The Sherpa Group provides therapeutic mentoring and mental health services for teens, young adults, and families in Wake Forest and Raleigh, North Carolina. Led by Ryan Coley, LCSW—a licensed life coach and family counselor—we offer mentorship programs for teens that go beyond typical coaching.
Our professional services help students struggling with goal-setting, motivation, failure to launch, executive functioning, anxiety, depression, and navigating the challenges of adolescence. We work both in-person at our Wake Forest and Raleigh offices and virtually throughout North Carolina.
Therapy often explores past experiences and current challenges to understand how they shape your emotions and behaviors.
Coaching, on the other hand, is future-focused. It's about identifying the life you want to create and taking intentional steps to bring that vision into reality.
Together, we'll clarify your vision, define who you need to become to achieve it, and build a clear, actionable plan to move you forward with purpose and confidence.
Professional mentorship programs for teens and young adults facing challenges with motivation, college transitions, and life direction. As a licensed therapist, Ryan provides evidence-based mental health services combined with practical life coaching to help students achieve their unique goals.
Expert family counselor services for parents navigating difficult seasons with their teens and young adults. Our family counseling approach helps families develop communication strategies, set healthy boundaries, and create supportive environments that promote growth and healing.
Specialized mental health services addressing anxiety, depression, executive functioning challenges, and academic struggles. Our therapeutic mentoring approach combines licensed clinical expertise with real-world life skills coaching.
BALANCE YOUR JOURNEY
The Sherpa Life Compass is a self-assessment tool designed to help you reflect on balance and satisfaction across key areas of your life.
Take the Online AssessmentThe Art of Living formula for success is simple: SUCCESS = TIME + TRIBE + ACTION + ATTITUDE
At Sherpa Group, our life coach philosophy and therapeutic mentoring formula for success is simple:
SUCCESS = TIME + TRIBE + ACTION + ATTITUDE
Our mentors are trained and equipped to help students reach their unique goals by supporting them in each of these critical areas.
It's easy for students to get excited about new goals as they set them, but young people often underestimate the amount of time it might take to fully realize their dreams. Goal setting is not intuitive for many students, but Sherpa Group mentors are not just passionate about helping students set ambitious goals… they are passionate about helping students create manageable plans to achieve them!
Sherpa Group mentors work with their students to break big goals into small, actionable items that will lead to success. Mentors are realistic about the amount of time it might take students to fully succeed, but, by breaking goals down, they show students how to work steadily and confidently toward their dreams one month, week, and day at a time!
Few people, especially students, are able to stay motivated and on-track without positive people surrounding them. As motivational speaker and business philosopher Jim Rohn famously suggested, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." At Sherpa Group we call the people who surround students their "tribe."
Sherpa Group mentors help students evaluate their tribes. Are their friends lifting them up or dragging them down? What kinds of choices are students making because of the people they are spending the most time with? Mentors not only encourage students to make more conscious decisions about whom they spend time with, but they serve as a positive member of their student's tribe, modeling what constructive and encouraging friendship can look like!
It's no secret that goal setting is completely useless without proper action. Sherpa Group mentors are not only there to help students develop plans to reach their goals, they're committed to following up and offering support as students take action to reach them.
Because mentors know what steps students should be taking toward their dreams each day, week, and month, they are able to check in with students to offer accountability and support. They are also there to help students regroup when things don't go as planned. Nothing can derail a dream more quickly than the discouragement of getting off track, but with guidance and support students are able to recover motivation rather than abandon their goals.
There are so many aspects of life that students can't control, but attitude isn't one of them. In a culture where complaining is often considered "cool," Sherpa Group mentors are able to model the value of a positive attitude. Sometimes the only thing students need in order to gain a shift in perspective is someone to gently remind them of all the good in their worlds.
Positive attitudes are contagious, and we hope our mentors will rub off on their students! The ability to align TIME, TRIBE, ACTION, and ATTITUDE in order to live positively and achieve goals is more of an art form than a science, and that's why we call it the Art of Living.
As Sherpa Group mentors model this kind of living and help students see the potential for it in their own lives, we hope it will start to become second nature – that students will truly become masters of the Art of Living themselves!
We will never be able to thank you enough for what you did in supporting our daughter and helping my wife and me through that long and arduous journey.
Why Sherpa Group
Ryan Coley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) providing professional mental health services—not just someone who decided to call themselves a life coach. Our therapeutic mentoring is grounded in clinical training and evidence-based techniques.
As an experienced family counselor, Ryan works with both students and parents to create lasting positive change. Our family counseling services address the whole family system, not just individual behavior.
Our structured mentorship programs for teens give students a clear roadmap through our TIME + TRIBE + ACTION + ATTITUDE framework—building lasting positive habits and real-world success skills.
In-person life coaching, family counseling, and therapeutic mentoring sessions at our Wake Forest or Raleigh locations, plus virtual appointments throughout North Carolina or nationwide.
Contact The Sherpa Group today to learn how our life coaching, family counseling, therapeutic mentoring, and mental health services can support your family. Our mentorship programs for teens in Wake Forest and Raleigh are designed to help adolescents thrive.
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