Get to know me
Bio
Hi, I'm Nina Rubin
A Leadership and Development Coach rooted in San Diego, California.
I hold a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University - Los Angeles and a coaching certification from The Coactive Training Institute.
Originally from New Mexico, I'm also a cook and baker, a yogi, and an advocate for people who need extra help. I launched my coaching practice in 2014 after serving therapy clients for seven years. As a therapist, I worked with adults, foster families, and children.
My decision to transition from therapy to coaching
I clearly remember the day I realized I needed something different from my professional life. I had been consulting with my therapy supervisor and received the feedback that I was doing too much coaching and not enough therapy. This initially landed as a ton of bricks; I had spent seven years seeing clients in the clinical space, had invested a lot of money on training, had completed countless direct client hours, and now had a reputation to uphold.
As a young therapist, I wanted to help everyone. I thought pure awareness would change my clients' lives, regardless of socio-economic situations or other real obstacles they had to overcome in order to see change. After working with foster children and their families, people living in their cars, and people who were coming back to reality after years of drug addiction, it occurred to me that awareness alone wasn't enough for people to make lasting changes.
After working with my own coaches, the idea struck me that my psychology background could help people in the world of coaching. I went back to school, learning that coaching answers the delicate questions of what and how, where therapy answers why. When I changed my practice, I felt at home. My listening, presence, and empathy drove my clients to make important changes in all areas from career transitions to discernment in dating and relationships.
I have been coaching for over a decade and I'm happier than ever.
Education
- Inspiring Competence: Advanced Coach Mentoring Program (MCC) with Fran Fisher
- Coactive Training Institute (CPCC)
- Pacific Gestalt Institute
- Antioch University - LA, Master's in Clinical Psychology
- University of Pennsylvania, BA