A little about me

I'm Joan Battelle. For twenty years I’ve been teaching psychology in the college classroom. These days I’m passionate about working with women navigating the tender, crowded middle of life: menopause, caring for aging parents, launching (and re-launching) grown children, grief/loss and the quiet question of who am I now?

I'm a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach with a master's in psychology, and I coach from lived experience as much as from my academics and training — I'm walking this season myself, leaning into humor, brokering hope, building community and developing self-care. My approach is integrative and whole-life: your body, your mind, your relationships, and your spirit, all welcome in the same conversation.

I believe midlife isn't a decline to manage but a threshold to tend — and that grace, power and abundance can rise, like the lotus, right up out of the muddy hard stuff. Wherever you are in it, you don't have to hold it all alone.

Joan Battelle, MA, NBC-HWC · Ventura, California · working with women by telehealth.