Our Life Coaches

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Rachel Kove is the CEO and co-owner of Transformational Solutions. For over ten years, Rachel has worked intimately with clients as a life coach, particularly within the fields of addiction, recovery, and personal development. Rachel’s unique ability to connect so effectively with her clients is rooted in her recovery from addiction, depression, and trauma. She utilizes her invaluable experience as a coach to help her clients heal while using her journey to motivate them to transform their lives. Rachel is driven to help people create and lead fulfilling lives where they are able to pursue their passions and dreams. When clients of hers are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, or limiting beliefs, she is there to offer proactive coaching and hopeful experience.

 
Even while maintaining a significant number of clients, Rachel felt driven to reach and help more people, she co-authored a workbook titled “The Mountain Method,” designed to provide awareness, motivation, and life skills to individuals in the process of accomplishing their goals.   
Rachel is an entrepreneur at heart, one who is inspired to connect people to themselves. She is highly efficient in coaching individuals, couples, and families, on practical communication skills which are rooted in love, empathy, and understanding. She believes that through healthy communication, accepting and taking responsibility for one’s behavior, and through the process of continued action, anyone can accomplish their heart’s desires.

   
Rachel believes passionately in people. She understands that with the right guidance and support, anyone can undergo a complete transformation. Her career as a life coach was founded on the idea that anybody can start-over, she founded Transformational Solutions on that very same idea.  

Seth Hall is the Founder of Transformational Solutions and co-author of "The Mountain Method." Through his personal journey recovering from addiction, depression, and homelessness, Seth has made it his mission to support others in knowing that no matter where they come from, with a strong desire to change coupled with consistent action, they can transform their lives and achieve their dreams. 

Seth is well versed in coaching clients both individually and in a group setting. He works with his clients to help them create a life of meaning and purpose. He has spent years working with clinical teams and families in coordinating care for clients and teaches healthy habits and new behaviors that are conducive to a prosperous lifestyle. He facilitates motivational life skills groups that allow people the opportunity to motivate themselves intrinsically. Seth coaches his clients to implement practical life skills with a positive mindset, which enables clients to accomplish their goals and live a happy life.

Darlene Fountaine is a certified life coach skilled in building relationships with people and working through matters that have to do with “real life.” Her primary focus is helping parents intentionally build strong, healthy and happy relationships with their children, even adult children. She assists people in gaining clarity in their belief systems, helps them find and use their resources, find their voices, and become advocates of their own lives.

Darlene believes that success in education requires engagement with parents. While in a former role as an independent school admission director, Darlene spent countless hours engaging with parents through interviews and other interactions that helped her recognize the voids that needed to be filled for parents. These interactions led her to become a life coach.

Darlene enjoys people. Her volunteer work includes chairing a parent association, chairing an admission director consortium, sitting on school boards as a trustee, being an advocate for social justice, and working with many child-related nonprofits.

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Darlene earned a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan and a MBA from USC. She holds a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University, and is an associate certified life coach through the International Coach Federation. She is the founder of Your Go-To Coaches. Darlene lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Jose Antonio Covarrubias is a visual arts instructor and curriculum developer specializing in the field of social emotional learning. His life experience has led him down a path of recovery, self-awareness, and service to others. An emerging life coach, he believes in empowering others through art, mindfulness, accountability, poetry, and affirmations. 

 
Jose insists on awakening the life coach within all of us through practices in self-love, self-healing, and self-acceptance. Helping others unlock their endless potential and command their light one day at a time is not only his purpose but also the sustenance in his personal journey.  

Meriah has experience working in the mental health and nutrition field with specializations in eating disorders, trauma, and addiction, among other comorbid disorders. Meriah’s passion for life coaching stems from both personal life insight and career choices focused on improving the lives of others. Having overcome an array of personal challenges, Meriah is able to empathize with a wide variety of individuals and guide them in the process of self-realization and fulfillment. 

Her approach to coaching integrates mind, body, and spirit; By addressing all three elements, Meriah teaches clients the value of emotional and physical well-being, with an ultimate goal of achieving balance and peace within. Meriah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Science and is currently working towards a Master’s degree of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Her background in nutrition and mental health make her an ideal ally on the path to a meaningful life.

