Frequently Asked Questions

Coaching is an co-created experience where we discover your goals, values and superpowers and use them to help you travel down a path of the life you want. 

All engagements begin with a 1:1 three to four hour foundation workshop in which we complete a series of exercises and informal assessments designed to explore multiple dimensions of you and the current status in your life. We make explicit your intentions and the work we want to do together. You receive a copy of the exercises and assessment results. We use this data and knowledge to measure growth in your beliefs and behaviors over the course of our work together. 

We then meet at a regularly for 50 minute sessions.  You will set the agenda, based on whatever on your mind and we will collaborate to fully understand the work to do.  At the end of a session we will co-create a specific action to take.  At the following session, we explore what you learned from the week prior, and then dive into work for the next week.   Week to week may feel different. 

That said, its important for us to co-create a dynamic that works for both of us - if we decide to work together, we intentionally, and continually discuss the quality

100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions, just like seeing a therapist. Even if your employer is sponsoring your coaching, my allegiance is to you.  I will never share anything about our sessions, with your employer, family or anyone  else, unless you instruct me to. 

Typically, we will meet by zoom, but if you're based in NYC, we can connect in person at my office in midtown.

The time that your coaching process will take depends on the complexity of your goals and your commitment and openness to your process. We will work together to build an alliance that works for us both. I typically work in chunks of 3-6 months and promise that you will gain tools and strategies in that amount of time. I aim to make myself obsolete.

ADHD is a curse and a gift!  Interestingly, many coaching methodologies designed for "neurotypicals" are well suited for those with ADHD.  In addition to building clarity about your vision, I help you build attention management skills, self acceptance,  and the self-accountability muscle that enables you to live life more fully.  I lead the Case Collaboration programming committee for the ACO (ADHD Coaching Organization).

My dad is the academic who came up with the theory of Multiple Intellengences, so in some ways I think everyone is a lil' neurodivergent. That said,  I do work with many neurotypical clients!  Many of my them come through my work with Adaptive Leadership+ .

There are some overlaps between therapy and coaching, especially when it comes to managing ADHD. I find the biggest distinctions are that therapy often looks back at our history to identify experiences that informs our presents moment, while coaching often looks forward and encourages us to visualize the future that we want, and commit to actions towards making it happen.  That said, coaching most closely resembles cognitive behavioral therapy.

A coaching session may contain therapeutic moments, but is not therapy from a methodological perspective. 

Typically, clients experiencing  therapy and coaching  find a positive intersection -  a one/two punch of building self knowledge and taking action.  Since many clients have experienced therapy,  a coach might “take charge” a little bit at the outset to get clients out of storytelling mode, and into visualization and embodiment work. That said, I always ask for permission to do so, and have no attachment to any suggestions I may offer!