I prioritize partnering with individuals from communities recovering from systematic oppression.

However, I am open to working with individuals from any background who are ready to take on this work and who resonate with my message and approach.

You can schedule a call to explore if we might be a good match for coaching.

I partner with each person I coach to co-create a tailored and individualized version of the awareness, practice, and trust cycle to their goals and needs.

I draw knowledge and tools from my lived experiences, spirituality rooted in eastern practices, coach training, studies in behavioral science and psychology, and work in recruiting.

Anyone I work with is welcome to let me know if there are particular parts of my background they would like me to bring more or less of into our partnership.

To fully show up for yourself. You will only get what you put into this experience. With this in mind, consider if you have enough stability in your life to move through this work before diving in.

I emphasize this point because some people come to coaching thinking the coach can and will change their life for them. I’m no such magician. I act as a steadfast and active collaborator in your efforts.

This journey will ask a lot of you. To arrive, question, break open, surrender, allow, and trust. I cannot do your becoming for you. But I can be with you as you unfurl.

I also ask that you show up to our sessions on time, be open to giving and receiving feedback, and make time for any tasks we agree upon for you to complete outside of our sessions. This accountability is the foundation upon which your progress will be built.

All of these and other growth and healing modalities tend to have overlaps.

The way I’ve experienced the distinctions between these modalities stems from differing focuses on time and expertise.

Therapy tends to focus on the past and healing old wounds.

Consulting and mentorship tend to lean on external subject matter experts to solve specific issues (i.e. resume review for a career transition) or provide advice (i.e. how do I apply for grants?).

Coaching tends to focus on developing awareness of the present and applying insights towards the future. A coach supports you in tapping into your own knowledge and abilities to achieve your goals. You are the assumed expert of your lived experiences in a coaching partnership.

I meet most of my collaborators every 1-2 weeks. This timeframe is conducive to keeping up momentum while also creating spaciousness.

However, there are cases where higher concentration (i.e. impending transition) or more spaciousness (i.e. goals with longer timelines) may make sense.

Each session is a moment for reflection and designing actions to implement in your life.

Between sessions, you’ll apply the actions you committed to during our sessions.

The feedback you gather from implementing those changes in your life serve as the material and insights for our following sessions.

Possibly.

The most likely channel for financial support is through a learning and development budget provided by a company or institution.

If you know your company has a learning and development budget, reach out to your manager to see how you can apply funds towards personal development (i.e. reimbursement).

Here is a template you can use to ask your manager for financial support.

Coaching is not reimbursable through health insurance at this time.

How exciting!

Go ahead and schedule a call with me here. During this call we’ll explore if we’d be a good match for a coaching partnership, discuss your intentions for coaching, and cover several logistics (i.e. payment, timeline).

Completely understandable.

If you’d prefer written communication, go ahead and send me an email through my contact page.

If you’d prefer verbal communication, go ahead and schedule a call with me and we can go over your questions together.

If you’re curious to learn more about who I am and how I experience the world, check out my writing.

Below are materials that have helped me and my community in our own journeys of evolution.

Feelings-Oriented Materials

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté

• Decolonizing Therapy by Jennifer Mullan PsyD

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

• David Goggins: How to Build Immense Inner Strength on The Huberman Lab

• Therapy Ghostbusters on Invisibilia

• Esther Perel

Thinking-Oriented Materials

• Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han

• Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us on The Knowledge Project

• Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way to Mastery on The Knowledge Project

• The Experience Machine by Andy Clark

• Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff

• The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality by Bernardo Kastrup

Body-Oriented Materials

• In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life by Alisa Vitti

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

• Acupunture

• Breath work

• Somatic therapy

• Yoga

Spirituality-Oriented Materials

• Embracing Your Place with Sebene Selassie on Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara

• Audre Lorde reading Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

• Extraordinary Enlightenment with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang on Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara

• The Waking Up App (recommend the Alan Watts series)

• Rematriate on All My Relations Podcast

• Bhagavad Gita translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood

• The Wisdom of Laotse by Lao Tzu and edited by Lin Yutang

• Vipassana meditation

• McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald E. Purser