Kristen Torp is a life coach and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate about creating a strong alliance with clients in order to help them find balance and overcome obstacles and challenges in order to live their best lives and thrive. She utilizes an integrative and holistic approach to promote healing and growth of the mind, body and soul and empowers clients to explore their own feelings, thoughts and relationships with compassion and curiosity. She works with clients to help them utilize their strengths in order to achieve their goals and transform their lives. She believes that every human being is born with the potential for living a meaningful life filled with joy and inner peace and with an abundance of healthy relationships, community and connection.

In her work with clients, Kristen draws on both her professional training as well as the skills, life strategies and personal insights gathered on her own journey. She offers a safe, supportive and understanding environment to help clients identify, develop and strengthen attitudes, choices and behaviors to lead them to wholeness.

She received her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University and is trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and in Inquiry Method coaching. She has worked in the addiction and mental health field for over seven years and has extensive experience working closely with individuals, families and groups in the coaching, private practice and treatment settings. She is an experienced director and has ran residential treatment facilities where she gained skills working in the areas of addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, relationships, family dynamics, crisis and stabilization.

With a enduring dedication to working with others and extensive experience in recovery and mentorship, Noah Bohrer is passionate about change. After several failed attempts at sobriety, Noah has since flourished in his own recovery where he has continued his education, completed marathons, started his own family, and helped countless people. His own journey has given him a discerning insight and personal investment in the value of mental health. 

He has worked in recovery for the last 8 1/2 years and has seen both the devastation addiction causes as well as the hope of a return to wellness and the restoration of family relationships. Noah has directed and operated three different treatment facilities and gained a wealth of valuable knowledge and understanding. With experience covering the full spectrum of mentorship, Noah has thrived as a sober coach, academic tutor, and sports and wellness instructor. He is also currently completing his Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. 

He believes that everyone is eligible to find a path that is practical, effective and rewarding and is devoted to helping others develop a way of life that is meaningful, sustainable and portable. With an integrative approach to wellness, an innate ability to effectively connect with others, and a genuine enthusiasm for transformation, Noah believes in repairing relationships and empowering individuals.

Evan Ayers is a fitness and health professional who has spent close to five years working directly with clients; helping them overcome an array of emotional and physical obstacles. He was one of the top trainers at Equinox in Santa Monica for over three years before taking the leap to train privately. He has a personal training certificate from National Council for Certified Personal Trainers, a one hundred and eight hour yoga training certification from Bhakti Yoga Shala, and has completed tier one through three training at Equinox. Before becoming a full time fitness professional Evan worked as a tech at the rehabilitation program, Sober College. This gave him a plethora of experience working with people in recovery. 

Evan’s connection to recovery goes beyond just working in it, he is also part of recovery himself and is still very active in a 12 step program. He credits the life he has today to the two month in-patient rehabilitation program he attended that changed his life forever. Learning how to take care of himself physically as well as mentally was a huge part of Evan’s recovery process and this is why he was drawn to becoming a fitness professional. He feels it is essential for him to provide people with the same tools he was given that gave him the strength and serenity to overcome his obstacles. These tools have allowed him to have the healthy, balanced, and joyous life he has today.

Ronnie Tipler is a spiritual life coach and drug and alcohol counselor who has worked in the field of recovery for over 20 years. He draws on his 25 years living in recovery from drugs and alcohol along with his formal training as a counselor and meditation practitioner to guide others in finding a deep and lasting sense of internal peace and purpose. It is a joy for him to guide others in this way and one of his favorite questions to begin with in working with clients is the following:   
"WHAT DOES YOUR HEART DESIRE?"

Jesse Kove is an actor best known for his role in "On Wings of Eagles" where he starred alongside Joseph Fiennes. One of many notable performances where he pushed himself past what he thought was possible.

Jesse is the son of pop-culture icon Martin Kove (Sensei John Kreese in “The Karate Kid” and “Cobra Kai”).  He was born in Los Angeles and raised in the world of film & television. Jesse has had a passion since childhood for cultivating his cinematic craft, which includes venturing to New York to perform off Broadway. Having appeared in an array of TV and film projects, he recently took on the task of producer for the teen crime thriller “As Night Comes.”

One of his favorite projects was being cast in the film “D-Day” where he starred alongside MMA fighters Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture, as well as Weston Cage Coppola.

Jesse also has a passion for world travel and exploration which he credits as a powerful influence for his deeper understanding of self. Growing up in Hollywood had its challenges, but Jesse has always looked for deeper meaning and understanding throughout his life. He has always been able to appreciate the power of the mind and work through life’s struggles from a very young age. He has never stopped searching for new insight’s, information and ideals that support the growth of his mind, body and spirit.