Patrick LaRose
Coaching
ABOUT PATRICK
Before I coached anyone else, I had to find my own way through.
Board-Certified Coach. Registered Nurse. Doctorate in Nursing Practice. Experienced clinician who has worked in the hardest rooms a human being can enter.
The nursing years
I spent many years at the bedside, in the hardest rooms a human being can enter. Years in leadership, academics, helping nurses achieve their educational goals. That is where I learned what people are actually made of. I watched people face impossible moments, then find reserves they did not know they had. Nursing shaped how I see people: their resilience, their breaking points, the gap between the life they maintain, the life they want. That experience never leaves. It became the foundation of how I coach.
I know what that costs. I know what it takes to move anyway.
I left a successful clinical and academic career to build a life that was calling me. Selling everything I owned, I purchased a van, then traveled the country for five years. The experiences I gained from this life change are ones I never would have had if I gave in to my doubts and fears. It was never about the van, the travel, the change really. It was always about the inner calling for something different. I am telling you because you need to know I have actually been where you are. Not a version of it. The real thing. I do not coach from a textbook; I coach from lived experience. The faith you place in me as your coach is one I take seriously.
The crossroads
The practice today
That is what I bring to this work. Not a framework. Not a method. Years of watching people face impossible moments, plus my own visible, documented transition as proof the other side exists. Now I coach nurses standing where I stood. I build this practice in public, writing openly on Substack about the reality of transition as it happens.
Values
What the work stands on
Voice
Strength
Empowerment
Years of putting others first can quiet your own voice. The work brings it back.
You already carry more strength than you credit yourself for. We put it to work on your own behalf for once.
The goal is never dependence on a coach. It is you, equipped to keep choosing your own direction.