Let’s Talk Coaching Services

What makes you unique among coaches?

A lot of coaches teach directly from a playbook or a program and have certifications that aren’t more than a weekend course. Instead, my unique offering is backed by my commitment to my own lifelong learning and customized to fit who you are, allowing you to co-create the process of your own transformation. Holding certifications in Life Coaching, Mediation, Psychedelic Integration, and Body Work, I’ve logged thousands of hours of professional training and on-the-job training spent during client hours, working with businesses, individuals, families, partners, and couples. I follow a strict code of ethics and pay for professional supervision from a licensed psychotherapist and other mental health professionals peers, guides, and elders. I draw from a rich reservoir of leaders, thinkers, activists, and colleagues to bring a truly superior product to each one of my clients.

As a lifelong student of human relationships, I have worked in both mainstream and alternative environments to create conscious lasting change in people’s lives. Dissatisfied with the constraints of my collegiate training and my early career in social work, I went on to work as an outdoor educator, a camp director, an international Permaculture instructor, a culinary educator, and an Executive Private Chef in Silicon Valley. All of my pursuits have been driven by a passion for human connection, systemic change, and Deep Ecology. I’ve worn many hats, all the time building my experience to be able to offer a seasoned perspective on life, work, and relationships.

Do you work with women or LBGTQA+ folx? What about alternative relationship models?

In short, YES! I hold the perspective that there are many ways to express our gender identity across a spectrum of being. Whether you hold traditional views on relationship, or you actively practice Polyamory or Relational Anarchy, there also many ways of being in relationship with other humans. Regardless how you identify or how you choose to relate, my coaching is focused on how power, culture, and your choice factor into your specific relationships. My passion for men’s growth stemmed from my lifelong support of feminism. I realized the only way to support women and other marginalized folks in my life was by healing and teaching men, starting with myself. While men (and male bodied people) often hold the lion’s share of structural and cultural privilege in our world, many are disconnected from the responsibilities and even the benefits of that privilege. Men’s culture often fails to impart skills related to nurture, compassion, and emotional competency because we didn’t learn this from the male caretakers in our own lives. Unless we consciously take responsibility for learning these skills, we’re quite likely to repeat what we internalized as children. Many scholars have shown how this actually recycles male oppression in culture; we repeat our mistakes across generations. I work under the belief that this epigenetic cycle of trauma needs to be interrupeted if we’re to have a collaborative society and a sustainable future. This restructuring means working with everyone who’s experienced the effects of masculinity wounds and IJC aims to be inclusive of all humans regardless of heritage, race, gender or orientation.

Does it work?

Yes. I see it work every day. My work has helped clients enter recovery and stay sober; it has helped clients save their marriages, exit abusive relationships, find new love, find new careers, metabolize childhood trauma, develop leadership qualities, and find a spiritual connection within their community. This all happened because my clients made the commitment to learn skills to solve problems in new ways. I’m continually grateful to bear witness to their process. My ongoing education has provided me with robust academic training and continuous dedication to professional development and my offerings are always growing. Many great teachers and leaders along my path prepared me to be a brave leader in my field and I continue to learn using the tools I teach. My curiosity about the power of authentic human potential has kept me nourishing human relationships at every turn. With coaching, I help people understand why they experience resistance, normalize their experiences of struggle, and offer tools to help increase choice and problem-solve real issues. Together we create experiences that are more aligned with our chosen values. I believe in your power and I believe in Skills for Change, because I see it work.