About Valerie
Valerie Thomson is an Executive Coach, author, and entrepreneur. With her signature Success Through Self-care™ principles, she combines high-impact change strategies with mindfulness tools to help her clients create the lives they want to be living. With customized products and services, she focuses on true alignment, expanded thinking, and the incalculable value of prioritizing self-care.
With more than seventeen years experience, she’s been a trusted partner to individuals and groups in a variety of industries. Partnering with freelancers, entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate professionals, and non-profit leaders and teams, she brings innovative thinking, well-matched tools, and a commitment to client success.
She has extensive coach training, is a graduate of ICF-approved CoachU, holds several certifications, and continues her education with a minimum of two or more trainings annually. Her practice, and principles, reflect the high standards of The International Coach Federation (ICF) and she has served on the board of ICF-Austin Chapter as the Business Alliance Director.
“I’m on a mission to help women find their energy, their vision, and their voice so they can start coming true.”
Recent Blog Posts
Break Some Rules Like Katharine Hepburn
Whenever I hear Katharine Hepburn’s name, I smile. When I watched old movies with my mother and sisters after school, Hepburn stood out among the Hollywood actresses. She brought a brazen elegance to “not playing by the rules,” in an era where female film stars were...
International Coaching Week Giveaway
It's that time again... This year I am once again offering free sessions to celebrate the power of coaching! These are not 20-30 minute discovery sessions. I'm providing hour-long breakthrough sessions to five people who are truly ready to leap toward what they want....
True Living: Our Choices Make Us Who We Are
The last couple of months have been a blur — I had been so busy putting down roots in a new city and jumpstarting the holiday season, I had not had a chance to really process the cascade of sexual misconduct reports in the news. Not until December slowed down, and it...