My name is Shela Dean. I'm a Relationship Coach, the Amazon Bestselling Author of Frequent Foreplay Miles, Your Ticket to Total Intimacy; and have worked with more than 2,000 couples during my professional life. Coaching is my second career, one that followed naturally from my first career of 20+ years as an estate and family attorney. I know. To many people "Attorney as Relationship Coach" is an oxymoron. But the nature of an estate planning practice is such that I had long-term, very close working relationships with many of my clients. I worked with couples of all ages and at all stages of life. As part of my practice, I found myself faced with a myriad of issues having to do not just with legal matters but also with how couples relate to each other. Like doctors, attorneys are often the only ones outside a relationship to know when things are bad and getting ready to crack. I saw the impact of both big and small issues on relationships: everything from birth and death, addiction, infidelity, and illness, to who put the dent in the car or burned the toast that morning. I was called on to counsel my clients at critical and often stressful points in their lives: marriage, divorce, a loved one's death, loss of health or wealth, the blending of families. I felt I needed to understand the dynamics of relationships. I studied everything I could get my hands on to become an expert. Before long, I was counseling my clients on personal matters as well as on legal matters. Sharing the wisdom gained in those 20 years along with my personal marriage experience is now my life's work. I help couples have more intimacy in all areas of their life--in and out of the bedroom. I approach coaching with humor and common sense practicality. How I work with couples is summed up by Libby Gill in the foreword to my book like this: "Shela has an uncanny ability to make complex concepts easy to understand and even easier to apply to everyday life. Her practical meat-and-potatoes approach, combined with humor and insight, and capped off with a 'cut to the chase' energy, makes it fun to embark on her . . . relationship improvement course." I hope that I can connect with you too.

The Reason I Became A Helping Professional

The human urge to mate is compelling. Given that, you'd think Mother Nature would have been more generous in doling out relationship survival skills. But, we're left to figure it all out by ourselves. I failed at marriage before I succeeded at marriage. I know the heartache of failure and the joy of success. I hope that hearing my story, my thoughts, and my strategy (one that worked for my sweetheart and me) will help others skip the failure and go straight to success.

Shela Dean

Additional Details

Sexual orientation:

Heterosexual

Have children:

Yes

Shela Dean

Payment Options

Accepts Credit Cards:

Yes

Accepts Insurance:

No

Accepts Paypal:

Yes

Sliding Scale:

No

Fee Range:

Determined case-by-case, please inquire