Why I Coach The Way I Do (And What It’s Like To Work Together)

One of the questions people usually ask at our intro call is what my coaching process looks like.
Is it structured? Free-flowing? Do we follow a framework? Do we just “see where things go”?

My answer: it’s both highly organized and completely client-led.

The reason I coach this way is personal.
I started my professional life as a scientist - asking precise questions, organizing logical processes, and tracking cause and effect.
I also volunteered for a decade as a peer counselor - attuning, listening, and creating conditions where people can see themselves with more clarity and self-compassion.

Both sides deeply reflect my personality. And this is also how I prefer to be coached myself: not pushed through a formula, not floating without direction.
Held by structure, guided by my own unfolding.

That’s the approach I bring to my clients.

How does it look in practice?

We meet for an intro call. You’re self-aware and know that something in your leadership or communication isn’t quite working. We explore what’s happening, what you’ve tried, and what coaching could make possible. We clarify what success will feel like. You decide to begin.

Session 1 is a deep intake. I learn how you think, make decisions, build relationships, react under pressure, and interpret the world. I’m listening for your strengths, values, patterns, and what parts of yourself you might not have fully revealed. You're leading the conversation, I’m mapping the territory with you.

After that, I create a draft coaching program - clear purpose, meaningful outcomes, and a developmental arc that fits who you are and where you want to go.
We refine it together. You name what resonates. We adjust the language. Then the deep work begins.

Each session builds on the last.
We stay anchored to the purpose and outcomes you’ve chosen.
We add self-reflections and small, repeatable exercises that build capability over time.
We explore real-life moments and prioritize what matters most.

Throughout the process, you are leading.
Your insights give direction.
Your lived experience guides pacing.
My role is to bring structure, clarity, precision, and attunement so your development stays grounded and on track for real outcomes.

It’s that balance that makes the work powerful.

There is a science to coaching well: nervous system awareness, pattern recognition, developmental sequencing, practices that build capacity.
And an art: presence, pacing, intuition and attuning to the human being in the moment.

I coach where those two meet - science and art.

Clients feel supported without feeling directed.
Challenged without feeling overwhelmed.
They make real changes - by connecting to something new inside themselves.

If you’re curious about coaching that is both structured and deeply human, this is the work I offer you. Contact me to schedule an introduction call.