Life Coaching
Professional coaches at Unity’s Life Coaching Center are available to support you through any of life’s significant moments. Coaching is offered individually or in small groups, either by phone or in person. Each life coaching experience is tailored to meet your needs and goals. Services are offered on a fee basis.
Life Coaching can help you:
- Discover answers for your life’s unique situations.
- Address relationship challenges.
- Navigate career changes.
- Set and achieve personal goals.
- Deepen your relationship with Spirit.
- Create a life of clarity, focus and meaning.
Unity Life Coaches
Rev. Carla McClellan is Retreats manager at Unity Village and a certified life coach with a deep appreciation and understanding of Unity principles. She hosts the weekly online radio program Vibrant Living: Life Coaching With Carla. Listen live on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. CT. Call in to the show, toll-free, for coaching as she creates a safe space to help you move past the obstacles in your life and turn your dreams into realities. She is also a regular contributor to KCTV5's Better Kansas City.
Listen to this podcast in which Coach Carla shares "Tools for a Vibrant Life."
Dan Gabbert left the world of high-tech sales to follow his passion after more than 20 successful years in corporate America, including multiple roles with Southwestern Bell Telephone (AT&T), Texas Instruments, IBM, and others.
In his coaching practice, Dan works with teams and individuals from all walks of life to help them set and achieve their goals, find integrated balance, realize their potential, and lead lives of impact and purpose. Dan’s passion is to help others find their purpose and passion, and to help them live life at the next level.
Dru Jackman graduated from Northwestern University and launched a highly successful, 15-year career in the entertainment industry where she honed her natural skills as a supervisor, liaison, efficiency expert and troubleshooter. In 1998, at the peak of her success, Dru decided to shift her focus to Organizing Consulting. She graduated from the Academy for Coaching Excellence, where she is now an adjunct faculty member and licensed seminar leader.
Dru is known not only for her expertise in streamlining and organizing but also in diffusing stress and facilitating learning so that clients would more become effective and produce measurable results.
JoAnn Bouda has influenced thousands of lives over the past 25 years as a college instructor, consultant, trainer and administrator, licensed seminar leader and certified life coach. JoAnn was under contract for two years with Creighton University as a trainer/coach for faculty and staff working with students’ exploration of their life’s work and purpose. She also led seminars on campus for MBA classes and facilitated group coaching.
JoAnn currently owns a successful business seminar and coaching business in Omaha and Kansas City and travels nationwide to present highly effective seminars and workshops for success.

Joy Cherry is a Certified Life Coach through Martha Beck Incorporated. Prior to life coaching, Joy was a highly successful financial services marketing and management professional with an M.A. in Business Management from Webster University and more than 12 years of managerial experience. She successfully led large and small teams, taught training and financial education classes, and provided life coaching services to senior management and staff.
Joy’s work with her clients focuses on healing repetitive negative patterns from the past. She guides them to find out what they really want and how to deal with whatever obstacles are in the way. Consequently, they discover new ways to live through what is important to them.

Lorrie Eigles MSED, LPC. Certified Life Coach, PCC, Visual Artist
Lorrie Crystal Eigles, the “Authenticity Coach” for more than 20 years, is a thinking partner who helps clients clarify who they truly are, what they most deeply desire in their lives, and then guides them step by step to achieve it. She’s described by clients as “warm and creative” and “an attentive listener who offers thought-provoking feedback and challenges.” Through her coaching, clients see exciting new possibilities.
As a Certified Life and Retirement Coach, a Visual Artist, and founder of “Authentic Communication,” Lorrie specializes in helping clients wanting life enrichment, experiencing life transition, approaching retirement, and people who are creative: artistic or creative problem-solvers.
Please call 816-251-3589 or email lifecoaching@unityonline.org for details about sessions with Unity Life Coaches.
