ZAK STARKMAN
Certified Integrative Life Coach
tel: 305.761.8805
Los Angeles CA
UNLOCK
YOUR
WELLNESS
Guiding You Forward
Major medical experiences affect more than just the body.
They can impact your emotions, your identity, and your sense of stability. Whether you're facing surgery, recovery, or a life-altering diagnosis, I provide compassionate coaching to help you navigate the emotional side of your journey. Together, we’ll create space for clarity, calm, and inner strength—so you can stay grounded, even in the midst of uncertainty.
Life Coach to the Core
MY STORY
I’ve always been passionate about helping people grow into the strongest, most grounded version of themselves—especially during life’s most vulnerable moments. My journey into coaching didn’t begin in a wellness space—it began in a high-rise office at an investment bank in New York City, where I was outwardly successful but inwardly struggling. The stress eventually took a toll on my health, and I began experiencing migraines with aura—episodes so intense they would temporarily affect my vision. It was a wake-up call.
That period of physical and emotional discomfort pushed me to explore a deeper path. I became fascinated by the connection between our thoughts, our bodies, and our overall sense of wellness. I discovered the transformative power of mindset—and how our inner beliefs directly shape our experience of the world.
This realization became the foundation for my life coaching studies and certifications. And today, that insight continues to guide my work. I help people navigate the emotional terrain of wellness with clarity, calm, and strength. Together, we create space for growth, resilience, and a renewed connection to self—even when the path ahead feels uncertain.
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EFFECTIVE COACHING SERVICES
LIFE COACHING
Get the Most out of Life
Life Coaching can be one of the keys to a happier, healthier life. My job is to give you tools and techniques to achieve a balanced and fulfilling life. I focus on helping you find what’s getting in the way of achieving your goals and, using scientifically-proven techniques, permanently dissolving those obstacles and limiting-beliefs in order to create effective action and lasting change.
WELLNESS COACHING
Navigating Major Life & Health Transitions
Going through a major medical journey can leave you feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unsure of how to move forward. It’s more than just a physical experience; it can affect your sense of identity, purpose, and stability.
Having supported many clients—and having faced my own health challenges—I understand how disorienting these moments can be. Through coaching, we’ll create a space where you can process what you’re going through, reconnect with what matters most to you, and begin to rebuild from a place of clarity and strength.
Together, we’ll uncover what’s weighing on you, what’s possible for you, and what will bring meaning, balance, and emotional steadiness back into your life. From there, we’ll create a grounded, personalized path forward—one that honors both your healing and your hopes.
INTEGRATIVE COACHING TECHNIQUES
A Unique Approach to Change
Integrative Life Coaching is focused on the now and on creating a better future, while working at the subconscious level of mind, where all lasting change takes place. Conventional Life Coaching focuses on setting goals and keeping you accountable, while traditional therapy is usually a conversation at the conscious level of the mind often focused on the past. Through Integrative Life Coaching, several advanced modalities including Psych-K, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT - Tapping), and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) are used for effective change work. Just as you can reprogram a personal computer, these modalities can be a kind of "mental keyboard" to your own brain, re-scripting old negative beliefs and thought patterns into new and transformed positive ones.
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Through this work we:
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-Clarify what you truly want in your life and in yourself
-Uncover inner conflicts & limiting subconscious beliefs
-Resolve inner conflicts and permanently shift those beliefs
-Create new internal possibilities and set life goals
-Take action to manifest the results you want in your life and in yourself
