Coaching rates and details
In professional coaching, we focus not on your day-to-day goals and KPIs, but on the deeper aspects of your experience at work.
As a former venture-backed technology founder and executive, I’ve been in the client seat myself and know firsthand how impactful it can be to work with people that understand your context and speak your language.
The goal and result is to feel more awake, clear, and grounded in the reality of your tasks and projects. We’d work 1:1 on a weekly or biweekly basis, and I can help you:
Get clear when things are complex
“Turn off” work or shift gears at workday’s end (especially for technology and creative workers)
Create a consistent, organized place and time to talk
Receive feedback through a paired creative problem solving process (especially for founders and executives)
Contextualize and resolve common workplace experiences to get unstuck
Although the work we do together is deeply intercultural and trauma-informed, coaching is not therapy, and I’m open about when, where, and how other forms of support might be beneficial for you.
How we can help
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Self-Discovery and Integration 🕵️♂️
If you feel frequently overwhelmed or depleted, we use a mix of psychological models that are research-based, non-diagnostic, and neuroinclusive to explore your needs, values, and cognitive styles. Understanding these dynamics can provide a new, stable foundation to help you move out of survival mode and better manage your energy and motivation.
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Work Narratives 💼
Who are you at work? What are the throughlines in your career? Why do you do what you do? Are there other activities outside of your job that are important to you? How do these fit together? There are many ways to look at a career. Beyond your resume, exploring these questions on a broader level and defining these concepts for yourself can help you feel more energized and connected to the world, cultivating a greater sense of agency and fulfillment.
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Projects and Beginner's Mind ✨
Dissatisfaction at work and workaholism can stem from a lack of fulfilling projects in our lives that we do just because, for ourselves. When we are young, we are often given the freedom to try all sorts of activities. We may also believe that our children, nieces, and nephews can explore in this way—but for us, it’s “too late.” As adults, being a beginner at a new hobby or project can trigger surprising and unexpected feelings that keep us stuck, like shame, guilt, and fear. Coaching can support this exploration.
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Transitions and Change 🌀
During a major life or work transition, it is hard to know which way is up, and the people in our lives may not be equipped to support us. Transitions involve a change to our concepts of self and identity. It can be helpful to know that these challenging experiences often share common characteristics. A coach can share practical strategies and provide a compassionate, consistent support through the process.
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Upskilling and Goal Attainment 📈
Skills take time and effort to stick. You may have specific goals in your professional and personal life that require developing a new skill. A coach gives this process structure, helping you chart course, note progress, figure out your next step, and work through rough patches. If that skill involves developing relational, social, and emotional intelligence, working with a coach will, by design, help you develop these skills through regular sessions.
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Feeling Seen 🪞
Sometimes, what we need most is simply to be seen and heard. We may know what to do, but still want to talk it through. Coaches who have gone through similar experiences can provide a nonjudgmental listening ear to help us move forward.
Who we support
New managers
A promotion changes dynamics at home and work more dramatically than we anticipate. You may be an expert in your field or function, but need extra support building expertise in the social-emotional-cultural aspects of work, streamlining your focus, developing your team, hiring, and communicating with other leads in your organization. You may have existing resources at work, or work on a team that is small. Either way, you feel you would benefit from external support.
Founders
Your work-life is naturally merged, and you may experience high pressure meeting not only the needs of family, but also of your employees and community. You want to speak with someone who is familiar with the full scope of activities involved in running a company, from product and service development and sales to operational admin, and who can support your decision-making. You could use transitional support through major business events, like growth, restructures, and new product launches.
Neurodivergent folks
You are highly sensitive or intense. You can solve complex problems easily, but simple problems can be more difficult. You have different ways of relating and socializing. You take in a lot of information from your environment, which can overwhelm. You have different nervous system needs to feel healthy. You need practical support understanding your cognitive profile and needs, and traditional therapy feels ineffective or limited. You may have hybrid or multiple interests and skills.
Minorities
Being the “only one like you” in an environment can be stem from many factors. Whatever the cause, it can create unique stressors that result from isolation and other social disconnects.
We are also familiar with common experiences of: women and gender non-conforming folks, LGBTQIA+ folks, people of color, multiracial and multiethnic folks, and multiple minorities.
FAQs
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It’s rare for us to have available resources to make changes in our lives: time, energy, expertise.
Unlike other social relationships with family, friends, colleagues, teachers, or managers, coaching provides a unique form of one-on-one support that is completely focused on your growth.
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No, while both professions support an individual’s mental health, often through one-on-one conversation, they have different goals and methods. Coaching is not a replacement for therapy.
Therapy’s goal is often diagnosis and trauma healing. In general, it focuses on the past. It is a part of the formal healthcare system and has regulatory and licensing requirements to practice. Therapy helps you achieve basic functioning.
Coaching’s goal is helping you take action in the present. Its methods are diverse depending on the goal. More akin to a personal trainer, specialized consultant, or a guide, coaching helps you grow.
It is normal to work with both a coach and therapist to support different needs, or at different times in life.
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Coaches are as diverse as clients and not all coaches fit all situations and clients. Coaches can take approaches that are analytical, intuitive, artistic, emotional, spiritual, religious, professional, academic, or any mix of these.
We recommend finding someone who 1) has worked on similar goals, 2) comes from a similar background (this can be demographic, geographic, educational, professional—whatever feels most pressing for you), 3) communicates in a way that works for you, and 4) anticipating a minimum of 4-6 sessions to feel it out and establish rapport.
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Coaching works best when you have time and resources to dedicate to specific goals and are ready to take steps forward. If you are working through major psychological or mental health challenges, it is strongly recommended to seek therapy instead, or coaching only alongside therapy.
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It helps, but it’s not necessary. It’s totally normal if you feel fuzzy on where you want to go, and we can discover that together. It usually takes some experimenting and trial and error to find your footing, and it’s normal for goals to evolve. We will set goals and check-ins in order to chart course, but the experience is fluid.