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I often work with ambitious white-collar professionals from tech and finance. That matches my professional background so I bring relevant experience to our conversations.
I also often work with people in their 30s and 40s who are in the midst of a meaningful yet difficult midlife transition. Sometimes, its because they are working through childhood trauma and how its impacted their relationship to self-worth and/or workaholism. Or, they are simply burned out from work and ready for a new chapter in their life.
Other times, its with someone who has similarly experienced a spontaneous spiritual awakening and they are struggling with the lostness and aloneness that typically follows an experience that fundamentally shatters their sense of identity and how they relate to the world.
I can wear multiple hats and enjoy doing that.
I created my own based on everything I've learned through my personal psychological and spiritual journey.
I learned a lot by going through addiction recovery and working the Twelve Steps. I also have a lot of experience with preparation and integration for psychedelic-assisted therapy stemming from my personal experiences, mentorship from plant medicine guides, and my time with Heroic Hearts Project. It's taught me a lot about the mythical aspects of life and how to work with altered states of consciousness.
I've spent years in self-directed study on topics such as metabolic health, archetypal patterns, mythopoetic frameworks from the greats such as Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Bill Plotkin, developmental psychology and various other fields of human psychology.
I don't have any formal coaching credentials and likely won't get any. They can be helpful, but they don't replace lived experience. I lean on my lived experience and intuition to guide my method.
I miiiiight get advanced degrees in psychology. But it's hard to justify that I should given that you can teach yourself anything for a fraction of the price so long as you're willing to read a lot of books, talk to wise mentors, and pursue lived experience over theoretical knowledge.
To be fair, if you want a coach with lots of credentials, I'm not your guy. There are many others with more credentials than me.
We'll usually begin with 5 minutes of grounding ourselves in present awareness. I'll guide you through a simple meditation + breathwork routine to do so.
From there, I'll ask questions to understand what's alive for you in that moment. What is most pressing to you? What are you currently feeling stuck on? What difficult emotions or experiences are you navigating? You get the jist.
The purpose is to identify in that moment how I can best unlock or unblock you so that you can move forward. Very little of our time is spent on philosophical meandering. It's far more useful to help you get unstuck.
From there, we figure out what your 'homework assignment' will be. A coaching session isn't very helpful if there isn't direct action for you to take afterward. Then, the next time we meet, we'll pick up where we left off with your homework assignment, then get back to the business of getting you unstuck!
Yup! Many of my clients send me emails or messages on WhatsApp between our sessions if they need a micro-dose of insight or support.
I'm also a fan of sending audio notes to my clients. Sometimes, they have a question that isn't deserving of a 1-hour coaching session. Instead, I can send a 5 or 10 minute audio message to provide support in between our sessions together.
