FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • That’s enough to begin.

    You may be circling a decision. Feeling differently about your career than you used to. Wanting more from a relationship. Rethinking a family dynamic. Or simply sensing that the next part of your life could feel different from the one you’ve already lived.

    You don’t need to arrive with a perfectly articulated goal.

    Part of our work is figuring out what matters now, and where a bolder move might begin.

  • Good.

    Coaching doesn’t require a crisis.

    You can love your life and still want to be closer to your spouse. Date differently. Change how you respond to your family. Make a decision you’ve been postponing. Rethink a career that once fit beautifully. Take a chance on something you want. Or create more room for what matters to you now.

    You don’t have to hate your life to want more from it.

  • Both can involve meaningful conversations about relationships, patterns, decisions, and change.

    Therapy is designed to address mental health concerns, healing, trauma, emotional distress, and the ways past experiences may be affecting you now.

    Coaching is oriented toward your life now, what you want going forward, and what you’re willing to do differently.

    My clinical background absolutely informs how I listen and what I notice. But I am working with you as a coach, not as your therapist.

    If what you’re bringing would be better served by therapy or another kind of professional care, I’ll tell you.

START HERE

  • You bring what’s happening.

    A conversation you need to have. A decision you’re circling. A pattern you keep repeating. A relationship that’s getting under your skin. An idea you can’t stop thinking about. Or a question you haven’t quite figured out how to ask yet.

    I listen closely. I ask questions. I notice patterns. And I’ll tell you what I see.

    We may challenge an assumption, look at the situation from a completely different angle, rehearse a conversation, get very practical, identify a choice, or decide on an experiment to try in real life.

    The point isn’t to have an interesting coaching conversation. It’s for the conversation to change what becomes possible afterward.

    And yes, we will probably laugh.

  • Neither, exactly.

    I won’t make your decisions for you. I will absolutely give you my perspective.

    If I see a pattern, I’ll name it. If I think an assumption deserves a closer look, we’ll look at it. If I see another way to approach something, I’ll offer it.

    Sometimes I may suggest a conversation, a different response, a question to ask, or an experiment worth trying.

    You decide what fits, what doesn’t, and what you want to do with it.

    I want you leaving with more ways to move, not a new person whose approval you need before making a decision.

  • Yes.

    A surprising amount can change when one person changes how they participate in a pattern.

    That might mean making a clearer request. Setting a different boundary. Changing your response. Stopping something you’ve been doing automatically. Or deciding what you will and won’t continue to participate in.

    I also work with couples when both people want to work on the relationship together.

  • Yes.

    Many of my clients are therapists, psychologists, clinical leaders, and other people whose professional lives revolve around understanding and helping others.

    You already know the language. We do not need to spend your coaching hour proving that you understand attachment theory.

    We can get to your life.

    There can be something particularly valuable about having a place where you are not the clinician, the expert, or the person holding everything for everyone else.

  • Mostly, your life happens.

    You may leave with a conversation to have, a boundary to hold, a decision to make, a question to sit with, or a small experiment to try.

    I’m much more interested in what happens when an idea meets real life than in assigning homework for the sake of homework.

    Whatever happens gives us useful information for what comes next.

THE WORK

WORKING TOGETHER

  • It’s a 30-minute conversation to see whether working together makes sense.

    You’ll tell me what’s bringing you to coaching and what you’d like help with. I’ll ask some questions, you can ask me anything you want about how I work, and we’ll get a feel for whether the fit is right.

    If it is, I’ll explain the ways we could work together and what the next step would be.

    You do not need to know whether I’m your coach before you talk to me. That’s what the conversation is for.

  • Yes. I treat what you share with me as confidential, subject to the limits outlined in our coaching agreement and applicable law.

    With your permission, I may use AI-assisted note-taking tools to help create a written recap for you and to review my own coaching work. I will ask for your permission before using them, and their use is completely optional. Choosing not to use AI will not affect your coaching in any way.

    Because coaching is not psychotherapy, our conversations may not carry the same legal privilege that can apply in a therapist-client relationship.

    The short version: this is your life, your story, and your space to talk openly. I take that trust seriously, and you have a say in how your session information is handled.

STILL WONDERING IF I’M THE RIGHT COACH FOR YOU?

That’s what a Discovery Conversation is for. You don’t need a polished goal. You don’t need to know exactly where the conversation will lead. Bring me what you’re thinking about. We’ll start there.

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