Coaching is not therapy, just like social media is not therapy. Coaching is not a replacement for medical or legal advice. If you are experiencing an emergency of any kind, immediately contact local authorities and go to the closest hospital.

Coaching is tactical, practical guidance and is the forward-thinking, strategic piece of your emotional support team. Coaching is focused primarily on the present and the future. There are different coaching certification programs, and the world’s gold standard for coaching and certification is the International Coach Federation (ICF).

If your life was like driving a car, therapy is focused on driving from your point of origin and checking your rearview and sideview mirrors. In this scenario, coaching is focused on driving towards your destination and scanning the road ahead and what is in front of you.

While coaching is not therapy, my coaching practice follows HIPAA, engages in 50 continuing education credit hours a year (the standard for LMFTs and LCSWs is 35 hours per year), and is endorsed and supervised by board-certified psychiatrists and board-certified neurologists. This level of oversight is not required of coaches, but I willingly do so because my clients trust me with important, vulnerable parts of themselves.

My degrees, certifications, and training are:

• Continuing education classes in dialectical behavior therapy, attachment theory, parent-child estrangement, trauma

• Grief, loss

• Authenticity, by the International Coach Federation

  • 250 hours of training

• Trauma and Trauma Recovery, by the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaches

  • 2 years of training

• Masters Degree, Business Administration, focus on strategy, healthcare, and finance, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

• Bachelors Degree, Neuroscience, Women’s Studies, Physics, Duke University

No, I do not accept insurance. Coaching is not therapy and is not regulated or licensed at the state or federal level. Coaching does not quality for insurance in the United States.

Mental healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, if you are in financial need, please inquire about my sliding scale.

Initial sessions are intake sessions, are mandatory (because I create an individualized gameplan for you), and range from $250-400.

All sessions after the initial session are follow-up sessions and range from $80-200.

Full payment is required in order to schedule a coaching session. Sessions are non-refundable.

100%. I’m an inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming, and BIPOC coach. As a Filipino-American woman born and raised in Arkansas, with immigrant parents, and who identifies as queer, I understand the importance of inclusivity, acceptance, and affirmation. My practice is inclusive and affirming for all.

My clients are smart, motivated, and thoughtful. They deeply engage with the world around them and consistently, authentically are themselves regardless of setting.

Rhyme & Reason clients range in age from teenagers with parental consent to people in their late 70s.

My clients tend to fall into one of three categories: 1) College age through 30, 2) Clear passions, solid career paths, and undergoing or facing unusual challenges, and 3) Learning how to be independent and redefining who they are outside of the roles they have in life.

Professionally, my clients run the gamut — unemployed, students, professional athletes, gig workers, executives, blue collar workers, royalty, farmers, and celebrities. Regardless of profession or socioeconomic status, every client has influence over how the world runs.