Thrive After 50: Psychology-Backed Personal Growth Coaching

Book 1:1 sessions, engaging group workshops, and flexible subscription programs designed for adults over fifty. Our methods integrate cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance and commitment strategies, positive psychology, and habit science to unlock energy, purpose, resilience, and lasting change, supported by compassionate coaching, clear metrics, and a vibrant community focused on real-life results.

About Thrive After 50

We are a team of certified coaches and psychology-informed practitioners dedicated to helping adults over fifty build purposeful, energized lives. Our approach blends compassion with rigor, translating research into practical routines, clear metrics, and steady support that respects your experience and ambitions.

Our Science-Based Approach

We combine evidence-based psychology with practical coaching to help you progress confidently after fifty, integrating cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment tools, strengths work, and behavior design to create sustainable habits, reduce friction, and align daily choices with long-term values, purpose, and well-being.

Evidence We Rely On

Our framework draws from cognitive behavioral therapy principles, acceptance and commitment practices, self-determination theory, and adult development research. We integrate findings from gerontology and neuroplasticity to ensure strategies match the unique opportunities and challenges of later adulthood, prioritizing safety, autonomy, competence, and meaningful relatedness in every step.

How We Personalize Coaching

Personalization begins with a comprehensive intake, validated well-being measures, strengths inventories, and values clarification. We co-create SMARTER goals, define leading indicators, and set habit experiments matched to your context. Feedback loops, session reflections, and data-informed adjustments keep progress compassionate, realistic, and sustainable across changing seasons of life.

What Growth Feels Like After 50

Expect steadier confidence, clearer boundaries, and renewed energy. Small wins accumulate through frictionless routines, supportive community, and self-compassionate accountability. You will notice better decision-making, less cognitive clutter, and increased purpose, transforming everyday actions into meaningful momentum while respecting health, obligations, and the wisdom your experience already provides.

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1:1 Coaching Sessions

Private sessions provide focused, judgment-free guidance, blending structured exercises with reflective dialogue. You will leave each meeting with a clear plan, actionable experiments, and supportive accountability tailored to your goals, readiness, and capacity, ensuring consistent momentum without overwhelm or unnecessary complexity.

Clarity Session

We map your current reality, desired outcomes, and underlying motivations, then translate insights into specific goals. Using values clarification, solution-focused questions, and decision frameworks, we reduce ambiguity, uncover leverage points, and design initial actions that feel practical, energizing, and appropriate for your weekly rhythm and commitments.

Habit Architecture

We engineer routines using cue design, temptation bundling, environment shaping, and identity-based prompts. By aligning habits with your values and energy patterns, we eliminate friction, anticipate obstacles, and build consistency. Micro-commitments, progress tracking, and compassionate review help you sustain change and celebrate meaningful milestones authentically.

Resilience Tools

You will learn nervous system regulation, cognitive reframing, and acceptance strategies to navigate stress, setbacks, and uncertainty. We practice practical techniques like paced breathing, thought labeling, and implementation intentions, ensuring you can pivot with confidence while honoring boundaries, recovery needs, and long-term well-being priorities.

Group Workshops

Small, supportive cohorts accelerate learning through shared experience, structured practice, and compassionate accountability. Each workshop blends short lessons, guided exercises, and live coaching, so you build skills together, gain perspective, and leave with repeatable tools you can adapt at home immediately.

Peer Learning Circles

Within a confidential group, participants share experiences, normalize challenges, and practice new skills through structured dialogues. Facilitators ensure psychological safety, equitable participation, and concrete takeaways. You will gain practical strategies and encouragement while benefiting from diverse perspectives that reflect real-life transitions after fifty.

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Subscription Programs

Choose a flexible plan that meets your pace, budget, and goals. Subscriptions include guided curriculum, monthly challenges, live Q&A, toolkits, and community access. Build skills iteratively, maintain accountability, and receive ongoing support to sustain progress beyond standalone sessions or short-term workshops.

