I take an exploratory approach. Most life, career, or relationship coaches will tell you they are there to help you meet your goals. I may or may not be interested in helping you meet your goals, because as we work together you might discover that the goals you brought to coaching are actually placeholders for something deeper. It's easy to think we want one thing (money, a romantic relationship, a different job, etc.) when we actually want something deeper (happiness, contentment, the knowledge that we are making a difference in the world). I want to know what you really want. Deep down. I want you to meet the needs that lie beneath your goals. I want you to flourish.

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I take a somatic approach. This means a few things: First, I believe that listening to the wisdom of the body offers us insights that go much deeper than intellectual awareness. Second, I believe that the things that prevent us from becoming who we want to be are often stored in the body due to traumas large and small, personal and societal. Simply rolling up our sleeves and "trying harder" often leaves us feeling more defeated and less resolved. I am not going to yell at you to "swim harder" if I can see that you have a 40-lb. weight strapped to your back that is making you sink. I am going to work with you to get the weight off. 

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I take a liberation approach. My goal is not to help you function seamlessly in a culture that is sick with greed, isolation, despair, exploitation, and oppression. Some of you live in bodies privileged by society. Others of you live in bodies that society targets for harm. Most of us live at the intersection of many different identities, some privileged, some not. We are all harmed by systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and exploitative capitalism, even those of us who appear to benefit from them. And we are all helped when any of us makes progress toward ways of living that are counter to the systems that make for harm. How this impacts our work together will vary depending on each person's needs and capacity, but it will always inform how I show up in sessions as your coach.  

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I take a spiritual approach. Few words are as ambiguous as "spirit" or "spiritual." Regardless of whether someone is devoutly religious or a committed atheist, we all have stirrings inside us that are deeper than words. Sometimes we are aware of them, sometimes not. There is, however, something about the experience of being human that goes beyond the mere humdrum of day-to-day life. I am not attached to what exactly you call this 'something' or how you experience it, but I am deeply invested in supporting you to connect with it and listen to its wisdom.