Our coaching approach is trauma-informed and highly health-educated, making it a safe and supportive space for individuals with mental health conditions or trauma histories. Each session is unique, but our overall structure focuses on functionality, resilience, and personalized well-being.

We help clients explore their mental landscape, process the everyday effects of trauma or mental health conditions, and create step-by-step changes in their environments, behaviors, and mindsets—all at their own pace. With consent, we provide tools, resources, and alternative perspectives to improve daily functioning and reduce inner conflict.

For Mental Health Conditions:

Coaching puts the missing pieces in your care together by focusing on the person underneath the condition. Each session is tailored uniquely to your situation- preserving your autonomy in how you identify with your mental health journey and finding accessible paths to thrive. This allows you to build strong foundations in your life to better regulate your mind and body, and live joyfully in balance. 

• Coaching can complement therapy or serve as a standalone service, fostering resilience and quality-of-life improvements. 

• The large majority of our clients can access symptom reduction via the tools, self-understanding, and fortified life changes found in coaching.

• If you are seeking diagnosis or medication, we can assist you in connecting with appropriate professionals. 

• We recognize that existing or pending diagnoses can bring mixed emotions—whether they feel liberating, limiting, or conflict with cultural views. Coaching isn’t tied to one framework; we help you relate to your situation in a way that aligns with your needs, while also holding space for challenges. 

For Trauma:

Trauma is a physiological response that can trap us in an old experience mentally and physically, even though it is no longer happening. While this stems from a needed survival mechanism, sometimes it can get “stuck” and affect our quality of life. We often lose the ability to recognize our own safety, and sometimes lose connection with ourselves in the process. Coaching assists with physical and mental tools to move forward and reclaim a sense of safety and self.

• Coaching does not require revisiting traumatic events to be effective, and we do not ask invasive questions. However, we provide a safe space if you choose to share.

• We focus on how trauma affects your body, mind, and emotions today, providing education on the body's safety mechanisms and strategies for physical, emotional, and mental regulation.

• We help you create supportive environments and personalized goal plans that reinforce safety and freedom from past experiences. Healing is a nonlinear process, and if deeper trauma processing is needed, we collaborate with you on therapy referrals.

If you’re seeking therapy for trauma re-processing work that allows you to revisit the events, visit psychologytoday.com to find trauma-informed therapists, including those trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).

Both coaching and therapy provide support, but they serve different purposes. Therapy focuses on diagnosing, treating, and healing mental health conditions, often exploring past experiences to improve emotional well-being. Coaching, on the other hand, is a non-clinical, forward-focused approach that helps clients develop strategies for improving daily life, building resilience, and achieving personal growth. Our approach aims to help clients achieve a state of thriving by building custom strategies that are accessible and adaptable to their unique condition statuses.

Key Differences:

Clinical vs. Non-Clinical Approach

• Therapists diagnose and treat mental health conditions using clinically approved methods. They may focus on processing trauma, reducing symptoms, and stabilizing mental health. Coaches focus on a client’s unique situation, sharing self-regulation tools and creating collaborative plans to improve functionality and personal fulfillment. A client’s experience with illness is taken into account to accessibly fortify foundational life concepts that may have been damaged by mental illness (connecting with life, self and identity, purpose, community, supportive environments, and positive life experiences).

  Past vs. Future Focus

• Therapy often explores past experiences to uncover the root causes of emotional distress, guiding clients through healing and self-understanding. Coaching is more future-oriented, helping clients take actionable steps to create change in their lives. While therapy provides deep emotional processing, coaching emphasizes practical tools and goal-setting for moving forward.

  Healing vs. Growth

  Therapy is often about stabilization, emotional healing, and symptom management. Coaching focuses on enhancing functionality, developing habits, and fostering personal growth beyond just feeling “okay.” Many clients use coaching alongside therapy to help bridge the gap between insight and real-life application.

