Chris Allen Coaching

Dr. Chris Allen is a licensed psychologist who is also an executive and life coach. She helps clients achieve goals and translate vision into action, both personally and professionally. She is an excellent listener who quickly grasps the larger and deeper issues that an individual or work team may be struggling with.  In her work, Chris helps clients identify their needs, discover and use strengths, and acknowledge and correct any areas of weakness in order to become more effective at work and in their personal life.

Clients often discover unrecognized abilities as well as their core values and are able to align these in meaningful ways at home and at work.  Chris excels at helping individuals and companies achieve goals through increased self-awareness, identifying blocks, building skills, and especially by improving ability to communicate effectively with others.

Chris’s current work focus is coaching, training, and teaching with individuals, teams and organizations.  She has practiced psychotherapy for over 20 years, and has focused especially on helping clients with relationship issues and on post-traumatic growth and resilience. She is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Psychology Department at Syracuse University and an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Upstate Medical University where she supervises medical residents.  Chris is former Director of both the Women’s Program and the Psychological Trauma Program at the Benjamin Rush Center, a private psychiatric hospital in Syracuse, New York.  She is Past-President of the Central New York Psychological Association and has been on the governing Council of the New York Psychological Association (NYSPA) since 2008.  She served on the Executive Committee of NYSPA as a Member-At-Large from 2009 to 2010.  She was awarded Psychologist of the Year in 2008 by the Central New York Psychological Association.  Chris is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation and a Certified Life Coach at the Institute of Life Coach Training. She is an officer of her local Toastmasters club, the Energetics, where she is currently serving as Secretary and has been past Vice-President of Public Relations. Chris earned her Ph.D. in psychology at the Pennsylvania State University and has been licensed as a psychologist since 1989.

She resides in Upstate New York with her husband of 22 years and their two children, ages 14 and 16 and three cats.  She enjoys spending time with family and friends, gardening, doing yoga, cooking, and reading when not working. Chris can be reached via email at chris@chrisallencoaching.com.