Hi, and welcome! I’m so happy that you’ve stumbled upon this page. If you’re here, there’s a good chance that you’re thinking about hiring a coach. And I’m both honored and flattered that you’re thinking of me specifically! But what is coaching, anyway? How will you know what sort of coaching is right for you at this point in your life?

As a certified coach, my general interests are in helping my clients work through various questions, transitional moments, issues, or obstacles in their life, offering them advice, exercises, plans, frameworks, guidance, and whatever else may be useful in allowing the client to find the answers they need. I treat each client as a unique individual rather than trying to fit everyone into a specific model or framework. I love seeing people grow in ways large and small, and if I can be there to assist with this in any way, well, that makes my day.

This may be my professional practice, but I don’t treat my clients as mere bits of business; instead, I’m committed to listening to each client with compassion, empathy, and presence. You’re in a safe, secure place with me.

Accountability Coaching

In general, I’ll help clients figure out what their unique goals are—and, most importantly, how to actually work towards them. It’s wonderful to create a personal goal on your road to personal healing, recovery, and change, but it can be difficult to hold yourself accountable for actually doing the work. Almost regardless of what your specific needs are, you can expect me to help you identify things that you’d like to work towards—no matter how big or small—and to help you remain consistent and focused. At the same time, I understand that life happens, as it were, and so my brand of accountability coaching takes this into account with care and compassion.

Transformational Coaching

More specifically, as a transformational coach, I’m here to help clients become better, more assured, more confident, more resilient versions of themselves. Transformational coaching is a way of getting down to the root causes of the things that make us tick, the things that cause us pleasure and pain, the things we fear or hide in some deep place inside ourselves. It’s a way of learning more about who you truly are, at your core, nothing left out, nothing abandoned. It’s a way of learning to accept the good and not-so-good alike in yourself—and figuring out, from there, how to be more at peace with all of who you are. It’s not something you can do at the snap of a finger, but when you do begin the process, you’ll know it, for you’ll begin to finally feel a bit more complete, a bit more at peace.

So often, we find ourselves fighting or suppressing some aspect of our identities, and this can lead to us feeling drained, lashing out at others and ourselves, and just generally walking through life with a sense that something isn’t quite right, isn’t quite whole in us. This is where transformational coaching comes in.

Transformational coaching is designed to help clients find their own unique answers to their own unique situations. It’s designed, in other words, to help clients grow—not in some simple prescribed way by the coach, but in whatever way you, the client, would authentically like to grow. Growth isn’t something you finish at a specific point; instead, it’s a lifelong process, and it’s a process that may end up looking different as your life shifts.

As a transformational coach, I’m here to do my best to help you on this journey, whether you need me for a single session, a few meetings, or for a long time as a professional partner on your beautiful journey.

My practice is syncretic, meaning that I draw inspiration from a variety of sources and schools of thought, including shadow work in general and some of the techniques of chöd in particular. I have a special interest in helping clients who wish to explore, reframe, and reshape their relationship with their shadows—that is, whatever they may fear, dislike, repress, or feel the instinct to hide. It’s easy to think of our shadows in a negative way, but they are often trying to tell us something important, if we’re willing to listen. This is important, delicate work—the kind of work I know the difficulty of both from doing it myself and from working with my clients—and it’s the kind of work I’ll do with you in a gentle, attentive, experienced way, if you’re open to it. It’s not required as my client, of course, but it’s the kind of work I’m happy to help with if and when you’re ready to explore your own dark rooms of the self, so to speak—with me as a safe, patient, nonjudgmental, empathetic guide.

Ultimately, transformational coaching is about letting go of the attachments we no longer need and learning what, instead, we do want and need. As your coach, I’ll do my best to help you find this on your own unique life path.

Integration Coaching

I also have a special interest in integration coaching, which means helping a client through large or significant experiences, including those experienced during psychedelic journeys. In its simplest definition, to “integrate” means “to make whole,” and that is the goal of integration coaching: to help a client process, make sense of, and learn from a big life experience of some kind.

It’s surprisingly easy to have a big experience and just let it pass by, knowing it sort of meant something but not what it specifically meant. When we let this happen, it can have negative trickle-down effects, meaning that it will affect us later down the line, even if we aren’t immediately aware that our lack of integration is to blame.

My integration coaching is open to clients of any kind who would like to work through such experiences (and there’s no judgment here about what constitutes a “big” or “significant” life experience, as this will be unique for each person). It isn’t limited to clients who would like to discuss psychedelic experiences.

For clients who would like to integrate psychedelic experiences, I’m eager to listen and guide you with an open heart and mind. As both a certified psychedelic integration coach and a psychonaut myself, I’m always happy to speak with clients who are either curious about psychedelics or who have already undergone a transformative experience on one. My coaching practice does not involve supplying any substances to clients; my focus is on education, harm reduction, and safety for clients unfamiliar with psychedelics, and on helping clients who have had an experience to integrate it into themselves so that they, too, can feel whole again.