Cecilia Ding is an experienced self-growth coach, and executive coach. She is passionateabout supporting rising business leaders to realize their full potentials. She is also registered U.S. therapist and licensed professional counselor dedicated to helping clients in their own transformations. In her coaching and therapeutic practice, she uses an original and scientifically based approach, the S.A.G.E™ way. She is trained in counseling, mindfulness, trauma healing, hypnosis, couple and family therapy.
Cecilia has had a passion for empowering others since high school and received media coverage from notable publications including the New York Times and Boston Globe, and several services awards including one from Hillary Clinton.
She leads workshops and support groups on relationship, mindfulness and runs a free online meditation group with members from multiple countries. She enjoys writing and contributes regularly to mental health publications.
BACKGROUND
Cecilia was born in China and grew up in America. She continues to learn and combine the lessons from both cultures. After graduating from Harvard University, she entered the financial industry, specializing in international IPO and venture capital. At 30, she started a real estate investment and management company. After having found money but no passion, she decided to change her focus and stay on as a passive investor. After spending several years writing and doing self-reflection, she connected with her love for our inner emotional world, decided to return to her roots of helping others as a life-coach and therapist. While completing a Master’s in Counseling, she received training in motivational interviewing, play therapy, EFT, trauma resolution techniques including EMDR, hypnosis. She is a registered with the State of California and Illinois.
Having grown up and studied in multiple cultures, she is particularly experienced with the opportunities and challenges cross-cultural and intergenerational differences can bring for our growth. She specializes in guiding clients to transform themselves through this process. She coaches clients who are immigrants or first-generation Americans from with origins from a more collective culture. She excels in helping clients find an authentic identity within their multi-cultural reality and build the connection skills both within and without their communities. She empower her clients to discover answers through her original S.A.G.E.(Secure-Attune-Guide-Embody). She speaks and writes English and Mandarin fluently, has a working knowledge of Cantonese. Cecilia splits her time between Berkeley & Cambridge, Beijing & Shanghai.
“The Wound is the place where the Light enter you.”
–Rumi
I believe passionately that changes in life are portals for transformation.
I am here to guide you in these exciting, and at times, painful moments.
