Online Coaching vs.
Telehealth Therapy
If therapy is where you go to fight your demons, coaching is the practice ground where you pick up your weapons and train in a lower-key, smaller-scale environment. To book a consultation for coaching (a brief complementary meeting to assess whether coaching with me is a good fit for you), contact me here with your availibility!
In therapy, you have a treatment plan. If you experience mental illness that has potentially dangerous aspects, like psychosis or suicidality, your clinican will help you monitor and plan the best ways to keep yourself safe. In therapy, deep trauma processing is on the table. Therapy is happens on a HIPPA compliant telehealth platform; for coaching, we use google meet or zoom.
In executive function coaching, we just look at the practicalities of your life and tackle them one by one. Having trouble establishing a consistent sleep schedule? Wish you had the discipline to get some morning sun in your eyes in the winter? Feeling guilty about procrastinating your college application essays? Executive function coaching can help!
Coaching format
Step 1: We identify 1-3 priority goals—typically projects to complete or habits to change. If identifying just a few goals feels overwhelming because there are so many things you need to get done, we may spend a full session creating an organized to-do list and doing an exercise to evaluate what goals would have the lowest cost and highest reward.
Step 2: We identify realistic, concrete steps that are suitable to do within the next few days to work towards your goals. We identify likely barriers to completing those steps, and we identify potential supports or tactics to help overcome those barriers.
Step 2a: If needed, I will sit and body-double with you in session while you complete particularly overwhelming tasks. I can also recommend or teach emotional regulation strategies to deal with, for instance, the overwhelming panic that many people find is an inescapable part of completing tax paperwork. Then, you can focus on more manageable steps to complete between sessions.
Step 3: The next time we meet, we make a non-judgemental accounting of what happened. Were there barriers we didn’t think of? Did you not take the steps we planned on, because you got carried away doing other work that took you a satisfying distance towards the same goal? Did you knock it out of the park? Did something unexpected come up, like illness or caregiving responsibilities? After making this accounting, we identify non-overwhelming next steps to try in the following interval.
Step 4: Repeat this process until the project is complete or the habit is established.
Pricing
One meeting every other week is 200/month
One meeting per week is 300/month
Two meetings per week are 500/month
All coaching meetings must be paid in advance, by the month; meetings typically last 1 hour, although some clients have found that a 30 minute check-in is effective for them as well. If you are late or miss a session, I will make an effort to accommodate re-scheduling, but I can’t guarantee that this will be possible.
“Doomscrolling retrieval” and “task initiation help” calls are 20 each, available only to current or former monthly coaching clients. What does this look like? We might agree that I will call you at 3:00 and stay on the phone with you for up to 15 minutes while you get up and start doing your dishes/whatever task you most need help initiating.
Depending on my availability and your need, I often include 1-3 complementary doomscrolling retrieval/task initiation calls per week with monthly coaching.
To schedule a free consultation to determine if coaching with me is a good fit for you, message me here with your availibility.