Foundations Track

Designed for steady builders, this track offers step-by-step modules covering values, energy management, habit design, and emotional fitness. Weekly prompts, templates, and brief office hours keep you consistent. Ideal for establishing durable routines without feeling rushed or overwhelmed by too many simultaneous changes.

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Momentum Track

For those ready to accelerate, this includes deeper assessments, advanced habit experiments, and additional live coaching. You will engage in structured challenges, resilience drills, and outcome reviews. The program balances ambition with recovery, ensuring increased effort remains sustainable, enjoyable, and aligned with your personal priorities.

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360-Life Audit

We evaluate satisfaction and effort across health, relationships, work, learning, and meaning using a structured inventory. You will identify friction points, strengths to leverage, and quick wins. The resulting snapshot informs a practical action plan that feels relevant, humane, and achievable in your current season.

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Goal Mapping

We convert aspirations into measurable outcomes, select leading indicators, and design checkpoints. Visual roadmaps clarify sequencing and trade-offs, ensuring actions flow logically. You will know exactly what to do next, why it matters, and how to adjust when life inevitably shifts or new opportunities arise.

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Tech Setup

We help you access your secure portal, schedule sessions, and use simple trackers for habits and reflections. Clear tutorials, calendar integrations, and reminder options keep your system effortless. Privacy settings and data practices are explained plainly, so you feel confident and in control from day one.

Mindset & Emotional Fitness

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Build resilient, growth-oriented thinking with practical exercises that reduce rumination, increase self-compassion, and improve decision-making. Learn strategies to regulate stress, maintain perspective, and communicate needs clearly while honoring your values and boundaries.

  • Growth Mindset Practice We train curiosity, deliberate practice, and flexible thinking through reflection prompts, reframing techniques, and experimentation. You will learn to reinterpret setbacks as data, refine strategies, and maintain momentum. The emphasis is progress over perfection, integrating learning loops that fit your real circumstances.
  • Stress and Sleep Hygiene Establish restorative routines and simple regulation tools, including breathwork, light exposure, wind-down rituals, and cognitive offloading. We identify personal triggers, rehearse responses, and measure effects. Improved sleep and calmer days amplify motivation, mood, and clarity, supporting consistent progress without exhausting your resources.
  • Self-Compassion Training Reduce harsh self-criticism with evidence-based practices that cultivate kindness, common humanity, and mindful awareness. We implement compassionate self-talk scripts, soothing rhythm breathing, and boundary statements. These tools strengthen resilience, encourage healthy risk-taking, and protect motivation during inevitable fluctuations in energy, confidence, or external demands.
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Health & Energy

We emphasize sustainable vitality through small, repeatable actions, not rigid programs. Movement, nutrition, and recovery routines are tailored to your preferences and abilities, aiming for consistent energy, joint-friendly strength, and everyday ease that supports your broader goals.

  • Short, frequent movement sessions improve mobility, balance, and mood without overwhelming schedules. We design routines using gentle strength, walking intervals, and flexibility work. You will learn progression strategies, recovery basics, and habit cues that make activity feel approachable and enjoyable most days of the week.

  • We create simple meal frameworks emphasizing protein, fiber, hydration, and micronutrients. Flexible templates fit different preferences and budgets. You will practice planning, batch basics, and mindful eating strategies that stabilize energy, tame cravings, and support a healthy relationship with food without rigid rules or shame.

  • Prioritize recovery with practical tools like guided relaxation, mobility flows, and digital boundaries. We set wind-down anchors and plan active rest that sustains momentum. Consistent recovery enhances motivation, protects joints, and improves overall resilience so you can keep growing without burning out.

Private 1:1 Coaching Session (60 minutes)

A focused session combining goal clarification, behavior design, and emotional fitness tools. You will leave with a clear action plan, practical experiments, and supportive accountability. Ideal for targeted breakthroughs, decision-making clarity, or accelerating momentum without committing to a long program immediately.

