This is a neuroscience-based educational process focused on helping you understand how the brain learns, predicts, and generates thoughts, emotions, behaviors, habits, reactions, experiences, and relationship patterns.
Rather than spending years discussing problems, we focus on understanding what may be generating them and helping the brain develop more helpful patterns through neuroplasticity.
Is This Coaching, Counseling, or Therapy?
This work incorporates elements of education, coaching, and applied neuroscience, but it is not psychotherapy, counseling, or medical treatment.
The focus is not on diagnosing or treating mental health conditions.
The focus is on helping you better understand why your brain is producing certain thoughts, emotions, behaviors, habits, reactions, and experiences —
and how it can learn to produce something different.
What Types Of Challenges Do You Help People With?
Many clients come to me because they are struggling with aspects of themselves and their lives they haven't been able to permanently change despite their best efforts.
These challenges often show up as:
• Marriage & Intimacy Challenges
• Anxiety, Stress, Overthinking, and Self-Doubt
• Emotional Reactivity and Relationship Conflict
• Unhealthy Coping Habits
• Difficult Behaviors or Reactions
• Feeling Stuck, Frustrated, or Confused About What To Do Next
While these challenges may appear different on the surface, they often share something in common: the brain has learned to produce experiences, behaviors, and responses that are no longer creating the outcomes the person wants.
Can The Brain Really Change?
Yes.
The brain remains capable of learning, adapting, and reorganizing itself throughout life through a process known as neuroplasticity.
Many of the thoughts, emotions, behaviors, habits, reactions, and experiences we struggle with are not fixed traits. They are patterns the brain has learned over time.
The goal of this work is to help the brain accumulate new experiences, understanding, and evidence that support more helpful predictions and outcomes.
How Often Do We Meet?
Most clients meet at a minimum weekly in 75-minute Zoom sessions.
The schedule will be adjusted based on your needs, goals, desire for speed of change and availability.
How Long Does The Process Take?
This is not intended to be an open-ended engagement.
Most clients work with me for a finite period of focused work (from a few weeks to a few months) designed to help the brain develop, reinforce, and stabilize new patterns.
The exact timeline depends on the individual, the challenges involved, and the goals being pursued.
What Makes This Different From Other Approaches?
Most approaches focus on managing thoughts, emotions, behaviors, habits, and reactions after they appear.
This work focuses on understanding why the brain may be producing them in the first place.
Rather than relying solely on insight, willpower, discipline, communication techniques, or behavior management strategies, we focus on helping the brain develop more helpful predictions and reinforce them until they become more natural and automatic.
The goal is not simply to think differently.
The goal is to help the brain produce different experiences.
Will I Be Asked To Share Deeply Personal Information?
Only to the extent that it is helpful.
This work is collaborative, practical, and focused on understanding the experiences, patterns, interpretations, and learning that may be influencing your current situation.
You are never required to discuss anything you are uncomfortable discussing.
How Do I Know If This Is Right For Me?
The best place to start is a private conversation.
We'll discuss your situation, what you've already tried, what you would like to see change, and whether this approach appears to be a good fit for your goals.
If it feels like a fit, I'll explain the next steps.
If it doesn't, you'll still leave with a clearer understanding of what may be contributing to your current situation.
What Qualifications Do You Have?
I am an Applied Neuroscience Educator and Certified Master Neuroplastician® with a graduate degree in Neuroscience from the BrainFirst Institute and graduate-level certificates in Addiction & Recovery Science and Nutrition Science from Stanford University.
I am also a lifelong entrepreneur who spent more than 35 years building and leading my own businesses, giving me firsthand experience with the pressures, responsibilities, and challenges many successful professionals face.
Equally important, much of this work grew from my own journey of trying to better understand why certain aspects of my life were not producing the outcomes I wanted despite my best efforts to change them.
My study of neuroscience, neuroplasticity, human behavior, relationships, coping, stress, and personal change ultimately led to the approach I use today.
Whatever you're experiencing, there's a good chance we've shared more of that experience than you might think.
