What You Can Expect
After you schedule a session, you will receive:
Email confirmation of the session date and time
Appropriate information to join our session
Sessions are conducted through Zoom, so please download the Zoom app to your phone or computer ahead of time
24-hour reminder of our session, which you’ll receive by text or email
During our session, you can expect:
Compassion, respect, safety, and privacy. The session is your time. You can safely share information and ask as many questions as you want in a calm, non-judgmental setting.
Camera off in Zoom
The default setting is camera off; however, if you prefer camera on, please indicate this preference when you schedule the session.
To be asked questions and to have your questions answered
Please have your questions ready
Notes to be taken
To create individualized, tailored plans, I need to take notes
All notes are stored on a HIPAA-compliant physical hard drive
Our session to be recorded
Our sessions are HIPAA-compliant, and every recording has its own unique password
If you prefer recording to be off, please say so at the session’s start
All recordings are deleted within 14 days of the session
After our session, you can expect:
After initial/intake sessions, an individualized plan, homework, suggested exercises, reference documents, and recommended reading within 3 business days
After all sessions, session recording with its own unique password within 3-business days
Follow-up email message containing information on how to schedule additional sessions and join my communities
Coaching Services
Individual Coaching (1-on-1 Coaching)
When we undergo intense personal experiences and have overwhelming feelings and thoughts, talking to a trusted, objective third-party and being heard are what we need.
All clients must have an initial coaching session, which is a 90-minute in-depth intake session. There is no obligation to coach again after the initial coaching session, so these sessions are longer to accommodate questions and produce a individualized plan.
Follow-up sessions are either 60-minutes or 30-minutes, depending on the client needs.
I encourage my clients to also have a therapist or counselor, as coaching is not therapy.
I also regularly coordinate with my clients’ therapists, counselors, and/or doctors. When coordinating, I always follow the lead of the licensed mental health professional.
Couple Coaching
Couples occasionally need an objective third party to listen and help them sort out a specific problem and come to a practical solution.
Example couple coaching topics:
Joint approach for anticipated difficult situations, such as the holidays and family gatherings
Conflict about specific experiences, such as an ex approaching your partner, miscommunicating partner’s private information, different schedules, financial outlooks
Navigating sobriety, support for lifestyle changes, commitment to physical health journeys
How to decide whether to stay together or breakup, communicating needs and thoughts
Each person must be aware of and agree to the couple coaching session and agree to actively participate.
Before I coach a couple, each person must have an individual therapist, counselor, or spiritual guide.
I do not address deeply rooted, systemic, and/or mental health issues, as those topics must be handled by licensed mental health professional.
Group Coaching
Families and small groups also occasionally need an objective third party to listen and help them sort out a specific problem, share uncomfortable information, and come to a practical solution.
Example group coaching topics:
Communicating significant life changes, such as coming out, moving, separation
Changes in the group social structure, such as conflicts arising from friend trips, group activities, breakups, and values differences
Shared difficult experiences or similar experiences, such as everyone in the group is having trouble dating, is going through breakups with a similar type of ex or similar breakup circumstances, is having difficulty making friends in their 30s
Before I coach a small group or a family, all members should agree on the topic of discussion and be willing to actively participate.
Deeply rooted, systemic, and/or mental health issues must be handled by a licensed mental health professional.
Online Communities
There are times when people don’t want to talk 1-on-1 or actively participate by sharing, asking questions, and commenting. They want to silently participate by observing and listening, because the point is to not feel alone in what they’re experiencing. I host a variety of communities in online spaces — in private and public settings.
Rhyme & Reason is my private, HIPAA-compliant coaching community. The community is subscription-based and small by design.
To preserve the level of trust and safety that exists in Rhyme & Reason, I must have at least three coaching sessions with you before you can be considered.
Twice a week, there are group coaching sessions, called Ask Me Anythings (i.e., AMAs) for Rhyme & Reason. Members can listen to past AMAs at their convenience.
There are three weekly classes: personal wellness, relational skills class, and workplace interactions.
There are courses on self-worth, journaling, dating, building friendships, managing the holidays, and more.
Tik Tok, Instagram, and Facebook. I am active and public on these three social media platforms (@rhymeandreasoncoaching), monitor comments, and answer questions. I spend the most time on Tik Tok, but I post content and stories on all three.
Public Ask Me Anythings (i.e., AMAs). I regularly host AMAs in which I answer relationship questions asked in my DMs or in the Lives.