Coaching isn’t about optimizing you for someone else’s agenda — it’s about helping you reclaim your authentic self and build the life and career that serves your values, not systems that exploit them.
My coaching approach is grounded in critical consciousness and trauma-informed practice, recognizing that individual struggles often reflect broader structural inequities. Whether you’re recovering from religious trauma, navigating workplace issues, or seeking authentic leadership development, our work together will honor your lived experience while building skills for sustainable change.
Ready to move beyond surface-level solutions toward real transformation?
Contact me to discuss how coaching can support your journey.
Understanding Liberation-Focused Coaching
Traditional coaching often reinforces existing power structures by focusing on individual “optimization” without questioning the systems that created the problems in the first place. My approach differs fundamentally:
Instead of helping you fit better into oppressive systems, we work on building your capacity to resist and transform those conditions while caring for your well-being.
Rather than individual performance metrics, we focus on authentic development that honors your full humanity and values.
We examine power dynamics and structural barriers that impact your situation, not just personal behaviors or mindset issues.
Specialized Coaching Areas
Adverse Religious Experience Coaching
Supporting survivors of religious trauma, SOGICE such as conversion therapy, and high-control environments in reclaiming their identities and building lives of integrity and joy.
This isn’t about “getting over it” or returning to some imagined baseline. It’s about integrating your experiences in ways that honor your survival while opening space for authentic flourishing.
Career Transition Coaching
Navigating career changes that align with your values and authentic identity.
This includes practical support for career pivots alongside deeper work on reclaiming your professional identity.
Executive & Leadership Coaching
Developing leaders who understand their responsibility to challenge oppressive structures rather than simply maintain them. This includes examining privilege, power, and the ethical dimensions of organizational decision-making.
For leaders seeking to create genuinely upward-moving environments that center worker dignity and democratic participation.
I love working with folks in nonprofits and in affirming faith-based environments, too!
LGBTQ+ Coaching
Queer folx bring their own dynamics and challenges to coaching. Whether you’re a student, nonprofit worker, or someone navigating a new identity, I provide affirming coaching to those in the LGBT community.
Personal Development Coaching
Supporting authentic personal growth that isn’t driven by productivity culture or self-optimization rhetoric. This work centers on developing critical consciousness, emotional regulation, and authentic relationships.
Recovery Coaching
My primary focus in coaching is Trauma and Recovery. No matter what you’ve survived, from workplace misconduct to Spiritual Abuse, I’m here to help, be a part of a “care team,” or provide resources for your journey.
Religious Trauma Coaching
Re-tell your story, gain a deeper sense of self and autonomy, and celebrate your victories apart from Coercive Control and High Control Behavior and Environments.
My Coaching Philosophy: Praxis and Liberation
Drawing from liberation frameworks and critical pedagogy, my coaching integrates analysis with praxis —helping you understand how broader systems impact your individual experience while building skills for meaningful change.
“Psychoeducation” in Critical Consciousness Development
- Understanding how oppressive systems shape individual experiences
- Developing structural analysis of personal and professional challenges
- Building capacity for systemic resilience while maintaining personal wellbeing
- Cultivating authentic values independent of dominant cultural narratives
Trauma-Informed Foundation
- Recognizing that trauma responses are intelligent adaptations to harmful conditions
- Honoring survivor wisdom and lived experience expertise
- Building emotional regulation skills without pathologizing natural responses to oppression
- Creating safety and choice in the coaching relationship
Intersectional Awareness
- Centering how multiple identity factors shape experience — and how understanding liberation-focused (not performative) Diversity, Equity & Inclusion can help
- Understanding privilege and marginalization in coaching contexts
- Building cultural humility and responsiveness to diverse backgrounds
- Connecting personal growth with social justice commitments
What to Expect: Process and Approach
Initial Assessment & Goal-Setting
- Deep exploration of your current situation and systemic factors impacting it
- Value clarification to identify what authentic success means for you
- Power mapping of relationships and structures affecting your goals
- Resource assessment including strengths, supports, and barriers
Ongoing Coaching Process
- Regular sessions (typically bi-weekly) combining reflection, skill-building, and action planning
- Between-session support via email for urgent situations or breakthrough moments
- Structural analysis of challenges alongside individual skill development
- Accountability partnerships that honor your autonomy while providing gentle support
Integration & Transition
- Long-term sustainability planning for continued growth
- Community connection support for ongoing peer relationships
- Resource development to maintain progress independently
- Follow-up support available as needed
Group Coaching Options
Want to help your team develop to their individual and collective potential? I provide group coaching to your organization!
- Leadership development cohorts for mission-driven professionals
- Trauma recovery support groups for survivors of religious harm — great for faith-based organizations with a passion for those who have overcome abuse or unaffirming environments
- Career transition groups for major professional pivots
- Custom programs designed for specific organizational or community needs
Investment Information
Coaching fees are structured to balance accessibility with sustainability. Sliding scale options available, with full-fee clients supporting reduced-rate slots — each according to their need and means!
Standard rates reflect the intensive, specialized nature of this work and my advanced training in trauma-informed and liberation-focused approaches. This investment supports not just our sessions but ongoing professional development, specialized training, and community organizing work. I’m a trauma-informed professional, sociologist, and survivor of misconduct — because of this robust training and background, I believe equity involves, bluntly, paying folks for their skills and experience.
Ready to Begin?
If you’re seeking coaching that honors your full humanity while building skills for authentic success, let’s explore working together.
Schedule a consultation to discuss your goals and see if we’re a good fit.
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