Clif Cannon is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Cancer Coach through the Cancer Wellness Institute, with over 15 years of coaching mastery. He brings to his work with cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers a rare combination of rigorous professional training, and deeply personal understanding — having walked alongside loved ones through serious illness as a primary caregiver. Clif’s approach is grounded in presence, compassion, and a genuine belief that even in life’s most difficult passages, and crucibles we have the capacity to find meaning, agency, and our truest selves.

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Clif’s preparation for this work extends beyond coaching. A student of chaplaincy and a self-described “Zen school dropout,” he is also a certified Death Doula/End-of-Life Midwife and a devoted student of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Informed by Buddhist philosophy and the depth psychology of Carl Jung, he meets clients where they are — whether they are navigating fear, grief, treatment decisions, identity shifts, or the profound questions that illness brings to the surface. This is not clinical support; it is soulful, skilled accompaniment through one of life’s most transformative experiences.

 

Before dedicating himself to coaching, Clif lived a richly varied life — as a professional ballet dancer, practicing attorney, and business executive — bringing the discipline, rigor, and resilience those paths require to everything he does. As a leadership coach, he is a certified practitioner of The Leadership Circle Profile and trained in Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC). A lifelong world traveler and student of human experience, he has learned, most of all, that the greatest journeys are the ones that lead us home to ourselves. He is honored to walk that path with you.