about solace coaching co.
“Christina Barry's level of care, compassion, and intuition is unmatched. I hold her in the highest regard as a teacher, coach, parent, friend, and human being."
Tim M.
Real Relationships
Christina Barry coaches people toward living into their best selves. For over 20 years, she has worked reflectively with individuals and groups of varying ages. She specializes in helping clients find clarity and purpose with themselves, others, and God. She has a particular emphasis on what she calls “real relationships”, helping clients nurture genuine, healthy bonds that deepen themselves while fostering their connections with others.
Christina taught theology, English, Spanish, history, and humanities at the high school and college levels in Oregon and Washington for 17 years. She has coached track and field and worked in campus ministry since 2001. Helping young adults–and their parents and families–has been part of her life since undergrad.
More importantly, Christina has been married to the love of her life, Pat Barry, since 2004 and they are raising three beautiful boys, a black lab, two cats, and soon chickens on their property out in the country in Central Oregon. They constantly work on their relationships with each other, with their kids, with their friends, with God, and with themselves.
Guidance Personalized to You
With a background in Ignatian theology, pastoral counseling, retreats, psychology, and working with young adults, Christina is uniquely positioned to respond to those with a deep desire to live as real as possible. She helps people become their most authentic selves as they live into the wisdom that the world needs who they really are.
Treating each client as an individual, she responds to clients personally, helping them grow through coaching sessions, reflections, guiding questions, personalized prompts, feedback, and tools she designs specifically for each client. She also draws on her rich knowledge of time-tested spiritual and psychological practices to help clients in their process of becoming their most real selves.
Living Joyfully
The name “Solace Coaching Co.” evolved from a deep part of Christina’s life and self: in Ignatian spirituality, the term “Consolation” refers to the deep sense of peace that comes from knowing that God is with you–guiding you, helping you, nudging you, and loving you through and into life. Learning to follow the Consolation in our lives leads us to living our best selves as we walk with God.
As another word for “Consolation,” Solace leads us to the same place: discovering who we are through living authentically as we learn to respond to God in our lives.
In the Process of Becoming
With weekly blog posts, podcasts, individual and group coaching, and upcoming retreats, Christina guides people as she lives right along with them: seeking to follow and live Solace in her life and into the world.
