Be Part of Coaching?
Yes. Yoga, breathwork, and somatic movement can be built into your coaching rather than booked separately. Depending on what you're working on, that might mean practices between sessions, movement inside a session, or classes as part of your plan.
The reason is practical. ADAPT works through considering the whole person from a cultural wellbeing model of wellbeing, including curiosity seeking behaviors, play, physical wellbeing, socialization, culture, and more.
What Coaching at Gnosis Wellness Collective is like
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Integrative and uses evidence-based frameworks & practical tools
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Personalized, and tailored to your roles, values, and real-life constraints
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Nervous system–aware and paced to build resilience and capacity
Sessions can explore meaning, direction, boundaries, relationships, leadership, or creative work, with a focus on skills and insight you can apply between sessions in your life, work, or organization.
Our goal isn't quick fixes or performance pressure. It's to help you build clarity, internal alignment, and sustainable change over time.
Is Coaching Right for You?
Coaching is for people experiencing:
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transitions (career shifts, identity changes, relocation, relationships)
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burnout recovery and capacity-building
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boundaries, communication, and relational patterns
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leadership stress, decision fatigue, and conflict navigation
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values, meaning, and direction when you feel "off track"
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building rhythms that actually support your nervous system
Ways We Work
Online
Available anywhere. Coaching is non-clinical, so unlike counseling it isn't limited by state licensure.
In Person in Charleston
Charleston County, including Mount Pleasant, West Ashley, James Island, Johns Island, Daniel Island, and North Charleston.
Walk-and-talk
Outdoors in low-traffic locations. Being outside helps people feel grounded, and walking gives you somewhere to put the energy.
Surf & paddleboard
Ninety-minute sessions structured so coaching happens before, during, and after time on the water. A coaching session in the ocean, for beginners and advanced surfers
Who We Work With
Our coaches work across several groups who we have experience working with
Adults
College Students
Medical Professionals
Veterans
Caregivers
First Responders
Military spouses & families
If you don't see yourself on this list, that's ok! Many of our coaching clients come to us for burnout, transition, or a sense of misalignment rather than because of what they do for work.
Coaching
vs Therapy
Coaching at Gnosis Wellness Collective is separate from psychotherapy. It is not a diagnosis, mental health treatment, or counseling. Instead, coaching is a collaborative, future-oriented process that helps you clarify what matters most, honor your nervous system, and take grounded, values-aligned steps in your life, work, and relationships.
Coaching is not appropriate for a crisis, or when a diagnosable mental health condition is the primary concern. In those cases, we recommend working with a licensed mental health professional in your state.
Gnosis Wellness Collective offers both. Counseling is provided by licensed clinicians for mental health treatment, and coaching is a separate, non-clinical service.
Some people start with one and move to the other, and we'll help you work out which fits where you are. Read more about our counseling services in Charleston, or our yoga and breathwork classes.
Meet Your Coaches
Hillary Boyd
M.A. CMHC, Coach
Hillary Boyd, M.A. in Clinical Counseling and Advanced ADAPT Coach, shares her expertise in applied child development, women's well-being, and integration of diverse healing practices into daily life, with a multicultural population. Hillary accomplishes this by teaching her clients how to become unstuck from barriers in daily living to connect with what one cherishes the most in life. Hillary Boyd, M.A., brings over a decade of experience with specialization in how to set healthy boundaries, defy societal/self expectations to soar, and revive your purpose with science-based skills to move along one's path.
Bill Jarboe
ISA LVL 3, Surf Therapy Certified, Coach
Bill is a combat veteran, husband, father, and the kind of person who found healing in the ocean before he even knew he was looking for it. After years of navigating PTSD, addiction, and the disorienting quiet that follows military service, Bill discovered that the water could reach places nothing else could. What started as a birthday surf lesson became a calling - and eventually a life's work. Bill is a Groundswell-trained surf therapy facilitator who believes healing isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about reconnecting to what was always there. He brings lived experience, radical honesty, and a deep understanding of what it means to carry invisible wounds while still showing up every day.
