Coaching Services

On fire and inspired

I work with writers, musicians, artists, performers, and creators who are bringing new work into the world. You may be questioning your direction, whether in a project or in your work in general. You may be looking to deepen the impact of your work, find your motivation to get going, or derive more fulfillment from the process. You may be looking to dip deeper into the well, and find the place inside of you where your most authentic work lives.

Many of my clients come in carrying perfectionism, fear of visibility, imposter syndrome, or an overactive self-editor. They are frequently changing directions and leaving projects unfinished, feeling like they can’t get anywhere. Or they’re making work but it lacks the power they know they’re capable of. Or they’re avoiding getting to work because it’s become a minefield of self criticism and overwhelm.

Depth work is often the best way to get in touch with the defenses that spawn creative paralysis. Creating is an inherently vulnerable act, and many times our unconscious minds are trying to protect us from the specter of failure, rejection, or judgment. And, yup, sometimes we are avoiding success itself.

We’ll work together to uncover unconscious inhibitions, ambivalence, and beliefs that restrict expression. I’ll help you develop practices and ways of seeing that ground you in the self-trust needed to enter the sacred encounter of creative work. We’ll listen to the soul speak through dreams, interacting with the imaginal realm, and expressive arts work.

I have a unique passion for this work as a lifelong creative with a strong aesthetic sensibility. I studied creative writing as an undergrad and have a knack for understanding the bones of a project, even outside my own disciplines. I also have a first hand understanding of the importance of a strong container for the creative life, especially when we have children, day jobs, health challenges, and the like.

My clients typically finish their time with me with a new relationship with their creative life and a new trust in themselves and their process. They learn to take care of their inner critic (the one who guides our excellence), parent their distractors (the joyful eyes of wonder), and answer the questions of their anxiety (the holder of passion).

They leave with a grown up creative life that includes structure, space, and priority. And honestly, most of them are on fire with inspiration.

Does your business own you?

In the process of building something beautiful, it is easy to have the original vision get diluted as we meet the demands of growth and the obstacles we meet. Entrepreneurs can find themselves experiencing more pressure and stress, the more successful they become. They can end up feeling consumed by the business that was supposed to empower them.

Business founders get overwhelmed with how many roles they find themselves in, often ones that they aren’t trained for. Decision fatigue and paralysis, overwork, difficulty delegating, and team challenges can leave us struggling to remember why we wanted to do this in the first place.

Your business is ultimately an expression of who you are. That includes your brilliance, heart, and expertise—and it also includes what’s in the shadow. The reluctance to become an authority figure, problems with conflict, or over-responsibility for others can create major problems in work flow, culture, and the customer experience. The underlying inability to set boundaries with your team can confuse expectations, build interpersonal tension, and ultimately impact your ability to accomplish your vision.

I’ll help you zoom out and understand your business as a system, and track where the flow is getting stuck. We’ll explore where there are untapped resources inside of the system and in you—often we find that the things that challenge you the most turn out to be hidden strengths. For example, someone who struggles to delegate tasks finds that they are a talented mentor. Or someone who avoids conflict finds that their care for others develops them into an excellent communicator.

I can help you find a leadership style that both feels authentic to you and suits the business you’re leading. We’ll look honestly at the ecosystem around you and how your approach is impacting it. Relationship dynamics in small or large organizations are at play at a deep level, and I’ll help you understand what’s going on under the surface with your team and what you can do about it.

Facing difficult decisions, being able to productively have hard conversations, and a new relationship with pressure are some of the shifts that my clients take away. Life and work are intimately connected for business founders, and that makes caring for your business also caring for the balance in your life.

When passion starts to burn out

A leadership role often means feeling stretched in multiple directions, navigating minefields in relationships, and dealing with systems that sometimes champion values they don’t endorse in practice. There’s potential for great impact, but sometimes it feels like it costs you too much.

A big problem in organizational life is that there’s often a disconnect between what you’re expected to accomplish and the limits of the system you’re working in. Leaders feel responsible to the people they lead, but often powerless to impact the kinds of change needed for teams to thrive. The systemic and personal dynamics need to be faced in order for you to find your agency.

Often, leaders end up in positions based on their technical competence to find themselves navigating a whole new job description. You carry responsibility for others while trying to develop your own skills and stay connected to your own values. This can be isolating, discouraging, and confidence eroding.

How you lead comes from who you are, and it is also shaped by the systems you work in. Your strengths, assumptions, fears, and blind spots influence how you navigate power, make decisions, build relationships, and respond to conflict. Organizational culture, history, and unspoken expectations are shaping things, too. Understanding these dynamics can open up possibilities that you can’t see when you're caught in the middle of them.

I’ll help you step back and see the larger picture. We’ll explore your relationship to authority (especially your own), the dynamics within your team or organization, and the systems that interact. Together, we'll identify where you have agency, where change is possible, and how to move from your values within the limitations of the system. Bringing awareness to your limitations is as important as discovering where you have power—this grounds you and lets you rest when there’s nothing to be done.

This work can help you navigate difficult conversations, address recurring tensions, make confident decisions, and lead in a way that feels both authentic and effective.

Whether you're leading a team, an organization, or a community initiative, the work is ultimately about creating the conditions for people and ideas to thrive—including you.