Success Stories
Dr. Liz, Walden University Graduate
It is official – today I graduate. It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I am glad that it ended on a positive note. The reason why I am writing is to say thank you, although thank you doesn’t seem to cut it. Your services are invaluable. Because you know the process and bureaucracy of universities, you made it easier for me to navigate the system. The weekly meetings were also beneficial because I could bounce ideas off of you as well as get a litmus check to ensure that I was on track. You just guided me along and let me learn from the process without taking over. That’s impressive because most people I know would try to take over or inject themselves. The weekly meetings held me accountable to my schedule. It’s definitely easy to procrastinate when you have an open schedule. I miss our weekly chats. Since I have finished, I may have lost my coach, but I gained a friend. I said it before and I’ll say it again – Dr. Sally you’re a rock star!
Dr. Michael J. Carastro, University of Phoenix Graduate
I just wanted to express my gratitude and appreciation for all your help and guidance. You are amazing at what you do. I never would have been able to do this without you. If I can ever provide testimony or reference to your abilities I would be happy to do so. I think “Dissertation Doctor” is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and I did give you your well deserved credit in my acknowledgements.
Michelle Gonzales Bleza, University of Southern California Student
“As the saying goes... writing a dissertation is a lonely process. My dissertation chair could not spend hours with me one-on-one that I needed to help me bring my proposal up to her high standards. I was at risk of dropping out of my program. I tried trading papers with my friends, but they had their own work to do or gave me only limited feedback. When I started working with my coach, Dr. Moira, everything changed. She gave me more than academic support. She gave me the confidence to write a proposal in which I could take pride. The regularly scheduled meetings with her helped keep me on track because I work full time and am a full time student. My coach was honest and provided me with constructive feedback. I wish that I would have found the Dissertation Doctor earlier in my process! I would have saved money on tuition and a huge amount of time. I will continue to meet with Dr. Moira until I graduate... now that I see graduation in the near future.”
Grace Lincoln, Walden Student
“From start to finish, The Dissertation Doctor delivered. I have been working on my dissertation for several years with mixed results, but could not have been more pleased with the services, wisdom and professionalism at The Dissertation Doctor. You are personally matched with a very capable coach and the productivity begins. Dr. Kat, my coach, is both scholarly and accommodating, not to mention worth every penny. I count myself most fortunate to have worked with Dr Kat. I am forever in debt to her realistic goals, understanding, and knowledge for guiding me through my Ph.D. Dissertation process. Thanks to Dr. Kat and The Dissertation Doctor for a great Ph.D experience! Look no further for a dissertation consulting and coaching company. From ABD to Ph.D, The Dissertation Doctor, is the complete personalized package.”
Dr. Abbie Mullin Piette, University of Phoenix graduate
I am certain many individuals will write of the wonders of your assistance or motivation but I would like for people to know of your integrity. Your integrity is pervasive ~ your work, standards, communications, attitude, and assistance are for those individuals who aspire to also have integrity and to build a great foundation for their future based on their time with you. My time with you all has been tailored to me and has met the many areas of need one faces during times of challenge beyond the academia. Not only was I provided a great mentor but also with encouragement and the support that many others cannot understand, much less provide, for those walking through a dissertation. I most appreciated that the work and the insight were mine to claim and own and produce. However, I also was most appreciative that I had a mentor who could speak to my topic and interests instead of speaking in vague generalities regarding the dissertation process. Thank you Dr. Sally. Thank you Dr. Moira. You guys are beyond compare.
Dr. Krista Wells, The Military Spouse Coach, Wells Consulting Services, LLC
Dr. Sally walks the talk and that makes all the difference. Dr. Sally is bright, organized, professional, has an amazing energy, and shares lots of resources. She really helps you move forward in your life starting at the inside. She helps you get rid of your gremlins and be the person you were meant to be. I grew the most in the years that she was my coach and I would work with her again in the future. She helped me complete my dissertation, begin my business, get trademarked, and I would hire her to get any project such as writing a book or large project at work completed while still enjoying the process. I highly recommend her services and not just to those writing dissertations, she is all around a top notch life coach!
