Coaching With Me Is Not For You If:

You're in crisis right now. Coaching isn't the right container for acute mental health struggles, relationship emergencies, grief, or trauma. If your daily functioning is significantly impaired, therapy is the right first step, and offers the most options. Please complete an appointment request form with my group practice, Momentum Psychology, to see if one of our psychologists is a fit or if we can help you find a referral. Please note that my waitlist for therapy typically runs 6 months to a year when I am taking clients.

Your primary goal is symptom relief. If what you most want is to reduce anxiety, manage depression, stabilize your mood, or you’ve experienced a loss or trauma that has you stuck — that's most likely clinical work. It deserves a clinical container. I'm also a licensed psychologist, which means I can’t unsee what’s needed when someone describes triggers, panic, or emotional dysregulation as their central challenge.

You're not ready to take action. Understanding your patterns, clarifying your values, figuring out what you actually want — all of that happens in the work we do together. But we’re taking action from Day 1. Coaching isn’t a space to explore indefinitely without committing to change. We figure out the why and the what together, and then we act on it. If you're not ready to do that yet, then it’s probably not the right time for coaching, and that’s ok!

You're learning about change but not making it. You've read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Done the masterminds. If the most action you've taken toward your goals is consuming content about them — we're probably not ready to work together yet. Clients who work best for me are already doing some things differently. Experimenting, noticing with curiosity, adjusting, and doing reps. That's the work. Coaching just gives the work a strategic edge with a framework that can next level things. Coaching works best if you’re already in that mode.

You want someone to hand you the solution. For some things, I am right there with you! Yet, that's consulting — a real and valuable thing, just not what happens here. Consulting looks like: "I need a system for following up with prospects" and someone builds it for you.

Coaching looks like: you already know you should be following up, you're not doing it, and we figure out what's actually in the way. I'm more of a teach-a-person-to-fish than a give-you-a-fish kind of person. Coaching starts from the premise that you already have what it takes - it’s just a matter of process. My job is to help you see your own patterns clearly, make better decisions, and learn a strategic process for behavioral change — grounded in real cognitive and behavioral science, not hacks or workarounds — that you own and can use for the rest of your life.