All coaching sessions are available virtually via Zoom video conference or with a hybrid option to have a portion of sessions in-person at my office at Light Space in SE Portland. Recordings are provided for virtual sessions.

Coaching is an active conversation centered around your goals. At times I may integrate other tools, such as guided relaxation or visualization, breath work, journal prompts, or exercises designed to support the results you are seeking or break through mental obstacles.

This is a client-centered process, and everything that happens is designed to match your goals and your specific needs. Beyond the 75-minute coaching sessions (usually scheduled 1-2 times each month), there will be action steps and custom assignments that are tailored to the amount of time and energy you have to give, and always contribute to freeing up resources for you. Most of my clients find that the work we do in coaching gives them more time and energy, rather than depleting it.

While there are many similarities between coaching and therapy, coaches are not licensed and cannot provide mental healthcare or diagnosis, and coaching is not the appropriate space to process deep emotional trauma. Coaching is a great fit if you would like to increase your sense of agency in your life, expand your sense of what is possible for you, and get support and accountability to take aligned actions that will help you build new skills, habits and beliefs that move you towards greater possibility and choice. Business coaching is also distinct from therapy as it blends strategic planning and creative thought partnership with the inner work of mindset shifts.

Consulting typically involves an expert teaching their method for achieving a specific result to someone else who wants to try that exact method. Coaching is a more exploratory process that centers the innate wisdom of the client being coached, and helps them to build self-trust, creative confidence and intuition to develop their own strategies. Like most coaches, I do occasionally provide some consulting if the client is working on solving a problem I am familiar with. I try to ask permission or differentiate when I am going to consult, so that my clients know they are always at choice and not expected to follow my formula.

I have a thorough onboarding process for new clients that includes a free 30-minute consult, followed by a free 60-minute coaching conversation with no commitment. Most of my clients know by the end of that process whether we will be a fit to work together.

Due to the limited number of clients I have space for each year, I generally do not provide refunds for coaching once the commitment is made, however I am happy to extend credits if the coaching duration needs to be postponed or stretched out due to changes in life circumstance.

If coaching is being discontinued because one or both of us has decided that we are not a fit to work together, we will discuss a fair refund agreement on a case by case basis.