Coaching FAQs
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Working together
What are the logistics of working together?
The standard container is six months. We meet every two weeks for one-hour sessions, starting with a complimentary discovery call to establish fit. Single sessions (30 or 60 minutes) are available for a specific, contained problem.
Sessions are held virtually.
What happens during a coaching session?
Coaching sessions are structured conversations. I ask questions, name patterns I observe, and surface assumptions for examination. Each session closes with a specific next step you want to take before we meet again. You set the agenda. I set the process.
What happens between sessions?
You take any next steps you identified, notice what happens, and bring what you learn back. In my experience, the most impactful transformation can happen between sessions.
Do you offer practices or assignments?
During the session, we work together towards clarity of what would be the most helpful next move. If you want, you can assign action items to yourself and I can support you. However, I do not give homework assignments.
Are sessions virtual or in person?
Sessions take place virtually.
How do scheduling, cancellations, and rescheduling work?
Standard practice is to reschedule or cancel 24h or more in advance. Accommodations are available for extenuating circumstances or individuals with disabilities or chronic illness.
Choosing an offer
What is the difference between Transformational Executive Coaching and Liberation Coaching?
Transformational Executive Coaching addresses your work: a hard decision, a leadership challenge, a team problem, a career question, a goal. The scope is your success, impact, and meaning. Sessions can be single or contained in a six-month arc.
Liberation Coaching is for people who work (or want to work) in social change, climate, health, education, justice, or public service. It holds the same core coaching process alongside an explicit lens on power and systemic dynamics.
It’s built for people carrying the weight of systems-level problems alongside the ordinary weight of a career.
If you’re unsure which fits, that’s what the discovery call is for.
Can I book one session before committing to a container?
Yes. Complimentary discovery calls are a standard part of my coaching practice. Please book your complimentary discovery call below and we can assess whether coaching with me is a fit, and what container will be best for your needs.
How do pricing, funded coaching, and reduced rates work?
Transformational Executive Coaching:
paid single sessions are available in 30 minute or 60 minute increments.
six-month container is also available in 30 minute or 60 minute increments.
Pro-bono slots are available for people who need them.
Liberation Coaching:
phase one (three months, six sessions) is free. At the end of month three, you decide whether to continue. If you continue,
phase two (three additional months, six more sessions) is offered at a reduced rate. You receive that rate in writing before phase one begins.
Liberation coaching begins by joining the wait list.
Scope and fit
What can I bring to coaching?
Any challenge involving how you think, decide, lead, or relate to your work.
Common starting points: a career decision with no obvious right answer, a leadership dynamic that isn’t working, a role that no longer fits, a team problem, burnout, a conflict between your values and your responsibilities, or a goal you are working toward.
Figuring out what you’re actually working on is often part of the early sessions.
Do I need to be an executive or identify as a leader?
Leadership in this practice means taking personal responsibility for change, regardless of title or formal authority.
What makes someone coachable?
Three things: willingness to be honest about your situation, curiosity about your own patterns, and readiness to try something in the world between sessions.
Clarity about what you want is not a prerequisite. Willingness to figure it out is.
Do I need to know what I want before we begin?
Knowing what you want is often what coaching helps you find. Many people arrive with a vague sense that something needs to change but no clear picture of what.
That’s a reasonable starting point.
Can coaching help if I think I need to quit my job?
Often, yes. More than half of the people who came to me convinced they needed to leave their job chose to stay.
They found possibilities they couldn’t see before: how they worked, how they relate to their work, how they used their influence.
Others did leave, and coaching helped them do it from a place of agency rather than exhaustion.
Either way, the goal is enough clarity to choose deliberately.
How does your coaching address power and systemic oppression?
Liberation Coaching engages with power dynamics explicitly. We look at who has authority, who doesn’t, what the organization rewards and penalizes, where real constraints end and internalized ones begin.
In Transformational Executive Coaching, the same awareness is present and applied situationally based on what you bring.
Ethics and safety
How is coaching different from therapy?
Therapy addresses psychological wounds and is grounded in clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Coaching is focused on forward movement: from where you are now toward what you want.
Both can be useful; they serve different purposes.
I am a coach, not a licensed therapist.
Can I work with a therapist and a coach at the same time?
Yes, and many people do. Therapy and coaching address different things and often complement each other. If you’re in therapy, let your therapist know you’re starting coaching.
How is coaching different from consulting or mentoring?
A consultant gives you answers from their expertise. A mentor shares their own experience. A coach helps you find your own answer. I ask questions, reflect what I observe, and challenge assumptions. You remain the authority on your life and work.
Is coaching confidential?
Yes. I hold what you share in our work together in strict confidence. The exceptions are legal obligations: if you disclose imminent risk of harm to yourself or others, I am required to take appropriate action.
What happens if I need support beyond the scope of coaching?
If something comes up that falls outside coaching, I’ll say so and, where I can, point you toward more appropriate support. I hold clear limits around my scope and practice within them.
Is your practice accessible for neurodivergent, disabled, or chronically ill clients?
Yes. Session formats can be adapted to your needs. If you have specific access requirements, bring them up during the discovery call and we’ll find an approach that will work for you.