Individual Coaching:
Finding Your Authentic Self and Getting the Support You Need
Individual Coaching
Are you exploring your gender or other aspects of your identity? Are you active in recovery and looking for support in maintaining a recovery lifestyle? Are you a parent or other loved one who is supporting someone of any age as they navigate the world and their transition?
No matter what brings you here, you don't have to have all the answers and you don't have to do this alone.
As a coach, I want to help you untangle and identify your true, authentic voice from amongst the convoluted web of what we’ve been conditioned to believe, think, and feel by the world around us, our traumas, and our formative experiences. We will work together to unearth the parts of yourself that yearn to be seen, to be free, to be healed, and to be brought to the surface. I’d be honored to help you explore your capacity for resilience, healing, connection, and a deeper more authentic relationship with yourself.
Whether you want support with navigating gender identity or transition, exploring and updating what coping strategies you have developed for survival, learning how to change your relationship with your inner critic, and/or wanting support in maintaining your recovery, I’d love to help you in that process. If you are someone who is offering support to a loved one who is nonbinary, transgender, and/or gender expansive, you deserve knowledgeable, non-judgmental understanding and support for yourself while processing through the often complicated feelings and experiences that may come up as you support someone who is navigating a gender transition or exploration of their identity.
Sometimes the identities we’ve inhabited by default no longer fit us and it’s time to make a change and dive into a more authentic relationship with ourselves. Sometimes the coping strategies that were essential to our survival are no longer serving us and we want to develop different skills and tools to bring us into a place where we can thrive. Sometimes no matter how hard we try we can be unbearably cruel to ourselves and we just can’t seem to be able to figure out a way to have a healthy, loving relationship with ourselves. Sometimes we just need some support in continuing the gender exploration or recovery work we are already engaged in.
As a MA graduate in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with over a decade of nonbinary and transgender group and individual peer support facilitation, I can offer support from a well-informed and place that includes my lived experience as well as the experience gained supporting hundreds of people at various stages of transition and their families over the past 10+ years. When it comes to our bodies, I come from a trauma-informed, HAES lens. As a nonbinary transgender person myself, I can bring a unique understanding to my work with other transgender, nonbinary, and/or questioning adults, but I am open to working with clients of all genders in the US and internationally on finding their authentic self and deepening their relationship with themselves.
All sessions are virtual- offered via secure video chat or phone call for the foreseeable future.
Coaching vs. Counseling
What is the difference and is coaching a good fit for you?
While I am a licensed mental health professional and I do work in private practice with some clients, I wanted to be able to offer more options to people who might benefit from the support I can give as a coach. In coaching, I understand that safeguarding my clients’ confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of an effective practice and I will do everything in my power to protect your private information to the same standards as a counseling relationship. I will, of course, also be bringing all of my professional knowledge to our coaching relationship, and the work that we would be doing together in coaching, while often similar to counseling, has its differences.
As a coach, I do not offer mental health diagnosis and I don’t work in a crisis support capacity. If a coaching client should experience a crisis that needs the level of therapeutic support offered by a counselor, or they want to work with someone who can provide a diagnosis, I will do my best to refer them to a counselor who can offer the particular support they need. Additionally, counseling can only be offered in the state where I am licensed, but I can offer coaching to people anywhere in the world. I also do not accept insurance as a coach and because of this my sessions are available on a sliding scale to everyone.
What should I expect from coaching?
We will work together to identify your goals and I will support you as you work to achieve them. Our work will include a significant amount of education about human development, neurobiology, the body’s stress response, conscious and unconscious coping strategies (and how to make more conscious choices) and whatever else will support a deeper, more authentic understanding of yourself and your process.
I’m likely to give you worksheets, readings, and some assignments that will help you in your process, but never fear, it’s up to you how much work you’d like to do outside of session. If you prefer to do all of your work in session with me, that’s A-OK, but the process will move more slowly.
My goal as a coach is to be a supportive guide for you in developing a healthier, more authentic relationship with yourself and strengthening your capacity for resiliency and joy. You deserve to heal and grow!