Your questions, answered.
What is the cost per session?
The cost for 75-minute sessions is $200 USD.
Do you offer sliding scale options?
Yes. If you would like to work together and have a financial constraint reach out to discuss options.
Does health insurance in the US cover behavioral health coaching?
Unfortunately, it currently does not.
How many sessions are needed?
This depends on each individual and the focus of our work. Profound shifts can and do happen within a few sessions. Some patterns are more complex and working through the layers requires more time.
The focus is not on how fast we can go. The focus is on deeply understanding the root of your pattern or behavior, and working through it at a pace that honors your needs.
Why are the sessions 75 minutes?
Based on my experience working with clients this is the optimal length of time for Coherence Coaching sessions to be effective.
What is the recommended frequency for sessions?
To most effectively address a specific pattern or behavior it is best to meet weekly or every other week. Having more time than that between sessions could require having to repeat some steps.
How do we meet?
We meet virtually. I am physically in Charlotte, NC, in the US. I can meet with clients in any US state or any country in the Americas. I am open to working with clients beyond the Americas as long as the time zone difference is manageable for us both.
What’s the difference between Coherence Coaching and psychotherapy?
Coherence Coaching is more focused in scope than psychotherapy. It is most appropriate for people who are generally stable. It is not appropriate for situations of crisis. In Coherence Coaching, we target a particular pattern or behavior that you would like to shift. Our work is non-pathologizing, meaning it does not diagnose patterns or behaviors as disorders. They are viewed as coherent responses to lived experiences.
What does “experience-driven” mean?
The experience-driven process in Coherence Coaching is how we get to the root of what drives the pattern or behavior you want to shift. It begins with two questions: what happens, and when do you notice it happening? To answer these questions we look at a specific example of a time and place when you experienced the pattern or behavior we are addressing. We dive into this experience together to begin our discovery process.
How is Coherence Coaching different from traditional approaches?
Traditional approaches were developed prior to the scientific discovery of memory reconsolidation, during a time when the behavioral health field believed that mental models cannot be changed once learned. The best hope was to manage them. That is the purpose of counteractive techniques. Examples include positive thinking, relaxation techniques, or reframing thoughts. Temporary and partial management is exactly what these techniques are intended to do. The best outcome, if successful, is incremental change, with continued, constant effort to sustain.
Coherence Coaching operates on the reality that permanent change is possible. Management is not the goal. Unlearning the old mental model is the goal, so that ongoing management is not needed. The scientifically proven techniques of Coherence Coaching dive in to the source of what is driving your patterns or behaviors, rather than staying at the surface level and fighting them as they inevitably come up. Transforming the root is what leads to liberating relief that no longer requires any effort to sustain. What success means in Coherence Coaching is permanent change.
Is permanent relief from painful patterns really possible?
Yes, it is. The behavioral health field hasn’t fully caught up to this. We know definitively based on scientific research that permanent change is possible and that it happens through the process of memory reconsolidation. The evidence has existed for over three decades. Experience-driven techniques like Coherence Coaching use the process of memory reconsolidation to create profound unlearning of old mental models, resulting in permanent change that feels liberating and is effortless to maintain.
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