Dr. Bobby Dery is a board-certified Emergency Physician. He received his MD from the Stanford
University School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the
University of California San Francisco. He has practiced emergency medicine on a full-time and
full-tilt basis for over 20 years. He is also a trained Life Coach through the Co-Active Training
Institute and works actively as both a coach and consultant.
I am just like you. I get stuck and struggle to see the way forward. Often… still. My boy-hood
family was grievous. Its explosion catapulted me into the high mountains, where I spent the first
15 years of my adult life seeking peace as a professional mountain guide, NOLS Instructor,
Search and Rescue ranger and outdoor educator. I walked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to
Georgia. I walked the Continental Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico. If it was in the Western
Hemisphere, and climbable, I tried to take a swing at it. Then came medicine.
I have spent my adult life—all of it—working to understand why I get stuck, how I get stuck,
what the actual true-truth is when I am stuck, and how to find my way towards that
truth―towards what I most seek and value in life.
The Coaching+Consulting model and approach is a natural fit for me and my life experiences. It
is distinctly not therapy. It is distinctly pragmatic—distinctly about now, about today, about what
are you going to do, what courageous “towards” moves can you choose given the challenges
you face?
Humans, for once-good reasons, are often quite myopic when the emotional stakes get
high—welcome to having a human brain… and a human mind. A coaching and consulting style
relationship—someone to simply walk beside for a while and strive to see our true-truths with
courage and compassion—is a genuinely unique and powerful thing in a life.