Intended to get you through a crisis, short-term situation, or big decision; to tide you over until you are ready for deeper work. It includes a 60 minute session, written follow-up, custom exercises and two weeks of text/email support.

We meet, by phone or by Zoom.

You spill your guts, tell me all the things, unburden your poor stressed out and overloaded brain of whatever has gone down.

I listen, hear, absorb, and help you out of your distress, confusion or overwhelm.

I help you gain perspective, put down whatever weapon you’ve been wielding in your own defence but is actually whizzing dangerously close to your throat.

I help you with what you need to see, understand, focus on, and resolve to serve your life, your needs, your health, and all of those relationships under your care and influence.

Then, while you are calming down, breathing out, cancelling your plane ticket to Siberia, crawling out of your blankie fort and recuperating over a glass of Cab or under a tower of bath suds, I lovingly create a strategy for you.

I take all of those great revelations and understandings we just arrived at and put them into actual written words you can go back and read and re-read, when your brain is no longer on auto-shred.

I also devise and articulate a plan for you moving forward, to steer you out of troubled water and toward better-feeling empowered choice making.

I also include personalized exercises, that are easy to follow and apply, to get you over any hurdles that may be tripping you up – all of those “hurty” places that we don’t realize are getting in our way.

THEN you still have me for another two full weeks, by email and text to support you while everything smooths out, gets back on track, or at least wriggles back under your umbrella of care

This one is where the big-time, long-time life altering transformation happens.

You’ve had enough of your particular brand of heart-ache, and you’re ready to see how much better you can feel when someone who can see all of the light within you (that’s me – no offence Gram), who understands the machinery of pain and suffering and the root of yours (me again), makes you her personal study (in a devoted but not creepy way), gets to work at disassembling that machinery, and reveals your brilliant, deserving life story. Groundhog day is over, my friends. When change is affected at the root of what ails us, when hurt and brokenness is healed, everything on the outside has the potential to shine (that’s you!).

To do this most effectively and make the most efficient use of our resources (that means your time, my time, our energy, and your moolah), I include:

• Introductory assessment and background review
• Your weekly or bi-weekly session (by phone or by Zoom)
• Your personalized program
• Materials and handouts
• Exercises personalized for your needs
• Written session follow-up
• Text and email support

In addition you get all of those lovely things that come with mentoring and counseling services; a safe place of non-judgement to share and be heard; experienced guidance from an equal who has walked the walk; decision making support (can’t count how many relationships have been rescued from block and delete by this one); emotional support – the kind your best friend (god know she means well) cannot give you because (bless her sweet soul) she is projecting her stuff onto you without at all meaning to; and the kind of clarity and peace that come from knowing you don’t have to figure it out alone anymore (praise be) and you have broken the feedback loop!

The Process:

We meet, by phone or by Zoom. By now you have probably spilled your guts a little, or at least given me some clues as to what is not on your “raindrops on roses” list. You spill the rest of your guts or at least provide me with the next instalment of clues.

The first two sessions get you some relief, and give me the background I need to UNDO, fix, make better, help heal – the hard stuff. I drudge things up, but for OH SO SHORT of a time. Because we are only looking at it to fix it, NOT to set up camp there, or point fingers, or get out the lab coats, but we also don’t want to keep IT (the hurty stuff) running in the background and exhausting your emotional bandwidth.

You TRUST me, even if you find my methods a little unconventional. Already some of this is starting to make sense and sink in. You go off to your daily world with a strategic application that will help us progress. I don’t overload you. It’s not elementary school. No one gets shamed for undone homework (you are hard enough on yourself!). We work at your pace.

I create strategies, and personalized exercises. I write follow ups which recap our brilliant insights in written re-readable digestible words. I learn your language. We become besties.

I provide you with a brief history of what they didn’t teach you in elementary, I unteach you what they taught you wrong. I follow with the meaning of life, the square root of cake, and how to wrap the game.

This is the big deal. Where my inner ninja meets yours. I become Yoda. You master the Force. Someone somewhere destroys an evil ring.

I don’t know what your miracle is going to look like yet. But I’m chomping at the bit to find out.

You feel better about yourself, your life, your circumstances. You no longer feel damaged, destructive or destroyed, angry, confused, stuck. THINGS feel easier. You are scared less often. You understand. Your burden lifts. Pain is not heavy anymore. You figure out how to have healthy relationships, with yourself, your beloved, your business, your body. You feel safe and cared for.

This is the part where you say actual things to me like “You have erased 34 years of damage.” “This is the best money I have ever spent” “My daughter hugged me for the first time since she was 2”. “I’m no longer constantly angry at the kids” “I’m a better person, thanks to you.” “I actually like having sex with my husband again” “I came in top of my sales team and won the competition” “I am finally able to write the book” “I have never been this productive”  “You have inspired me to create an entirely new business and follow through on it” “I don’t know how it happened, my work just started feeling good again”  “My daughter’s nightmares have completely stopped and she is sleeping in her bed again” “My ex and I are no longer in conflict. In fact we are friends” “I have gone from working 3 jobs to an overnight success in the art world” “I have never felt so peaceful” “I have stopped running from relationship”  “I know longer feel shame over the abuse” “I have released a thousand pounds of confusion and guilt” “I have discovered my own path of helping others” “I can finally see what I was doing in relationship and now bring that to my patients” “I’ve stopped overthinking, overanalyzing and being so hard on myself”.

We hug. We cheer. I float away on a cloud of whiskers on kittens, wanting to help the whole world. You tell two friends and they tell two friends. Everyone has a good hair day.

Our work is done. I am here for you when you need. To heal the next thing. Take on the next challenge. Or for an occasional tweak or sounding board session.