Is Coaching For Me?

Coaching gives you a place to slow down, think things through, and build the clarity and confidence to take action. It’s a confidential process in a safe and non-judgmental space that we create together.  

If you’re not sure where to begin, that’s normal. Dark River Coaching is grounded in the belief that we are all capable of choosing what’s best for ourselves.  Through careful listening, thoughtful questioning, and respect for your lived experience, we will explore the questions, doubts, insecurities, and possible assumptions or habits of thinking that can quietly keep us stuck.

It is not therapy, consulting, or mentoring. Coaching is a distinct, collaborative process designed to help you create forward movement.

What is a Session Like?

Sessions are relaxed, focused, and reflective. We start with whatever feels most present or important for you and spend the hour exploring it, concluding with what feels clearer or more settled by the end of our time together.

I draw from coaching principles, reflective inquiry, and personal and professional experience navigating uncertainty and change. These influences stay in the background. Sessions are not about models or theories. They are not lectures. Instead, they are about what is actually happening for you today as you already are.

What Do Clients Talk About?

People come to Dark River Coaching with a wide range of concerns.

Sometimes the focus is practical, like work questions, time, stress, relationships, or personal habits that feel out of alignment.

Other times the questions are quieter and harder to name. Dark River offers space when you want to sit with the deeper current of your life.  This is the space for the questions that rarely get mentioned in daily conversation.

Here, you can explore what it means to live a life that feels true, to understand the forces that shape you, and how change and steadiness can co-exist. This work doesn’t rush answers.  We follow the thread of your lived experience, exploring how you see the world, how you see yourself, and what it all asks of you. It’s quiet, reflective work that helps you navigate both the practical and the profound with clarity and steadiness.

We don’t need to decide which kind of conversation it is in advance. We start where you are and see what wants attention.

Everyone is Welcome

Everyone’s welcome at Dark River - LGBTQ+, BIPOC, all genders, all backgrounds, all stories. If you’re a human being trying to live your life with a bit more clarity and strength, this is a safe and solid place to do that.