Dr. Ann Wachtler, as quoted in a San Diego Union-Tribune article:
Basically, I needed someone to mother me through my dissertation," she says. "It requires you to face up to your demons, you need somebody who's been through the process... and sometimes you need somebody to let your hair down with that you don't have to worry about politically how this will effect your dissertation. My advisor is a wonderful person, but with Sally I can rant and rave -- and get good advice. Read complete article »
Dené Williamson, St. Thomas University Student
To say that I was lost would be considered an understatement. I had finished my coursework and had passed my comprehensive exams. The only thing between me and graduation was the daunting task of writing my dissertation. With the guidance from Dr. Kat, what I once considered unattainable is now a reality and the finish line is in sight. Dr. Kat’s expertise provided the direction I needed to move step by step through each chapter. Each time we speak we set attainable goals and she gives me the direction needed to reach each goal. Although the technical components of the writing process are extremely important, something that I consider to be even more important is motivation. Dr. Kat had the ability to continuously motivate me to forge ahead. She has taken a very overwhelming experience and has given me the tools to cross the finish line.
Michael Johnson, Walden University Student
I was hopelessly lost after spending many years in the dissertation process. I was on the verge of giving up until I found the Dissertation Doctor. Now thanks to their help, I am making real progress for the first time, perhaps ever. While I still have a long way to go, I am confident that with the help from my personal consultant, Dr. Piyusha, I will achieve my ultimate goal of completing my PhD program.
Dr. Rosie Mills, Director William Hodson Community Center, Walden University Graduate
Dr. Sally, you have unquestionably earned my respect. I would like to express my earnest gratitude to you for sharing your innate ability to always use the right words at key times of my academic journey, especially when I thought I had reached my peak of despair. Your intervention was pivotal when I felt isolated and became quite self-absorbed, stranded and disconnected. Your coaching has been invaluable. The services that you rendered always seemed to have the human elements of moral and emotional support. The intelligence and brilliance that you possess and impart through your coaching techniques have ultimately resulted in the successful defense of my dissertation. The long process of getting through the seemingly impossible goal could have only been accomplished because you were committed to getting me focused. Dr. Sally, may you never extinguish that helpful demeanour.
Dr. Jan Piraino Spiritual Psychoanalyst, Private Practice
Since I am a mid-life learner, I chose to attend a school without walls. There were only two times a year that the scholarly community met, in January and July. For six years, I struggled; completing course requirements slowly, with great insecurity about my ability as a scholar, and alone. For many years, I wondered whether I would complete the program. Finally, I made the decision to complete the work; and knew I couldn't possibly go it alone. At that point, and at the beginning of the Proposal stage, I searched the Internet for help. Dissertation Doctor appeared, as did four or five others. After interviewing them all on-line, I spoke to three of the individuals in person to see what their services included and to see with whom I had rapport. Ultimately, I decided on Dr. Sally. The coaching has been invaluable in a number of ways: Weekly, hourly appointments help to keep me engaged with the work and on track. Sally continually assists me to create and reassess a realistic timeline. Each weekly session is devoted to my needs; including content decisions, emotional and moral support, and the management of my committee. Throughout the process, my skills as scholar have developed. Under her watchful and gentle tutelage, I have matured as an author and no longer feel the dreadful insecurity that stymied my progress in the past. I greatly recommend the coaching process generally, and Dr. Sally specifically.
Dr. Verna Lynn McDonald, Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. Sally is committed, focused, and walks in integrity. I work in excellence on my dissertation because I have a coach who keeps me on track each step of the way.
Why do I make time for coaching during the dissertation process?
- When I don't, there is a sense of work, drudgery, and endless detail that takes over the purpose, brilliancing and core expression that Dr. Sally can pull out of me in 60 minutes.
- When I don't, the authentic voices of my participant teachers, and what is core to their multicultural work, begins to blur into frames of methodologies and the tortured contortions of a new researcher working in someone else's mental maps. Dr. Sally can make the contortions visible, use lasered questions to find the way for my own mental maps to emerge, and keep the methodological track in its own clarity without interfering with the live data and voices of the teachers.
- When I do, the focus and magic of creating, of finding what is important to say, and of reading the work of those setting foundations in the field before me, are all integrated.
- When I do, the holographs of my future self as a Researcher and Teacher (that we clearly draw from my core) - become the daily experience of balance and health while writing.
Dr. Sally is the lighthouse beacon slowly turning to illuminate where my shadows have started to cover the tides and rhythms of this lengthy dissertations process. Sometimes she is the foghorn that interrupts my course when I am heading for the rocks. She has even been the night watchman searching through the wreckage with me to salvage what is needed to continue on. Through our years together, I have always known I could walk in the light with her, or stumble around on the rocky coast by myself. Dr. Sally reminds me of the RCMP icebreakers -- the toughest (and smallest) ships in the Canadian fleet. She always finds the seam in the ice that will let the light through and show the way for opening frozen, dense energy systems that I hardly know are there. Thank you, dear partner in the journey for all the breakthroughs.
