The coaching pilot
I’m developing a small pilot coaching programme grounded in Authentic Manifestation, with the intention of working with up to five clients. I’m currently welcoming expressions of interest from people who resonate with this approach.
My availability is limited while I balance this work with other professional and educational commitments. Reaching out begins a conversation about whether coaching might be a good fit. It doesn’t require an immediate commitment, and it doesn’t guarantee an immediate start.
If you would like to know how I work before deciding anything, what coaching involves and the philosophy are the honest places to start.
On the pilot
This is the first formal, small-scale application of this philosophy beyond my own life. I would rather build it in the open, with a handful of people who are willing to work honestly, than wait until it looks established.
The thinking has been shaped by my own years of applying it, by formal study of the body and of psychology, by volunteering with the Canadian Mental Health Association, and by long conversations with people navigating ambitious and demanding lives. Those experiences have informed the approach. They are not evidence that this coaching has been clinically validated, or that it produces particular outcomes, and I would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.
What the pilot offers you is real attention at a rate that reflects a practice still being refined, in exchange for honest reflection on how the work lands in your life. What it offers me is the thing only clients can supply: whether these ideas hold up in someone else’s circumstances, and where they need to change.
This is a collaboration, not an application to an exclusive programme. I am not looking for people who can prove themselves, meet a standard, or achieve a particular result. I am looking for people who are curious, willing to reflect, and interested in applying what we discuss.
The pilot at a glance
A single session is for trying the work, or for looking at one situation properly. The package is for applying the approach over time, which is how most of the useful change happens. Neither is the correct choice, and you do not have to decide before we have spoken.
All prices in CAD
Single session
$50 CAD
60 minutes · one-to-one
One 60-minute session. Enough to look at a single situation properly, or to find out what this coaching actually feels like before committing to more.
You want to explore coaching without a larger commitment, or you have one thing you would like to think through with someone.
The standard pilot rate for a single session. No commitment to more.
Six-session package
$210 CAD
6 sessions · 60 minutes each · $35 per session
Six 60-minute sessions at $35 each. Enough room to notice a pattern, test something, and revise it.
You want continuity: applying the approach in ordinary life between sessions, and reflecting on what actually happens.
Six single sessions would be $300 at the pilot rate — this is 30% less.
Nothing is charged on this site. Scheduling and payment are arranged directly with me once we have spoken and agreed that the work is a fit, and you will have the terms in writing before you pay anything.
Coaching is a working relationship, not a procedure, so the specifics depend on what you bring. But these are the parts that do not vary.
An unhurried conversation
Sixty minutes with a person who has read your message, prepared, and is not following a script. Most sessions go somewhere neither of us could have planned in advance.
Attention to what is actually happening
Reflection on the patterns you bring — what precedes them, what they protect, and what they cost. Including the ones you can already name and have not been able to shift.
Something to try
Where it fits, a small and reversible experiment for between sessions: a noticing, a boundary, an adjustment to the week. Small enough that it survives contact with an ordinary Tuesday.
Honest observation
If we are circling, if something does not add up, or if the work is drifting, I will say so. Agreement is not the same thing as support.
Confidentiality
What you discuss stays between us, within the limits described in the scope of practice below.
A clear boundary
Coaching is not therapy, diagnosis, or crisis support. Where something belongs with a clinician, I will say so rather than work outside my scope.
What I cannot promise is an outcome. Coaching is a collaborative process, not a treatment, and the direction of the work depends as much on what you bring and what your life allows as on anything I do. Anyone who guarantees a result is selling something other than coaching.
No payment is taken here, and no session is booked by sending a message.
You send a short message
Your name, an email address, which option you are interested in, and — if you want — a sentence or two about what you would like to be different. Nothing clinical, and nothing you would not put in an ordinary email.
I reply personally
I aim to respond personally within three business days. In that reply I will say whether I think the work is a good fit, and what I would suggest as a next step.
We work out the next step together
That may be a short exchange by email, a paid session, or a referral to someone more appropriate if what you bring belongs elsewhere. What it looks like depends on your situation and on what I can realistically offer at the time.
You decide, and we agree terms
If we go ahead, we agree a structure and a first session, and you receive the practical terms in writing before anything is paid. If it turns out not to be a fit, that is a completely acceptable outcome.
Working terms
These are the arrangements I work to, stated plainly, so that nothing about payment, cancellation, or unused sessions has to be guessed at.
Scope
Coaching and psychotherapy are different professions with different training, and it is worth being explicit about where this work sits. This is not legal boilerplate — it is the boundary that makes the work safe.
Coaching focuses on strengthening the capacities that allow you to live and relate more intentionally. That may include:
Coaching is forward-facing. Past experience may be acknowledged, but the focus of the work is on how you want to live going forward and what capacities will support that.
Life coaching and somatic coaching are not psychotherapy and do not replace mental health care. As a coach, I do not:
If you are seeking assessment, diagnosis, or treatment for a mental health concern, that belongs with a licensed clinician — a psychologist, psychiatrist, or registered psychotherapist.
Sometimes the most useful thing I can do is recommend a different kind of support. If what you bring would be better served by clinical care, I will say so directly.
That is not a judgement about you, and it is not a failure of the coaching. It is how I keep this work responsible. Coaching can sit alongside therapy; it does not replace it.
Either is fine. Expressing interest costs nothing and commits you to nothing: it opens a conversation about fit, and you can stop it at any point. If you already know which option you want, say so in your message — and if you do not, say that instead.