  Structure of Sessions

  Therapy structures vary based on the clinician’s training and chosen methods. Some therapeutic approaches are structured, while others are more open-ended. Coaching sessions typically involve exploring a challenge, identifying obstacles, and creating clear, actionable steps to improve the client’s experience and functionality. They can also be structured based on a specific type of coaching tool like somatic work or meditation. As clinicians, therapists develop treatment protocol for their clients. Coaches regularly involve client input in sessions and work collaboratively.

  Frequency and Duration of Sessions

• Therapy is typically done in prescribed intervals and durations until treatment is complete. Coaching sessions are often modified in duration, structure, and frequency as agreed between coach and client based on client need.  

Can Coaching and Therapy Work Together?

Absolutely! Therapy stabilizes, produces structured treatment plans, and processes past experiences, while coaching provides tools for self connection, direction, and implementing change in daily life. Many clients find success in using both approaches in tandem, or using coaching to overcome daily-life obstacles in implementing a therapist’s treatment plan. Having both perspectives can prevent clients from hitting a plateau in their journey. A quality, professionally trained coach will work with a client’s care team to bring the best outcome. 

If you’re seeking a therapist, visit PsychologyToday.com to find a licensed professional. If coaching aligns with your needs, explore our services below.

All you need to do is commit to showing up for yourself by attending your sessions. Part of the coach’s skillset is assisting you in gaining momentum building motivation from the ground up, so you do not need to take on the onus of figuring that out alone.

True coaching never involves a coach "telling you what to do".

In our sessions, if we have a tool or background knowledge in a subject that may be helpful, we ask for your consent before sharing that tool. This allows clients to guide their own session while also benefitting from a coach's resources.

With consent, coaches may also offer creative insight, new ideas for generating or modifying goals, or take part in the brainstorming process.

Almost anyone can benefit from good-quality coaching if they would like an assist in life, have encountered an obstacle, or would like to make change in their life or health. But if any of the following apply, please seek medical treatment before seeking coaching:

• You are experiencing psychosis, losing touch with reality, or experiencing hallucinations.

• You are actively using substances. Coaching is a great tool to assist you in overcoming addictions, but please do not attend sessions while you are under the influence.

• You are in active crisis or have a plan to harm yourself or someone else.

IF THE ABOVE APPLY, PLEASE USE THE OPTIONS BELOW

Emergency, Urgent, and Crisis Resources…

For Emergency services dial 911 and ask for an ambulance, social worker, or crisis team.

For the Crisis hotline call or text 988.

For Psychiatric Urgent Care (outpatient) options, please google a facility near you. For local residents, you may visit the following clinic:

6501 N. Charles Street • Baltimore, MD 21204

410-938-5302

Or visit their website by clicking here.

For active addiction, use this directory to find help in Maryland by clicking here.

Coaching is rooted in behavioral sciences, so we are trained specifically in this issue. Many folks seek out coaching because they've had difficulties making lasting change on their own. That's why we're here to help.

Clients who have struggled with making change in the past tend to do very well with our specific coaching methods because of the additional mental health training we apply.

Together we'll analyze what's already been tried, what works and doesn't for you specifically, and explore your relationship with your goals, values, and barriers. Keep in mind, lasting change is a process. We assist clients in breaking down goals into manageable, sustainable steps and finding tailored, creative solutions.

Some individuals choose to revisit previous methods of change after talking through some mindset shifts with their coach. Others opt to generate new methods completely. Some enjoy asking for input from coaches with background in a relevant field, while others prefer the coach to remain input-free and prompt them to do their own thinking entirely. The coaching dynamic is highly individualized and in your hands. Regardless, we work alongside you in developing out-of-the-box, novel approaches to get where you want to be.

Coaching can be a helpful tool in aiding group dynamics. Depending on the coach's background, they may be equipped to coach multiple parties in one session to help couples, groups, parents/kids, caregivers and their loved ones.

Schedule a Free Consultation with the coach you're interested in for inquiries. Click here to schedule.

Fee schedules: The standard fee is charged per client present in the session. There is no additional fee for a group session.

We can also incorporate tools for interpersonal relationships in standard individual coaching sessions. The above is referring to clients who would like all involved parties to be present and participating in the coaching,