Clinical Eye Coaching
A new horizon for self-development and transformation.
Clinical Eye Coaching integrates expert psychological knowledge with focused, interactive coaching techniques.
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Designed by James Cassese, this uniquely personal and adaptable method is informed by Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence and Practical Philosophy.
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It is a blend of solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral modalities infused with clinical insight.
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With its empathic orientation, CEC offers four tracks tailored to engage each client’s specific circumstances, motivations and goals.
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Making it a distinctly efficient path to heightened performance, purposeful growth and visible transformation.
Atomic Focus
Choose a track to take you where you want to be.
Insight: Identify what you want, what holds you back and clear the way to personal and professional freedom.
Support: Design strategies to enhance performance, nurture mental wellness and harmonize life, love, work and play.
Potential: Refine and polish your skills to a brilliant shine that will get you noticed as an elite athlete, fine artist or top talent.
Change
By nature, change requires that you get out of your comfort zone. Even when that zone is not exactly “comfortable”, self-sustaining barriers locked in place by emotions, personal and professional experience, motivation, self-esteem can maintain inertia. People are conditioned to stay put, stick with the “devil that they know”. Perhaps you've found that even when you make a bold move, you find yourself in the same dynamic.
When your motivation or goals are unclear, you can spin your wheels, procrastinate, label yourself “lazy.” Perhaps your self-esteem has taken one too many blows—or was not very steady in the first place. It makes it hard to believe that you can change, grow or perform at a higher level.
Until we try to create change, many of us aren’t even consciously aware of the things that hold us in back. How to get around, though or over them often requires a variety of tools, used in skillful combination.
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Most coaching programs are not equipped to manage the point where the behavioral meets the psychological. The focus has often been on remedial activity—like when there is a problem with an employee that needs to be “fixed”. Coaching in this way is like being sent to the principal’s office. Or goals are based on tasks, markers and targets that don’t take into account root psychological barriers. On top of that, coaching that relies on completion of task or “homework” often fizzles out when the client doesn’t comply, placing the coach in the role of scolding teacher or indulgent enabler.
On the other hand, while psychotherapy alone might help develop insight and awareness, it rarely provides the traction, the positive tension that is necessary to achieve and work through practical coaching goals.
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James Cassese recognized this “gap” and bridged the professions with CEC transforming that chasm into a synergistic gateway.
The four tracks of CEC represent the integrated adaptation of James' over 30 years of clinical scholarship, 20 years as a coach and 10 years teaching at New York University and lecturing internationally.