About Chris

Chris Cordry is a Certified Life Coach and Licensed NLP Master Practitioner.  He specializes in helping young men find a deeper sense of passion, purpose, centeredness, and fulfillment in their lives through focused, depth-oriented coaching.

Chris is credentialed as a Certified Life Coach and a Licensed NLP Master Practitioner through Global NLP Training and the Society of NLP (Richard Bandler).  His approach to coaching combines influences from depth psychology, humanistic, existential, and transpersonal psychology, positive psychology, integral theory, Eastern philosophy, mindfulness, martial arts training, and NLP to facilitate deep, lasting change.  Coaching with Chris goes beyond life coaching’s traditional focus on goals and tasks to ask deeper questions and create space for real transformation and growth.

Chris is a student in the M.A. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  He completed his B.A. in Liberal Arts at Goddard College in Vermont, with emphases in Depth Psychology, Religious Studies, Literature, and Creative Writing. His honors thesis, entitled Descent: A Journey Through the Vale of Soul Making was used as a required text in a course at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris brings his background in psychology and the humanities into his coaching practice, helping clients enrich their understanding of themselves through the context of myth, literature, history, art, and spirituality.

He has studied Eastern philosophy and spirituality and practiced both meditation and traditional Chinese martial arts (including both Kung Fu and Taijiquan) for eight years.  Chris is currently training to become a Taijiquan instructor under Master Jesse Tsao.   Chris also has extensive knowledge of the Western mystery tradition as well as shamanism, magic, and earth-based spirituality.

Chris has traveled extensively, including trips to the British Isles, Scandinavia, India, and Southeast Asia.  His most recent adventure, earlier this year, was a three-month stint backpacking through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, meditating in Buddhist temples and exploring ancient ruins.

He has a four-year-old daughter, named Tara, after the Tibetan Buddhist goddess of active compassion.

Chris currently lives and practices in San Diego, California.