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Live Group Workshop Series (4 Weeks)

A cohort-based series featuring weekly lessons, guided practice, and community accountability. Perfect for building skills together, normalizing challenges, and leaving with reusable scripts, checklists, and routines. Small groups ensure personalized feedback while keeping costs accessible and engagement high throughout the month.

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Premium Subscription Program (Monthly)

Ongoing access to structured curriculum, monthly challenges, live Q&A, and supportive community spaces. Includes templates, trackers, and office hours for steady progress. Best for sustained growth, gentle accountability, and flexible learning that adapts to your schedule, energy, and goals over time.

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Career & Purpose Reinvention

Translate decades of experience into meaningful contributions that fit your values, schedule, and energy. We support encore careers, consulting, volunteering, and creative projects, aligning opportunity with purpose while respecting financial, family, and lifestyle considerations.

Strengths to Services

We inventory your strengths, accomplishments, and stories, then shape them into clear offerings. You will articulate problems you solve, outcomes you deliver, and a simple value proposition. Together we design experiments to validate demand, refine messaging, and build confidence through real-world feedback.

Encore Career Design

We explore flexible work models, mission-driven roles, and passion projects. Using prototyping and informational interviews, you will test options with low risk. We define criteria for fit, negotiate boundaries, and plan transitions that honor financial needs, health, and the lifestyle you want to protect.

Portfolio and Pitch

We craft a concise narrative, update LinkedIn, and assemble a simple portfolio highlighting authentic results. Practice sessions refine your story, clarify asks, and prepare for conversations. You will gain language and confidence to communicate your value without overselling or minimizing your experience.

Relationships & Social Vitality

Strengthen communication, deepen connection, and expand your circle through intentional practice. Learn practical frameworks, create supportive boundaries, and build social habits that nourish well-being, foster belonging, and provide accountability for your most important goals.

Lifelong Learning & Tech Confidence

Build digital fluency and learning habits without overwhelm. We simplify tools, reduce jargon, and create project-based learning plans so you can stay curious, connected, and capable in a rapidly changing world.

Digital Tools Basics

We cover essential smartphone, cloud, and video tools through guided tutorials and cheat sheets. You will learn privacy basics, update hygiene, and a simple system for notes and files. Step-by-step practice and supportive office hours make technology feel approachable and useful for everyday life.

Learning Projects

We choose engaging topics and set SMARTER learning goals with weekly checkpoints. You will practice retrieval, spaced repetition, and project showcases to lock in knowledge. The focus is enjoyable momentum, celebrating completion while building confidence to tackle progressively more ambitious skills or creative ventures.

Creative Expression

We encourage writing, art, music, or public speaking as growth vehicles. Structured prompts, community sharing, and compassionate critique help you stretch safely. Creative practice enhances mood, identity, and connection, reinforcing other goals by cultivating courage, playfulness, and renewed curiosity about what is possible next.

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Success Metrics & Stories

We define success collaboratively using leading and lagging indicators across well-being, habits, and life satisfaction. Transparent metrics, regular reviews, and inspiring case studies demonstrate progress, highlight lessons, and build confidence for continued growth beyond the program timeline.

How We Measure Progress

We combine well-being scales, habit adherence, and meaningful outcome markers. Quarterly reflections capture qualitative changes like confidence, clarity, and connection. You will see trends visually, celebrate small wins, and refine strategies based on data, not guesswork or fleeting motivation spikes.

Client Spotlights

Anonymized stories showcase diverse journeys, from career pivots to renewed health and social vitality. We highlight challenges, interventions, and outcomes, emphasizing practical steps taken. These stories offer hope, realistic expectations, and proof that steady, compassionate effort produces significant, durable change after fifty.

Sustaining Momentum

We implement relapse prevention, seasonal planning, and identity anchors that keep progress resilient. You will learn how to restart after disruptions, maintain habits during travel, and refresh goals thoughtfully. The result is a flexible, dependable system that grows with your life, not against it.

