Peter Thoresen Life Coaching
Live & Breathe with Ease
Navigating the Neighborhoods of Your Life
I’m here to help you live an inspired life!
About Peter, Certified Professional Life Coach.
I love working with people as they make a break through. With over a decade of experience in NYC guiding performers as a voice teacher, I’ve coached hundreds of singers & actors to successfully book Broadway shows, prepared them for performances on the Tonight Show & Tony Awards, get into top collegiate programs, and empowered them to do their best work in the recording studio and onstage.
This type of work involves a deep and empathetic understanding of what it takes create and empower new habits, to let go of old ones rooted in limiting beliefs, and the patience necessary in meeting people where they are in their professional and personal lives. My passion and skills for life coaching have fueled and empowered my teaching and coaching as a university professor, music director, and columnist, and have flourished in deep personal work in my own life, complete with career pivots, and my dedication to my own sobriety and others in recovery.
I built a business in a blackout and saved it—and my life—through sobriety. Before becoming a highly sought after voice teacher in Manhattan, I spent time running a career development program at a Big Ten university, served as business manager to a legendary opera singer, and ran a chamber music festival at Lincoln Center. These career pivots were brought about by peaks of personal achievement, and valleys of secret personal turmoil. And even though I finally pivoted to the passion most rooted in my training as an opera singer and teacher—and found the success I'd hoped for—my secret, round-the-clock alcoholism threatened to blow it all up.
Getting and staying sober is one of the great joys of my life, and it’s included a journey of deep, daily personal work that involves so much that underpins the core elements of life coaching, as well as the work I’ve done with performers for so many years:
identifying areas of potential transformation;
better understanding thought patterns that no longer serve us;
and setting goals with daily, actionable tasks to reach and celebrate these goals.
My commitment to helping people discover new and untapped strengths is even evidenced in my popular magazine column, Crossover Corner, with Classical Singer Magazine.
If you’d like help in pivoting or crossing over in your personal or professional life, then let’s connect to discuss designing a plan for YOU!
Coaching options.
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Goal packages.
Growth comes progressively—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. After identifying and setting a realistic goals, the next crucial step is developing an actionable, relevant, and time-bound plan to achieve it. Goal packages range in time commitment and client activity. To discuss if a goal package is right for you, click below to schedule a free 25 minute consultation.
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Individual sessions.
Individual, one-on-one coaching sessions are available as an alternative or supplement to goal packages, depending on your needs and circumstance.
Clients often opt for these as ‘tune up’ or ‘empowerment’ sessions to gain perspective and clarity in times of transition or uncertainty.
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Group coaching.
Community and accountability are key features of group coaching. There is great power in giving voice to your goals, engaging in active listening, and shedding limiting beliefs in a group setting. Click the link below to be contacted when the next group is formed.
Who I Work With.
Niche services for pivoting artists:
Performing artists who've been at the grind for handful of years, post-college, and find themselves feeling burdened by their art and considering a pivot to a new passion temporarily and more permanently.
Artists stepping into another field (different or related), and grapple with the need for a permission structure and plan to make this a reality.
Niche services for pivoting artists and voice teachers:
Conversely, more veteran artists who’ve been away from performing and auditioning, and are hoping to transition back into a career in the arts after a hiatus caused by personal or professional circumstances.
Voice teachers desiring to take the next step in growing and promoting their private studios; better targeting prospective students, and moving past the impostor syndrome and other self-limiting factors.
General life coaching for:
People desiring to strengthen relationships at home and in their personal lives.
Individuals struggling to connect with their colleagues, and who find it difficult to thrive in their work environments.
People seeking coaching to identify, set, and achieve goals toward enhancing their personal and professional ambitions; emotional intelligence (EG); and their overall physical and emotional wellness.
