Take Courage Coaching

Our Team

ABOUT THE TEAM at TCC - We design a specialized life coaching program exclusively for individuals with chronic pain. We teach and reinforce healthy pain management behaviors. Using a self-management approach, we offer education, support and motivation, increasing your long-term success. You can anticipate that you will be more satisfied with your life, as you learn better ways to solve problems and cope with the stress of chronic pain. We seek to stay on the cutting edge, always learning more on this subject.

It is important to clarify that we do not offer medical or psychological advice or treatment. Although some of our coaches are professionally licensed in one or more states, what TCC offers is by design limited exclusively to life coaching. Coaching supports and reinforces healthy pain management habits in patients, consistent with the current scientific body of research on pain management, behavioral change and life/health coaching practices.

		Coach Bios Rebecca Curtis, Life Coach, CEG is the Director of Take Courage Coaching. She is a Certified Life Coach. Rebecca has experienced the challenges of chronic pain first-hand. Nearly twenty years of partnering in her husband's pastoral ministry has given her a special ability to counsel, encourage, and facilitate goal-setting and personal growth. She chose to combine this experience with her own gifts of listening and connecting with people in order to help them meet and address their chronic pain challenges. The focus of Rebecca’s coaching is to help her clients to achieve greater functionality as they manage their pain.

		Joel Obeso, PsyD is the new Program Director of the Auburn Pain Rehabilitation Medical Clinic (aurburnpainrehab.com). Previous to that, he was the Program Director of the Health Education for Living with Pain {HELP} Program (helppain.net) for over seven years. Joel's personal passion and professional training are in health psychology, telemedicine, health coaching and cross-cultural issues. He started his professional career in behavioral health services in 1992 and since then, he has served Spanish and English speakers with equal dedication and care. Currently, he is serving exclusively the Spanish -- speaking clients at TCC.

		Netty Araiza, PsyD is a pain management coach for over seven years at the Health Education for Living with Pain (HELP) program in San Mateo, California, spent more than five years as the Life Skills Coordinator. Currently she is a dedicated HELP-Remote pain management coach for the program’s Spanish-speaking clients. Prior to pain coaching, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology and as Director of the high school’s vocational counseling department at Montemorelos University, in Mexico. She worked six more years as a bilingual behavioral health therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Netty’s heart, mind and voice focus on helping individuals limited by pain and disability regain their “souls” and live fulfilling, productive lives.

ADVISORY BOARD:		Jody Knable, PT Great Falls Montana Kevin Rhodes, South Jordan, Utah Jim Brown, Pleasantville, New York Lisa Boyl-Davis, MSW Snohomish, Washington Jay Jutzy, MD Bozeman, Montana Netty Araiza, PsyD San Mateo, CA Joel Obeso, PsyD Auburn, CA