About Dr. Peeples
Specializing in helping adult children caring for aging parents
Meet Dr. Lilla Peeples
With over 40 years of experience helping people to assess and resolve the challenges they face, Lilla Peeples offers her clients a deep understanding of the complex issues that confront adult children caring for aging parents.
As a licensed Psychologist, a certificated Gerontologist, and a Certified Personal Life Coach, she offers a unique blend of experience, insight, and knowledge in a “wellness model” that helps clients focus on results.
"Working with Dr. Peeples, I have found new energy and am beginning to enjoy my life again. What a blessing coaching has been in my life.”
Sometimes, we just want to find answers. After 23 years working as a psychotherapist with adult children as well as their aging parents, I can tell you with certainty: not every problem requires a diagnosis or some form of “treatment.”
After all, struggling to care for your loved ones is not a neurosis, and getting old is not a disease. That’s why I recommend coaching instead of therapy when you are caring for aging parents.
Although many of the issues are the same as those that I deal with in my psychology/gerontology private practice, I was drawn to use the coaching model in many cases. It allows me to offer some distinct advantages over psychotherapy, including:
- When you come for coaching I do not have to label you with a diagnosis;
- I assume that you are mentally healthy and that you are going to be fine whether you see me or not;
- I approach you and your issues from a wellness model rather than a medical model;
- I assume that you have the answers to your issues within you and will help you access these by getting in touch with your higher power.
Clients turn to me because I’m not an ordinary life coach. It’s unusual for a coach to also be a licensed psychologist or a certificated gerontologist. I happen to be both, in addition to having been a high school teacher (French and English) for four years, high school counselor for eight years, and a school psychologist for two years.
Yours in health and well being,
Dr. Lilla Peeples
