Coaching

People don’t stay stuck without a reason. Usually, something is being protected.

Most people asking for coaching want relief. I work best with people who want something harder: to actually become a different person, not just feel better about the one they already are. That means being honest about where you actually are right now, not where you think you should be, and building the self-trust to stretch past it a little at a time. Change is uncomfortable. My job is to make it manageable without making it small.

How I show up

“The cost of authenticity is identity.”

A belief I keep coming back to in this work.

Becoming who you actually want to be almost always means giving up a version of yourself you've been performing, sometimes for years. That's not a side effect of real change. It's the actual work. Most of what I do is help people see clearly enough to make that trade on purpose, instead of being ambushed by it.

Ways to work together

Choose the room the work needs.

Individual Coaching

Sessions, plus real accountability between them. What you pay reflects how much you actually show up. The people who do the work between sessions pay less than the people who don't.

Couples Communication Work

The same work, for two people at once. Most couples don't have a communication problem so much as two different unspoken rulebooks running at the same time. This is about making those rules visible enough to actually talk about.

Group Cohort

The same depth of work, in a room with other people doing it alongside you. This is the accessible entry point, priced to be a real option, not a watered-down one. Some of the best insight in a session comes from watching someone else have theirs.

This isn't a first attempt at coaching. It's built on years of studying and practicing this work directly, including formal training in specific contemplative and psychological frameworks, long-form conversations with people doing the same work, and a body of writing and teaching that lives outside the scope of this site.

If something's been managed around instead of solved, the honest conversation is the first step.

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Work with Michael

Different problems.
Same approach.