Ethics, Privacy & Safety

We operate with clear boundaries, transparent policies, and strict confidentiality. Our coaching is not therapy or medical care. We maintain referrals, data protections, and informed consent practices so you can grow confidently within a safe, respectful relationship.

Scope of Practice

We provide coaching for personal development and behavior change, not diagnosis or treatment. When clinical needs arise, we refer to licensed professionals. Clear expectations, session agreements, and goal alignment protect your progress and ensure you receive the right level of support at the right time.

Confidentiality Standards

Your information is kept private within secure systems. We share nothing externally without your written consent, except where required by law. Group settings include confidentiality agreements, with reminders and facilitation practices that preserve psychological safety while allowing open, supportive learning.

Data & Security

We use encrypted tools, role-based access, and minimal data retention. You control profile information, downloads, and deletion requests. Clear privacy notices explain what we collect and why, so you can choose settings that match your comfort level without sacrificing convenience or support.

Getting Started

Begin with a free consultation, guided onboarding, and a first milestone tailored to your goals. We make sign-up simple, clarify expectations, and schedule your initial session promptly so you can start building momentum with confidence.

Free Consultation

A brief call clarifies your goals, timelines, and fit. We explain our approach, answer questions, and outline first steps. You leave with a recommended path and transparent next actions, whether that means 1:1 coaching, a workshop, a subscription, or a combination tailored to your needs.

First 30 Days Plan

We co-create a manageable plan with one keystone habit, a weekly review, and simple tracking. You will learn the tools needed for momentum and build confidence quickly. Early wins are designed to be repeatable, reinforcing identity and motivation without pressure or perfectionism.

Scheduling & Access

Use the secure portal to book sessions, join workshops, and access materials. Calendar integrations and reminders keep everything organized. You can adjust times easily, communicate preferences, and view recordings when available, ensuring support fits your lifestyle and commitments gracefully.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is coaching different from therapy?
Coaching focuses on goals, habits, and forward momentum, using evidence-based tools to build capacity and clarity. We do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. If clinical concerns arise, we refer to licensed therapists and collaborate respectfully when appropriate to protect your progress and wellbeing.
What happens in a typical 1:1 session?
We start by reviewing recent wins, obstacles, and data, then refine goals and design one to three practical experiments for the coming week. You will receive clear next steps, supporting resources, and compassionate accountability, ensuring momentum while honoring your energy, schedule, and priorities.
Are group workshops suitable if I am introverted or new to coaching?
Yes. Workshops are small, structured, and facilitated for psychological safety. Participation options include chat, small breakout practice, and reflective prompts. You choose your comfort level while still gaining tools, community support, and actionable takeaways designed to work in everyday life after fifty.
How do subscriptions support long-term change?
Subscriptions provide consistent structure through guided modules, monthly challenges, and live Q&A, paired with gentle accountability. You progress at your pace, revisit resources as needed, and practice skills in real contexts, turning gains from sessions or workshops into durable habits and confident identity shifts.
What if I have limited tech experience?
We provide simple tutorials, a secure portal, and optional office hours to walk you through scheduling, video calls, and resource access. Clear instructions, friendly support, and minimal required tools keep technology manageable so you can focus on growth rather than platforms or settings.
How is progress measured and adjusted?
We use a mix of habit tracking, well-being scales, and milestone reviews to capture change. Regular check-ins and data-informed reflections guide adjustments. If something feels hard or misaligned, we simplify, sequence differently, or shift strategies so progress remains realistic, compassionate, and sustainable.

Contact us

Technical support

info@xeronivalta.com

Working hours

Monday—Friday: 08:00–17:00

Saturday—Sunday: 08:00–12:00

Address

1250 René-Lévesque, Boulevard Ouest, Montreal, QC H3B 4W8, Canada