How a session works
Sixty minutes, and you talk more than I do.
Every session has a focus. The six weeks follow a clear path, and each session moves you along it. There's still room for whatever is alive for you that week, whether that's a decision sitting on your desk or a feeling you can't name yet. We stay with it until something has actually moved.
Mostly I ask. People come to a coach wanting answers, and I understand why — I did the same. But the answers that hold are never the ones handed to you. They're the ones you arrive at yourself, which is why the real skill I trained for at Brown is the asking: knowing which question to put in front of you, and when to stay quiet while you find your way to it. I'll ask again, a little differently, because the first answer is usually the one you've told people before. Somewhere in the second or third pass, something truer tends to come out. That's the part I won't let you talk yourself out of.
The tools fit you, not the other way round. Some people think best out loud with nothing in the way. Others want more insight into how they're built, and we'll bring in personality and profiling frameworks to give language to what you've been circling. The six weeks have a shape; what we use inside it is chosen for you.
I'll reflect back what I hear, including the things you said quickly and moved past. I'll notice when your voice changes. And I'll tell you when what you're describing doesn't match what you said you wanted — gently, but I will tell you. You've had enough people agree with you politely.