Vision. Courage. Meaning.
Most life coaches look to help you achieve goals before first helping you choose authentic goals to achieve. Dara with Mud Coaching provides a positive coaching style centered on enhancing self-awareness and creating a direction for your life that you personally develop based on deep self-understanding. Her life coaching approach focuses on helping you naturally get to know yourself in a deeper way. She guides you through the process of creating the goals that actually push you forward, and enable you to achieve a life that expresses your true self.
Dara is a passionate, approachable, and gentle guide whose main objective is to support you in making the changes you decide are right for your life at a pace that works for you.
Dara offers Life Coaching for women, men, and teens, with focuses on Life Balance Coaching for Entrepreneurs and Professionals, Life Direction Coaching, Self-Awareness Coaching, Self-Love Coaching, Relationship Coaching, and Coaching for Self-Esteem. One-on-one sessions are conducted remotely and on a flexible schedule that fits your needs.
Begin life coaching services online with Dara to create more success in your life and relationships.
Start with a free 45 minute strategy session.
"I have friends who have worked with coaches so I reached out to Dara. It was the best decision I could have made."
-Bokhara G., San Francisco
Mud Coaching Programs

Youth Coaching
The teens and early 20’s are often a time of debilitating insecurity and self-consciousness. For some youths, lack of confidence and focus is frustrating and discouraging. This painful time is a struggle for parents, too! I help young people develop self-respect and ambition through enhancing self-awareness, setting and achieving goals, practicing self-acceptance, learning conflict resolution and more. learn more
Life Direction Coaching
We all get a little lost sometimes. One day you wake up and realize the life you're living isn't the one you planned or hoped for. You can't see where you went wrong or how to get back on track. Life Direction Coaching will help you refocus and redirect so you can move forward with clarity and confidence toward the life you actually want to be living. learn more
Life Balance Coaching
With so much to manage in our lives, it's common to lose a sense of balance and even ourselves. You might already be wondering if it's possible to take care of everything and everyone without sacrificing your own needs. The good new is, with a little help you can begin to live a balanced life. Life Balance Coaching will help you manage all of your responsibilities and take care of you. learn more
Relationship Coaching
You might be struggling because you don't feel heard, appreciated, or seen by your partner and your needs go perpetually unmet. Maybe you feel like you just can't seem to do anything right and you're frustrated and angry, or the passion is gone and you're wondering if it's possible to get it back. Relationship Coaching will help you communicate better and enjoy more closeness and excitement. learn more
About Dara
As a Positive Psychology Coach, Dara helps people learn more about themselves and make the right changes in their lives so that they can enjoy true confidence, live authentically, and master wellbeing. She loves watching people discover and use their greatest strengths to make positive changes and achieve their goals.
Having learned to turn her own struggles into opportunities for becoming a stronger, healthier, and more confident version of herself, she is passionate about helping others do the same.
She lives in Asheville, NC and enjoys spending as much time as possible outdoors and with her dogs Jaya and Lula.
What clients are saying...
"Dara helped me dig deep and find the way back to my true self. I never thought I would want or need a life coach but now I can't believe how people go through life without one! Dara helped me to discover my true values and strengths and how to use them to balance all aspects of my life, from personal and professional relationships to spirituality."
"Dara is so easy to talk to and I felt a connection right away. I definitely felt comfortable sharing with her and being vulnerable, which is something I needed. Working with her has made me more confident in myself and I stopped ignoring myself. When I take care of me, I can take care of those I love.”

"Dara found a way to take me deeper. Her insights and suggestions have helped me discover transcendent self-esteem - a fundamental belief in myself and my capabilities that will take the rest of my lifetime to unfold and enjoy."
Self-love is a hot topic these days. And for good reason! Our relationship without ourselves, how loving it is, impacts absolutely every area of our lives.
But there’s one very big problem I see all the time with regard to self-love- it’s not really understood.