Amanda Fay Quinn
RYT-500, Yoga Instructor
Amanda Quinn is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-500) with a focus on yoga philosophy, psychology, and the transformative practice of Yoga Nidra. She is devoted to helping students move beyond the physical practice of yoga, cultivating self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and inner balance through the timeless wisdom of yoga. Drawing on the profound healing power of Yoga Nidra, Amanda guides students through the layers of body, breath, and mind to invite deep rest, restoration, resilience, and inner peace. Rooted in both yogic philosophy and an understanding of the mind-body connection, her classes weave together mindful movement, breathwork, meditation, visualization, and embodied awareness to support healing while encouraging students to integrate the principles of yoga into everyday life. With a gentle and compassionate approach, Amanda creates a nurturing, welcoming space where students can release chronic tension, reduce stress, quiet the mind, and reconnect with themselves.
Jordan Dasher, Coach
Jordan Dasher is a former Army combat veteran and a graduate of the Warrior Surf Foundation program. In the eight years since, he has volunteered there and taught surf sessions, first as someone going through the program and then as the person in the water with whoever came next. He is lifeguard and CPR certified. He is trained in ADAPT and coaches adults working through transition, burnout, and questions about direction and purpose. Jordan is also an artist, musician, and muralist who uses creative expression to talk about lived experience in a way that reaches veterans and civilians alike, and he has spent years teaching and mentoring in his community. He is a husband and a father of four.
What You'll Invest For Services
Individual Life Coaching Sessions
Coaching | Virtual or in Person
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length: 60 minutes
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location: In person or virtual
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Professional fee: $150 per session
Coaching | Group Surf or Paddleboard
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length: 90 minutes
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location: In person (2-4 people)
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Professional fee: $75 per session
Coaching | Surf or Paddleboard
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length: 90 minutes
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location: In person
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Professional fee: $175 per session
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Coaching | Virtual or in Person
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length: 45 minutes
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location: In person or virtual
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Professional fee: $110 per session
Phone Check-In | Virtual
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length: 20 minutes
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location: Phone/virtual
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Professional fee: $50 per session
Coaching | Virtual or in Person
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length: 30 minutes
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location: In person or virtual
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Professional fee: $75 per session
Sliding scale available. Application available upon request.
Common Questions
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Is life coaching confidential?
At Gnosis Wellness Collective, we take confidentiality very seriously. We are committed to protecting our clients' privacy and ensuring that all personal information and details shared during consultations, treatments, and sessions remain strictly confidential. Here's how we ensure confidentiality: Secure Records: All client records are stored securely, whether in digital or physical form. Digital records are protected by encryption and password protection, while physical records are stored in locked, secure locations. Please see our FAQs page for a full description of our privacy policies.
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How is this different from therapy?
Coaching is not mental health treatment, does not include diagnosis, and is not appropriate for crisis or acute safety concerns. If you’re unsure which you need, we can help clarify and direct you to the appropriate service or provider.
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Do you work with high-functioning burnout?
Yes. Coaching is ideal for anyone interested in learning how to integrate and overcome the challenges inherent to being human. ADAPT is designed to facilitate and empower clients to understand and shift their beliefs around challenging experiences associated with loss, fostering opportunities for growth and change. This ranges from individual needs to business executives and teams. We’ve worked with culturally diverse populations, including veterans, teachers, parents, government leaders, healthcare providers, professionals, and people seeking more profound meaning and purpose in life. If you still feel stuck, and that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
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What experience do your practitioners bring?
Our team brings a wealth of experience and specialized training to support meaningful healing and transformation. You can read their bios on our Who Is Gnosis page. Through guided interventions, we create a safe, nurturing environment where individuals can process their experiences and rediscover balance. Our holistic approach ensures personalized care, with referrals to additional resources when needed, to support each participant’s unique journey toward healing.